-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Reminder: BIR2008 - The 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research Datum: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:33:45 +0200 Von: Stanislaw Wrycza swrycza@univ.gda.pl Antwort an: Stanislaw Wrycza swrycza@univ.gda.pl An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

BIR'2008 The 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research Gdansk, Poland 25.-26.09.2008 http://bir2008.univ.gda.pl

SUGGESTED TOPICS

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1) Business, people and system interoperability * Philosophical and social perspectives of interoperability * Ontological foundations of Business Informatics * Systems theory and principles * Conceptual modelling * Human oriented systems * Emerging technologies and paradigms * Methods, architectures and communication technologies supporting interoperability * Enterprise modelling and virtual organisations * ERP, CRM and SCM systems * E-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government

2) Business and information systems development * Business Process Modeling * Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) paradigm shift * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm * Requirements Engineering * The synergy of agile and MDA development processes * IS modelling, testing and verification * Object oriented techniques and methodologies * Unified Modeling Language (UML) * Workflow management * Quality of business software

3) Business intelligence * Business excellence and business intelligence solutions * Data warehousing * Reporting * Decision support systems * IS for Healthcare/Medical Informatics

4) Open source and open information society * Open source development and deployment tools * Integrating open source technology with commercial and proprietary products * Open source solutions for MDA development * Interoperability of open source communities and business systems

5) Knowledge management and semantic web * Knowledge management in interconnected world * Semantic Web methods * Ontology modelling languages and tools * Ontology applications in business * E-learning and learning organisations

6) Contextualized evaluation of Business Informatics * Feasibility of existing standards, techniques and languages * Scenarios for application value optimization * Contextualized value and quality * User acceptance of new technology * Teaching Business Informatics * Curriculum design and implementation issues * Case studies and experience reports * Project management issues

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The keynote speeches will be given by:

- Prof. Joerg Becker from University of Muenster (Germany), Managing Director of ERCIS - European Research Center for Information Systems. Theme: Reference models: to close the gap between business requirements and software development.

- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Granow Luebeck University of Applied Sciences / oncampus, Theme: E-Learning across borders - business processes across institutions

ORGANIZERS

BIR Conferences Steering Comittee PLAIS - Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems AIS Department of Business Informatics of University of Gdansk, Poland

BIR CONFERENCES STEERING COMMITTEE

Benkt Wangler, University of Skövde, Sweden - Chairman Per Backlund, University of Skövde, Sweden Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden Peter Forbrig, Rostock University, Germany Horst Guenther, Rostock University, Germany Lina Nemuraite, Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania Jyrki Nummenmaa, University of Tampere, Finland Hans Roeck, Rostock University, Germany Eva Söderström University of Skövde, Sweden Bernd Viehweger, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline - June 1, 2008 (Please note that the deadline is this week)

Notification of acceptance - July 15, 2008 Camera-ready copies - September 7, 2008 Conference - September 25-26, 2008

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information about BIR'2008 conference, please contact:

Stanislaw Wrycza University of Gdańsk Department of Business Informatics 81-864 Sopot Piaskowa 9 Poland ph. +48 58 523 14 00 fax +48 58 523 11 55 mail: info@bir2009.univ.gda.pl

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