Invitation

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the eighth volume in the series of monographs entitled “Advanced Information Technologies for Management”. This series was initiated in 2001 and each year a new volume is published. The purpose of this series is the state of the art in the area of business information systems and technologies. In order for such systems to effectively support long-term management processes, they must relate to current models of conducting business initiatives and their development directions, as well as be supported by the latest achievements in information technologies. Solutions to these problems are expected to come from the system users and stakeholders.

The first monograph contained only articles written by researchers and PhD students from the Department of Computer Science at Wroclaw University of Economics. In the years 2002-2006, the publication was given national character by linking it with National Scientific Conferences under the same title as the monograph series. The list of authors includes a large number of Polish universities, software houses and consulting firms.

Since the year 2008 all papers have been published in English as a proceeding of international conference on “Advanced Information Technologies for Management AITM”. Last year 20 papers have been published as a proceeding of the 7th AITM’2009 conference (Wrocław University of Economics, Research Papers no. 85, Wrocław 2009, PL ISSN 1899-3192, ISBN 978-7695-024-2).

This year all papers will be also published in English as a proceeding of the 8th conference on “Advanced Information Technologies for Management AITM’2010”. The main purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the current issues of IT in business applications. There will be also the opportunity to demonstrate by the software houses and firms their solutions as well as achievements in management information systems.