In recent years, BI and e-Business Applications have been developed as independent research fields which has received considerable amount of attention. The main challenges now are how BI can be fused into an e-Business application as a part of the business processes. Some advantages of integrating BI into e-Business applications include facilitating automation and decision making capabilities with real-time knowledge by software agents.

When the two trends couple, new emerging models of e-Business applications become possible. The goal of this workshop is to bring together members of research communities of the business intelligence and e-business applications to consider the current state of the two fields, and identify technical possibilities and opportunities of new models, in the interaction between the two areas.


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Topics

- Innovative e-Business models
- Advances on business intelligence
- Competitive intelligence Web intelligence
- Emergent e-Business applications
- Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing
- Workflow and business process management for e-Business
- Web 2.0 & social networking Knowledge management
- Web information retrieval
- Web/Data mining
- Web services
- Customer relationship management
- Collaborative filtering / recommenders
- Information technology for e-Business applications and systems
- Agent-based knowledge discovery
- Data analytics and visualization tools
- Industrial experiences on BI and e-Business applications are welcome


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Important Dates

Paper Submission: May 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2009
Final manuscripts due: June 25, 2009
Author registration: June 25, 2009


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Paper Submission Instructions

Papers submitted for review must be in the IEEE format (8.5" x 11", two-column), maximum 8 pages in length. You can download the IEEE CS format: http://www.aicit.org/niss/instruct.doc. Please email your manuscript in either MS-WORD or PDF format to ccfong@umac.mo by 15 May 2009.

Proceedings for the workshops will be included in the proceedings of INC 2009 and published by IEEE CS series (including IEEExplorer Digital Library). The workshop papers will also be indexed by IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI. Selected authors of the workshop will be invited to submit revised papers to be published at the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence


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Workshop Organizers

Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macao
Sabah M. A. Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada
Ralph Deters, Univesity of Saskatchewan, Canada


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Workshop Committee

Daniel Lemire, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Amr Abdel-Dayem, Laurentian University, Canada
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Sun Aixin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhuang Yan, University of Macau, Macao
Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia



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Simon Fong, Ph.D
Business Intelligence Group
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau
Macao S.A.R.

Tel: (853) 8397-4473
Fax: (853) 2883-8314
Email: ccfong@umac.mo
Homepage: http://www.sftw.umac.mo/~ccfong/
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