Business, people, and systems interoperability

• Philosophical and social perspectives of interoperability
• Ontological foundations of Business Informatics
• Systems theory and principles
• Conceptual modelling
• Human-oriented systems
• Methods, architectures, and communication technologies supporting interoperability •
• Emerging technologies and paradigms
• Enterprise modeling and virtual organisations
• ERP, CRM and SCM systems
• e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government, e-everything
• Healthcare/Medical Informatics
• Engineering Informatics
• City Management Informatics
• Future trends

Business and information systems development

• Business Process Modeling
• Workflow management
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Business rules
• Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
• The synergy of agile and model driven architecture • Requirements Engineering
• Object Oriented techniques, methodologies, and languages
• IS modelling, testing, and verification
• Quality of business software
• IS security issues

Business intelligence

• Business excellence and business intelligence solutions
• Data warehousing
• Reporting • Decision intelligence / decision support systems
• Databases for business
• Competing on analytics

Knowledge Management and Semantic Web

• Knowledge management in interconnected world
• Ontology modelling languages and tools
• Ontology applications in business
• E-learning, learning organisations, and organisational learning • Semantic Web methods and languages
• Open source, open innovation and open information society
• Ambient and mobile business solutions
• Cognitive aspects of Business Informatics

Contextualized evaluation of business informatics

• Feasibility of existing standards, techniques and languages
• Contextualized value and quality
• User acceptance of new technology
• Teaching Business Informatics • Curriculum design and implementation issues
• Case studies and experience reports
• Project management issues
• Risk management issues