BIR2019 -call for papers

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BIR CONFERENCE 2019
18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics
Research
Hosted by the Faculty of Informatics and Communication, University of
Economics in Katowice, Poland
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September 23-25, 2019, Katowice, Poland
https://bir2019.ue.katowice.pl/

Dear Colleague,
We would like to invite you in September 2019 to the 18th International
Conference which unites scientists, researchers and industry practitioners
from many countries in a discussion about digitalization responsibility
issues in contemporary computer as well as other complex information
systems.
BIR Conference Theme: Responsibilities of Digitalization - Responsible
designing  & shaping the future of technology  for digital preservation,
global data storage and cost-effective management

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES
•	May 12, 2019 - Paper Submission Deadline
•	April 15, 2019 - Workshop Proposals
•	June 25, 2019 - Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission Deadline
•	July 13, 2019 - Notification of Acceptance
•	July 30, 2019 - Camera-ready Paper
•	August 30, 2019 - Early-bird Registration
•	September 20, 2019 - Late Registration
•	September 23-25, 2019 - Doctoral Consortium + BIR 2019 Conference

SUGGESTED 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  AND  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

Proceedings
•	BIR 2019 proceedings as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing (LNBIP) series by Springer Verlag, indexed in DBLP,
EI, Scopus
•	Associated events CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
•	Best Paper and Extensioned Versions in Journal of  Complex Systems
Informatics and Modeling Quartely (CSIMQ)

Submission Guidelines
Papers have to be submitted in PDF or DOC format using the EasyChair
submission page. All submissions must be unpublished and not be under
review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNBIP format.
Page limit for papers is 15 pages. At least one author of an accepted
paper should register for the conference and present the paper.
EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2019
Springer formatting guidelines:
 http://www.springer.com/series/7911

Program Chair

Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia  

Robert Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Workshop Chairs
Vaclav Repa, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia

Looking forward to seeing you in Katowice!
Conference Chair
Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland