Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series Editors Wil van der Aalst Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands John Mylopoulos University of Trento, Italy Norman M. Sadeh Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Michael J. Shaw University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Clemens Szyperski Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA 7 Witold Abramowicz Dieter Fensel (Eds.) Business Information Systems 11th International Conference, BIS 2008 Innsbruck, Austria, May 5-7, 2008 Proceedings 13 Volume Editors Witold Abramowicz Pozna´n University of Economics Department of Information Systems Al. Niepodległo´sci 10, 60-967 Pozna´n, Poland E-mail:
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[email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2008925412 ACM Computing Classification (1998): J.1, H.4, D.2.12, H.5.3 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1865-1348 3-540-79395-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-79395-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 12256518 06/3180 543210 Preface BIS 2008 was the 11th in a series of international conferences on Business Information Systems. The conference took place in Innsbruck which means that after Klagenfurt it was the second Austrian BIS edition. The BIS conference series from its very roots has been recognized by professionals as a forum for the exchange and dissemination of topical research in the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business processes. The theme of this conference was “Business Processes and Social Contexts— Reaching Beyond the Enterprise.” The material collected in this volume covers research trends as well as current achievements and cutting-edge developments in the area of modern business information systems. A set of 41 papers were selected for the presentation during the main event and grouped around conference topics: Business Process Management, Service Discovery and Composit