15th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems

Baltic DB&IS 2022


Computing Systems Databases & Information Systems Information Theory



Preliminary Call for Papers
The International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems is an international forum, which provides an environment to exchange research findings and ideas for researchers, practitioners and PhD students on the crucial matters on engineering reliable, secure and sustainable information systems with data and data analysis in the central role. The 15th edition of the Baltic DB&IS conference will feature original research and application papers on the theory, design, implementation and security of today's information systems that are based on advances in computer science and information technology. It will continue a series of successful biennial Baltic conferences previously held in Trakai (1994, 2018), Tallinn (1996, 2002, 2008, 2014, 2020), Riga (1998, 2004, 2010, 2016), and Vilnius (2000, 2006, 2012).
The conference publishes with Springer since 2016; extended versions of selected best papers will be considered for publishing in internationally recognized journals indexed by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science and Scopus.
Conference Scope
Baltic DB&IS 2022 welcomes original unpublished research papers and application experience papers not being under the review elsewhere. The topics of contribution include but are not limited to:
Models, Methods, Algorithms and Tools for:
Digitalization in Enterprise Ecosystems
Business Process Management, Automation, and Simulation-based Optimization
Advanced Socio Cyber Physical Systems
Web Information Systems and Web Engineering
Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Digitalization in Healthcare
Digitalization in Education
Digitalization in Agriculture and Forestry Smart Cities
Computational Biology
Support for Digital Transformation:
Approaches for Digital Transformation
Requirements Engineering
Software and Data Quality
Advanced Computer Networks
Risk and Security Management and Fraud Detection
Research Methods in Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering
Recommender Systems
E-governance
E-commerce
Artificial Agents and Smart Systems:
Artificial Agents and Human-computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision
Intelligent Methods for Cybersecurity Robotics and Smart Industrial Systems
Intelligent Platforms and Infrastructures
Evidence Based Systems
Data, Data Science, and Computing:
Computational Modeling
Algorithms and Software for Quantum Computers
Knowledge-based Computing
Uncertainty Handling in Computing
Data Storage, Mining, and Analytics
Big data, Temporal data, Geospatial Data
Computational Thinking for STEM and Engineering Education
Knowledge Technologies:
Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, and Semantic Technologies
Open Data and Liked Data
Natural Language Processing
Perception and Cognitive Systems
Advanced Knowledge Management
Important Dates
Paper submission: 2 March 2022
Notification to authors: 6 April 2022
Camera ready papers: 6 May 2022
Doctoral Consortium paper submission: 9 March 2022
Notification to Doctoral consortium authors: 6 April 2022
Doctoral Consortium – 3 July 2022
Conference – 4-6 July 2022
Programme Committee (to be extended)
Mārīte Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia (chair)
Laila Niedrīte, University of Latvia, Latvia (chair)
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
Guntis Arnicans, University of Latvia, Latvia
Juris Borzovs, University of Latvia, Latvia
Gintautas Dzemyda, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Dale Dzemydiene, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Olga Fragou, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Saulius Gudas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Hyoil Han, Illinois State University, USA
Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University, Finland
Arne Koschel, Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
Audrone Lupeikene, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Saulius Maskeliunas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Raimundas Matulevicius, Tartu University, Estonia
Timo Mäkinen, Tampere University, Finland
Christophoros Nikou, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jyrki Nummenmaa, Tampere University, Finland
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
José Raúl Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Markus Westner, OTH-Regensburg, Germany
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Organizing Committee
Juris Borzovs, University of Latvia, Latvia – Conference Chair
Jurģis Poriņš, Riga Technical University, Latvia – OC co-chair, liaison to IEEE
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia – OC co-Chair, liaison to Conferences Ranking
Kaspars Čikste, University of Latvia, Latvia – conference finance manager
Zane Bičevska, University of Latvia, Latvia
Jeļena Glušakova, University of Latvia, Latvia – website manager
Ģirts Karnītis, University of Latvia, Latvia
Darja Solodovņikova, University of Latvia, Latvia
Solvita Zariņa, University of Latvia, Latvia
Jānis Zuters, University of Latvia, Latvia
Submissions
All submissions will be evaluated (originality, validity, contribution, technical quality, and presentation) by at least three members of the international programme committee. The programme committee may decide to accept a submission as a short communication if it reports interesting results, ideas, or experiences but could not be selected as a full paper. Papers must be written in English and submitted via EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=balticdbis2022) in PDF format. Submissions must conform to Springer‚ LNCS format.
We invite original unpublished research papers and application experience papers within the following categories:
full research papers describing research accomplishments (up to 14 pages),
short communications (experience reports, project overviews, etc.) (6-8 pages),
doctoral student papers (for the Doctoral Consortium, 6-8 pages).
Venue
The International Baltic DB&IS 2022 conference will take place in Riga, the capital of Latvia, whose picturesque medieval Old Town is known around the world for its well-preserved completeness and authentic Hanseatic architecture. The city offers enchanting atmosphere, rich cultural scene, beautiful surroundings, cutting-edge restaurants, cafes, and clubs. It has good flight connections and is easy reachable also by other means of transportation.
We hope very much that DB&IS 2022 will be possible of attending in person. Nevertheless, we will be prepared also for virtual participation as in DB&IS 2020 in Tallinn.
History of Baltic DB&IS
Shortly after the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – regained their independence from the USSR at the beginning of the 1990’s, two organisers of the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference – Prof. Janis Bubenko jr. (Sweden, born in Latvia) and Prof. Arne Sølvberg (Norway) – decided to invest a small balance of the VLDB Fund to introduce computer science researchers in the Baltic States into Europe. In 1994, the first computer science conference, called “The Baltic Workshop on National Infrastructure Databases: Problems, Methods, Experiences”, was organized in Trakai, Lithuania, where colleagues from Europe and the United States participated with researchers from the Baltic States. Ever since the conference became an international biennial (International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems), rotating between Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. The conference is classified consistently in category B by Excellence for Research Australia (ERA), its articles are indexed on the Web of Science, SCOPUS, DBLP, etc.
The aim of Bubenko and Sølvberg to unite Baltic and European researchers has long been achieved, and after the 14th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (Tallinn, 2020) the conference steering committee decided to extend the conference with more modern topics and to decipher the acronym Baltic DB&IS as Digital Business and Intelligent Systems. Although the conference has grown out of the Baltics scope, the conference name still carries it as a reference to its origins and long history.
Welcome to the 15th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems!