Topics of interest | Submission guidelines | Important dates | Organizers | Supporters

Topics of interest

Big and Smart Data and Artifical Intelligence

  • data science and digital transformation
  • smart machines, artifical intelligence, and cognitive computing in business systems and applications
  • business intelligence
  • linked (open) data
  • knowledge representation and reasoning
  • big data analytics
  • real-time big data analysis and streaming analytics / stream reasoning
  • standards, data models, and business models for big & smart data
  • corporate semantic web and semantic web applications
  • digital curation technologies
  • data and information quality
  • information extraction and information retrieval
  • sentiment analysis, emotion mining
  • data integration from Web information sources
  • modelling and describing evolving data sources
  • information gathering for supporting knowledge-intensive enterprises

Business and Enterprise Modelling

  • requirements for enterprise modelling
  • modelling of enterprise architecture
  • quality of enterprise models
  • change management
  • enterprise modelling theory
  • enterprise modelling practice, case studies, and action research
  • decision modelling
  • governance, risk, and compliance modelling
  • standards, conceptualizations, notations, and ontologies
  • business design patterns
  • business models and (open) innovation

ICT Project Management

  • tools and techniques
  • stakeholder and user management
  • effort, time, and cost estimation
  • resources management
  • risk management
  • quality management
  • global and virtual development teams

Process Management

  • (semantic) business process management
  • event-driven busines process management
  • adaptive and dynamic processes
  • supply chain processes
  • scientific workflows in a business context
  • ERP implementations
  • integration of data and processes
  • collaborative BPM
  • value chain design
  • business rules, decision models, and decision management
  • complex event processing

Smart Infrastructures

  • cloud computing
  • fog and edge computing
  • security and privacy
  • (micro) services architectures
  • sensor systems
  • software-defined infrastructures
  • smart ledger / blockchain
  • agent systems and collective intelligence
  • internet of things and cyber-physical systems
  • industry 4.0

Social Media and Web-based Business Information Systems

  • social CRM
  • social user experience
  • social media in business
  • social media and privacy
  • social media analytics
  • social network analytics
  • social computing
  • social sentiment analysis
  • communities and crowedsourcing
  • social semantic web and pragmatic web
  • web/social web/distributed search
  • personalized search and recommendation
  • user interfaces and human computer interaction

Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences

  • smart cities
  • smart manufacturing
  • e-business
  • e-health
  • e-government
  • business related e-science
  • mobile applications
  • industry specific applications
  • future directions and interdiciplinary relations

Submission guidelines

  • Submission system is available at EasyChair
  • BIS 2018 proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series by Springer Verlag.
  • Information for LNBIP authors may be found at link

Important dates

  • Submission deadline for conference papers:  February 1, 2018 February 18, 2018 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
  • Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 26, 2018
  • Submission of final papers: April 9, 2018
  • The conference: July 18-20, 2018

Local organizers

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
Data Analytics Center
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin