Business Information Systems Workshops BIS 2012 International Worksh

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2012, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 21-23, 2012. In addition, the

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Witold Abramowicz John Domingue Krzysztof We˛cel (Eds.)

Business Information Systems Workshops BIS 2012 International Workshops and Future Internet Symposium Vilnius, Lithuania, May 21-23, 2012 Revised Papers

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Volume Editors Witold Abramowicz Pozna´n University of Economics Pozna´n, Poland E-mail: [email protected] John Domingue The Open University Milton Keynes, UK E-mail: [email protected] Krzysztof We˛cel Pozna´n University of Economics Pozna´n, Poland E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 1865-1348 e-ISSN 1865-1356 ISBN 978-3-642-34227-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34228-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34228-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012949471 ACM Computing Classification (1998): J.1, H.3.5, H.4, I.2

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Preface

BIS Workshops give researchers the possibility to share preliminary ideas and first experimental results and to discuss research hypotheses. It was initiated to focus attention on topics that have not yet found a place in canonical research, though they may experience fruitful discussion when confronted with a wellfocused audience. Discussions held during presentations allow for improving the paper and preparing it for publication. From our experience, workshops are also a perfect instrument to create a community around very specific research topics, thus offering the opportunity to promote it. Four workshops took place during BIS 2012. They covered such topics as applications and economics of knowledge-based technologies (AKTB), business and IT alignment (BITA), enterprise systems for higher education (ESHE), and formal semantics for future enterprise (FSFE). Additionally, the Future Internet Symposium was organized in conjunction with BIS 2012. The 25 articles contained in this volume are an extended version of papers accepted for BIS workshop as well as for the Future Internet Symposium. There were 63 submissions for all mentioned events. Based on reviews, the res