[AISWorld] CfP BIR 2020 - Extended Deadline 29 May, 2020

[BIR 2020]

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BIR 2020
19th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics 
Research
*Extended Deadline for the Main Conference: 29 May, 2020*

University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria, September 21-23, 2020
https://bir2020.omilab.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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We welcome submissions for the 19th International Conference on 
Perspectives in
Business Informatics Research (BIR), taking place in Vienna, Austria.

THEME: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BUSINESS INFORMATICS

Artificial Intelligence (AI) drastically changes the way we employ 
technology,
design information systems and allocate human labor in the context of 
digital
transformations. AI also shifts perspectives in Business Informatics 
Research,
which has been traditionally concerned with how different forms and 
degrees of
automation can support or evolve enterprise information systems. The two
fundamental pillars of Artificial Intelligence - machine learning and 
knowledge
engineering - converge towards new streamlining possibilities, with
transformative results in areas such as business process automation, human-
computer interaction, context-aware or capability-aware enterprise 
information
systems.

 From its very inception the BIR conference focused on opening 
perspectives and
stimulating new roadmaps for Business Informatics, considering both 
fundamental
research and key application areas (e.g., Industry 4.0, Smart cities, e-
Government). Large scale AI adoption brings disruptions that must be met by
Business Informatics research with novel methods and tools, to ensure a 
triple-
win for enterprises, employees and the societal environment in which 
they act.

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IMPORTANT DATES
-  Abstract submission deadline:
    11 May, 2020
-  Submission Deadline for the Main Conference:
18 May, 2020
*   29 May, 2020*
-  Workshop Proposals:
    15 April, 2020
-  Deadlines for Workshops and Doctoral Consortium:
    to be announced after workshop selection
-  Conference:
    21-23 September, 2020

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TOPICS:
Business, IT People and System Responsibilities
  - Philosophical and social perspectives
  - Ontological foundations
  - Systems theory and principles
  - Conceptual modelling
  - Human oriented systems
  - Emerging technologies and paradigms
  - Business models and rules
  - Enterprise modelling and architectures

Business & IS development
  - Capability planning and management
  - Business process modeling
  - Process mining
  - Model Driven Development
  - Service oriented architecture
  - Requirements engineering
  - Contextualised business and systems
  - Business Information Technology Alignment

Enterprise Systems
  - IoT, ERP, CRM and SCM systems
  - Business intelligence systems
  - Data analytics and decision support systems
  - Databases for business
  - Big Data for business

Application areas
  - Healthcare Supply Chain
  - Industry 4.0
  - E-Government
  - Smart City
  - Computer games and gamification

ICT Governance/Management
  - Digital Governance
  - IT Governance
  - Project, risk and security management
  - Data Governance
  - ICT system sustainability, ethics and ergonomics
  - Legacy systems

Responsible Collaboration
  - Blockchain economy
  - Outsourcing, crowdsourcing, etc.
  - Social network analysis
  - Value creation and co-creation
  - Business compliance
  - Workflow management

Semiotics & Knowledge Management
  - Linked data Semantic
  - Web methods and languages
  - Ontology modelling languages and tools
  - Digital innovation
  - Ontology applications in business
  - Web and social computing
  - Text mining
  - E-learning and learning organizations

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TYPES OF PAPERS
  - Research papers: describing original research contributions 
(theoretical,
            methodological or conceptual).
  - Exploratory papers: introducing new ideas and directions for research by
            analysing the current state of the art, identifying the gaps 
that
            need to addressed, and introducing an approach as a means to 
bridge
            them.
  - Practice papers: discussing problems or challenges that organisations
            (private or public) face, relate them to the wider domain and
            provide useful insights to practitioners from similar 
organisations
            and contexts.

Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer’s LNBIP 
series,
for which general author instructions are available here: https://
www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
(check below the Submission Guidelines for links to specific templates and
additional details). Best papers will be invited to a special issue of the
Journal of Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ).

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing (LNBIP, indexed in ISI Proceedings, DBLP, EI and
Scopus).

Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of
their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their
papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on 
behalf
of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-
Publish form (this will be made available to authors of accepted 
papers). The
corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the 
corresponding
author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, 
changes
relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

All submissions must be unpublished and not be under review elsewhere. Page
limit for all papers is 15 pages. A preliminary abstract submission is
expected one week before the paper submission deadline. Inclusion in the
proceedings volume is conditioned by having at least one author registration
per paper and having the paper presented during the conference. Initial
submissions should be made in PDF format using the EasyChair submission 
page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir20200.

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WORKSHOP AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
BIR 2020 traditionally hosts diverse thematic workshops and a Doctoral
Consortium which stimulate lively debates on specific topics and provide
valuable improvement suggestions to early stage scientific ideas.

The BIR workshops and the BIR Doctoral Consortium will publish a separate
joint proceedings volume in the CEUR-WS series. Submission links and
formatting guidelines will be posted by chairs after the list of approved
workshops is announced.

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ORGANIZERS
Conference Chairs
  - Björn Johansson - Lund University/Linköping University, Sweden
  - Dimitris Karagiannis - University of Vienna, Austria
Program Chairs
  - Robert Buchmann - University Babes-Bolyai, Romania
  - Andrea Polini - University of Camerino, Italy
Workshop Chairs
  - Marite Kirikova - Riga Technical University, Latvia
  - Kurt Sandkuhl - University of Rostock, Germany
DC Chairs
  - Knut Hinkelmann - FHNW, Switzerland
  - Barbara Re - University of Camerino, Italy
Organizing Chair
  - Victoria Döller - University of Vienna, Austria

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Gundars Alksnis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Said Assar, Institut Mines Telecom Business School, France
Eduard Babkin, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 
Russia
Per Backlund, University of Skövde, Sweden
Amelia Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Catalin Boja, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Dominik Bork, University of Vienna, Austria
Tomas Bruckner, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic
Robert Buchmann, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Witold Chmielarz, University of Warsaw, Poland
Michal Choras, University of Science and Technology Bydgoszcz, Poland
Chiara Di Francescomarino, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
Hans-Georg Fill, Freiburg University, Switzerland
Peter Forbrig, Rostock University, Germany
Ana-Maria Ghiran, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Knut Hinkelmann, FHNW, Switzerland
Adrian Iftene, University "Al.I.Cuza" Iasi, Romania
Emilio Insfran, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Florian Johannsen, University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden, Germany
Björn Johansson, Lund University/Linköping University, Sweden
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Sybren De Kinderen, Duissburg-Essen University, Germany
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Birger Lantow, Rostock University, Germany
Massimiliano De Leoni, University of Padua, Italy
Ginta Majore, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Latvia
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia
Andrea Morichetta, University of Camerino, Italy
Jens Myrup Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jacob Norbjerg, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Ltd., UK
Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Data Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Pierluigi Plebani, Polytechnic University of Milan Italy
Paul Pocatilu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy
Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland
Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Vaclav Repa, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria
Ben Roelens, Open University of Netherlands, Netherlands
Kurt Sandkuhl, Rostock University, Germany
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Manuel Serrano, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen, Germany
Filip Vencovsky, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic
Gianluigi Viscusi, EPFL-CDM-CSI, Switzerland
Anna Wingkvist, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Jelena Zdravkovic, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany
Wieslaw Wolny, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland