21st International Conference on Business Information Systems

Important Dates
Submission deadline for workshops proposals:
Dec 31, 2017
Submission deadline for conference papers:
Feb 1, 2018 Feb 18, 2018 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance/rejection:
Mar 26, 2018
Submission of final papers:
Apr 9, 2018
The conference:
Jul 18-20, 2018
Previous BIS

About BIS

During the 21 years of the BIS conference history, it grew as well renowned event of the scientific community. Every year it joins international researchers for scientific discussions on the development, implementation and application of business information systems, based on innovative ideas and computational intelligence methods. The conference addresses a wide scientific community and experts involved in the development of business computing applications.

Conference theme: Digital Transformation an imperative in today’s business markets

Nowadays, digital technologies transform the way the business is made, the companies grow, the links between people are created and evolve, as well as many other domains. The digital transformation means that digital usages inherently enable new types of innovation and creativity in various domains. In general, Digital Transformation can be defined as an integration of digital technology into all areas of business, resulting in fundamental changes to how businesses operate and how they deliver value to their customers. The BIS Conference traditionally has focused on actual trends of development, implementation and application of business information systems in different domains. Thus, to continue this tradition, the upcoming edition of BIS will focus on the Digital Transformation that affects both individual businesses and whole domains, such as e.g. administration, communication, art, medicine, healthcare, finance and science.

The Digital Transformation is described as “the total and overall societal effect of digitalization”. Digitization has enabled the process of digitalization, which resulted in transformation of existing business models, socio-economic structures, legal and policy measures, organizational patterns, cultural barriers, etc. There are a number of reasons why businesses undergo Digital Transformation. The main argument is that they simply have to. With the evolving business markets, companies that want to succeed must understand how to apply technology to support strategical decisions and realise the visions. However, there are many ways how it may be achieved. Thus, the BIS 2018 Conference wants to drive the discussion of Digital Transformation related to problems, challenges and opportunities for today’s business markets. We invite researchers and business practitioners to present and publish their latest research results. Our goal is to enable sharing theoretical and practical knowledge of ongoing Digital Transformation activities and thus to inspire researchers to think outside the box. We hope that the inspirations from the Conference will lead to further innovations being the next stage of Digital Transformation.


BIS 2018 proceedings were published as a volume number 320 in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series by Springer Verlag.

BIS 2018 workshop proceedings were published as a volume number 339 in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series by Springer Verlag.

Our Speakers

Volker Markl

Technische Universitat Berlin

Big Data Management and Apache Flink: Key Challenges and (Some) Solutions

Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Technische Universität München

Deconstructing Blockchains: Concepts, Applications, and Systems

Francesco Archetti

University of Milan-Bicocca

Scientific chalenges from the digital disruption of water industry

Program Schedule

Programme in PDF format

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3
08:30 Registration
09:30 Opening BIS + Keynote "Scientific chalenges from the digital disruption of water industry", Francesco Archetti, University of Milan-Bicocca
10:45 coffee
11:15 Social Media and Web-based Business Information Systems Workshop on Scientific Challenges & Business Opportunities in Water Management (SciBOWater 1) Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 1)
12:45 lunch
13:45 Business and Enterprise Modelling (1) Workshop on Scientific Challenges & Business Opportunities in Water Management (SciBOWater 2) Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 1)
15:15 coffee
15:45 Business and Enterprise Modelling (2) FOKUS Lab Tours Tour 1: 15:45 | Tour 2: 16:20 Meeting point: In front of the elevator! Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2)
18:30 Keynote "Deconstructing Blockchains: Concepts, Applications, and Systems", Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Technische Universität München
19:30 Reception Meetup + Poster Session
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3
09:00 Keynote "Big Data Management and Apache Flink: Key Challenges and (some) Solutions", Volker Markl, Technische Universität Berlin
10:00 Process Management (1) Doctoral Consortium (DC 1) Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 1)
11:30 coffee
12:00 Process Management (2) Doctoral Consortium (DC 2) Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 2)
13:30 lunch
14:30 Smart Infrastructures Doctoral Consortium (DC 3) Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 3)
16:00 coffee
16:30 Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2) PhD Caffee Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 4)
18:00 Bus City Tour to Conference Dinner
19:00 Conference dinner

Supporters

EU H2020 Data4Watersupported by EU H2020 Data4Water

Localization

Fraunhofer FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin