Special sessions are very small and specialized events to be held during the
conference as a set of oral and poster presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme or consisting of the works of some
particular international project.
The goal of special sessions (minimum 4 papers; maximum 9) is to provide a focused discussion on innovative topics.
Each prospective organizer is invited to submit a proposal explaining the targeted topic's novelty/importance and listing the contributing authors and their contributions.
All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support.
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A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book .
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If you wish to propose a new Special Session please kindly send to the secretariat an
Expression of Interest in order to obtain further information about how to submit a formal proposal.
We will be happy to send you appropriate guidelines.
SPECIAL SESSIONS LIST
RDBPM 2013, Special Session on Research and Development on Business Process Management
Chair(s): Nuno Pina Gonçalves
KMI 2013, Special Session on Knowledge Management and Innovation
Chair(s): Alan Eardley
ISI–BDM 2013, Special Session on Information Security Intelligence for Business Decision Makers
Chair(s): Henrique Santos and Teresa Pereira
EOSS-SiSOB 2013, Special Session on Experiences with an Observatorium of Science in Society: the SiSOB Approach
Chair(s): Beatriz Barros
SAIBS 2013, Special Session on Social and Algorithmic Issues in Business Support
Chair(s): Adam Wojciechowski and Alok Mishra
Special Session on Research and Development on Business Process Management -
RDBPM
2013
Paper Submission:
June 24, 2013
Authors Notification:
July 11, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration:
July 22, 2013
Scope
Business process management (BPM) is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. BPM and SOA are key to obtain higher levels of coordination across the enterprise and increase efficiency. This special session provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of BPM including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical findings, attracting innovative contributions from several disciplines such as Computer Science, Management, Services Computing, and Information Technology Management. The main topics addressed include Business Process Design, Business Process Modeling, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, Business Process Execution and Monitoring. It also aims at discussing practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted.
Special Session on Knowledge Management and Innovation -
KMI
2013
Paper Submission:
June 24, 2013
Authors Notification:
July 11, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration:
July 22, 2013
Scope
There are currently movements of theories that have had an influence on Knowledge Management and its relationship to innovation since these are now major driving forces behind pioneering companies that are achieving competitive edge crucial to competing in today's economy. All these movements have made possible to conclude that Knowledge Management and innovation are different aspects of the same phenomenon that is the use of the human resources to generate new ideas and to promote creativity.
The purpose of this Special Session is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of Knowledge Management, especially, the conjunction of Knowledge Management and innovation.
Special Session on Information Security Intelligence for Business Decision Makers -
ISI–BDM
2013
Paper Submission:
June 24, 2013
Authors Notification:
July 11, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration:
July 22, 2013
Scope
Information Security Management is an issue that managers and decision makers have to deal with, especially when the organization's activity deeply depends on IT resources. Speed and flexible operations promoted by information and communication technologies leads organizations to become heavily dependent on the performance of their information systems to enhance business operations, facilitate management decision--making, and deploy business strategies. However, all these benefits come with the cost of increasing threats, even with the ability to shut down the organization. Caring about information security is no more an option, but a management objective. The use of new technologies, the increase use of the Internet and the emergence of the Internet--enabled services has promoted a growing interest in the continuously deployment of information security management, in order to ensure the reliability of the organizational information systems.
Currently Security Managers are mainly focused on the management and interpretative techniques to help decision--makers, governments, security consultants and researchers to correctly evaluate the massive amounts of data generated by security controls. The analysis of these massive and complex data is extremely difficult, but essential to achieve new discoveries and make efficient business decisions.
Special Session on Experiences with an Observatorium of Science in Society: the SiSOB Approach -
EOSS-SiSOB
2013
Paper Submission:
June 24, 2013
Authors Notification:
July 11, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration:
July 22, 2013
Scope
The broad focus of the special session is on how science reaches and permeates the society, on collaboration and communication in science and technology, on science policy and quantitative aspects of science in society, aiming at a combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches to study and model the role of science in society.
The special session aims to show results from the SiSOB project and to connect these with other results and practices related with science production and dissemination, and provide input to institutional, regional, national and international research and innovation policy making.
Special Session on Social and Algorithmic Issues in Business Support -
SAIBS
2013
Paper Submission:
June 24, 2013
Authors Notification:
July 11, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration:
July 22, 2013
Scope
During SAIBS we want to focus on computational and optimization issues that can be supported by crowd input or social intelligence. We will try to answer the question how far and on which fields business may benefit from utilizing social contribution. And finally, we will discuss problems how computer systems may understand social behaviour (sometimes named: market) and support humans in making decisions, i.e. in automatic trading..