*** First Call for Workshop and Event Proposals *** 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS 2014 Grecian Bay Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus May 21-23, 2014 http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/17th_bis/ Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2013 (Proceedings will be published in Springer's LNBIP series) The 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2014) will be held in Larnaca, Cyprus, May 21-23 2014. BIS is currently one of the top European conferences in the areas of theory and practice of development and implementation of contemporary business information systems. More information on current and previous editions of the BIS conference is accessible from the series web site at http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/ . The BIS 2014 Program Committee invites proposals for the workshops and events to be held back-to-back and during the conference. The BIS 2014 workshops and events should be related to: - specific aspects of business information systems modelling, implementation and usage, especially mobile business applications, or - specific issues related to business information systems helping enterprises to take advantages of internet of services and internet of things, including service orientation, service front-ends as the interface to users and communities, virtualisation of resources, etc. The organization of the workshops and events (including participants registration, website creation and partial advertising of call for papers) will be supported by the BIS team, allowing workshop organizers to focus on scientific aspects of the event (review and selection of papers, division of presentations into sessions, etc.). The post-proceedings of BIS 2014 workshops will be published as a book by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each submission of proposed workshop or other event (max three A4 pages in PDF format) should include: - the title of the event - short description of the event and its goals - proposed format (e.g., workshop, tutorial, panel, etc.) - initial list of topics - preliminary program committee with specified chair(s) - description of workshop/event history (if the proposed event is a following edition of an already existing event), including statistics of previous edition(s) - previous experience of chair(s) in organizing similar events - preliminary forecast on possible number of submissions and accepted papers Any information on possible workshop/event publicity is also welcome. Submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address: bis-workshops@kie.ue.poznan.pl . IMPORTANT DATES The deadline for submission of workshop and event proposals is: November 30, 2013. Decisions on acceptance or rejection of proposed workshop will be taken and announced to workshop organizers within two weeks from the submission deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email.