BIS 2012 - 15th International Conference on Business Information Systems

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to BIS 2012 conference. It will take place in May 2012 in Vilnius and will be organized by Poznan University of Economics.

Topics of interest

Advanced Computational Gateway to Business Information Management

BIS 2012 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 are restricted by the theme of the conference as defined above and they include:

Business intelligence

Artificial intelligence
Evolutionary and genetic algorithms
Support vector machines
Fuzzy logic
Machine learning
Neural networks
Intelligent agent based systems
Business applications of artificial intelligence

Business information management

Business process management
Data governance
IT Project management
Electronic commerce
Financial management
Information security
Quality management
Customer Relationship Management
Semantic business process management
Adaptive and dynamic processes
Supply chain processes
ERP implementations
Integration of data and processes
Collaborative BPM

Information technology

Communication and network systems
Business Data mining
Data governance technologies and applications
Business databases, data warehousing
Software engineering
Internet technology and application
Multimedia business applications

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
Human-computer interaction
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 Guidelines

Submission system is available here (at EasyChair)
language of publication: English
paper should not exceed 12 LNCS pages (including abstract and references)
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

Jan 16, 2012 - submission deadline for papers
Mar 1, 2012 - notification of acceptance/rejection
Mar 11, 2012 - submission of final papers
May 21-23, 2012 - the conference

Workshops

Topics and submission guidelines

Detailed information on seperate workshops are available here

Organizers

Poznan University of Economics
Department of Management Information Systems
Al. Niepodleglosci 10
61-875 Poznan, Poland
phone: +48 61 854 33 81
fax: +48 61 854 36 33
bis-AT-kie.ue.poznan.pl

Vilnius University
Kaunas Faculty of Humanities
Department of Informatics
Muitines str.8
LT-44280 Kaunas,
Lithuania
phone: +370-37-750538
fax: +370-37-423222
bis2012-AT-vukhf.lt