<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">*** First Call for Papers ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">17th International Conference on Business Information Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">BIS 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Grecian Bay Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">May 21-23, 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "><a href="http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/">http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Deadline for submissions: December 20, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">(Proceedings will be published in Springer's LNBIP series)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">THEME OF THE CONFERENCE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Big Data: problems solved and remaining challenges</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">The amount of data available for analysis, especially economy-related data,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">is increasing rapidly. According to MGI and McKinsey's Business Technology</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Group, Big Data is becoming a key basis of competition, important factor of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">productivity growth, innovation, consumer surplus as well as organizational</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">effectiveness. Currently, Big Data is one of the hottest trends in the areas</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">like recommendation engines, network monitoring, sentiment analysis, fraud</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">detection, risk modeling, marketing campaign analysis, and social graph</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">analysis. However, there is a need to remodel technologies, applications,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">infrastructure, and business processes in order to take full advantage of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">possibilities offered by Big Data.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to BIS 2014 conference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">The BIS conference is a well-respected event joining international researchers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">to discuss the wide range of the development, implementation, application</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">and improvement of business applications and systems. It is addressed to the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">scientific community, people involved in the development of business</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">computer applications, consultants helping to properly implement computer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">technology and applications in the industry.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Topics are restricted by the theme of the conference as defined above</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">and they include:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Ontologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation of ontologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * ontologies for enterprise content management</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * natural language processing and cognitive science</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured information sources</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * interoperability of heterogeneous information systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * business models for Web information integration and aggregation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * linked open data</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Contexts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * location-aware and geography-centric information systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * wireless and mobile applications</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * multi-agent distributed systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * semantic web personalization</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * smart cities</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * ambient computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * RFID and localisation techniques</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Content retrieval and filtering</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * search over semi-structural Web sources</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * Deep Web search and crawling</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * data integration from Web information sources</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * modeling and describing evolving data sources</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * information gathering support for knowledge-intensive enterprises</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * business models for a content</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * unified data processing and communication systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * automatic identification and data collector systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Collaboration</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * knowledge-based collaboration</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * social networks and social wikis</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * enterprise mashups, Enterprise 2.0</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * security in distributed systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * social networks for healthcare</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Services science</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * service oriented computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * semantic web services</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * composition, choreography and orchestration</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * trust and quality of service (QoS)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * service level agreements</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * distributed computing for the smart grid</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Interoperability</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * digital ecosystem</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * e-infrastructure</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * cloud computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Business process management</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * semantic business process management</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * adaptive and dynamic processes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * supply chain processes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * ERP implementations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * integration of data and processes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * collaborative BPM</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Applications</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * policy modelling and simulation for e-governance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * technologies for digital culture and cultural heritage</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * digital libraries and web archiving</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * access to cultural resources</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * technologies for a low carbon economy</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * safety and healthcare record information reuse</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * early warning systems and mobile monitoring</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * intelligent medical systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> * business models for Future Internet</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">SUBMISSION</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">The BIS 2014 proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series by Springer Verlag.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-450209-0">http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-450209-0</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; 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"> work when it is accepted by the Program Committee; you will be required</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> to send a signed copyright form as required by Springer at a later stage </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">* At least one author should register for the conference and present the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> paper; only registered authors' papers will be included in the proceedings </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">* The authors will prepare the final manuscript in time for its inclusion in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> conference proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Dec 20, 2013: Submission deadline for papers </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Feb 19, 2014: Nnotification of acceptance/rejection </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Mar 05, 2014: Submission of final papers </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">May 21-23, 2014: The conference</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">ORGANIZERS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">University of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Poznan University of Economics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Dept. of Information Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Al. 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