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Short takes week of July 16

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Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (Germany) AIFB http://www.aifb.kit.edu FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) Karlsruhe http://www.fzi.de Jobs Policy Debate (US) Andy Grove article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html Jobs and skills (US)  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufacturing.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (India) IIT Bombay http://www.sineiitb.org/ Association of Cost Engineers (UK) Rajkumar Roy, Professor of Competitive Design, Cranfield University …

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Short takes week of July 9

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Ovum Comments:  New Skills and Service Science http://www.ovum.com/go/content/c,77654 Best Paper Award Health INFORMS: http://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Community-Prizes-and-Awards/Pierskalla-Best-Paper-Award Urban Dive Experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnuFkMrMPM Earthmine (US Berkeley) collect-process-deliver pixel-level-accurate urban-maps  http://www.earthmine.com US Dept ED SCANS http://www.arp.sprnet.org/default/curric/scans.htm Service Innovation (Netherlands) Rene van Buuren http://www.novay.nl/about-novay/22 Water Test Kits  for Students http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.com/Test_Kits/Kits_Main.html Making Service Science Mainstream: http://www.servicefactory.aalto.fi/fi/wp-content/themes/default/Service_Science_Summit_White_Paper.pdf Executive Masters in Service Science (Switzerland) EMISS …

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SRII conference & CFP

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Service Research and Innovation Institute (SRII): IEEE and ACM are excellent well-established professional associations.  Many other great professional associations also exist (e.g., INFORMS, AMA, IIE, AIS, etc.).  For example, a note from Prof. Ralph Badinelli,  Virginia Tech and Chairperson of INFORMS Service Science Section, informs:   “The Service Research Innovation Institute (http://www.thesrii.org/) is fast becoming a …

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Service in Abnormal Condiditons

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Service in Abnormal Conditions. Steve Baron (UK, University of Liverpool) and Gary Warnaby are developing a fascinating sub-area in the emerging service science area that they call “service in abnormal conditions.” Steve recently presented at the Frontiers in Service Conference in Karlstad Sweden, and I quote a bit of their abstract: “As we write this …

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the family as a service system

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The family as a key type of service system: In my AMA SERVSIG keynote one of the questions was about families as a fundamental type of service system – my talk looked at cities, universities, and businesses as more recent (in the last 10,000 years of human history) types of service systems.   Evert Gummesson, University …

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updates – Japan, India

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Japan Service Science. Yuriko Sawatani, Fellow, Service Science, Management and Engineering, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) recently provided me with an update on JST’s approach to developing a theory of service systems as well as improved service system implementations.  Many proposals are currently being evaluated for funding. Aligning universities, cities, and IBM to promote …

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Conferences: INFORMS, CACM, Forum on Service

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INFORMS Service Science Section: Ralph Badinelli and others continue to encourage an excellent stream of conferences and papers.   I encourage everyone to check out the newsletters at the home website (http://service-sci.section.informs.org/index.html). CACM July 2010: Communications of the ACM 53(7) has several interesting articles for service scientists, including: (1) Mari Sako (Oxford University, UK) Outsourcing versus …

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this week’s short takes

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Shorts Takes: Minni Sarkka (Aalto University Finland) recommends Service Engineering and Management http://www.sem2010.tkk.fi/index.htm HICSS-44, Kauai, Hawaii (January 4-7, 2011) Service Science track http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/Minitracks44/dt-sersys.pdf AMA SERVSIG http://www.servsig2010.org/programme.html Portugal FEP Masters in Service Management Joao Pronenca: http://www.fep.up.pt/cursos/mestrados/mgs/DOC_10_11/GServi%C3%A7os_uk_10_net.pdf Stefan Holmlid, Interaction & Service Design, Linköping University http://www.ida.liu.se/~ixs/ Linköping University, Sweden will host the Service Design and Innovation Conference …

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CFP IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining for Service (DMS2010)

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IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining for Service (DMS2010) held in conjunction with The 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’10), Sydney, Australia, 13 December 2010. Website http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~yada/conf/dms10/ ================== SCOPE ==================

SERVSIG now on Facebook

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Will you be at Porto in June?  I will! SERVSIG 2010 has now a facebook page. You can access it through the facebook link at the SERVSIG 2010 webpage (www.servsig2010.org) or at http://www.facebook.com/pages/SERVSIG2010/112382552131601. You are welcome to visit the facebook page and become a SERVSIG 2010 fan. In our facebook page you can find more …

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