=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 6th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2014) in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2014) Larnaca, Cyprus May 21-23, 2014 /bis2013/wscfp.php?ws=aktb2014 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: April 10, 2014 =========================================================================== The AKTB2014 is the 6th workshop organised in conjunction with BIS series conferences. It pursues to engage researchers and practitioners, specialists and market analysts to share their research experiences and domain knowledge in application of contemporary computational intelligence methods for modelling and implementation of business information systems. We invite papers which provide advanced services for the information systems users, propose innovative solutions for systems and process modelling, especially targeting Big Data issues. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Advanced knowledge-based business information systems * Computational intelligence for business (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, expert systems) * Decision support systems in business enterprises, financial institutions and e-management * Knowledge-based models of data mining in business * Business process and information requirements analysis * Information technologies and software developments for business process modelling * Artificial intelligence for big data * Agent-based and embedded systems in business applications * Information systems in e-business, e-banking and marketing * Online trading by using evolution-based methods, neural networks and rule-based systems * Advanced computational approaches to portfolio optimization and selection * Analysis of financial time series * Estimations, modelling, algorithms of application of investment strategies in financial markets * Advanced research and case studies of application computational methods in banking, insurance and credit risk evaluation, company rating systems 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=aktb2014. Papers approved for presentation at AKTB 2014 will be published in BIS 2014 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2014 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants in November 2014 by regular mail. Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference. WORKSHOP FORMAT Each paper submitted to BIS workshop will be reviewed by at least two Referees. At least one author of each paper needs to register for the conference for the paper to be included in proceedings. Workshop registration entitles to participate in the conference, as well as in all workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with it. IMPORTANT DATES * April 10, 2014 - submission deadline for papers * April 22, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection * April 30, 2014 - submission of final papers * May 21-23, 2014 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Vilnius University, Department of Informatics (http://www.khf.vu.lt/) CHAIRS * Dalia Kriksciuniene * Virgilijus Sakalauskas PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Dalia Kriksciuniene, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Virgilijus Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Adilson Elias Xavier, COPPE- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Audrius Lopata, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Daning Hu, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Danuta Zakrzewska, Institute of Computer Science Technical University of Lodz, Poland * Darijus Strasunskas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Dhrupad Mathur, S.P.J. Centre of Management, Singapore * Eric Schoop, Dresden University of Technology, Germany * Ferenc Kiss, Foundation for information Society, Hungary * Irene Krebs, Potsdam University, Germany * Laima Papreckiene, Kaunas Technological University, Lithuania * Leonard Walletzky, Masaryk University, Czech Republik * Lia Bassa, Foundation for Information Society, Hungary * Margaret Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Marie-Aude Aufaure, Ecole Centrale Paris, MAS Laboratory, France * Mario Hernandez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - SIANI Institute, Spain * Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway * Razvan Petrusel, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania * Regis Cabral, FEPRO, Sweden * Rimvydas Simutis, University of Technology, Lithuania * Tânia Cristina D´Agostini Bueno, Instituto de Governo Eletrônico Inteligências e Sistemas, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil * Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University, Czech Republik * Vytautas Rudzionis, Vilnius University, Lithuania ===========================================================================