FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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5th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT (ABICT'14)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/abict
E-mail: abict2014@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to ABICT 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

ABICT focuses on Advances in Business ICT approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will provide an international forum for scientists/experts from academia and industry to discuss and exchange current results, applications, new ideas of ongoing research and experience on all aspects of Business Intelligence. ABICT will be also an opportunity to demonstrate different ideas and tools for developing and supporting organizational creativity, as well as advances in decision support systems.
We kindly invite contributions originating from any area of computer science, information technology and computational solutions for different applications areas, data integration and organizational implementation of ABICT, as well as practical ABICT solutions.

TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Advanced technologies of data processing, content processing and information indexing
- Analytics as a service
- Big Data: benefits and challenges
- Business Analytics
- Business applications of social networks
- Business data mining and knowledge discovery
- Business Intelligence
- Business Rules
- Business-oriented time series data mining, analysis, and processing
- Cloud based Business Intelligence
- Creativity Support Tools
- Customer Relationship Management, social Customer Relationship Management
- Data driven marketing
- Data Warehousing
- Decision support
- Information forensics and security, information management, risk assessment and analysis
- ICT technologies in enterprise management
- Knowledge Management (for better Decision Support, Collaboration and Competitiveness)
- Legal text processing
- Semantic Web and Ontologies in Business ICT
- Virtual Enterprise
- Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in fusing Business Intelligence systems and Decision Support Systems
- Web-Based Data Management Systems

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Mach-Król, Maria, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
- Olszak, Celina M., University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
- Pelech-Pilichowski, Tomasz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Badica, Amelia, University of Craiova, Romania
- Berio, Giuseppe, Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
- Chiu, Dickson K. W., Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
- Christozov, Dimitar, American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria
- Khachidze, Manana, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
- Konikowska, Beata, Institute of Computer Science, Poland
- Koohang, Alex, Macon State Collage, United States
- Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael L., Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
- Kulczycki, Piotr, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Lig?za, Antoni, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Loucopoulos, Peri, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
- Maamar, Zakaria, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
- Michalik, Krzysztof
- Ogihara, Mitsunori, University of Miami, United States
- Owoc, Mieczyslaw, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
- Petryshyn, Lubomyr, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Prasad, T. V., Visvodaya Technical Academy, India
- Pulvermueller, Elke, University Osnabrueck, Germany
- Reimer, Ulrich, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Rossi, Gustavo, National University of La Plata, Argentina
- Salem, Abdel-Badeeh M., Ain Shams University, Egypt
- Sauer, Jurgen, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Skalna, Iwona, AGH University of Science and Technology
- Szpyrka, Marcin, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Teufel, Stephanie, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Whatley, Janice, University of Salford, United Kingdom
- Wrycza, Stanis?aw, University of Gdansk, Poland
- Zadrozny, Slawomir, Systems Research Institute, Poland
- Zurada, Jozef, University of Louisville, United States
- Zurada, Jozef, College of Business University of Louisville, Louisville