Business Information Systems

The 14th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2011) will take place in Poznan, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. The conference theme is: Towards Flexible, Personalized and Adaptive Business Applications. The topics include the following issues:

Business Process Management
- Semantic business process management
- Adaptive and dynamic processes
- Supply chain processes
- ERP implementations
- Integration of data and processes
- Collaborative BPM

Ontologies
- Creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation
- Ontologies for enterprise content management
- Natural language processing and cognitive science
- Semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured sources
- Interoperability of heterogeneous information systems
- Business models for Web information integration

Contexts
- Location-aware and geography-centric information systems
- Wireless and mobile applications
- Multi-agent distributed systems
- Semantic web personalization
- Ambient computing

Content Retrieval and Filtering
- Hidden Web search and crawling
- Data integration from Web information sources
- Modeling and describing evolving data sources
- Adaptive integration of evolving data sources
- Information gathering for knowledge-intensive enterprises
- Search over semi-structural Web sources
- Business models for a content

Collaboration
- Knowledge-based collaboration
- Social networks and social wikis
- Enterprise mashups, Enterprise 2.0
- Infrastructures for collaboration
- Semantic grid
- Security in distributed systems
- Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, reuse

Web Services
- Service oriented computing (SOA)
- Semantic web services
- Composition, choreography and orchestration
- Open, decentralized self-service
- Trust and quality of service (QoS)
- Service level agreements

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