Update: call for workshop proposals also available at:
http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/cfw.php?i=1

Call for papers

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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

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Deadline for submissions: December 7, 2008
(Proceedings in Springer's LNBIP series)

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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.

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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

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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

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IMPORTANT DATES

Dec 7, 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
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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
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

General Chair
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

PC Members
(preliminary, to be extended)

Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Djamal Benslimane, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Australia
Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira, Portugal
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Houn-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain
Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy
Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, UK
Tharam S. Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Wien
Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Bogdan Franczyk, University of Leipzig, Germany
Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
Marko Grobelnik, The Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Jack Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Pawel J. Kalczynski, CSU Fullerton, USA
Uzay Kaymak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jerzy Kisielnicki, University of Warsaw, Poland
Gary Klein, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
Ralf Klischewski, German University in Kairo, Egypt
Jacek Koronacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Sanjay Kumar, XLRI School of Management, India
Dennis Kundisch, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany
Dominik Kuropka, University of Potsdam, Germany
Peter C. Lockemann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Peter Loos, University of Saarbrucken, Germany
Ruopeng Lu, SAP Research, Australia
Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology, Dubai
Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia
Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Jorge Marx Gomez, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Florian Matthes, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Gunter Muller, University of Freiburg, Germany
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Adam Nowicki, The Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Eric Paquet, National Research Council, Canada
Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Jakub Piskorski, EU, JRC, Web and Language Technology, Italy
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic
Elke Pulvermueller, University Osnabrueck, Germany
Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Ulrich Reimer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma, Italy
Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata, Argentina
Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jurgen Sauer, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Alexander Schill, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Elmar J. Sinz, University of Bamberg, Germany
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Kilian Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universitat Mannheim, Germany
Vojtech Svatek, VSE Praha, Czech Republic
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy
Barbara Thonssen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Robert Tolksdorf, Free University Berlin, Germany
Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute for It-Systems Engineering, Germany
Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente , Netherlands
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Hui Xiong, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, USA
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China
Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, USA

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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