“Business Intelligence & Analytics: From Big Data to Value Creation”

Call for Papers
for the Scientific Conference of the
Erich-Gutenberg-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Köln e.V.
in Nuremberg/Germany (June 3rd, 2016)
and the Special Issue (JBE) on
“Business Intelligence & Analytics:
From Big Data to Value Creation”
Digital data are an inherent part of our everyday life and of the business environment. Their worldwide
extent is more than doubling every two years. By the year 2020, 44 trillion gigabytes of data are expected
worldwide, compared to only 4.4 trillion gigabytes in the year 2013 (IDC, 2014). This unprecedented
amount of data, referred to as Big Data, admittedly contains the potential of innovative services, datadriven business models, as well as social knowledge and intelligence. Companies are facing the great
challenge of how to benefit from Big Data, i.e. creating and capturing value. Therefore, Business
Intelligence and Analytics, i.e. IT-based management support by targeted data (Davenport & Harris,
2007), are necessary to analyze the enormous amounts of undirected data in a target-oriented way and
thus make them exploitable. In this context, systematic solutions for managing Big Data effectively are
still lacking – and there is an urgent need for new theories and methods to assist extracting useful
information from the rapidly growing volumes of digital data.
The upcoming scientific conference aims at discussing the state of the art of research on Big Data and
potential associated value creation. Moreover, the conference aims at advancing not only the current
understanding of the subject from an information systems perspective, but also from adjacent fields. We
invite papers, which provide novel conceptual perspectives and/or empirical insights into the value
creation from big data by applying appropriate business intelligence and/or business analytics.
Suitable topics within the context of creating value from Big Data include but are not limited to:
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Big Data Management
Deep Data Analytics
Data Visualization Tools
Exploratory Data Analysis
Predictive Analytics
Computational Intelligence
Text and Multimedia Mining
Social Media and Web Mining
Knowledge Based Decision Support
Marketing Models
Finance and Insurance Models
Business Analytics as a Service
Big Data Based Business Models
Security and Privacy in Big Data
Data Centric Production and Supply Systems
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Network Centric Analytics and Competition
New Ways of Value Creation and Value Capturing
Submission procedure
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All submissions must follow the editorial guidelines of Journal of Business Economics, which
can be obtained from the journal website (www.springer.com/11573).
Submitted abstracts and papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Extended abstracts (max. 600 words) as well as papers have to be submitted in English. The
presentation at the Scientific Conference of the Erich-Gutenberg-Arbeitsgemeinschaft on June
3rd, 2016 may be held in German or English.
All papers will be reviewed in an anonymous, double-blind process by distinguished referees
with regard to relevance, originality, and research quality in order to guarantee the highest
possible quality.
Extended abstracts must be submitted to the chairman of the Erich-GutenbergArbeitsgemeinschaft ([email protected]), using “JBE (Special Issue) Business Intelligence
& Analytics: From Big Data to Value Creation” as the subject heading. After the conference the
full papers must be submitted online via the website www.springer.com/11573 choosing the
corresponding article type.
Accepted contributions are considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of
Business Economics (JBE). Further information is available at www.springer.com/11573. For
this, full papers must have been presented at the scientific conference in Nuremberg.
Tentative schedule
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Submissions of extended abstracts: April 17th, 2016
Initial decision and author notification: May 6th, 2016
Paper presentation at the scientific conference in Nuremberg/Germany: June 3rd, 2016
Submission of full papers: October 30th, 2016
Final decisions on full papers: March 31st, 2017
Publication of the special edition of the journal: Beginning of 2018 (estimated)
Editors of the special issue
Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Vorsitzender der Erich-Gutenberg-Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Lehrstuhl für Industrielles Management
Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nürnberg
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Günter Fandel
FernUniversität in Hagen
Zentrum für Produktionsökonomie und Entscheidungsmanagement
Universitätsstr. 41, 58097 Hagen
[email protected]

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