IESS 2016 – Exploring Service Science – Bucharest, May 25-27, 2016

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 7th International
Conference on Exploring Service Science - IESS 2016, organized by the
University Politehnica of Bucharest and the Research Centre in Robotics
and CIM on May 25-27, 2016.

The submission deadline is December 21, 2015.

All accepted and presented papers will be published in the Springer Series
"Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing", abstracted/indexed in
CPCI (ISI) Proceedings, Springerlink, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI, and Google
Scholar.

Selected papers accepted by IESS 2016 will be published in a special issue
of INFORMS Service Science journal.


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IESS 2016 – The 7th International Conference on Exploring Service Science

May 25-27, 2016, Bucharest, Romania
www.iess16.cimr.pub.ro

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The 2016 edition of the IESS Conference will bring together academic and
practitioners from service industry and their worldwide partners in a
collegial and stimulating environment. According to its tradition, IESS
1.6 will cover major areas of R&D and education related to Service Science
and service innovation, including new research trends such as: society
development due to services, environment contribution to the
co-exploration and co-creation of multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional
and multi-national services, the role of services in the integration of
the new possibilities powered by IT, development of generic models for the
process of service construction.

Papers can be submitted in one of the several topics proposed in the
following list, but not limited to:

- Service exploration processes
- Business transformation through Service Science
- New service business models
- Modelling of the service consumer needs
- Modelling of business services requirements
- Service information & process modelling
- Service design methodologies and patterns
- Service co-design environments, tools
- Requirements oriented towards services
- IT-based service engineering
- Modelling and design of IT-enabled service systems
- Service delivery systems
- Product-service systems
- Service innovation and strategy
- Sustainability in services
- Governance of service systems
- Service System networks
- Education for service innovation

CONTRIBUTIONS:

- regular papers [in the proceedings volume]
- regular papers in special sessions [in the proceedings volume]: see
http://iess16.cimr.pub.ro/index.php/submission-.html
- workshops: see http://iess16.cimr.pub.ro/index.php/workshops.html

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full paper submission: December 21, 2015
Notification of acceptance: January 11, 2016
Final paper submission: February 15, 2016

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

All IESS 2016 papers must be submitted in electronic format (pdf format)
via EasyChair conference management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iess16. Detailed instructions for
authors are included in the conference web site.

REGISTRATION FEES:

Full registration (one fee/paper): 400 EUR (early) / 450 EUR (late)
Ph.D. Students: 250 EUR (early) / 300 EUR (late)
Accompanying persons: 125 EUR (early) / 175 EUR (late)

IESS 2016 SECRETARIAT:
Iulia Voinescu (RO)
Tel: +40/21 402 93 14
Fax: +40/21 317 09 12

E-mail: iess16@cimr.pub.ro
Web: www.iess16.cimr.pub.ro

Sincerely yours,
Theodor Borangiu (RO), IESS 2016 Conference Chair
Monica Dragoicea (RO), IESS 2016 Program Chair
Henriqueta Novoa (PT), IESS 2016 Program Chair