ISTA 2009

8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology
and its Applications

held in conjunction with UNISCON 2009

University of Western Sydney (UWS)
Sydney, April 21 - 24, 2009

http://www.uniscon2009.org/

*** Deadlines ***
Abstract submission: 24 October 2008
Paper submission: 31 October 2008
Author Notification: 15 December 2008
Camera Ready Paper: 16 January 2009
Early bird registration: 20 February 2009

*** AIMS AND SCOPE ***
Information Systems Technology is a core and base discipline of informatics which addresses a
variety of technical issues and application domains (e.g., re-engineering, maintenance,
natural language processing, business analytics, semantic web technologies, mobile and pervasive computing etc.).
We invite submissions of various types on the aforementioned aspects of information systems (IS) and respective
technology, including technical papers, case study reports on commercial or experimental applications,
education research papers; research demonstrations as well as poster demonstrations.

ISTA 2009 follows the earlier successful conferences in this series held at Klagenfurt,
Kharkiv, Salt Lake City, Palmerston North and is integrated into the
"United Information Systems Conferences" UNISCON 2009.

Contributions are welcome in, but not limited to the following topics:
- Advances in information systems modelling and design methodologies
- Enterprise, business and technological process modelling
- Data warehouse and multidimensional modelling, analysis and mining
- Methodologies for continuous information systems adaptation and software evolution
- Architecture patterns and models for design of large-scale information systems
- Information systems architecture
- Information systems development tools
- Component-based information technologies
- Semantic Web technologies in intelligent information systems design
- Agent-based information technologies
- Information systems integration and tools for supporting information integration
- Practical experience with integration approaches
- Information systems and telecommunication technologies
- Modern database technologies and their applications
- Process modelling for enterprises
- Concepts, techniques and applications of electronic and mobile business
- Customer relationship management, knowledge management and helpdesks: organization, automation, systems, experiences
- Security issues in information systems
- Web oriented business and technological process control and reengineering
- ERP/MRP systems concepts and technologies
- Information technologies for managing, modelling and simulating social, economical, environmental, and technical objects and processes
- Information retrieval and natural language processing
- Intelligent data processing and knowledge-based information technologies
- E-Learning and Web-enterprise training
- Management of information systems projects
- Mobile computing and information systems
- Pervasive computing and information systems
- Open Source software vs. enterprise information systems
- Visual information processing and information visualisation
- Other topics related to the application of information systems technology

All submitted regular papers will be peer-reviewed for their originality, relevance, and clarity,
and papers presented at ISTA 2009 will be published in the UNISCON 2009 proceedings.
Regular papers should not exceed 12 pages. Poster descriptions should not exceed 6 pages.
It is planned that accepted papers presented at the ISTA 2009 will be published in Springer Lecture Notes
in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) as part of UNISCON 2009 Proceedings like the previous UNISCON 2008
held in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Authors of accepted papers are invited to publish a further paper, free of charge, in a special issue of
the Herald of the NTU "KhPI", i.e., the scientific journal of the National Technical University "KhPI".
Publications in this journal are accepted by Ukrainian Higher Attestation Commission.

For further information, please refer to Conference Web Site www.uniscon2009.org

Program Co-Chairs:
Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Christian Kop, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet, Austria
Stephen Liddle, Rollins Centre for eBusiness, USA

Program Committee (Intended)
- Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
- Marko Anzelak, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
- Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore
- Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Anatoly Doroshenko, Institute of Software Systems, Ukraine
- Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine
- Guenther Fliedl, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
- Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
- Robert Goodwin, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
- Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, Sweden
- Jean Luc Hainaut, University of Namur, Belgium
- Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
- Wolfgang H. Janko, University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
- Roland Kaschek, KIMEP in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- J?rg Kerschbaumer, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
- Thomas Kuehne, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
- Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea
- Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
- Mikhail R. Kogalovsky, Market Economy Institute RAS, Russia
- Elisabeth Metais, Laboratory CEDRIC, Paris, France
- San Murugesan, Multimedia University, Malaysia
- Igor Nekrestyanov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Boris A. Novikov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Andreas Oberweis, AIFB Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
- Maria E. Orlowska, The University of Queensland, Australia
- Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
- Bernhard Rumpe, TU Braunschweig, Germany
- Gunter Saake, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Joachim Schmidt, TU Hamburg Harburg, Germany
- Vladimir Shekhovtsov, National Technical University "KhPI", Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Claudia Steinberger, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
- Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
- Yuzura Tanaka, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Helmut Thoma, Universitaet Basel, Switzerland
- Juergen Voehringer, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
- Vyacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU, Russia
- Joze Zupancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia