16th
IEEE Conference on Business Informatics - Call for Papers
Geneva, Switzerland, July 14 – 17, 2014
Important Dates
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Paper Submission:
March 2, 2014
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Paper Notification
of Acceptance: April 27, 2014
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Camera Ready Copies:
May 15, 2014
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Conference: July 14
– 17, 2014
Business Informatics
Business
Informatics is the scientific discipline targeting
information processes and related phenomena in their
socio-economical business context, including companies,
organisations, administrations and society in general.
Business Informatics is a fertile ground for research with
the potential for immense and tangible impact. As a field
of study, it endeavours to take a systematic and analytic
approach in aligning core concepts from management
science, organisational science, economics information
science, and informatics into an integrated engineering
science.
The
field of Business Informatics involves a broad spectrum of
more specific research domains that focus on important
aspect of informatics in the context of organizations,
ecosystems and society at large. These domains include:
Business Model Innovation, Business Process
Engineering, Empowering & Enabling Technologies,
Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Engineering,
Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise & Business
Transformation, Method Engineering, Service Innovation
& Engineering, Social & Frontier Technologies
Some
domains take technology as a starting point and position
them as enabler/driver of socio-economic activities, while
some domains do the reverse, i.e. take socio-economic
issues as a starting point and consider ways in which
information technology can provide solutions. Key is, in
all cases, bridging between information technological
aspects and their socio-economical context.
Goal of the conference series
The goal
of the CBI series of conferences is to bring together
existing Business Informatics related research domains and
stimulate discussion, synergy and integration of their
respective research results and activities. Accordingly,
the CBI conferences use a format that enables an in depth
discussions among researchers in their respective domains
during the conference. In addition, the contributions and
discussions among the different domains are channelled
towards a series of books dedicated to Advances in
Business Informatics.
Proceedings
The
proceedings of the CBI series are published by the IEEE as
a electronic publication with its own ISBN number. The
proceedings are made avalable to the conference
participants by means of a USB stick, while also being
included in the IEEE digital library.
Reviewing
All
papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.
The
reviewing process of the CBI conference series aims to
provide authors with valuable feedback on their papers,
even when a submission is rejected. As such, the CBI
conference series operates under the principle that a
serious submission deserves a serious review.
General Co-chairs of CBI 2014
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Stéphane
Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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KJ Lin, University
of California, Irvine, USA
PC Co-chairs of CBI 2014
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Henderik A. Proper,
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
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Jolita Ralyté,
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Publication chair of CBI 2014
Steering Committee
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Birgit Hofreiter,
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Christian Huemer,
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Henderik A. Proper,
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
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Jorge Sanz, IBM
Research, USA
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KJ Lin, University
of California, Irvine, USA
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Stéphane
Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Domain Coordinators
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Christoph Weinhardt,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Eng Chew, University
of Technology Sydney, Australia
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Frank Harmsen,
Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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Henderik A. Proper,
Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
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Jan Mendling,
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Vienna), Austria
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Jorge Sanz, IBM
Research, USA
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José Tribolet,
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Stéphane
Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Takayuki Ito, Nagoya
Institute of Technology, Japan
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Thomas Setzer,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Ulrich Frank,
University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Topics of papers
The CBI
conference focuses on papers that clearly relate business
and informatics, where papers typically will take one of the two as their primary starting point.
Next to that, since BI is very much a practical field,
papers that focus case studies are also explicitly asked
for. As such, authors are encouraged to submit papers
covering three tracks:
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Business
with Informatics, which focuses on
topics within the societal context of informatics,
i.e. the "B" in BI. This includes, e.g. Business-IT
alignment.
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Informatics
for Business, which focuses on
IT as an enabler of new business and/or societal
developments, i.e. the "I" in BI.
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Case
studies, reporting on practical cases
of business
informatics. For such papers,
we suggest the authors to follow the STARR structure:
Situation, Tasks to be done, Activities used to
achieve these tasks, Results delivered, and a
Reflection on the case.
More
specific topics include for Business
with Informatics:
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Business Process
Engineering:
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Customer-centered
and inter-enterprise business processes
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Modeling of
multi-channel processes and process architectures
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Management and
governance for Business Process Engineering
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Business process
analytics and operational decision-making
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Tooling for
Business Process Engineering
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Enterprise
Architecture
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Enterprise
architecture languages, methods, management and
governance
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Enterprise
architecture reference models and simplified / agile
methods
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Enterprise &
Conceptual Modelling:
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Modelling methods,
languages, and tools
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Model management
and reuse
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The process of
modelling and guidelines for modelling
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Collaborative
(enterprise) modelling
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Competencies of
modellers and modelling teams
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Industry/domain/concern
specific reference models
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Enterprise
Engineering
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Enterprise and
Business Transformation
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Methodologies and
approaches for enterprise & business
transformation
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Methodologies and
approaches to set up/mature an organization’s
transformation capability
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Competencies
needed to conduct/drive enterprise & business
transformations
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Service Innovation
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Impact of
technology trends on service innovation and vice
versa
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Interdependencies
between business model and service innovation
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Managing the
service innovation process
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Open service
innovation and sourcing strategies
and for
Informatics for Business specific
topics include:
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Business data
engineering and analytics
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Business (big)
data and knowledge integration, management and
mining
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Information
retrieval, information filtering and recommender
systems
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Data science,
advanced analytics, prediction, causal forecasting,
and visualization
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Smart measurements
and collaborative monitoring
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Business IT
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Productivity and
business value of IT and data
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Support of users
and communities in business environments
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Social networks
analysis & social computing
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Tools for
ensuring security, privacy, trust and monitoring
risk
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Specialized
Human Computer Interaction
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Technology support
for Electronic Business and Electronic Commerce,
e-Market place design
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Smarter planet,
Technology adoption and diffusion
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Model-Driven
Engineering
Format of papers
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Only PDF files are
accepted.
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