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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.