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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Dear Colleague,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">BIR 2014 (13th International Conference
on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research) invites you to contribute by submitting paper(s) to the conference taking place in Lund, Sweden in September 22-24, 2014,
<a href="http://www.ics.lu.se/bir2014">www.ics.lu.se/bir2014</a>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Conference theme: Making a smarter difference with ICT</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an increasingly important role in organizations, inter-organizational networks,
society and individuals' daily life. Business activities are dependent on software systems operating in dynamic and often unpredictably changing business environments. From this perspective of ICTs role in making a smarter difference with ICT, Business Informatics
Research is essential. Hence, the theme for the BIR 2014 conference is <i>making a smarter difference with ICT</i></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The submission deadline is May 5 2014.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the LNBIP
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Invited key note speaker is Brandon Jones, IBM Sweden</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The conference tracks are:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Business, people, and systems</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Business and information systems development</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Business intelligence and big data</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Contextualized evaluation of business informatics</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Workshops and Doctoral Consortium will be organized as satellite events. Selected accepted papers from the workshops will be included
in the post-conference proceedings published by Springer.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Detailed information about submission and venue and so on is available at the conference web site
</span><span lang="SV" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.ics.lu.se/bir2014"><span lang="EN-US">www.ics.lu.se/bir2014</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">The conference is organized and hosted by the
<b>Department of Informatics, Lund School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund University (LU), Sweden</b>. The conference is conveniently located in Lund which is easy accessible from Copenhagen Airport.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Björn Johansson</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Associate Professor</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Department of Informatics</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">School of Economics and Management</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Lund University</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Email: </span><span lang="SV" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><a href="mailto:bjorn.johansson@ics.lu.se"><span lang="EN-US">bjorn.johansson@ics.lu.se</span></a></span><span lang="SV" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><a href="http://www.ics.lu.se/staff/bjorn.johansson"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ics.lu.se/staff/bjorn.johansson</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Phone: +46 46 222 8021</span><span lang="SV" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Fax: +46 46 222 4528</span><span lang="SV" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Mail: Ole Römers väg 6, SE-223 63 Lund, Sweden</span><span lang="SV" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">****************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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