BIR 2025: 24th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research Riga, Latvia, September 17-19, 2025

Subject and topics

BIR 2025 welcomes original, unpublished contributions that have not been submitted elsewhere. The main theme of the BIR 2025 conference, titled "Bridging Knowledge, Process, and Systems for Responsible Digital Transformation", explores how the integration of knowledge management, process modeling, and information systems can drive responsible digital transformation in business environments. This theme highlights the need for creating digital solutions that not only foster innovation and efficiency but also promote ethical, sustainable, and inclusive practices. By focusing on the convergence of business knowledge, process optimization, and emerging technologies such as AI and smart systems, the conference will address how these elements can be harmonized to support organizations in navigating the challenges of digital transformation. It will explore how responsible business practices, aligned with both technological advancements and societal needs, can shape the future of business informatics, ensuring that digital transformations are both innovative and ethically grounded.

We welcome submissions addressing the above main theme, the topics listed below, and combinations of both.

1. Ethical and Responsible AI Use for Business Informatics

• AI accountability and governance in digital transformation
• AI for fair business decision-making 
• Explainability, fairness, and transparency in AI
• AI model performance and tuning for business
• AI-driven knowledge management systems
• Ontology modeling languages and AI
• Generative AI and its ethical role in business innovation

2. Model-based Business Informatics 

• Conceptual modeling
• Models for digital business ecosystems
• Enterprise modeling and architecture
• Model-based systems engineering  
• Service-oriented architecture
• Business process modeling and mining
• Modeling in and for requirements engineering
• Model validation and evaluation

3. Data and Knowledge in Organizational Digital Transformation

• Knowledge graphs and graph databases
• Machine learning and deep learning
• Linked data, ontologies, and semantic nets
• Web methods and languages
• Collaborative knowledge-sharing and decision-making for ethical transformation
• Managing organizational knowledge for sustainable business practices
• Knowledge management in business transformation
• Data-driven Development and organizational transformation

4. Responsible Business and Information Systems Alignment

• Strategic alignment of business processes and IT systems
• Business-IT alignment in responsible digital transformation
• Business-IT alignment for ERP, CRM, and SCM systems
• Business-IT alignment in e-commerce, e-business, and e-government
• Aligning business models and IT systems for ethical outcomes
• Business-IT alignment methods for sustainable and ethical business systems
• Aligning enterprise systems with organizational values
• Human-centered design for business information systems

5. Theoretical foundations and interoperability in Business Informatics

• Systems theory and principles
• Ontological foundations of Business Informatics
• Research methods in Business Informatics
• Business Informatics body of knowledge 
• Teaching methods in Business Informatics
• Philosophical and social perspectives on interoperability
• Business, people, and systems interoperability
• Methods, architectures, and communication technologies supporting interoperability
• Interdisciplinary and ethical approaches in business information systems analysis
• Enterprise systems for value creation and co-creation

6. Privacy, Security, and Trust

• Data quality and integration
• Secure and trustful algorithm selection and optimization
• Privacy and security in digital transformation
• Process optimization and design for responsible business
• Privacy, data protection, and ethical compliance in AI-enabled systems
• Trust and transparency in AI-enabled systems for responsible business

7. Smart Systems and Services in Business Informatics

• Predictive analytics in business informatics
• Smart systems for transition to a net-zero economy
• Smart systems for managing changes in ecosystems
• Smart systems for enhancing work-life balance
• Smart platforms for collaborative and sustainable business transformation
• Smart systems for sustainable business practices

8. Openness in Business Informatics

• Open development and deployment tools
• Interoperability of open-source communities
• Integrating open-source technology with commercial and proprietary products
• Open innovation
• Open data
• Web and social computing

9. Emerging Technologies and Paradigms in Business Informatics

• Blockchain, AI, and IoT for responsible business transformation
• Virtual and augmented reality in business informatics
• Cloud and Edge computing in business informatics
• The use of Low code/No code approaches
• Technology integration for business informatics
• Ethical implications of new technologies in business informatics

10. Application Areas

• Sustainable innovations
• Green IT
• FinTech
• Healthcare
• Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0
• E-Government
• Smart applications (smart city, smart home, smart education…)
• Education and learning organizations
• Serious games and gamification
• Capability and competence management
• Managing environmental impacts
• Managing global climate emergency

Important Dates

Abstract submission: May 1st, 2025 (recommended)

Paper submission: May 7th, 2025 

Notification of acceptance: June 14th

Camera-Ready: July 7th, 2025

Conference: September 17th to September 19th, 2025

Submission Guidelines

BIR 2025 welcomes original, unpublished contributions that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. As in the tradition of the BIR conference, all accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNBIP series. The following paper categories are welcome:

Research papers describing original research contributions (theoretical, methodological, or conceptual). 

Exploratory papers introducing new ideas and directions for research by analyzing the current state of the art, identifying the gaps that need to be addressed, and introducing an approach as a means to bridge them. 

Practice papers discussing problems or challenges that organizations (private or public) face, relate them to the wider domain and provide useful insights to practitioners from similar organizations and contexts.

The page limit for all papers is 14 pages (not counting the references)

General author instructions are available here.

Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form (this will be made available to authors of accepted papers). The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Inclusion in the proceedings volume is conditioned by having at least one author registration per paper, with a prospect of paper being presented during the conference. 

Initial submissions should be made in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page.

BIR proceedings are indexed in Scopus, WoS (optionally), and DBLP.