Position in Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME) The Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, invites applications for one position of Associate Professor or Assistant Professor for SSME at the Department of Computer Systems and Communications. Applications due: January 31, 2016 Employment start date: By mutual agreement; position available immediately   Job description: …

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Pat Langley gave an outstanding CSIG presentation that provided the foundations of cognitive systems…. in Prof. Langley’s talk he referenced this paper:   Published originally in the November 2002 edition of Computing Research News, Vol. 14/No. 5, pp. 1, 8.] DARPA’s New Cognitive Systems Vision By Ron Brachman and Zachary Lemnios The impact of the …

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IAMOT 2016 The 25th International Conference for Management of Technology ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA May 15-19, 2016   http://iamot2016.org/ Technology – Future Thinking With a multitude of new and enabling technologies in all fields of life, the IAMOT 2016 will focus on Future thinking and the foresight of the technology and its impact on the new …

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Here is the video about a billionaire who appears to have empathy – gets good around minute fifteen… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY7f1t9y9a0 First and foremost, empathy. However, second comes energy and water processes — recreating these is what students need to learn to do rapidly (compete to do it more rapidly) each year… Regarding empathy….  it goes with …

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SERVSIG has established a new “Best Dissertation Award in Service Research”. http://bit.ly/servsig-doc-award I think this is a unique opportunity for doctoral students to get a lot of attention for their great research (and a cash prize is also involved).  Deadline is already on Nov 30th.   ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Werner H. Kunz – Associate Professor of Marketing …

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ISSIP.org promotes professional development for T-shaped professionals – who have experience working with students on multi disciplinary, multi sector, multi cultural teams to solve real-world business and societal challenges with academic, industry, and government mentors – building their global networks in the process. Service innovation methods can be applied to create recommendation to improve service systems …

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All Services, All The Time: How Business Services Serve Your Business Organizations are living systems. Like living things, they are born, develop, mature and experience health and illness along the way. Unhealthy organizations often die untimely deaths. But they can restore their health by adopting and integrating throughout a pervasive services perspective. This book explains …

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Dear service researchers:   Our submission system already counts over 225 contributions! Nevertheless, the organizing committee of SERVSIG 2016 has decided to extend the deadline for submissions until November 22nd 2015, based on the many requests we received.   Best Wishes from Maastricht, The SERVSIG 2016 Organizing Committee         Organizing Committee SERVSIG …

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The 10th International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS 2016) July 27-29, 2016   Suzhou, China www.massconf.org/2016 Dear Colleagues, The 10th International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS 2016) will be held from July 27-29, 2016 in Suzhou, China. The submitted papers can be written in Chinese or English, but the title, abstract and …

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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 …

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