Call for Papers
The 24th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2025) invites papers for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of Business Informatics Research. The main theme of the BIR 2025 conference is "Bridging Knowledge, Process, and Systems for Responsible Digital Transformation", exploring how the integration of knowledge management, process modelling, and information systems can drive responsible digital transformation in business environments. Papers submitted to the DC must be related to the topics of the main BIR 2025 Conference (see https://bir2025.rtu.lv/calls/call-papers).
Aim
The objective of the Doctoral Consortium of BIR is to provide an open forum for young researchers who are doctoral students to:
Present and discuss their PhD research work;
Receive constructive feedback and advice for future research directions;
Network with peers and future colleagues.
The language of the consortium is English. All submitted materials must be in English.
Paper submission
The submitted papers should reflect the current status of the author's PhD project, presenting a problem statement and research questions (RQ), scientific framing against existing literature in the problem domain, the research design and method, the proposed contribution and results achieved so far, as well as existing or planned evaluations of the contribution.
Submissions must be single-authored (by PhD student only). The supervisor(s) should be mentioned in the Acknowledgment section.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bir2025 (choose BIR 2025 Doctoral Consortium track). We welcome submissions of 8-10 pages that conform to CEURART 1-column format. Information about the CEURART format can be found at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html (scroll to section: “CEURART style files for papers”). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at as template at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw. An offline version with the style files (ODT, DOCX templates) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
The authors of accepted papers will be invited to revise their papers based on the feedback received from the reviewers of the Doctoral Consortium, and resubmit it for publication in an open access CEUR-WS proceedings volume, indexed in DBLP and Scopus.
Paper selection
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Consortium Programme Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: originality, significance, technical soundness, research contribution, and clarity. The review and decision process is a balance between different factors, including research quality and the potential benefit for the doctoral student at the discretion of the chairs.
Doctoral students will receive formal feedback from reviewers to which they need to respond with an answer letter submitted together with the camera-ready version of their paper. Authors of accepted submissions will receive instructions on how to submit their camera-ready version.
Important Dates / Deadlines
Paper submission: May 14, 2025
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2025
Camera-ready submission: July 10, 2025
Doctoral Consortium: September 17, 2025
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Tarmo Robal, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Diana Kalibatiene, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Jānis Grundspeņkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia