16th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2017)

Sugggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Business, people and systems interoperability

• Philosophical and social perspectives of interoperability

• Ontological foundations of Business Informatics

• Systems theory and principles

• Conceptual modelling

• Human oriented systems

• Emerging technologies and paradigms

• Methods, architectures and communication technologies supporting interoperability

• Enterprise modelling and virtual organisations

Conducting business online

• E-commerce/e-business

• New ways of delivery (such as drones)

• Cashless payments (such as mobile payments and cryptocurrencies)

• E-government

E-marketing

• Programmatic advertising

• Online reputation

• Transmedia storytelling

• Business models

Enterprise systems

• ERP systems

• CRM systems

• SCM systems

• Business intelligence systems

• Data warehousing

• Decision support systems

• Databases for business

• Healthcare/Medical Informatics

Openness in business informatics

• Development and deployment tools

• Interoperability of open source communities

• Integrating open source technology with commercial and proprietary products

• Open innovation

• Open data

• Web and social computing

Business and information systems development

• Business process modelling (BPM)

• Model driven architecture (MDA)

• Service oriented architecture (SOA)

• Requirements engineering

• The synergy of agile and MDA development processes

• IS modelling, testing and verification

• Object oriented techniques and methodologies

• Unified modelling language (UML)

• Workflow management

• Quality of business software

• Business rules

• IS security issues

IS sourcing models

• Outsourcing, insourcing, backsourcing, etc.

• Cloud computing

• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

• Platform as a service (PaaS)

• Software as a service (SaaS)

• Service level agreement (SLA)

Knowledge Management and Semantic Web

• Knowledge management in interconnected world

• "Facebook" for companies (such as Yammer and Jive)

• Linked data

• Semantic Web methods and languages

• Ontology modelling languages and tools

• Open innovation

• Ontology applications in business

• E-learning and learning organizations

Contextualized evaluation of business informatics

• Feasibility of existing techniques and languages

• Contextualized value and quality

• User acceptance/adoption of new technology, continued usage, and user resistance

• Hedonic approaches in business systems

• Curriculum design and implementation issues

• Case studies and experience reports

• Project and risk management issues