The First International Workshop on Business Informatics 4.0 July 15-17, 2019, Moscow, Russia

Call for Papers

Nowadays, technology advances open and settle down many promising and challenge opportunities for enterprises improving their competitive strategies and exploring new business positions, mostly, by introducing new and versatile support technologies into their current Information Technology (IT) platform. The digitization of the horizontal and vertical organizational value chains transforms the whole organization including managerial, operational and decisional activities as well as business objects, resources and IT capabilities at all organizational levels. Today enterprises are facing the impact of a new industrial technology-based revolution named Industry 4.0 (I4.0). I4.0 is associated to what it is called the smart industry which joins in digital and real worlds. For instance, I4.0 combines internet of things for interconnecting business objects with the standardization of digital tools, Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS), cloud computing, the exploitation of organizational data for monitoring and increasing cooperative business functioning. The I4.0 revolution aims to arrange business and IT goals and intentions into the same direction, thus, it implicitly targets to succeed business strategies by taking advantage of the newest and smartest IT. These kinds of innovations enable enterprises to create new business value, products and services by exploiting new embedded information technologies. Accordingly, managers, at all business levels, are able to know, analyze and supervise current business units’ capabilities and performance, to exploit internal and external data, to register business information sources, as well as to backup and align business decisions to business goals and strategies.

The goal of the workshop is to investigate how the theories and practices of Business Informatics may be adapted to face the new business context of an Industry 4.0 evolution and, in general, of business digitization and transformation. Almost all sub-fields of Business Informatics are concerned by these new challenges, specially, enterprise modelling and information systems engineering, business process management, Industry Applications and Business Innovations and Digital Transformation.

List of topics:

Areas of interest for this workshop include all topics related to the Industry 4.0 revolution and digitization applied to Business Informatics. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to, the following topics in the context of I4.0:
Submission:

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bi40.

Manuscripts must be in English and are restricted to 10 pages in IEEE 2—column template (A4). Accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings (CBI2019 Workshops Volume).

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For full details, please have a look at the Call for Papers.

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