BIS 2009

=12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)=
 * Poznan, Poland
 * April 27-29, 2009
 * http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/?i=1
 * Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2008
 * Proceedings in Springer's LNBIP series

THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: Information Systems for Agile Organizations
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to BIS 2009 conference. It will take place in April 2009 in Poznan and will be organized by Poznan University of Economics.

BIS 2009 International Conference invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers that contribute the results of research in Business Information Systems as well as papers that report on industrial IT projects. The Program Committee particularly encourages presentations of practical papers on industrial experience or on the validation of prototype implementations.

TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE
Topics are restricted by the theme of the conference as defined above and they include:


 * Business process management
 * semantic business process management
 * adaptive and dynamic processes
 * supply chain processes
 * ERP implementations
 * integration of data and processes
 * collaborative BPM
 * Ontologies
 * creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation of ontologies
 * ontologies for enterprise content management
 * natural language processing and cognitive science
 * semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured information sources
 * interoperability of heterogeneous information systems
 * business models for Web information integration and aggregation
 * Contexts
 * location-aware and geography-centric information systems
 * wireless and mobile applications
 * multi-agent distributed systems
 * semantic web personalization
 * ambient computing
 * Content retrieval and filtering
 * hidden Web search and crawling
 * data integration from Web information sources
 * modeling and describing evolving data sources
 * adaptive integration of evolving data sources
 * information gathering support for knowledge-intensive enterprises
 * search over semi-structural Web sources
 * business models for a content
 * Collaboration
 * knowledge-based collaboration
 * social networks and social wikis
 * enterprise mashups, Enterprise 2.0
 * infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.)
 * semantic grid
 * security in distributed systems
 * Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse
 * Web services
 * service oriented computing (SOA)
 * semantic web services
 * composition, choreography and orchestration
 * open, decentralized self-service
 * trust and quality of service (QoS)
 * service level agreements

SUBMISSION
BIS 2009 proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series by Springer Verlag. http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer?SGWID=5-146-6-450209-0

Information for LNBIP authors may be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0

Electronic submission system is available at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bis2009


 * language of publication: English
 * paper should not exceed 12 LNCS pages (including abstract and references)
 * please include a 100-word abstract at the beginning of the paper, which clearly presents the achievement or contribution of the paper
 * please include 4-7 keywords best describing your paper
 * we understand that you submit your original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and that you agree to publish your work when it is accepted by the Program Committee; you will be required to send a signed copyright form as required by Springer at a later stage
 * at least one author should register for the conference and present the paper; only registered authors' papers will be included in the proceedings
 * the authors will prepare the final manuscript in time for its inclusion in conference proceedings

IMPORTANT DATES

 * Dec 1, 2008        submission deadline for papers
 * Jan 12, 2009       notification of acceptance/rejection
 * Feb 1, 2009       submission of final papers
 * April 27-29, 2009  the conference

ORGANIZER

 * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems

SPONSORS

 * ServiceWeb 3.0
 * STI2 - Semantic Technology Institute International

Supporters

 * SUPER Integrated Project
 * ACM SIG on Management Information Systems, USA
 * GI SIG on Modelling Business Information Systems

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 * General Chair
 * has general chair::Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland


 * PC Members (preliminary, to be extended)
 * has PC member::Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, Greece
 * has PC member::Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has PC member::Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy
 * has PC member::Ying Ding, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Bogdan Franczyk, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
 * has PC member::Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
 * has PC member::Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
 * has PC member::Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Pawel J. Kalczynski, CSU Fullerton, USA
 * has PC member::Uzay Kaymak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Jerzy Kisielnicki, University of Warsaw, Poland
 * has PC member::Gary Klein, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
 * has PC member::Ralf Klischewski, German University in Kairo, Egypt
 * has PC member::Jacek Koronacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
 * has PC member::Sanjay Kumar, XLRI School of Management, India
 * has PC member::Dennis Kundisch, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Dominik Kuropka, University of Potsdam, Germany
 * has PC member::Peter C. Lockemann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia
 * has PC member::Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
 * has PC member::Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
 * has PC member::Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 * has PC member::Jorge Marx Gomez, University of Oldenburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Gunter Muller, University of Freiburg, Germany
 * has PC member::Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA
 * has PC member::Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
 * has PC member::Jakub Piskorski, EU, JRC, Web and Language Technology, Italy
 * has PC member::Eric Paquet, National Research Council, Canada
 * has PC member::Elke Pulvermueller, University Osnabrueck, Germany
 * has PC member::Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic
 * has PC member::Ulrich Reimer, University of Konstanz, Germany
 * has PC member::Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
 * has PC member::Alexander Schill, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
 * has PC member::Elmar J. Sinz, University of Bamberg, Germany
 * has PC member::Kilian Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Vojtech Svatek, VSE Praha, Czech Republic
 * has PC member::Robert Tolksdorf, Free University Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Barbara Thonssen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
 * has PC member::Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
 * has PC member::Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute for It-Systems Engineering, Germany
 * has PC member::Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
 * has PC member::Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
 * has PC member::Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
 * has PC member::John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, USA
 * has PC member::Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, USA

Contact
Poznan University of Economics Dept. of Information Systems Al. Niepodleglosci 10 60-967 Poznan, POLAND Tel: +48(61)854-3381 Fax: +48(61)854-3633 bis@kie.ae.poznan.pl http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl