Call for papers - workshops co-located with BIS 2015

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                        Call for Papers

            Workshops co-located with BIS 2015
                        Poznań, 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
    Jönköping 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
	Babeș-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: Günter Müller
	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 Universität München, Germany
	Poznan University of Economics, Poland
	Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
	
Chairs
    Sonja Hecht
    Harald Kienegger
	Wioletta Sokołowska
	Stefan Weidner

	
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