??? Call for Papers
Workshops co-located with BIS 2015
Pozna??, Poland
24-26 June 2015
List of workshops:
* AKTB 2015 - 7th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in
Business
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/aktb-2015/
submission deadline: May 10, 2015
* BITA 2015 - 6th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/bita-2015/
submission deadline: Mar 31, 2015
* DC 2015 - 2nd Workshop on Digital Currencies
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/dc-2015/
submission deadline: May 10, 2015
* FSFE 2015 - 3rd Workshop on Formal Semantics for the Future Enterprise
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/fsfe-2015/
submission deadline: Apr 20, 2015
* PTDCS 2015 - 1st Workshop on Privacy by Transparency in Data-Centric Services
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/ptdcs-2015/
submission deadline: Apr 12, 2015 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
* TBDS 2015 - 1st Workshop on Teaching Big Data Science
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/tbds-2015/
submission deadline: Mar 31, 2015
Detailed descriptions are included below.
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7th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB
2015)
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/aktb-2015/
The AKTB2015 is the 7th workshop organised in conjunction with BIS series
conferences. It pursues to engage researchers and practitioners, specialists
and market analysts to share their research experiences and domain knowledge in
application of contemporary computational intelligence methods for modelling
and implementation of business information systems. We invite papers which
provide advanced services for the information systems users, propose innovative
solutions for systems and process modelling, especially targeting Big Data
issues.
Topics:
* Artificial intelligence for big data
* Business process and information requirements analysis
* Advanced knowledge-based business information systems
* Advanced research and case studies of application computational
methods in banking, insurance and credit risk evaluation, company rating systems
* Computational intelligence for business (artificial neural networks,
fuzzy systems, expert systems)
* Decision support systems in business enterprises, financial
institutions and e-management
* Knowledge-based models of data mining in business
* Agent-based and embedded systems in business applications
* Information systems in e-business, e-banking and marketing
* Advanced computational approaches to portfolio optimization and
selection
* Analysis of financial time series
* Estimations, modelling, algorithms of application of investment
strategies in financial markets
Submission:
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
* Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
* Demo papers: max. 4 pages
Important dates
* May 10, 2015 - submission deadline for papers
* May 22, 2015 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 30, 2015 - submission of final papers
* Jun 24-26, 2015 - the workshop
Organizers
Vilnius University, Department of Informatics
Chairs
Dalia Kriksciuniene
Virgilijus Sakalauskas
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6th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment (BITA 2015)
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/bita-2015/
A contemporary challenge for enterprises is to keep up with the pace of
changing business demands imposed on them in different ways. There is today an
obvious demand for continuous improvement and alignment in enterprises but
unfortunately many organisations don???t have proper instruments (methods,
patterns, best practices etc.) to achieve this. Enterprise modelling and
business process management are two areas belonging to a tradition where the
mission is to improve business practice and business and IT alignment. In this
tradition the alignment process usually is manifested in taking a business from
one state (AS-IS) into another improved state (TO-BE), i.e. a transformation of
the business and its supporting IT into something that is regarded as better. A
challenge in business and IT alignment is to move beyond a narrow focus on one
tradition or technology. There is a need to aware of and able to deal with a
number of dimensions of the enterprise architecture and their re
lations in order to create alignment. Examples of such dimensions are:
organisational structures, strategies, business models, work practices,
processes, and IS/IT structures. Among the concepts that deserve special
attention in this context is IT governance. Effective IT governance aligns IT
investments with overall business priorities, determines who makes the IT
decisions and assigns accountability for the outcomes.
This workshop aims to bring together people who have strong interest in
business and IT alignment. We would like to invite researchers and
practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of
their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage broad understanding of
possible approaches and solutions for business and IT alignment, including IT
governance subjects. Specific focus will be on practices of business and IT
alignment, i.e. we encourage submission of case study and experience papers.
Topics
* Challenges in business and IT alignment
* Business and IT alignment in small and medium sized enterprises
* Business/ IT alignment through BPM
* Business and IT alignment discovery, change and improvement ???
methodologies and best practices
* Business value of business and IT alignment
* Organisational implementations of various levels of business and IT
alignment approaches
* Metrics associated with the alignment life cycle, re-design,
implementation, management and improvement
* Best practice business and IT alignment case studies
* The relationship between BPM and enterprise architecture
* Critical success factors and associated KPIs?? for alignment
initiatives
* IT governance as a mean for alignment
* Enterprise modelling as a tool for business and IT alignment
* Human aspects of business and IT alignment; organizational staffing
and structure, change management and leadership strategies
* Design thinking in business and alignment
* Practices of business and IT alignment
* Experience reports and case studies
Submission
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
Important dates
* Mar 31, 2015 - submission deadline for papers
* Apr 30, 2015 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 30, 2015 - submission of final papers
* Jun 24-26, 2015 - the workshop
Organizers
J??nk??ping University
Rostock University
Chairs
Ulf Seigerroth
Kurt Sandkuhl
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2nd Workshop on Digital Currencies (DC 2014)
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/dc-2015/
During the last few years, the growing interest and popularity in crypto
currencies have fostered developments in research and practices in relevant
fields. Academics and practitioners, alike, are facing challenges related to
the ever increasing required infrastructure for mining crypro-currencies, the
operational aspects of exchanges, the regulatory frameworks that are required
for the new form of payment instruments without hindering the growth of the new
economy and the relation between crypto-currencies and official payment methods.
Nowadays, addressing such challenges becomes essential for developing new
services and possibly business models that contain the prospect of
restructuring financial systems.
This workshop invites researchers and business experts to share knowledge and
competencies for organizational and practical aspects of crypto-currency
systems. We expect participants to present research papers, comment on business
cases, hold tutorial sessions or demonstrate systems, tools and other related
issues needed to:
(a) manage crypto-currencies
(b) optimize operational aspects of crypto-currency exchanges and
(c) assess and make informed decisions related to digital currencies.
Topics
* Types of Digital Payment Systems and Properties
* Crypto-currencies and Security
* Mining Crypto-ocurrencies
* P2P Decentralized Architectures and Platforms
* Crypto-currency Exchange Markets
* Risk Analysis of Exchanges for Digital Currency
* Assessing Emerging Regulatory Frameworks
* Mobile Information Systems and Services in Crypto-currencies
* Digital Currency as a Service
* Digital Currency and the Banking Sector
* Investing and Crypto-currencies
* Regulatory Frameworks in Digital Monetary Systems
* Digital Currency Transactions and Privacy
* Policy and Ethics
* Case Studies and Best Practices
Submission
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
* Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
* Demo papers: max. 4 pages
Important dates
* May 10, 2015 - submission deadline for papers
* May 22, 2015 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 30, 2015 - submission of final papers
* Jun 24-26, 2015 - the workshop
Organizers
University of Nicosia
Chairs
George Giaglis
Angelika Kokkinaki
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3rd Workshop on Formal Semantics for the Future Enterprise (FSFE 2015)
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/fsfe-2015/
The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers to share
knowledge and experiences on formal aspects of the Future Enterprise,
particularly pertaining to knowledge representation and how it can be employed
to manage various facets of the enterprise, both at design-time (e.g. service
and process descriptions) and at run-time (e.g. process execution, service
discovery).
Current trends in manufacturing, supply chain management and product
servitization systems indicate new emerging paradigms such as Factories of the
Future, Virtual Enterprises, Smart Factories etc. The workshop aims to narrow
down the characteristics of such relatively informal notions, to consolidate
them under the umbrella term of Future Enterprise and to highlight their
requirements with respect to capturing and processing their semantic aspects.
Disciplines such as Enterprise Modelling, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web
Services or Linked Enterprise Data are expected to converge under the topics
proposed by the workshop.
We invite papers which raise research questions and provide advanced formal
approaches on enterprise-related semantics and enterprise virtualization. The
workshop aims to attract contributions employing interdisciplinarity across
fields such as Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering, aiming to bridge
their inherent gaps in granularity and addressability. The proposed topics
consider application scenarios for virtual enterprises and factories of the
future and are an acknowledgment of the fact that the non-ambiguous
representation of semantics can be tackled with a wide array of approaches
(e.g. conceptual modeling, natural language, logics) and supported with
heterogeneous technologies (e.g. ontologies, modeling tools, semantic lifting
tools).
Topics
* Knowledge acquisition in virtual enterprises
* Modeling and simulation of manufacturing processes for Factories of
the Future
* Description logics for decision support in virtual enterprises
* Description, discovery and composition of semantic web services
* Description and execution of semantic business processes
* Data semantization and semantic lifting methodologies
* Formal methods for enterprise modeling
* Context-aware enterprise information systems
* Ontology engineering for Factories of the Future
* Computational semantics and natural language processing for business
documents
* Semantic support for collaborative business networks
* Semantics of cyberphysical systems in Factories of the Future
* Reasoning and automated decision making in virtual enterprises
* Data linking and federation in collaborative networks
* Security and access control semantics for virtual enterprises
Important dates
* Apr 20, 2015 - submission deadline for papers
* May 20, 2015 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* Jun 1, 2015 - submission of final papers
* Jun 24-26, 2015 - the workshop
Organizers
Babe??-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Economics
and Business Administration, Business Information Systems Department
Chairs
Robert Buchmann
Razvan Petrusel
Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi
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Workshop on Privacy by Transparency in Data-Centric Services (PTDCS 2015)
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/ptdcs-2015/
Big Data has developed into a key factor of the economy that benefits users and
providers of data-centric services. However, the analysis of growing volumes of
users data in data-centric services also presents significant privacy
challenges. The objective of this workshop is to bring researchers and
practitioners together to explore transparency-based mechanisms, such as
dashboards, economic explanations of the use of privacy and value of data, as
well as user behavior. In particular, the goal of this workshop is to set
thematic milestones for the technical development of transparency mechanisms on
the one hand, and on the other, trace ways in which technical progress, users
and industry could profit from transparency. A major focus will be set on
Transparency-Enhancing Technologies (TET) and, in particular, Privacy
Dashboards.
Topics
* Accountability in Data-Centric Services
* Economics of TET
* Privacy Dashboards
* Privacy Economics
* Privacy Policy Specification and Negotiation
* Privacy in Socio-Technical Systems
* Privacy-Enabled Business Models
* Requirements for TET
* Transparent Behavioral Targeting
* Transparent Usage Control
Submission
* Long papers: max. 12 pages
Important dates:
* Apr 12, 2015 - submission deadline for papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
* May 15, 2015 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 31, 2015 - submission of final papers
* June 24-26, 2015 - the workshop
Organizers
University of Freiburg
PricewaterhouseCoopers
CASED Darmstadt
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
Chair
Main Organizer and General Chair: G??nter M??ller
Technical Chair: Rafael Accorsi
Technical Chair: Christian Zimmermann
Organizational Chair: Sven Wohlgemuth
International Chair: Isao Echizen
International Chair: Hiroshi Yoshiura
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Workshop on Teaching Big Data Science (TBDS 2015)
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/workshops/tbds-2015/
Through increasing digitalization of today???s business world, enormous amounts
of data are available for decision making. As a consequence, companies are
currently seeking for skilled analysts and managers to have more insight on
their big data sets. Thus, the ability of analyzing huge amounts of data,
spotting patterns, and extracting useful information are becoming key
competitive advantages.
Big data analytics requires multiple skills that span a variety of disciplines,
methods and techniques from both business and technical perspectives. However,
still there is a gap between companies??? expectations and academic curricula.
Conventional academic programs are not corresponding with labour market
requirements towards graduates??? skills and knowledge. Therefore, academia is
facing a new challenge of combining big data aspects with the existing degree
programs or develop entirely new offerings that focus on big data topics.
The main goal of this Workshop is to bring together academics to share their
thoughts and experience in teaching big data and smart economy topics at
different universities (business and technical). The area of interest covers
theories, current and novel methods, learning concepts and pedagogical aspects
useful for teaching big data, as well as review and critical analysis of
existing approaches and implementation reports (lessons learnt). The main
question still to be answered is: ???How can or should big data topics be
integrated into academic curricula????.
Topics
* Designing big data curricula
* Developing multiple analytical skills (approaches towards teaching
analytical techniques / data mining / process mining)
* architectures and technological infrastructure for teaching big data
topics
* Key resources (tools and software) for teaching big data
* Novel teaching methodologies/ formats / materials
* Learning concepts to develop analytical skills and capabilities
* Pedagogical aspects of teaching big data topics
* Teaching statistical inference for big data
* E-learning supporting big data analytics
* Use of new media in teaching big data topics
* Use of linked data for teaching big data analytics
* Trends and issues
Important dates
Mar 31, 2015 - submission deadline for papers
May 15, 2015 - notification of acceptance/rejection
Jun 8, 2015 - submission of final papers
Jun 25, 2015 - the workshop
Organizers
Technische Universit??t M??nchen, Germany
Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Otto von Guericke Universit??t Magdeburg, Germany
Chairs
Sonja Hecht
Harald Kienegger
Wioletta Soko??owska
Stefan Weidner
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