BIS 2008 features Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web as well as some social software-oriented sessions that may interest some of you. =========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =========================================================================== 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008) Innsbruck, Austria May 5, 6 or 7, 2008 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl =========================================================================== International Conference on Business Information Systems is a forum for international researchers to discuss the wide range of the development, implementation, application and improvement of business applications and systems. It is addressed to the scientific community, the developers of business computer applications, consultants helping to properly implement computer technology and applications in the industry. =========================================================================== THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE WILL FEATURE * PRESENTATION OF 42 ACCEPTED PAPERS * (accepted papers: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/papers.php) (conference programme: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/programme.php) Accepted papers cover a wide range of IT problems related to contemporary business information systems such as Business Process Management, Ontologies, Contexts, Content retrieval and filtering, Web Services, Collaboration and E-government. * FIVE KEYNOTE TALKS * (see: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/keynotes.php) Keynote talks will be given by five experts in different areas of business information systems: - Dr. Alistair Barros Research leader at SAP Research with interests in business process management, service sciences and software architectures and over 20 years of experience. - Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl Professor and Director of the Department of Information Systems & Financial Engineering and the Competence Center IT & Financial Services at the University of Augsburg with interests in finance and information management, Customer Relationship Management, and Service Science. - Prof. Fabio Ciravegna Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies at the University of Sheffield and director of X-Media project with interests in Knowledge Management, the Semantic Web and language technologies. - Dr. John Davies Leader of the next generation Web research group at BT and director of SEKT EU integrated project with interests in application of Semantic Web technology to knowledge management, information retrieval and Semantic Web services. - Prof. Dr Frank Leymann Professor and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart with interests in area of service oriented computing and middleware, workflow- and business process management, programming in the large, transaction processing, integration technology, and architecture patterns. * TWO TUTORIALS * - Tutorial on Collaborative Work Environments presented by Hans-Ludwig Hausen, Senior Researcher and Project Manager at Fraunhofer German National Engineering Research Society and VSEK German National Software Competence Centre with over 25 years of experience in computer aided software engineering, software quality assurance, software process modeling and tailoring. - Tutorial on Realizing a Semantic Web Application presented by Emanuele della Valle, Program Manager of CEFRIEL's Semantic Web Activities, lecturer of "Advanced Information System" at Politecnico di Milano, lecturer of "Knowledge Engineering" at Universita dell'Insubria, Service Coordinator for "Testbeds and Challenges service" of STI and Technical Manager of the European Project SEEMP. * THREE WORKSHOPS * - 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) covering a wide range of research on users and communities on the Web, mining of social Web resources, relations of social Web and business as well as real-life applications of Web-based social software. - 1st Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008) focused on methods and technologies allowing to access rich and valuable resources of Hidden Web as well as on usage of Deep Web data in real-life scenarios. Call for papers is still open (deadline March, 16th) See: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=adw2008 - Workshop on E-learning for Business Needs covering a variety of e-learning technologies, environments and user interfaces applicable in business scenarios. The workshop will also cover problems related to e-learning security, copyright issues and business models. Call for papers is still open (deadline: February, 29th) See: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=elearn2008 * PHD SESSION OF SUPER EU PROJECT * Its objective is to create an opportunity for doctoral students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and most of all to receive constructive criticism and insights related to areas of Business Process Management and Semantic Web Services. =========================================================================== REGISTRATION & FEES (see: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/registration.php) Conference participation fee are: - 440 EURO (Paid by Mar. 20, 2008) - 480 EURO (Paid by Apr. 30, 2008) - 500 EURO (On-site) Price for participant includes: participation in all BIS 2008 sessions, workshops and tutorials, conference materials, proceedings, lunches, coffee breaks, and conference dinner. =========================================================================== CONTACT DETAILS (see: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/org_com.php) Krzysztof Wecel BIS 2008 OC Co-Chair phone: +48618543632 fax: +48618543633 mail: k.wecel@kie.ae.poznan.pl Department of Information Systems Poznan University of Economics al. Niepodleglosci 10 60-967 Poznan Poland ===========================================================================