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Business Intelligence (BI) is a concept of applying a set of technologies to convert data into meaningful information. They include information retrieval, data mining, statistical and numerical analysis and data visualization. Large amounts of data originating in many different formats and from different sources can be consolidated and presented to key business analysts. Traditionally, BI is implemented as standalone decision-support systems that provide timely, intelligent information probably in some form of reports, for enabling business analysts or managers to formulate business strategies.

In recent years, BI and e-Business Applications have been developed as independent research fields which has received considerable amount of attention. The main challenges now are how BI can be fused into an e-Business application as a part of the business processes. Some advantages of integrating BI into e-Business applications include facilitating automation and decision making capabilities with real-time knowledge by software agents.

When the two trends couple, new emerging models of e-Business applications become possible; Examples are creating new kinds of e-Business services such as agent-mediated B2B e-Commerce, intelligent B2C recommender, smart online service, and knowledge-driven customer relationship management.

This workshop is specifically aimed at bringing together members of two research communities: those focused on e-Business applications, particularly the emerging applications that BI might support, and those who work closely with business intelligence. While previous international IT conferences have hosted workshops on these individual topics, there has not yet been a workshop designed to facilitate discussion across the two areas, and to consider new technical possibilities as well as opportunities - new ways of doing business that were not possible in the past.