[Air-L] BIS 2008: Call for Participation (early registration deadline: March, 20)

[Dominik Flejter]

BIS 2008 features Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web as well as some
social software-oriented sessions that may interest some of you.

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                          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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  11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)

                            Innsbruck, Austria
                            May 5, 6 or 7, 2008

                        http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl
						   
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 at kie.ae.poznan.pl

Department of Information Systems
Poznan University of Economics
al. Niepodleglosci 10
60-967 Poznan
Poland
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