The 2013 International Conference on Service Science (ICSS 2013) Theme: Promoting Serviceology in the Era of Big Data Sponsored by Tsinghua University, Harbin Institue of Technology and IBM Hosted by Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University April 11-13, 2013, Shenzhen, China Conference Website: http://www.icss2013.org http://www.global-optimization.com/icss2013 Conference Objective In the times of big data, how to …

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Dear Authors and Reviewers, We at JSR would like to share with you the Call for Papers for the 2013 Frontiers in Service Conference.   The 22nd Annual Frontiers Conference July 4‐7, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan, hosted by the College of Management at the National Taiwan University.   The Frontiers in Service Conference, sponsored by …

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New Book: Today, more than ever before, people desire to look and feel better, to slow the effects of aging, manage stress, and/or prevent age related illness.   This growing social phenomenon is the so called wellness generation.   Service Management in Health and Wellness Services examines the growing significance of the wellness concept as …

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There is a truth about all new majors – “they have to start as a minor to another well known disciplines that is in highest demand,” until they are well-established on their own.  And this takes time. The same is true of the very “hot” disciplines of data scientists and analytics experts — hiring managers …

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Let me kindly inform you that the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2013 – http://www.icaart.org/), to be held in Barcelona, Spain (February 15 – 18, 2013) is now welcoming the submission of position papers whose deadline is scheduled for next October 29. The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems …

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For humanities and liberal arts majors, new opportunities arise as big businesses expand their corporate social responsibility efforts and consider a triple bottom-line of people, planet, profits.  This talk is intended to be a gentle introduction to the Forbes Global 2000 (an annual ranking of the largest public companies in the world) as well as …

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NAACSOS – http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/ From: Prof. Walid Nasrallah, AUB Lebanon Hi everyone My department is looking for another one of “us” – ….people who apply engineering models to organizations and organizational models to engineers…. Here is the full announcement in case you are interested or know someone who fits the bill. The Engineering Management Program, Faculty …

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Webinar Info Service Productizing – The Next Wave of Service Innovation Event Date: October 25, 2012 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST Three major forces are reshaping the professional services industry: Clients are demanding more “value” from their service providers by shifting greater accountability for results to their suppliers through fixed price and value-based contracts …

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Dear colleague, We would like to bring to your attention the following event organized by the scientific nonprofit organization Business Systems Laboratory (www.bslaboratory.net) together with the Sociedad Española de Sistemas Generales (SESGE), the Union Européenne de Systémique (UES-EUS), the  International Academy for Systems and Cybernetics Sciences (IASCYS- www.iascys.org)  and the Facultat d’Economia of the Universitat de València:  INTERNATIONAL …

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Service science is challenging to define, such that people know what it is and is not. Here are some thoughts about defining service science… 1.  Service science and arts is the study of and design of service or value-cocreation phenomena, historical, present-day, and future possibilities, and the life-cycle and evolution of the types of nested, …

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