Call for Papers

Workshops co-located with BIS 2014
Larnaca, Cyprus
21-23 May, 2014


List of workshops:
* AKTB 2014 - 6th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=aktb2014

* BITA 2014 - 5th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=bita2014

* DC 2014 - 1st Workshop on Digital Currencies
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=dc2014

* LIT 2014 - 6th Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=lit2014

* MODAPP 2014 - 1st Workshop on Modern Applications of Business Information Systems
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=modapp2014

* TSRB 2014 - 1st Workshop on Tools for Setting Up and Running a Business in Cloud Computing
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=tsrb2014

* VLBA 2014 - Workshop on Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=vlba2014

Detailed descriptions are included below.

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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

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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

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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


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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

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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

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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

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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

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