The 4th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2009) took place on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of September 2009, in Thessaloniki, Greece. SEERC was a co-organiser of the conference, along with CITY College, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Macedonia at Thessaloniki, the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, and the Greek Computer Society.
BCI 2009 was a continuation to the successful conference series of BCI 2007, held in Sofia, BCI 2005, held in Ohrid, and BCI 2003, held in Thessaloniki.
This year's conference included more than 70 presentations of research papers, 3 invited talks by Michail Bletsas (MIT Media Lab, USA), Keith Jeffery (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), and Dimitris Karagiannis (University of Vienna, Austria), and a training and networking workshop for Western Balkan and EU Research Cooperation on ICT.
The conference attracted researchers from 14 different countries, with the vast majority of them from within the greater Balkan region, such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Greece.
