Call For Papers

14th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR'2015)
Tartu, Estonia, 26-28 August 2015

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Paper submission: April 13, 2015 (extended!)
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http://bir2015.cs.ut.ee/

BIR'2015 is the fourteenth in a series of conferences aimed at fostering inter-disciplinary research in the field of business informatics, particularly research that bridges across management and engineering aspects and that strikes a balance between scientific rigor and practical applicability. This year's edition of the conference will be held in the historical student town of Tartu, under the auspices of University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science.

BIR'2015 solicits both full papers (up to 15 pages) reporting substantial research results, as well as work-in-progress and application papers (up to 8 pages) reporting preliminary results or applications of known results in a practical setting.

The conference welcomes submissions on all aspects of business informatics with an emphasis on the conference's theme of "interoperability and adaptation", including but not restricted to the following topics:

* Interoperability and adaptation
- Interoperability methods, architectures and technology
- Human and social perspectives of interoperability
- Systems theory and principles
- Ontology engineering
- Enterprise modelling and virtual organisations
- E-commerce, e-business and e-government systems
- Open source, open innovation and open society
- E-learning and learning organisations
- Business applications of Web and social computing

* Business information systems development
- Requirements engineering
- Information systems modelling
- Business process management
- Business rules management
- Decision modeling and management
- Service-oriented architecture
- Model-driven architecture
- Agile information systems development
- Information systems quality and security

* Business intelligence
- Data warehousing
- Business data analytics
- Decision support systems
- Business process mining
- Knowledge management
- Semantic Web methods and languages

* Contextualized evaluation of business informatics methods
- Feasibility of existing techniques and languages
- Contextualized value and quality
- User acceptance of new technology
- Case studies and experience reports

All accepted papers will be published in a dedicated volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP, Springer). Submission information is available at the conference web site: http://bir2015.cs.ut.ee

Important Dates

- Paper submission: April 13, 2015 (extended!)
- Notification: May 18, 2015
- Camera ready: June 1, 2015
- Conference dates: August 26-28, 2015

Program Co-Chairs

- Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia

Program Committee

- Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada
- Eduard Babkin, State University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Per Backlund, University of Skövde, Sweden
- Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Ilia Bider, Stockholm University/IbisSoft, Sweden
- Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
- Cristina Cabanillas, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden
- Raffaele Conforti, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Massimiliano de Leoni, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Marie-Christine Fauvet, University of Grenoble, France
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
- Bogdan Ghilic-Micu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
- Claude Godart, University of Lorraine, France
- Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Björn Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
- Anna Kalenkova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Michael Le Duc, Mälardalen University, Sweden
- Barbara Livieri, University of Salento, Italy
- Irina Lomazova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Charles Møller, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Jacob Nørbjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Alexander Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
- Boris Novikov, St.-Petersburg University, Russia
- Michael Petit, University of Namur, Belgium
- Tomáš Pitner, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Nava Pliskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Vaclav Repa, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
- Manuel Resinas, University of Seville, Spain
- Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
- Flavia Santoro, UNIRIO, Brazil
- Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
- Andrzej Sobczak, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
- Chris Stary, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
- Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Bernhard Thalheim, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany
- Peter Trkman, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Anna Wingkvist, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
- Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Iryna Zolotaryova, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine