The Enterprise Information Systems International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of EIS (CONFENIS) is a primary international event of the IFIP TC8 Working Group 8.9.. This program provides an opportunity for academicians and practitioners throughout the world to gather, exchange ideas, and present original research in the field of enterprise information systems. Scientists and professionals are invited to address the current research topics in the area or the research frontier at this unique international forum. The CONFENIS 2009 Conference is sponsored mainly by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), IFIP TC8, and IFIP TC8 WG8.9 on Enterprise Information Systems, hosted by the John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT) and locally organized by and the Community of Scientific and Educational Forum on Business Information Systems (SEFBIS) and the Szechenyi Istvan University (SZE).

Welcome Speeches

• Gabor Peceli (Hungary), president of the John von Neumann Computer Society

• Basie von Solms (South Africa) President of IFIP (video)

• Csaba Koren (Hungary), director of International Institute of the Széchenyi University

• Li Da Xu (USA), A. Min Tjoa (Austria) chair/co-chair

• Peter Dobay (Hungary) co-chair of the Scientific and Educational Forum on BIS

Keynote Speeches

• Paul Hawkings et al. (Australia): Business Intelligence Maturity: An Evaluation of Australian Companies

• Gerhard Chroust (Austria): Software like an Understanding Friend – Challenges and Pitfalls of Localization

• Radhika Santhanam et al. (USA): Improving the Success of Enterprise Information System Implementation – Current Findings and Future Research Directions

• Hughes Richard (United Kingdom): Enterprise Social Networking – Don’t Be Afraid

• Sandor Seres (Hungary): Enterprise Mobile Applications

Session Programs

• Analysis and Modeling, Session Chairs: Gergely Babos, Johansson Björn

• Effectiveness, competitiveness, Session Chair: Miklos Herdon

• Strategy and Services, Session Chair: Petr Douček

• Practical Issues of ERP Systems, Session Chairs: V. Balakrishnan, Carvalho Rogerio, Andrew Stein

• Social Issues of ERPs, Session Chair: Gabor Homonnay

• ERP Solution (OGIK track, presentations in Hungarian), Session Chair: Erzsebet Noszkay

• IT Security Issues (OGIK track, presentations in Hungarian) Session Chair: Janos Kovacs

• Knowledge Management, Session Chair: Jones James D.

• Research Results, Theory, Session Chair: Jan Pries Heje

• IT Professionalism, Education, Session Chair: Andrea Ko

• Development Technologies, Session Chair: Abreu Fabio Pinherio

• Social Networking, Session Chair: Miklós Bíró

• Closing Ceremony, Awarding; Chair, speaker: Mária Raffai

Call for Paper

The IPC invites authors to submit their original and unpublished works, analogy-based thinking hypothesis, innovations, experience-based reflections and ideas, specific problems requiring solutions, case studies, position papers etc. in the potential fields listed below. The IPC announces participants to apply for short and long papers, reckons with about 100 papers from all over the world, and the IPC invites also 2-4 speakers (internationally known and acknowledged scientists, experts) for the plenary session. The types of the conference papers: EP: expert panel within a clearly defined field, topic covering different perspectives or points of view; FP: full paper, 6-10 pages, presentation: 25 min; SP: short paper, 3-5 pages, presentation 15 min; PO: poster 2-3 pages. The themes and topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• enterprise information systems' analysis, design, implementation and testing

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

• EIS and e-logistics, global e-supply chain management, supplier relationship management (SRM), customer relationship management (CRM)

• business process and workflow modeling, analysis, integration, monitoring, and management

• enterprise modeling and integration, enterprise engineering

• eEnterprise concepts for specific domains such as electronic and mobile commerce, and/or vertical domains such as production, services, finance, telecommunication, education, agriculture, transportation, healthcare, administration, government  etc.

• impacts in a variety of industrial sectors including manufacturing, service, healthcare, and government

• human-computer interfaces related to the ERPs

• enterprise architecture design and modeling; concepts and standards: modeling language (UML), model-driven architecture (MDA), component-oriented architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA)

• integration of (legacy) enterprise applications and information, integrated systems, integrated manufacturing systems

• inter-enterprise collaboration and virtual enterprises

• technologies for collaborative enterprise computing: middleware standards and systems, such as CORBA and J2EE, modeling and description languages, such as XML, RDF, OWL

• business intelligence, ontology, knowledge management in enterprise information systems

• research results in the field of enterprise information systems and systems engineering

• trust, security, and privacy issues in enterprise computing

• quality assurance issues in enterprise computing

• evolution and management of enterprise computing systems

• future generation enterprise information systems

• applications, case studies, management issues

Important Dates:

Proceedings, Editors

Awards

The papers and presentations will be reviewed at least two reviewers and the best ones will be awarded by the CONFENIS Award and by the SEFBIS Award. The works of PhD students and the young scientists (max 35 Years of age) will be evaluated in a separated group, and they can get the special PhD Award.

Conference Venue

The CONFENIS 2009 Conference will take place at the Famulus Hotel**** and Conference Centre Complex, that is located at the Eastern part of the city Gyor, opposite to the newly built Arkad shopping center, and only 5-10 minutes walk from the historical downtown. See the Conference Venue website. At the Hotel Famulus there are rooms available on different service levels and prices (the OC has made already a prebooking for the conference participants), but the city Gyor offers numerous other hotels located in the downtown and also in other districts of Gyor. We propose to visit the  Hotels' website in Gyor, or the on-line booking possibilities.