The XIth EuroSymposium w Katedrze Informatyki Ekonomicznej

The XI^th PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium’2018
INFORMATION SYSTEMS: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATIONS, EDUCATION

September 20^th, 2018; Gdansk - Sopot, Poland

Overview

The XI^th PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium has the objective of promoting and developing high quality research on all issues related to Information Systems (IS) and in particular in Systems Analysis and Design (SAND). It provides a forum to researchers and practitioners in IS & SAND in Europe and beyond – to interact, collaborate and develop the IS & SAND areas. The EuroSymposium is currently headed by the Advisory Board, consisting of prominent IS researchers to guide this initiative.

RELEVANT TOPICS

ORGANIZERS

There are three organizers of The XI^th PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium:

- The Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems (PLAIS) was established in 2006 as the joint initiative of Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany, former President of AIS and Prof. Stanisław Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland. PLAIS co-organizes international and domestic conferences on Systems Analysis and Design as well as on Business Informatics and Systems Engineering.

- SIGSAND is the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design. SIGSAND provides services such as annual symposia, news, research and teaching tracks at major IS conferences, listserv and special issues in journals. The EuroSymposia were initiated by the former Vice President of AIS - Prof. Keng Siau as the SIGSAND-Europe initiative.

- The Department of Business Informatics at the University of Gdansk is conducting intensive teaching and research activities in the academic field – Business Informatics. Some of its academic manuals are bestsellers in Poland. The Department is also active internationally, organizing conferences including the Xth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2002), The VIIth International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), The VIIIth International Conference on European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN 2009) and SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposia (2007, 2011 - 2017). The Department is the partner of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and SAP University Alliances (SUA) consortia.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair: Stanisław Wrycza
Secretary: Anna Węsierska
Members from Department of Business Informatics at University of Gdansk:
Dorota Buchnowska, Bartłomiej Gawin, Przemysław Jatkiewicz, Dariusz Kralewski,
Michał Kuciapski, Bartosz Marcinkowski, Jacek Maślankowski

DOWNLOADS

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Publication

All submissions will be reviewed by the EuroSymposium’2018 International Programme Committee. The accepted papers will be published as EuroSymposium 2018 Proceedings in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP).

The series is indexed/abstracted by ISI Proceedings, Web of Knowledge, DBLP, EI and Scopus and the other important indexing services.

SUBMISSION SERVICE

IS faculty members, independent scholars, doctorates and practitioners are invited to submit research papers in the area of IS & SAND. The length limit of completed research paper is 5,000 words. The Best Paper of EuroSymposium’2018 will be selected and awarded.

Papers should be submitted in PDF and doc format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format which can be found under instructions for LNBIP Authors at: http://www.springer.com/series/7911.

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. Online submission will be offered for EuroSymposium’2018 at Springer Online Conference Service (OCS): https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/EuroSymposium2018.

During EuroSymposium’2018 - the Poster Session is also envisaged. The extended abstracts of the accepted posters will be published in the succeeding volume of Research Reports on Business Informatics issued by University of Gdansk.

IMPORTANT DATES

VENUE

The EuroSymposium will be held in the modern building of the Conference Centre of the Faculty of Management of University of Gdansk. Computer access, wireless facilities and multimedia projector will be available. Proximity of the Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport makes the selected venue as well as the variety of hotels a proper place for the conference.

Department of Business Informatics
Faculty of Management
University of Gdansk
Piaskowa 9
81-864 Sopot
Poland
Ph.: +48 58 523 14 00
Fax: +48 58 523 11 55
E-Mail: info@eurosymposium.eu