Witold Abramowicz Books

Information is a key factor in business today, and data warehousing has become a major activity in the development and management of information systems to support the proper flow of information. Unfortunately, the majority of information systems are based on structured information stored in organizational databases, which means that the company is isolated from the business environment by concentrating on their internal data sources only. It is therefore vital that organizations take advantage of external business information, which can be retrieved from Internet services and mechanically organized within the existing information structures. Such a continuously extending integrated collection of documents and data could facilitate decision-making processes in the organization. Filtering the Web to Feed Data Warehouses discusses areas such as: - how to use data warehouse for filtering Web content - how to retrieve relevant information from diverse sources on the Web - how to handle the time aspect - how to mechanically establish links among data warehouse structures and documents filtered from external sources - how to use collected information to increase corporate knowledge and gives a comprehensive example, illustrating the idea of supplying data warehouses with relevant information filtered from the Web.

BIS 2007 marked the tenth international conference on business information systems, held in Poznan, where it originated in 1997. The conference serves as a vital platform for professionals to exchange and disseminate research on the development, implementation, and enhancement of computer systems for business processes. This jubilee conference focused on the theme “Semantic Integration of Data and Processes across Enterprises and Societies.” The volume includes research trends and significant advancements in modern business information systems, featuring 51 selected papers grouped by topics such as Business Process Management, Web Services, Ontologies, Information Retrieval, System Design, Agents and Mobile Applications, Decision Support, Social Issues, and Specific MIS Issues. The Program Committee, comprising nearly 100 members, meticulously evaluated the submissions, which doubled compared to the previous year. Supported by an online review system, the committee's efforts resulted in higher-quality reviews, ensuring fairness in acceptance decisions. This not only enhanced the conference's quality but also positively influenced the authors' work.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014. The 27 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions and were revised and extended after the event. The workshop topics covered applications of knowledge-based technologies in business (AKTB), business and IT alignment (BITA), digital currencies (DC), modern applications of business information systems (MODAPP), and tools for setting up and running a business in cloud computing (TSRB). In addition a keynote paper is included in this book

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2015, held in Poznań, Poland, in June 2015. The BIS conference series follows trends in academic and business research; thus, the theme of the BIS 2015 conference was “Making Big Data Smarter.” Big data is now a fairly mature concept, recognized and widely used by professionals in both research and industry. Together, they work on developing more adequate and efficient tools for data processing and analyzing, thus turning "big data" into "smart data." The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. In addition, two invited papers are included in this book. They are grouped into sections on big and smart data, semantic technologies, content retrieval and filtering, business process management and mining, collaboration, enterprise architecture and business-IT alignment, specific BIS applications, and open data for BIS.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth European Conference, ServiceWave 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in October 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cloud computing, security, privacy and trust, service engineering fundamentals, business services, and FI-PPP. In addition to the scientific track, 14 extended abstracts of demonstrations covering a wide spectrum of technology and application domains were accepted.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the nine workshops that were organized in conjunction with the Business Information Systems Conference, BIS 2009, taking place in Poznan, Poland, on April 27-29, 2009. The 34 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. In addition, the volume contains the BIS 2009 keynote speech and two invited speeches presented at the workshops LIT and ECONOM/Enterprise X.0. The topics covered are DeepWeb (ADW), applications and economics of knowledge-based technologies (AKTB, ECONOM), service-oriented architectures (SDS-SOA), legal IT (LIT), social Web and Web 2.0 (SAW, Enterprise X.0), e-learning (EeLT), and enterprise systems in higher education (ESHE).

This volume contains papers presented during the science trace at the 4th International Conference of Business Information Systems, BIS 2000, held in Poznan, Poland, 12-13 April 2000, which discussed the development, implementation, applications and improvement of computer systems for business processes.The papers deal with practical, industry experiences and validated prototype implementations, and cover areas such as integration of information systems, electronic transactions and banking, virtual organisations, network technologies, business information systems modelling and analysis.