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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
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  1st Workshop on Tools for Setting Up and Running a Business in Cloud
                         Computing  (TSRB 2014)
                                    
                            in conjunction with
    17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS
                                  2014)
                                     

                             Larnaca, Cyprus
                              May 22, 2014

                     /bis2013/wscfp.php?ws=tsrb2014

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                 Deadline for submissions: Mar 24, 2014

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	During the last decade technology evolved in a way  that resulted in 
huge amount of data. This  evolvement  imposed on  enterprises,  the 
need to automate their core processes for operational excellence  while
spending huge amount of money to acquire the infrastructure and the tools
to do so. The data repositories developed,  provided  the means  to 
accrue the significant benefit of leveraging  the value hidden in 
information accumulated  during business transactions  over time  to
support decision  making and improve performance implying additional
investments for the companies.
	
	Nowadays, this  need becomes crucial for the survival of  enterprises 
since  competition becomes more aggressive, profit margins are limited,
market becomes more demanding and customers seek experience of high
quality and value.  Even though, the cost of such infrastructures has
been significantly reduced, the economic crisis limited the business
budgets  (especially for small and medium enterprises)  in ways that
could not afford  setting up high performance infrastructures.
	
	The concept of  cloud computing provides  the solution to address the
problem of  high cost by providing infrastructures  that  accommodate the
tools needed for setting up and running a business.

	This workshop  invites researchers and business experts to share
knowledge by introducing innovative tools for  setting up and running a
business in cloud computing. We expect practitioners to  demonstrate
business case  tutorials that will introduce the sophisticated
technologies and skills needed to  capture transactions and  process 
business  data:    (a)  to operate business and  (b)  to  find patterns
and relationships from past transactions to  make decisions and to
improve an organization’s performance and decision making ability.
 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

* Cloud Computing: Solutions and Best Practices
* In-memory Computing and Big Data
* Business Suites and Underline Architectures
* Advanced Management Solutions: Financials, HR, Sales, Procurement,
  Billing, Order Management, etc.
* Advanced Knowledge-Based Business Information Systems
* Decision Support Systems in Business
* Enterprise Resource Planning
* Customer Relationship Management
* Supplier Relationship Management
* Business Intelligence
* Data Mining In Business
* Facility Management
* Customer Experience Management
* Campaign Management
* Marketing
* Developing innovative products and services (basket analysis)
* Business Discovery
* Social Media

SUBMISSION

* Long papers: max. 12 pages
* Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
* Demo papers: max. 4 pages


  Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP
template available from
	http://www.springer.com/computer+science/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0.

	Submission system is available at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsrb2014.
 
WORKSHOP FORMAT

	95% Tutorials (case studies & tools demo)	
	5% Panel Discussion (discussion on the issues addressed and on how to
face challenges)
	Each paper submitted to BIS workshop will be reviewed by at least two
referees.
 
IMPORTANT DATES

* Mar 24, 2014 - submission deadline for papers
* Apr 24, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 4, 2014 - submission of final papers
* May 22, 2014 - the workshop

ORGANIZERS

* Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (http://www.cyta.com.cy)

CHAIRS

* Hariklea Kazeli
* Bambos Papacharalambous

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)

* Andreas Andreou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
* Hariklea Kazeli, CYTA, Cyprus
* Aggeliki Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
* Bambos Papacharalambous, CYTA, Cyprus
* Michalis Papadopoulos, CYTA, Cyprus
* Ariana Polyviou, Singlular Logic, 
* Michael Spanoudes, Teradata EMEA, 
* Vasilios Verykios, Open University, Greece

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