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The purpose of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Six simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Internet Computing, Electronic Commerce, Human Factors and Enterprise Architecture.

ICEIS focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. Ideas on how to solve business problems, using IT, will arise from the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICEIS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Workshops, providing a more interactive and focused platform for presenting and discussing new and emerging ideas or special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentation are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
3. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
4. SOFTWARE AGENTS AND INTERNET COMPUTING
5. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
6. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

AREA 1: DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

    Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
    Legacy Systems
    Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
    Mobile Databases
    Enterprise Resource Planning
    Middleware Integration
    Object-Oriented Database Systems
    Data Mining
    Data Warehouses and OLAP
    Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
    Large Scale Databases
    Non-relational Databases
    Query Languages and Query Processing
    Distributed Database Systems

AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

    Evolutionary Programming
    Group Decision Support Systems
    Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    Strategic Decision Support Systems
    Advanced Applications of Neural Network
    Applications of Expert Systems
    Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic
    Intelligent Agents
    Case-Based Reasoning Systems
    Multi-Agent Systems
    Scheduling and Planning
    Operational Research
    Problem Solving
    Game Theory Applications
    Intelligent Transportation System
    Natural Language Interfaces and Systems

AREA 3: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION

    Software Engineering
    Knowledge Management
    Modelling of Distributed Systems
    Ontology Engineering
    Security
    Simulation
    Requirements Analysis and Management
    Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
    Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
    Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants)
    Organisational Learning
    Project Management
    Semiotics in Information Systems
    Software Metrics and Measurement

AREA 4: SOFTWARE AGENTS AND INTERNET COMPUTING

    Wireless and Mobile Computing
    E-Learning and E-Teaching
    Ubiquitous Computing
    Virtual Enterprises
    Interoperability
    Web Services
    Web 2.0 and Social Networking
    Internet Agents
    Collaborative Computing
    Electronic Commerce
    Internet Portals
    Profiling and Recommendation Systems
    Internet of Things
    Internet Systems Performance
    Semantic Web Technologies and Applications

AREA 5: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

    HCI on Enterprise Information Systems
    Human Factors
    Multimedia Systems
    Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
    Geographical Information Systems
    Guidelines, Principles, Patterns and Standards
    Adaptive and Adaptable User Interfaces
    Interaction Techniques and Devices
    Interface Design
    Ergonomics
    Emotional and Affective Computing
    Haptic Interfaces
    Accessibility and Usability
    Collaborative and Social Interaction
    Multiple Sensory Devices

AREA 6: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

    Enterprise Engineering
    Models and Frameworks
    Enterprise Knowledge Engineering and Management
    Business Modelling and Business Process Management
    Business-IT Allignment
    EA Adoption and Governance
    EA and Organizational Theory and System Development
    EA and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
    Methods, Processes and Patterns for EA Development
    Measurements, Metrics and Evaluation of EA Artefacts and Processes
    Architectures and Design Principles for Enterprise Repositories
    Maturity Models for EA Artefacts and Processes
    Evolution of EA
    Objective Control in EA

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a LNBIP Series book.

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.