Thematic Areas

The Conference will have an interdisciplinary focus and will cover various topics related to information technology, economics and business, political and social sciences. The following topics are encouraged, but are not exclusive:

Research Track 1
Theme: Enterprise, Innovation & Development

• Operations Management
• Logistics & Green Supply Chain Management
• Quality Management & TQM
• Economics and Finance
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Labour Economics
• Corporate Finance & Financial Systems
• Strategic Change
• Customer Behaviour
• Marketing Planning
• Strategic Management Marketing
• Knowledge Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Enterprise Development
• Corporate Governance
• Organisational Analysis & Learning
• Human Resources Management
• Change Management
• Public Management
• SMEs
• Innovation Management

Research Track 2
Theme: ICT and the World of Services

• Software Engineering
• Information Security
• Intelligent Systems
• Educational Informatics
• Information & Knowledge Management
• Service Oriented Software Engineering
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Testing & verification of software systems
• Modelling and Model Checking
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Biologically Inspired Computation
• Health Informatics
• Geographical Information Systems
• Simulation
• Databases
• Robotics
• Graphics
• Web Services
• e-learning

Research Track 3
Theme: Democratic Governance, Education and Society

• Politics
• EU Policy and Integration,
• International Relations,
• Migration,
• Public Administration,
• Nations and Nationalism,
• Conflict and Peace,
• Geo-Politics,
• Regional Development,
• Environment
• Parties and Party Systems
• Sociology
• Religiosity,
• Ethnicity, Identity,
• Social Policy,
• Genocide Studies,
• Post-Socialist Transformation,
• Europeanisation,
• Family and Community Life
• Language Policy and Practice
• Intercultural Communication,
• Ethno-linguistics,
• English as a Lingua Franca,
• English-Only Europe,
• The EU and Language,
• Language Testing,
• Language Teaching
• Media and Journalism
• Media Representation in the Balkans,
• Media Interaction and Globalization,
• Media Governance,
• Media Commercialization,
• War Reporting: Archiving of War Crimes,
• Media Freedom,
• Media Corruption

Research Track 4
Theme: Psychology: Risk, Cognition and Well-being

• Smoking Interventions at School and in the Workplace
• Alcohol and Drug Use and Abuse
• Attention and Neuroscience
• Cognitive Development in Typical and Atypical Populations
• Quality of Life in Chronically-ill and Healthy Populations
• Emotionality and Well-Being
• Intervention with Populations with Special Needs
• Counselling and Psychology