Books in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Systems, ICIKS 2023, held in Portsmouth, UK, during June 22¿23, 2023.The 18 full papers and 6 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Decision Making, Recommender Systems, and Information Support Systems; Information Systems and Machine Learning; Knowledge Management, Context and Ontology; Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems; and Natural Language Processing for Decision Systems.

This book constitutes revised papers from the International Workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during September 2023.Papers from the following workshops are included:¿ 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM 2023)¿ 7th International Workshop on Business Processes Meet Internet-of-Things (BP-Meet-IoT 2023)¿ 19th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2023)¿ 16th International Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2023)¿ 2nd International Workshop on Data-Driven Business Process Optimization (BPO 2023)¿ 11th International Workshop on Declarative, Decision and Hybrid Approaches to Processes (DEC2H 2023)¿ 1st International Workshop on Digital Twins for Business Processes (DT4BP 2023)¿ 1st International Workshop on Formal Methods for Business Process Management (FM-BPM 2023) ¿ 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Business Process Management (NLP4BPM 2023)¿ 1st International Workshop on Object-Centric Processes from A to Z (OBJECTS 2023)¿ 3rd International Workshop on Change, Drift, and Dynamics of Organizational Processes (ProDy 2023) Each of the workshops focused on particular aspects of business process management. Overall, after a thorough review process, 42 full papers were selected from a total of 86 submissions.

This open access book constitutes papers from the research workshops presented at XP 2022 and XP 2023, respectively the 23rd and 24th International Conferences on Agile Software Development, held on June 13-17, 2022 at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and June 13-16, 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners.In 2022, the following workshops took place: ¿ 3rd International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming¿ 2nd International Workshop on Agile Sustainability¿ Agile and EducationIn 2023, six workshops were held: ¿ Workshop on Organisational Debt and Large-Scale Agile¿ Workshop on Software-Intensive Business¿ Workshop on Global and Hybrid Work¿ Workshop on Fear-Based Agile Transformation¿ Workshop on AI-assisted Agile¿ Workshop on Agile-Quantum Software EngineeringIn 2022, 6 workshop papers were accepted for publication in these post-proceedings, out of 11 submissions, and in 2023, 15 papers were accepted for publication out of 38 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2017, held in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, in May 2017. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The theme of ICDEc 2017 was "e;Digital Economy: Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation"e;. The conference offered a number of sessions discussing innovative research focusing on emerging technologies which support the digital transformation of business and the economy: digital marketing, digital economy and e-learning, data science and security, and uncertainty in Web data.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023. The Blockchain Forum provided a platform for exploring and discussing innovative ideas on the intersection of BPM and blockchain technology. The RPA Forum focused on the use of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the field of Business Process Management. The Educators Forum brought together educators within the BPM community for sharing resources to improve the practice of teaching BPM-related topics.The 18 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2022, which took place in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022. The 13 full revised papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 62 submissions. The selected papers contribute to the understanding of relevant current research trends in Web information systems and technologies, including deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, recommender systems, internet of things, Web intelligence and big data.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The 23 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 151 submissions to the conference. The papers were organized in research tracks on foundations, engineering, and management.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2022, This conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis, during April 25-27, 2022.The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Databases and Information Systems Integration; Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems; Information Systems Analysis and Specification; Human-Computer Interaction; and Enterprise Architecture.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2023, which held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 19¿21, 2023.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: artificial intelligence and business intelligence; and optimization and decision support.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the international workshops associated with the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2023, which was held in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 12-16, 2023.The workshops included in this volume are:· 1st International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS)· 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-Driven Systems Engineering (KG4SDSE)· Blockchain and Decentralized Governance Design for Information Systems (BC4IS and DGD)They reflect a broad range of topics and trends ranging from blockchain technologies via digital factories, ethics, and ontologies, to the agile methods for business and information systems. The theme of this year¿s CAiSE was ¿Cyber-Human Systems¿.The 10 full papers and 9 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference on Advances in Enterprise Engineering XVI, EEWC 2022, held in Leusden, The Netherlands, November 2¿3, 2022.EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific solutions, focusing on the design and engineering of enterprises. The goal of EEWC is to stimulate interaction between the different stakeholders, scientists as well as practitioners, interested in making Enterprise Engineering a reality.The 4 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. In addition, there are 2 invited papers from keynote presentations. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Invited Papers from Keynote Presentations and Presented Papers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, RCIS 2023, which took place in Corfu, Greece, during May 23¿26, 2023. It focused on the special theme "Information Science and the Connected World".The scope of RCIS is summarized by the thematic areas of information systems and their engineering; user-oriented approaches; data and information management; business process management; domain-specific information systems engineering; data science; information infrastructures, and reflective research and practice.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 87 submissions. The book also includes 15 Forum papers and 6 Doctoral Consortium papers. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: Requirements; conceptual modeling and ontologies; machine learning and analytics; conceptual modeling and semantic networks; business process design and computing in the continuum; requirements and evaluation; monitoring and recommending; business process analysis and improvement; user interface and experience; forum papers; doctoral consortium papers. Two-page abstracts of the tutorials can be found in the back matter of the volume.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2023, which took place in Tokyo, Japan during June 11¿15, 2023.The field of Group Decision and Negotiation focuses on decision processes with at least two participants and a common goal but conflicting individual goals. Research areas of Group Decision and Negotiation include electronic negotiations, experiments, the role of emotions in group decision and negotiations, preference elicitation and decision support for group decisions and negotiations, and conflict resolution principles. This year¿s conference focusses on multimodal interactions.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Taking a step back: Critically re-examining technology interactions with group decision and negotiation; preference modeling and multi-criteria decision-making;and conflict modeling and distributive mechanisms.

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2023, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during June 13-16, 2023.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends.¿ XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. This year¿s conference was held with the theme ¿Whole Team Sustainability¿.The 11 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They focus on agile practices and agile in the large.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2022, held in Twente, The Netherlands, in August 2022.The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions. They deal with the adoption of innovative technologies in the financial services industry. The conference features four main themes: networks and business models, financial markets, IT and implementations, and new emerging digital and virtual financial markets.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2023, held in Munich, Germany, during May 23-25, 2023.The Software Quality Days (SWQD) conference started in 2009 and has grown to the biggest conference on software quality in Europe. The program of the SWQD conference is designed to encompass a stimulating mixture of practical presentations and new research topics in scientific presentations. The guiding conference topic of the SWQD 2023 is ¿Higher Software Quality through Zero Waste Development¿.The 4 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The volume also contains one invited talk.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 19th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2022, which was held virtually during December 7-8, 2022.EMCIS covers technical, organizational, business, and social issues in the application of information technology and is dedicated to the definition and establishment of Information Systems (IS) as a discipline of high impact for IS professionals and practitioners. It focuses on approaches that facilitate the identification of innovative research of significant relevance to the IS discipline following sound research methodologies that lead to results of measurable impact.The 47 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 136 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Artificial intelligence; big data and analytics; blockchain technology and applications; cloud computing; digital governance; digital services and social media; emerging computing technologies and trends for business process management; enterprise systems; information system security and information privacy protection; innovative research projects; IT governance and alignment; management and organizational issues in information systems; and metaverse.

This book constitutes revised selected and extended papers presented at track 4 of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, FedCSIS 2022, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during September 4¿7, 2022.The FedCSIS Information Systems and Technologies Track included AIST 2022, ISM 2022, DSH 2022, and KAM 2022. AIST 2022 received 11 submissions, from which 2 full papers and 1 short paper have been accepted; for ISM 2022 2 full and 3 short papers have been accepted from 15 submissions; and for DSH 2022 2 full and 1 short papers have been accepted from 11 submissions. From the 17 submissions to KAM 2022, no paper passed the extended reviews, so the overall acceptance rate was 20% for full and 18% for short papers. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Approaches to improving business; approaches to improving society; and methods for improving business and society.

This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshops held at the 4th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2022, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October 23¿28, 2022.The conference focuses on the area of process mining research and practice, including theory, algorithmic challenges, and applications. The co-located workshops provided a forum for novel research ideas. The 42 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:¿ 3rd International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EDBA)¿ 3rd International Workshop on Leveraging Machine Learning in Process Mining (ML4PM)¿ 3rd International Workshop on Responsible Process Mining (RPM) (previously known as Trust, Privacy and Security Aspects in Process Analytics)¿ 5th International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare (PODS4H)¿3rd International Workshop on Streaming Analytics for Process Mining (SA4PM)¿ 7th International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence (PQMI)¿ 1st International Workshop on Education meets Process Mining (EduPM)¿ 1st International Workshop on Data Quality and Transformation in Process Mining (DQT-PM)

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the international workshops, the EDOC Forum and the Demonstration and Doctoral Consortium track, that were held at the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022. The conference took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October 3¿7, 2022.The conference focuses on the area of enterprise computing, this year with the special emphasis on the theme of designing and operating ¿Flexible Enterprises¿. Workshops within EDOC cover more focused topics and allow for the presentation and discussion of work that is in the earlier development stages.The 18 full and 8 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They stem from the following satellite events:¿ Workshop on Intelligent Digital Architecture, Methods, and Services for Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 (IDAMS)¿ 14th Workshop on Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE)¿ 17th Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR)¿ EDOC Forum¿ Demonstrations Track¿ Doctoral Consortium

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2022, held in Vienna, Austria, during May 17-19, 2022.The Software Quality Days (SWQD) conference started in 2009 and has grown to the biggest conference on software quality in Europe. The program of the SWQD conference is designed to encompass a stimulating mixture of practical presentations and new research topics in scientific presentations. The guiding conference topic of the SWQD 2022 is "What's The Next Big Thing in Software Engineering and Quality?".The 4 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 8 submissions. The contributions were organized in two topical sections named: AI in Software Engineering; and Quality Assurance for Software-Intensive Systems. The book also contains two invited talks.

This book constitutes revised papers from the International Workshops held at the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022, in Münster, Germany, during September 11-15, 2022. Papers from the following workshops are included:· 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM 2022)· 6th International Workshop on Business Processes Meet Internet-of-Things (BP-Meet-IoT 2022)· 18th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2022)· 2nd International Workshop on Business Process Management and Routine Dynamics (BPM&RD 2022)· 14th International Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2022) · 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Business Process Optimization (BPO 2022) · 10th International Workshop on DEClarative, DECision and Hybrid approaches to processes (DEC2H 2022) · 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Business Process Management (NLP4BPM 2022) Each of the eight workshops focused on particular aspects of business process management. Overall, after a thorough review process, there were 23 full and 3 short papers selected from a total of 51 submissions. Only one of the short papers is included in the proceedings.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technologies, ICDSST 2022, held during May 23-25, 2022.The EWG-DSS series of International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST) is planned to consolidate the tradition of annual events organized by the EWG-DSS in offering a platform for European and international DSS communities, comprising the academic and industrial sectors, to present state-of-the-art DSS research and developments, to discuss current challenges that surround decision-making processes, to exchange ideas about realistic and innovative solutions, and to co-develop potential business opportunities.The main aim of this year¿s conference is to investigate the role DSS and related technologies can play in mitigating the impact of pandemics and post-crisis recovery. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: decision support addressing modern industry; decision support addressing business and societal needs, and multiple criteria approaches.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th and 17th International Conferences on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2020 and WEBIST 2021, which took place virtually in November 2020 and October 2021, respectively.The 10 full papers from WEBIST 2021 and 1 full paper from WEBIST 2020 presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from originally 48 paper submissions in 2020 and 107 submissions in 2021. The selected papers contribute to the understanding of relevant current research trends in Web information systems and technologies, including deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, recommender systems, internet of things, Web intelligence and big data.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2021, which was held online on November 12, 2021, and December 16-17, 2021.EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific solutions, focusing on the design and engineering of enterprises. The goal of EEWC is to stimulate interaction between the different stakeholders, scientists as well as practitioners, interested in making Enterprise Engineering a reality.The 5 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The volume also contains 2 keynote papers. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Model-Driven Organizational and Business Agility, MOBA 2022, which took place in Leuven, Belgium, in June 2022.MOBA was launched with the purpose of fetching scientific rigor into the agile practice within an entire enterprise, especially focusing on the role of models and modeling.The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They cover topics like business intelligence, agile business rules, agile software development, adaptive domain-specific interfaces, or reconfigurable software architectures.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022, which took place in Munster, Germany, in September 2022.The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: modeling and design; process mining; and predictive process monitoring.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Blockchain, Robotic Process Management (RPA), and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Forum which were held as part of the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022, which took place in Munster, Germany, during September 11-15, 2022.The Blockchain Forum is dealing with techniques for and applications of blockchains, distributed ledger technologies, and related topics."e;The RPA Forum brings together researchers from various communities to discuss challenges, opportunities, and new ideas related to robotic process automation and its application to business processes in private and public sectors."e; The CEE Forum provides a discussion platform for BPM academics from Central and Eastern Europe to disseminate their research, compare results and share experiences. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 40 submissions. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2022, which took place in Khouribga, Morocco, during May 26-28, 2022. The 23 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: decision support and artificial intelligence; business intelligence and database; and optimization and dynamic programming.