BIS 2008 was the 11th in a series of international conferences on Business - formation 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 veryroots has been recognized by professionalsas a forum for the exchangeand disseminationof topicalresearchin the development,implemen- tion, 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 - lectedforthepresentationduringthemaineventandgroupedaroundconference topics: Business Process Management, Service Discovery and Composition, - tologies, Information Retrieval, Interoperability, Mobility and Contexts, Ent- prise Resource Planning, Wikis and Folksonomies, Rules and Semantic Queries. The Program Committee consisted of more than 80 members that carefully evaluated all the submitted papers. This year they were supported by an Easy- Chair review system, and again, we observed an increase in the quality of the reviews. This not only raised the quality of the conference but also positively a?ected the work of the authors. The regular program was complemented by the outstanding keynote spe- ers. We are proud that BIS 2008 hosted Alistair Barros (SAP, Australia), Hans Ulrich Buhl (University of Augsburg, Germany), Fabio Ciravegna (University of She?eld, UK), John Davies (BT, UK), and Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany).

Information Retrieval.- An Entry Vocabulary Module for a Political Science Test Collection.- Chinese Organization Entity Recognition and Association on Web Pages.- Language Model Based Temporal Information Indexing.- Wikis and Folksonomies.- Turning a Corporate Folksonomy into a Lightweight Corporate Ontology.- Discovering Semantics in Multimedia Content Using Wikipedia.- Combining Structure and Semantics for Ontology-Based Corporate Wikis.- Ontology Development.- Agreeing While Disagreeing, a Best Practice for Business Ontology Development.- Modeling and Using Polish Legal Knowledge - Commercial Companies Code Ontology.- A Supply Chain Management Approach to Logistics Ontologies in Information Systems.- Ontology Application.- Transforming Existing Knowledge Models to Information Extraction Ontologies.- Community-Driven Ontology Evolution: Gene Ontology Case Study.- Semantic Integration of Process Models into Knowledge Management: A Social Tagging Approach.- BPM: Modelling.- Influence Factors of Understanding Business Process Models.- Concepts for Modeling Hybrid Products in the Construction Industry.- Improving Requirements Analysis through Business Process Modelling: A Participative Approach.- BPM: Towards Flexibility.- Weak Dependencies in Business Process Models.- Advanced Querying and Reasoning on Business Process Models.- Prototypical Implementation of a Pragmatic Approach to Semantic Web Service Discovery during Process Execution.- BPM: Monitoring and Verification.- SAF: Strategic Alignment Framework for Monitoring Organizations.- Towards Measuring Key Performance Indicators of Semantic Business Processes.- Structural Detection of Deadlocks in Business Process Models.- BPM: Involving People.- Employee Competencies for Business Process Management.- Enterprise Web Services and Elements of Human Interactions.- Specifying Separation of Duty Constraints in BPEL4People Processes.- Service Discovery and Composition.- Web Service Discovery in the FUSION Semantic Registry.- Towards the Aggregation of Security Requirements in Cross-Organisational Service Compositions.- Industrialized Generation of Financial Services by Component-Based Information Systems.- Interoperability.- Making the Agent Technology Ready for Web-Based Information Systems.- An Architecture for a QoS-Aware Application Integration Middleware.- Performance and Architecture Modeling of Interoperability System for SME’s.- ERP: Analyses.- Measurement of Business Process Orientation in Transitional Organizations: An Empirical Study.- A Metric for ERP Complexity.- Data and Information Quality Assessment in Information Manufacturing Systems.- ERP: International Experiences.- A Comparative Study of Enterprise System Implementations in Large North American Corporations.- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Implementation Challenges: A Kenyan Case Study.- Web Data Integration System: Approach and Case Study.- Rules and Semantic Queries.- Integration of Data and Rules in Inference with Queries Method.- Semantically Sensitive Execution of Relational Queries.- From Business Rules to Application Rules in Rich Internet Applications.- Mobility and Contexts.- Enabling Context-Based Cooperation: A Generic Context Model and Management System.- Hydra – An Application Framework for the Development of Context-Aware Mobile Services.

BIS 2008 was the 11th in a series of international conferences on Business - formation 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 veryroots has been recognized by professionalsas a forum for the exchangeand disseminationof topicalresearchin the development,implemen- tion, 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 - lectedforthepresentationduringthemaineventandgroupedaroundconference topics: Business Process Management, Service Discovery and Composition, - tologies, Information Retrieval, Interoperability, Mobility and Contexts, Ent- prise Resource Planning, Wikis and Folksonomies, Rules and Semantic Queries. The Program Committee consisted of more than 80 members that carefully evaluated all the submitted papers. This year they were supported by an Easy- Chair review system, and again, we observed an increase in the quality of the reviews. This not only raised the quality of the conference but also positively a?ected the work of the authors. The regular program was complemented by the outstanding keynote spe- ers. We are proud that BIS 2008 hosted Alistair Barros (SAP, Australia), Hans Ulrich Buhl (University of Augsburg, Germany), Fabio Ciravegna (University of She?eld, UK), John Davies (BT, UK), and Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany).