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New INFORMS Section – lunch November 8 at the annual meeting
Are you interested in how operations research and management science can be applied to systems with public impact? For example, an animal shelter with arrivals and adoptions is a service system, government agencies design processes that deliver services to taxpayers (e.g., building permits or justice and protection), and after disasters Non-Governmental Organizations provide health, food, …
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Arizona State University – Center for Services Leadership Links to Upcoming Events
Webinars Calendar Symposium – Mastering the Science of Service
Wordle.net
We all know the challenge of trying to provide a nice overview of a complex area in a compelling manner. With http://www.worldle.net one can easily take a paper or a URL and turn it into a visually appealing overview of an area. For example, an IBM colleague recently sent me some material about work going …
Expediting University Startups: A Step Toward Advancing America’s Prosperity
BY Joseph DeSimone http://www.kauffman.org/Expediting-University-Startups-A-Step-Toward-Advancing-America%E2%80%99s-Prosperity.aspx?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Opticast&utm_campaign=Ideas_At_Work_08_2010 universities are major employers of regions (especially great universities in great cities) universities often have science and technology parks, with business incubators universities often have medical centers and hospitals, or a life science complex university faculty highly prioritize education for their children, and so affiliated high schools and elementary schools are …
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Short Takes 27 Aug
Service Science Ontology (Italy) http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrarioGuarinoFIS08Proceedings.pdf Service Science Ontology (Italy) Legal framework http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrGuarFern.pdf Transportation (China) Bus Straddles Cars http://tinyurl.com/3angwlh Water (WW) Pepsi Pledge http://tinyurl.com/369m7et Water/Environment (WW) Tropi-Dry http://tropi-dry.eas.ualberta.ca/2_who.html Energy (WW) Cool Solar Highways http://www.flixxy.com/solar-highways.htm Energy (Germany) Improved Solar Cell Models http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm Comm/ICT (Canada) Wireless Sensors http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/research-areas/database-systems/wireless-sensors Buildings (US) Green Homes http://tinyurl.com/38mtdfx Retail/Media & Entertainment (Canada) Serious …
The Value of HPC and Better Simulation Models (WW)
Many service science researchers world wide are working on better simulation models of service systems and networks. Some of these models will eventually require high performance computing (HPC) systems that rival super computers used in weather prediction to produce their results. One question the community needs to be asking itself is how can the community …
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Short takes 21 August
European Association for REsearch on SERvices (EU) http://www.reser.net/ IBM #4 2010 Most Innovative Company (WW) http://www.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/innovative_companies_2010.html Smartest Scientist (CNN) http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/41.html Transportation (US) MIT http://cee.mit.edu/graduate/mst Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/research.html Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/MITSIMLabOSnew.html Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/traffic21/about-traffic21/index.aspx Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/australia/news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=1073 Transportation (US) NCSU http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/CE.html Transportation (US) UMichigan http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.php Transportation (UK) Imperial http://www.geomatics.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/research/its.asp Transportation (Belgium) UHasselt …
Short takes 16 August
Food & Products (WW) IBM Smarter Food http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/opinions/opinion_20081208.shtml Food & Products (US) Smart Clothes http://tinyurl.com/2duwrld Energy (US) http://www.pgsenergy.com/phone-seminar/E-101a/Fundamentals-Electric-Service-System/424 Energy (WW) Shale and Liquid Natural Gas Intro Course http://www.pmaconference.com/Shale-LNG-0810-PMA.PDF Energy (WW) IBM Rational Focal Point http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/r-focalpointutil.html Comm/ICT (US) Silicon Valley Network http://www.aonetwork.com/ Comm/ICT (US) Future of Mobile Cloud http://tinyurl.com/35dr9rm Comm/ICT (US) Future of Augmented Reality http://tinyurl.com/2uekajb …
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Service Science Transdisciplinary Framework (WW) Journal of Service Science (Pp. 8-9) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/ Inventing the Future of Services (US) CMU Course http://tinyurl.com/2ak5na4 Mental Models of Time (WW) Thanks to Bob Lusch for pointer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg Transportation (US) Driverless Cars http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/02/2124104/driverless-cars-to-hit-the-streets.html Transportation (WW) RFID for Airports http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/f3dc86/rfid_for_airports_and_airlines_20082018 Water/Environment (France) City Sensors http://www.lamontreverte.org/en/ Water/Climate (EU) Knowledge Community http://www.climate-kic-proposal.org/ …