<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 Workshop and Event Proposals ***</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: November 30, 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; ">The 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">(BIS 2014) will be held in Larnaca, Cyprus, 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; ">BIS is currently one of the top European conferences in the areas of theory</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">and practice of development and implementation of contemporary business</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">information systems. More information on current and previous editions of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">the BIS conference is accessible from the series web site at</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "><a href="http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/">http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/</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; ">The BIS 2014 Program Committee invites proposals for the workshops and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">events to be held back-to-back and during the conference. The BIS 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">workshops and events should be related to:</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; ">- specific aspects of business information systems modelling,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> implementation and usage, especially mobile business applications, or</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; ">- specific issues related to business information systems helping enterprises</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> to take advantages of internet of services and internet of things, including</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> service orientation, service front-ends as the interface to users and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> communities, virtualisation of resources, etc.</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 organization of the workshops and events (including participants</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">registration, website creation and partial advertising of call for papers) will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">supported by the BIS team, allowing workshop organizers to focus on scientific</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">aspects of the event (review and selection of papers, division of presentations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">into sessions, etc.).</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 post-proceedings of BIS 2014 workshops will be published as a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">book by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Business Information</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">Processing (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; ">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</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; ">Each submission of proposed workshop or other event (max three A4 pages</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">in PDF format) should 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; ">- the title of the event</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- short description of the event and its goals</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- proposed format (e.g., workshop, tutorial, panel, etc.)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- initial list of topics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- preliminary program committee with specified chair(s)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- description of workshop/event history (if the proposed event is a following</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "> edition of an already existing event), including statistics of previous edition(s)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- previous experience of chair(s) in organizing similar events</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">- preliminary forecast on possible number of submissions and accepted 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; ">Any information on possible workshop/event publicity is also welcome.</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; ">Submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; "><a href="mailto:bis-workshops@kie.ue.poznan.pl">bis-workshops@kie.ue.poznan.pl</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; 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; ">The deadline for submission of workshop and event proposals is:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">November 30, 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; ">Decisions on acceptance or rejection of proposed workshop will be taken</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">and announced to workshop organizers within two weeks from the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; ">submission deadline.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><br></div></body></html>