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The XI^th PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium’2018
INFORMATION SYSTEMS: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATIONS, EDUCATION

September 20^th, 2018; Gdansk - Sopot, Poland

Overview

The objective of the PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium 2018 was to promote and develop high-quality research on all issues related to research, development, applications, and education in information systems (IS), often referred to in Europe as business informatics. It provided a forum for IS researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond to interact, collaborate, and develop this field. The EuroSymposia were initiated by Prof. Keng Siau as the SIGSAND – Europe Initiative. Previous EuroSymposiawere held at:

1. University of Galway, Ireland 2006
2. University of Gdansk, Poland 2007
3. University of Marburg, Germany 2008
4. University of Gdansk, Poland 2011
5. University of Gdansk, Poland 2012
6. University of Gdansk, Poland 2013
7. University of Gdansk, Poland 2014
8. University of Gdansk, Poland 2015
9. University of Gdansk, Poland 2016
10. University of Gdansk, Poland 2017
11. University of Gdansk, Poland 2018

PROGRAM

8:00 - 8:30	Annual General Meeting of PLAIS – Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems (room C-4)
8:00 - 9:00	Registration (room C-4)
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome Prof. Stanisław Wrycza PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium General Chair Head of Department of Business Informatics at University of Gdansk Prof. Mirosław Szreder Dean of Faculty of Management, University of Gdansk
9:15 - 10:30	Keynote Speech - RESEARCH IN IS: DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT David Avison
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:20	Session I – Systems Development and Engineering
11:00 - 11:20	A Performance Measurement System for Software Testing Process Vuk Vukovic, Pere Tumbas, Lazar Rakovic, Mirjana Maric and Veselin Pavlicevic
11:20 - 11:40	Towards Improving the Search Quality on the Trading Platforms Olga Cherednichenko, Maryna Vovk, Olga Kanishcheva and Mikhail Godlevskyi
11:40 - 12:00	A Review of Fundamental Tasks in Requirements Elicitation Ramandeep Kaur Sandhu and Heinz Roland Weistroffer
12:00 - 12:20	Effective Decision-Making in Supply Chain Management Henryk Krawczyk and Narek Parsamyan
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch
13:20 - 14:35	Session II – Systems Acceptance and Usability
13:20 - 13:45	The Acceptance of Mobile Technology in Knowledge Providing Model from the Perspective of User’s Characteristics Janusz Stal and Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz
13:45 - 14:10	Determinants of Academic E-Learning Systems Acceptance Wrycza Stanislaw and Michal Kuciapski
14:10 - 14:35	Language of Benefits as a Novel Tool for Improving Website Personalisation Katarzyna Ossowska, Anna Czaja and Marcin Sikorski
14:40 - 16:00	Session III – Internet of Things and Big Data
14:40 - 15:00	IoT and Its Role in Developing Smart Cities Catalin Vrabie
15:00 - 15:20	Proposing a Behavior-Based IDS Model for IoT Environment Fadi Abusafat, Tiago Pereira and Henrique Santos
15:20 - 15:40	Attacking Strategy of Multiple Unmanned Surface Vehicles Based on DAMGWO Algorithm Juan Pu, Xing Wu, Yike Guo, Shaorong Xie, Huayan Pu and Yan Peng
15:40 - 16:00	A Study of Multi-label Event Types Recognition on Chinese Financial Texts Shunxin Luo, Yinglin Wang, Xue Feng and Zhenda Hu
16:00 - 16:40	Coffee break
16:40 - 17:55	Session IV – Healthcare IT
16:40 - 17:05	Implementation of ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing: Comparing Value-Based Objectives Between Polish and Swedish Seniors Ella Kolkowska, Ewa Soja and Piotr Soja
17:05 - 17:30	Analysing Opportunities and Challenges of Integrated Blockchain Technologies in Healthcare Ebru Gökalp, Mert Onuralp Gökalp, Selin Çoban and P. Erhan Eren
17:30 - 17:55	A Productivity Dashboard for Hospitals: An Empirical Study Miguel Pestana, Rúben Pereira and Sérgio Moro
18:30	EUROSYMPOSIUM’2018 DINNER

KEYNOTE SPEECH

David AVISON
  ESSEC Business School
  RESEARCH IN IS: DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT

RELEVANT TOPICS

ORGANIZERS

There are three organizers of The XI^th PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium:

- The Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems (PLAIS) was established in 2006 as the joint initiative of Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany, former President of AIS and Prof. Stanisław Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland. PLAIS co-organizes international and domestic conferences on SAND as well as on Business Informatics and Systems Engineering.

- SIGSAND is the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on SAND. SIGSAND provides services such as annual symposia, news, research and teaching tracks at major IS conferences, listserv and special issues in journals. The EuroSymposia were initiated by the former Vice President of AIS - Prof. Keng Siau as the SIGSAND-Europe initiative.

- The Department of Business Informatics at the University of Gdansk is conducting intensive teaching and research activities in the academic field – Business Informatics. Some of its academic manuals are bestsellers in Poland. The Department is also active internationally, organizing conferences including the Xth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2002), The VIIth International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), The VIIIth International Conference on European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN 2009) and PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposia (2007, 2011 - 2017). The Department is the partner of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and SAP University Alliances (SUA) consortia.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair: Stanisław Wrycza
Secretary: Anna Węsierska
Members from Department of Business Informatics at University of Gdansk:
Dorota Buchnowska, Bartłomiej Gawin, Przemysław Jatkiewicz, Dariusz Kralewski,
Michał Kuciapski, Bartosz Marcinkowski, Jacek Maślankowski

DOWNLOADS

Will be available later.

Publication

SUBMISSION SERVICE

IS faculty members, independent scholars, doctorates and practitioners are invited to submit research papers in the area of IS & SAND. The length limit of completed research paper is 5,000 words. The Best Paper of EuroSymposium’2018 will be selected and awarded.

Papers should be submitted in PDF and doc format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format which can be found under instructions for LNBIP Authors at: http://www.springer.com/series/7911.

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. Online submission will be offered for EuroSymposium’2018 at Springer Online Conference Service (OCS): https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/EuroSymposium2018.

During EuroSymposium’2018 - the Poster Session is also envisaged. The extended abstracts of the accepted posters will be published in the succeeding volume of Research Reports on Business Informatics issued by University of Gdansk.

IMPORTANT DATES

VENUE

ACCOMMODATION

FEES

The regular EuroSymposium fee is 85 EUR (385 PLN), while the fee for videoconference participants is 40 EUR (180 PLN). The fee includes:

• a copy of Springer LNBIP Proceedings,
• participation in all EuroSymposium sessions,

and for the residential participants also:

• lunch,
• coffee breaks,
• dinner.

After registration please transfer the registration fee at the following EuroSymposium'2018 account:

University of Gdansk
Address: ul. Bazynskiego 8, 80-309 Gdansk
EuroSymposium'2018

PL 59 1240 1271 1111 0010 4368 2415
Bank PEKAO S.A. IV o/Gdansk
Kolobrzeska 43

SWIFT: PKOPPLPW
Bank Sort Code: 12 40 12 71
IBAN: PL 59 1240 1271 1111 0010 4368 2415
VAT UE PL 584 020 32 39

Please include a"K205-18 - ES_2018 (name) (surname)"phrase in the text of your bank transfer.

PLAIS/SIGSAND EUROSYMPOSIA PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of the subsequent Gdansk EuroSymposia were published as:

• The II^nd EuroSymposium 2007: A. Bajaj, S. Wrycza (eds), Systems Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practices, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, 2009
• The IV^th EuroSymposium 2011: S. Wrycza (ed) 2011, Research in Systems Analysis and Design: Models and Methods, series: LNBIP 93, Springer, Berlin 2011
• Joint Working Conferences EMMSAD/EuroSymposium 2012 held at CAiSE'12: I. Bider, T. Halpin, J. Krogstie, S. Nurcan, E. Proper, R. Schmidt, P. Soffer, S. Wrycza (eds.) 2012, Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, Series: LNBIP 113, Springer, Berlin 2012
• The VI^th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2013: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Learning, Security, series: LNBIP 161, Springer, Berlin 2013
• The VIII^th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2015: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education, Series: LNBIP 232, Springer, Berlin 2015
• The IX^th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2016: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Research, Applications, Education, Series: LNBIP 264, Springer, Berlin 2016
• The IX^th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2016: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Research, Applications, Education, Series: LNBIP 264, Springer, Berlin 2016
• The X^th Jubilee EuroSymposium 2017: S. Wrycza, J. Maślankowski (eds.), Information Systems: Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education, Series: LNBIP 300, Springer, Berlin 2017
• The XI^th PLAIS/SIGSAND EuroSymposium 2018: S. Wrycza, J. Maślankowski (eds.), Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education, Series: LNBIP 333, Springer, Berlin 2018

PREVIOUS SYMPOSIA

1. AIS SIGSAND European Symposium, Ireland, 2006
   
2. II^nd AIS SIGSAND European Symposium, Poland, 2007
   
3. III^{rd AIS SIGSAND European Symposium Germany,2008}
   
4. IV^th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2011
   
5. EMMSAD/5th EuroSymposium @ CAiSE'12, Poland,2012
   
6. VI^th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2013
   
7. VII^th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2014
   
8. VIII^th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2015
   
9. IX^th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2016
10. X^th Jubilee EuroSymposium, Poland, 2017
11. XI^th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2018

PREVIOUS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

EuroSymposium'2007

• Prof. Keng Siau, Systems Analysis & Design - Trends, Directions & Others
      Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
      Vice President for Education (2011-14) of Association for Information Systems
  

EuroSymposium'2013

• Prof. Jane Fedorowicz, Welcome to AIS!
      Bentley University, USA
      President (2013-14) of Association for Information Systems
• Prof. Nava Pliskin, Explaining Over-Requirement in Software Development: Three Experiments Investigating Behavioral Effects
      Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

EuroSymposium'2014

• Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, Big Data Analytics Impacting Teaching and Research
      University of Cologne, Germany
      President (2005-06) of Association for Information Systems
• Ricardo Ferreira, Opening up Education Innovative teaching and learning for all through new technologies and Open Educational Resources
      European Union, DG EDUCATION AND CULTURE, Unit A3 - Skills and Qualification

EuroSymposium'2015

• Prof. Helmut Krcmar, The Digital Transformation - Challenges and Opportunities for IS researchers
      Technische Universität München, Germany
      SAP University Competence Center München, Germany
      President (2014-15) of Association for Information Systems
  

EuroSymposium'2016

• Prof. Jae Kyu Lee, The Bright Internet as The Next Generation Internet Platform
       Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST, Korea
       Honorary Chair Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University
       President (2015-16) of Association for Information Systems
       To get the presentation material, contact Prof. Jae Kyu Lee (jklee@business.kaist.ac.kr)

EuroSymposium'2017

• Prof. Frank Land and prof. Chrisanthi Avgerou, THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
       London School of Economics

  Frank LAND: The Laureate of AIS LEO Award and Fellowship of AIS (2003); Member of AIS History Group; Currently involved in the study of the evolution of the Information Systems discipline.
  

  Chrisanthi AVGEROU: Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS); Chair the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on Social Implications of Information Technology (2005 till 2010); Author of, among others: The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, published by Oxford University Press.
  

EuroSymposium'2018

• Prof. David Avison RESEARCH IN IS: DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT
       ESSEC Business School

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