6th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=aktb2014
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: 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
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
Chairs Dalia Kriksciuniene Virgilijus Sakalauskas
5th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=bita2014
A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. There is today an obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises but unfortunately many organisations don’t have proper instruments (methods, patterns, best practices etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modelling and business process management are two areas belonging to a tradition where the mission is to improve business practice and business and IT alignment. In this tradition the alignment process usually is manifested in taking a business from one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e. a transformation of the business and its supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. A challenge in business and IT alignment is to move beyond a narrow focus on one tradition or technology. There is a need to aware of and able to deal with a number of dimensions of the enterprise architecture and their relations in order to create alignment. Examples of such dimensions are: organisational structures, strategies, business models, work practices, processes, and IS/IT structures. Among the concepts that deserve special attention in this context is IT governance. Effective IT governance aligns IT investments with overall business priorities, determines who makes the IT decisions and assigns accountability for the outcomes.
This workshop aims to bring together people who have strong interest in business and IT alignment. We would like to invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for business and IT alignment, including IT governance subjects. Specific focus will be on practices of business and IT alignment, i.e. we encourage submission of case study and experience papers.
Topics Challenges in business and IT alignment Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises Business/ IT alignment through BPM Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement - methodologies and best practices Business value of business and IT alignment Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT alignment approaches Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design, implementation, management and improvement Best practice business and IT alignment case studies The relationship between BPM and enterprise architecture Critical success factors and associated KPIs´ for alignment initiatives IT governance as a mean for alignment Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing and structure, change management and leadership strategies Design thinking in business and IT alignment Practices of business and IT alignment Experience reports and case studies
Submission Long papers: max. 12 pages
Important dates Mar 20 (11:59pm CET), 2014 - submission deadline for papers April 10, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection May 10, 2014 - submission of final papers May 21-23, 2014 - the workshop
Organizers Jönköping University Rostock University
Chairs Kurt Sandkuhl Ulf Seigerroth
1st Workshop on Digital Currencies (DC 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=dc2014
During the last few years, the growing interest and popularity in crypto currencies have fostered developments in research and practices in relevant fields. Academics and practitioners, alike, are facing challenges related to the ever increasing required infrastructure for mining crypro-currencies, the operational aspects of exchanges, the regulatory frameworks that are required for the new form of payment instruments without hindering the growth of the new economy and the relation between crypto-currencies and official payment methods.
Nowadays, addressing such challenges becomes essential for developing new services and possibly business models that contain the prospect of restructuring financial systems.
This workshop invites researchers and business experts to share knowledge and competencies for organizational and practical apsects of crypto-currency systems. We expect participants to present research papers, comment on business cases, hold tutorial sessions or demonstrate systems, tools and other related issues needed to: (a) manage crypto-currencies (b) optimize operational aspects of crypto-currency exchanges and (c) assess and make informed decisions related to digital currencies.
Topics Types of Digital Payment Systems and Properties Crypto-currencies and Security Mining Crypto-ocurrencies P2P Decentralized Architectures and Platforms Crypto-currency Exchange Markets Risk Analysis of Exchanges for Digital Currency Assessing Emerging Regulatory Frameworks Mobile Information Systems and Services in Crypto-currencies Digital Currency as a Service Digital Currency and the Banking Sector Investing and Crypto-currencies Regulatory Frameworks in Digital Monetary Systems Digital Currency Transactions and Privacy Policy and Ethics Case Studies and Best Practices
Submission Long papers: max. 12 pages Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages Demo papers: max. 4 pages
Important dates Mar 16, 2014 - submission deadline for papers Mar 23, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection April 3, 2014 - submission of final papers May 22, 2014 - the workshop
Organizers University of Nicosia
Chairs George Giaglis Angelika Kokkinaki
6th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=lit2014
The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT) Workshop is an annual event which gathers people interested in broadly understood Legal Informatics and its applications. The LIT 2014 meeting will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus as part of the 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems. As a continuation of previous editions, we invite people dealing with different domains closely related to legal matter and Information Technology.
The 6th Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology Workshop will be a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together practitioners and researchers to investigate challenges and opportunities in the emerging trends on the verge of law and IT. The workshop will examine vital issues, including law-related business processes, legal ontologies, description frameworks, discussing new research and innovative applications in Law, Information Technology as well as Insurance. The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in these interdisciplinary domains.
In the year 2013 all papers accepted to the workshop have been published in Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. We are planning to continue the cooperation with the publisher on this edition of the event.
Topics Alternative & online Dispute Resolution Modeling negotiation and contract formation Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law Knowledge management in the legal domain Formal and computational models of legal reasoning Formal and computational models of argumentation Computational models of evidential reasoning Computational models of case-based legal reasoning Information extraction & categorization of legal documents Information Technology & Crime Prevention Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining in Law Text mining and knowledge extraction in law Law & Future Internet technologies Legal argumentation Legal aspects of BIS Legal aspects of IT Legal Expert Systems Legal ontologies - creation, use & lifecycles Natural language processing in law Question answering retrieval for law and governmental services Risk management & trust in law Semantic indexing of legal documents Semantic Web technologies in law and e-government Specific legal domains appliances (systems in civil, tax, commercial, insurance law) Validation of legal knowledge Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
Submission Long papers: max. 12 pages Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
Important dates March 21 (11:59pm CET), 2014 - submission deadline for papers April 27, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection May 10, 2014 - submission of final papers May 21 or 22 or 23, 2014 - the workshop
Organizers Poznań University of Economics, Department of Information Systems, Poland Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Chairs Erich Schweighofer Piotr Stolarski John Zeleznikow Tomasz Żurek
1st Workshop on Modern Applications of Business Information Systems (MODAPP 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=modapp2014
Modern Applications of Business Information Systems (MODAPP 2014) workshop is organized in conjunction with BIS 2014 conference. The workshop offers a platform for discussion about most recent applications of information systems that benefit from the up-to-date research trends: semantics and Big Data. Since the workshop focuses on practical use of applications, the system quality and its evaluation is an important area of interest.
Researchers and business professionals are invited to submit papers based on finished projects results as well as on ongoing research.
Topics Quality: - quality management - quality of information systems - quality evaluation Semantics: - semantic interoperability - business models for Future Internet - Big Data for information systems - Linked Data Application Architectures - Semantics for Deep Web Application in specific domains: - user Interfaces - e-health systems - knowledge management systems - e-governance solutions - ERP systems
Submission Long papers: max. 12 pages Short papers: max. 6 pages
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 Poznań University of Economics, Poland
Chair Elżbieta Bukowska
1st Workshop on Tools for Setting Up and Running a Business in Cloud Computing (TSRB 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=tsrb2014
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 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
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
Chairs Hariklea Kazeli Bambos Papacharalambous
Workshop on Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications (VLBA 2014) http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=vlba2014
Very Large Business Applications (VLBA) act as enabler for intra- and interorganisational business processes and play a significant role in the development of new business models. With a special focus on related operations management this workshop aims at studying, grounding, and finally exploiting the potential of VLBA to solve integration and coordination problems in distributed business processes as a key enabler of flexible, boundaryless information systems.
Key research questions are: - how to represent VLBA in service-based information systems by employing and adapting constructs, models, and methods of different information systems technology stacks, - how to coordinate software services by employing and adapting approaches for service discovery and composition, - how to operate large-scale, highly distributed enterprise systems aligned with the needs of an agile business environment, - how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of software-based services (SLA), - how to control the delivery of software-based services in VLBA by measuring efficiency and effectiveness.
Topics Cloud Computing and VLBA VLBA Operations Management Strategic, tactic and operative Systems Landscape Engineering VLBA Business Simulations VLBA Business Models Analytical Business Process Engineering for VLBA VLBA and Knowledge Management VLBA security issues Innovative VLBA Applications
Submission Long papers: max. 12 pages Work-in-progress reports: max. 8 pages Demo papers: max. 4 pages
Important dates March 21, 2014 - submission deadline for papers April 27, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection May 10, 2014 - submission of final papers May 21, 2014 - the workshop
Organizers Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, MRCC / Business Informatics, Germany
Chairs Holger Schrödl Klaus Turowski