There are many topics in business information systems that deserve attention but have not yet found a place in canonical research. Workshops give researchers the possibility to share preliminary ideas, first experimental results, or to discuss research hypotheses. Discussions held during presentations strengthen the paper and prepare it for publication. From our experience, workshops are a perfect instrument with which to create a community around very specific research topics, thus offering the opportunity to promote it. Topics that do not find critical feedback in the main track of the International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS) may experience fruitful discussion when confronted with a well-focused audience.

Over the last few decades, business information systems have been one of the most important factors of the transition toward a knowledge-based economy. At the same time they have been subject to continuous rapid development and innovation driven both by industry and by academia. These innovations were carefully observed as well as shaped by researchers attending BIS for the last 14 years. From time to time a well-recognized conference is collocated with BIS. In 2011, the Poznan University of Economics also hosted the Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC) conference. Additionally, three workshops were successfully organized in conjunction with BIS 2011, covering topics of applications and economics of knowledge-based technologies (AKTB), business and IT alignment (BITA), and legal information systems (LIT). This volume contains papers that were accepted and presented at the BIS 2011 workshops. On this occasion, we would like to express our thanks to everyone who made the BIS 2011 workshops a success: all Workshop Chairs, members of the Workshop Program Committees, authors of submitted papers, invited speakers, and finally all workshop participants. We cordially invite you to visit the BIS website at http://bis. kie. ue. poznan. pl/and to join us at future BIS conferences.