International Conference on Business Information Systems

BIS

Mission
The BIS conference is by now a well-respected event joining international researchers to discuss the wide range of the development, implementation, application and improvement of business applications and systems. It is addressed to the scientific community, people involved in the development of business computer applications, consultants helping to properly implement computer technology and applications in the industry. Since 2007 each conference is devoted to a particular topic in order to attract papers relevant to the most urgent issues. The focus is directed towards emerging technologies for commercial organizations as well as for public administration in the following areas: business process management, interoperability and web services, online collaboration, mobility and contexts, management information systems, ontology applications, content retrieval and filtering. The program is constituted by regular BIS sessions, keynote and invited speeches, workshops, and other events: PhD sessions, tutorials, networking sessions.

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Former Events

1st International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 1997)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

2nd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 1998)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

3rd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 1999)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chairs: Witold Abramowicz, Maria E. Orlowska

4th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2000)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chairs: Witold Abramowicz, Maria E. Orlowska

5th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2002)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

6th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2003)
Location: Colorado Springs, USA
General Chairs: Witold Abramowicz, Gary Klein

7th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2004)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

8th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2005)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

9th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2006)
Location: Klagenfurt, Austria
General Chairs: Witold Abramowicz, Heinrich C. Mayr

10th International Conference on Business Information System (BIS 2007)
Location: Poznań, Poland
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz, Dieter Fensel

12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)
Location: Poznań, Poland
Date: April 27-29, 2009
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz

13th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2010)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: May 3-5, 2010
General Chairs: Witold Abramowicz, Robert Tolksdorf

History
The Business Information Systems conference was established in 1997. It started as a small mostly Polish-German conference with the aim of fostering the collaboration between researchers from Eastern and Western Europe in the area of information systems. Poznań was just in the middle between Berlin and Warsaw. For several years the conference had been co-located with INFOSYSTEM, the biggest and the most influential in their time fairs devoted to information and communication technologies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Although originally mostly Polish, it has already been held in several locations, including University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, University of Klagenfurt and University of Innsbruck in Austria, where STI International assisted in the local organization and coordination processes of the conference at the venue. Additionally, STI International is a sponsor of BIS. The plans are to organize BIS 2010 abroad, and several locations are now considered.
Since the inception the conference focused on development and implementation of information systems supporting the organizations. The themes changed as changed ideas and models for managing modern enterprises. BIS has always presented what later became a standard.
Since the establishment the conference steadily improved its rank. The first major milestone was in 1999 when proceedings were published as a book by Springer Verlag. Best papers of BIS 2000 were published in a book edited by Witold Abramowicz (PUE) and Jozef Zurada (University of Louisville) published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. In 2003 the conference for the first time took place outside of Poznań. Proceedings of BIS 2007 were published as a volume in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and since 2008 proceedings are published in a new and more relevant series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). In 2008, Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), the most respected European journal of information systems, classified BIS among the relevant IS conferences giving it the rank B. In 2009 the acceptance rate has fallen below 30% what was a requirement to be ranked as A conference by WI.C

Steering Committee
General Chair: Witold Abramowicz, Poznań University of Economics, PL

Co-chairs in past editions:
Maria E. Orlowska, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (currently state secretary at Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education)
Gary Klein, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, US
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, AT
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, AT

Organizing Committee chair: Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics, PL

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