Business Information Systems: 12th International Conference, Bis 2009, Poznan, Poland, April 27-29, 2009, Proceedings

BIS 2009 held in Pozna? was the 12th in a series of international conferences on Business Information Systems. The BIS conference series has been recognized by professionals from its very beginning as a forum for the exchange and d- semination of topical research in the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business processes. The theme of the conference was "Information Systems for Agile Organi- tions." The material collected in this volume covers recent tendencies in making organizations more responsive to external conditions. On the one hand, onto- gies are adopted as a tool for better data and information management. On the other hand, ?exible information systems based on process orientation are being developed. A set of 22 papers illustrating these trends were selected for presentation during the main event. The articles are grouped into the following conference topics: Ontologies in Organizations, Ontologies and Security, Process Modelling, Process Analysis and Mining, Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Search, SocialIssues, andERP. The Program Committee consisted of over 90 members, who carefully ev- uated all the submitted papers. The careful review process assured that each paper underwent thorough evaluation and received many valuable comments. Only the best-quality papers were selected, resulting in an acceptance rate of less than 30%. The regular program was complemented by outstanding keynote speakers. We were honored to host leading experts in business process management and information management: Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Techn- ogy, The Netherlands) and Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain).

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2009, held in Poznan, Poland, in april 2009.

The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions.  Following the theme of the conference "Information Systems for Agile Organizations", the contributions illustrate recent tendencies in making organizations more adaptive  and responsive with respect to changing external conditions. They are grouped in sections on ontologies in organizations, ontologies and security, Web search, process modelling, process analysis and mining, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise resource planning.