Doctoral Consortium

The 25th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2026) invites papers for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of the conference. The main theme of the BIR 2026 conference is Hybrid Intelligence in Business, exploring how human expertise and creativity can be complemented with intelligent solutions from the realm of Informatics and AI to increase organisational capabilities.

Papers submitted to the DC must be related to the Business Informatics focus and topics of the conference (see https://www.bir2026.fhnw.ch/).

Aim

The objective of the Doctoral Consortium of BIR is to provide an open forum for 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 selection

The DC papers will go through 2 rounds of evaluations/revisions:

1. In the first round, submitted papers will be peer reviewed by senior researchers of the BIR DC Program Committee. Their comments on the accepted papers will serve to create a revised version to be presented at the conference. The main evaluation criteria are: originality, significance, technical soundness, research contribution, and clarity;

2. In the second round, a mentor will be assigned to the revised paper. They will provide additional feedback and will lead the discussion during the paper presentation, with the conference audience expected to contribute additional feedback. Both the mentor input and the conference feedback should serve as guidance for a second revision that can be submitted (after the conference) for publication in the BIR companion post-proceedings.

The BIR companion post-proceedings, containing papers from the DC and the various BIR workshops, shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.

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.

Paper submission

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 (choose the DC 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”). The initial PDF submission can use the deprecated Word template (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip) but final drafts for the publication of accepted papers will have to use current CEURART Latex/Overleaf templates (Overleaf template available at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw; offline Latex available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip)

Use of Generative AI in the development of the paper must comply with the CEUR-WS GenAI policy and must be explicitly declared at the end of the paper, as instructed at: https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html.

The author of the best paper of the Doctoral Consortium will be invited to submit an extended paper to the thematic issue devoted to BIR 2026 published in Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ) journal (ISSN: 2255-9922, indexed in Scopus).

Important Dates / Deadlines

Paper submission: July 30, 2026
Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 30, 2026
First revision submission for conference presentation (incorporating reviewer feedback): September 25, 2026
Doctoral Consortium: October 7, 2026
Camera-ready submission for post-proceedings (incorporating mentor and audience feedback): October 30, 2026