This year’s theme was: Responsibilities of Digitalization – Responsible designing and shaping of future technology for digital preservation, global data storage and cost-effective management.

The 17 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions.

How Smart Cities Explore New Technologies.- Comparison of Different Requirements for Digital Workplace Health Promotion.- Blockchain Awareness among Computer Science Students: A preliminary Study.- Researching Participatory Modeling Sessions: An Experimental Study on the Influence of Evaluation Potential and the Opportunity to Draw Oneself.- Automated formal verification of model transformations using the invariants mechanism.- Multi-Criteria Ranking Based on Joint Distributions. A tool to support decision making.- Towards Ecosystemic Stance in Finnish Public Sector Enterprise Architecture.- Data Mining Methodologies in the Banking Domain: A Systematic Literature Review.- Multi-component Infrastructure for e-Lectures - A Viable Solution for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations.- Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for Open Data Usage in Schools.- Deriving Key Performance Indicators from Business Process Model.- The Unexpected Benefits of Paying for Information: The Effects of Payment on Information Source Choices and Epistemic Thinking.- The snippets taxonomy in web search engines.- Model-driven Context Configuration in Business Process Management Systems: an approach based on Knowledge Graphs.- Can I help You? – The Acceptance of Intelligent Personal Assistants.- Understanding the habits: Inertia in Flipped Classroom.- Patient Acceptance of Health Cards and Health Insurance Information Systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2019, held in Katowice, Poland, in September 2019. This year’s theme was: Responsibilities of Digitalization – Responsible designing and shaping of future technology for digital preservation, global data storage and cost-effective management.

The 17 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. This year the contributions focus on topics such as: responsibilities of digitalization; responsible designing and shaping the future of technology for digital preservation, global data storage and cost-effective management.

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