Call for papers and Invited Sessions Proposals. Submission Deadline: April 11th, 2012

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Special Track on Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication Summer IDREC 2012 (http://www.2012iiisconferences.org/wmsci/idrec)

Jointly with The Summer 2nd International Conference on Design and Modeling in Science, Education, and Technology: DeMset 2012 (http://www.2012iiisconferences.org/demset)
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July 17th – 20th, 2012 – Orlando, Florida, USA
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Non exclusionary Suggested topics
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•   Case Studies in the Integration of Academic Activities
•   Case Studies in the Integration of Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and communication
•   Case Studies in Applying IDREC to Real Life Problem solving
•   Inter-Disciplinary Research
•   Inter-Disciplinary Education
•   Inter-Disciplinary Communication (which includes the communication of disciplinary research to other disciplines)
•   Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Research and Inter-disciplinary Education
•   Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Research and Inter-disciplinary Communication
•   Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Education and Inter-disciplinary Communication
•   ICT support of IDREC
•   Relationships between IDREC and Analogical thinking and/or Creative Thinking

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Kinds of Submissions
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Submissions will be accepted regarding *THINKING* about and/or *DOING* Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and/or Communications, as well as regarding their relationships with analogical learning, creativity, and the ways in which ICT might or actually does support them. In this context, *CASE STUDIES* as well as general theories, methodologies, reflections might be the content of submissions to be made to Summer IDREC 2012. DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH may also be submitted as long as at least a 25% of its content is written for INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION.

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Technical Keynote Speakers
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Technical keynote speakers will be selected from early submissions because the CV of the presenting author will need to be evaluated as well. To be a candidate to participate as a keynote speaker, please send your CV to IIIS2012J@ATT.net, AFTER you have already submitted your paper.

Thank you for your time

Special Track IDREC 2012 Co-Organizers

CFP: Cloud Computing as a Service

Call For papers

Special Issue on: “Cloud Computing as a Service.”

Guest Editors: Yingdong Lu, Cathy H. Xia

Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing services. The flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing provides tremendous business opportunities to customers. The related customer expectation, however, poses daunting challenges to cloud service providers, whether they are traditional data centers or fresh players in the arena. These practical challenges raise new research questions to communities that are either computer science oriented or service science oriented. Performance analysis and service management are required to be knitted together for the success of the end game.

Service Science aims to facilitate the development of new theories, as well as their permeation to the practice fields. Our goal is to provide a platform for both researchers and practitioners to communicate their new ideas, so that important problems in cloud computing services can be addressed from more complete point of view. We also expect interface papers between academia and industry that stimulate new topics, models and analytical methods.

This special issue provides a global forum for presenting research results on various aspects of cloud computing as a service.  We are specifically interested in the development and implementation of quantitative methods, such as those developed in the field of statistics, computer science, operations research and machine learning.

   Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

· Issues, gaps, and unmet needs in cloud computing practice
· Service business trends and transformation
· Analytic methods for performance and Quality of Service
· Data analytics issues in cloud computing
· Data driven decision making in cloud computing
· Cloud-related control and dynamic resource provisioning
· Power-efficiency and cloud computing
· Customer satisfaction, business models and pricing policies

   Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers will be refereed through a rigorous peer review process. Instructions for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page (http://www.informs.org/Pubs/Service-Science/Instructions-to-Authors)
  Important Dates
Full paper deadline: 1 July, 2012
Notification of acceptance and review results: 1 September, 2012
Revised submission deadline: 1 November, 2012
Final acceptance: 15 December, 2012
Editors and Notes
All submissions should be online to the journal’s website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/serv).
Please indicate that the submission is for the special issue when you submit your manuscript to the website.
Guest editor’s contact information
Yingdong Lu,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights,
NY 10598,
USA.
(yingdong@us.ibm.com)
Cathy H. Xia
210 Baker Systems Engineering Bldg
1971 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
U.S.A.
(xia.52@osu.edu )

Service-science-section mailing list
Service-science-section@list.informs.org
http://list.informs.org/mailman/listinfo/service-science-section

 

 

CFP – Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science Track@HICSS 46 – Grand Wailea, Maui Island

Dear Colleagues,

Hello!  I am serving as a co-chair of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science” track of the upcoming 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/46tracks.htm#DT). My co-chair, Christer Carlsson, and I are writing to internationally renowned scholars such as you with expertise in various areas of analytics, mobile systems, service science and emerging solutions in hopes that you will consider submitting a paper to minitracks in this track. We have already received a great deal of interest, and your contributions would help us improve the quality of the sessions. The deadline for submitting papers to HICSS-46 is June 15, 2012. Please consider submitting your work if it is related to any of the specific topics listed and/or if you feel it addresses visions of the future of this track. We expect a range of concepts, tools, methods, philosophies and theories to be discussed. We thank you, in advance, for your valuable contribution to HICSS-46. Please let us know if you have any questions or need additional information. We look forward to receiving your submission!

Best Regards

Haluk Demirkan – haluk.demirkan@asu.edu 

HICSS-46 CALL FOR PAPERS

            Grand Wailea Maui – January 7-10, 2013 (Monday-Thursday)

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm

The Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science Track (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/46tracks.htm#DT) is concerned first and foremost with emerging managerial and organizational decision-making strategies, processes, tools, technologies, services and solutions in the Digital Age. This track has 4 interrelated themes. First theme, analytics, focuses on decision making processes, tools and technologies. Mobile services focus on development and delivery of data, information and analytics with mobile technology platforms. Challenges and issues of emerging service industries, and service -orientation and –transformation of strategies, processes, organizations, systems and technologies are covered in service science. In this track, we also discuss about innovative approaches of decision making for/with critical and emerging solutions. This track includes the following mini-tracks:

  • Analytics, Informatics and Decision Support For Sustainability
  • Big Data: Scalable Representation and Analytics for Data Science
  • Cloud Service Science and Systems
  • Decision Making in Production Processes
  • Design, Realization Implementation, Use and Effect of Mobile Value Services
  • Innovation, Design and Analytics Supported Development of ICT Enabled Services
  • Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Multi-criteria Decision Support
  • Network DSS: Decision Support in the Collaborative Environment of Mobile Social and Sensor Networks
  • Open Data Services
  • Predictive Analytics and Big Data
  • Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME)
  • Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis
  • Soft Computing for Information Access on the Web
  • Telecommunications Analytics and Economics

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
June 15 – Submit full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.
Receive acceptance notification by August 15.
Revise your manuscript to add author names. If required, make other changes.
Submit Final Paper for Publication by September 15.

Handy List of Service Science Related Pointers

My colleague Dianne Fodell

who leads IBM University Programs Skills for 21st Century efforts

sent me this useful list of pointers:

Learn About Service Science:
Teach Service Science:
Collaborate About Service Science:
Service Science Curriculum Guidelines:
IT Service Courses:
Best Service Management Text book:
Recent Service Science Research Papers:
Other Service Science Related Textbooks
Other Service Science Related Professional Associations

 

A Real Jobs Plan For the 21st Century

15 March 2012

Special GSN Update: Forbes Article on Brad Jensen Book,

“Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring”
A Real Jobs Plan For The 21st Century

Ed Black, Contributor
Tech Association CEO

Times are tough.  So it is not surprising that so many politicians are talking about employment and jobs.  President Obama has proposed a $450 billion jobs package and Mitt Romney has a comprehensive jobs plan that can be downloaded as an eBook.  What you don’t hear is how we can boost exports by 40 percent, bring American companies $800 billion in new revenue and create 3 million new jobs.  That’s right: 3 million, which would reduce current unemployment by almost 25 percent.

How can we do something so positively transformative?  The answer, according to a new book by J. Bradford Jensen, an eminent international trade economist at Georgetown University, is aggressively liberalizing trade in services.  My organization has been talking about this for years, particularly in relation to the Internet, which as a medium has done more to enable the global trade in services than anything in history.

What are services?

Services include the expertise provided by doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, musicians, computer programmers, reporters, and teachers.   For a more abstract representation, the Economist humorously quipped that they are the “products of economic activity that you can’t drop on your foot.”  Once theorized as un-tradable, advancements in technology, such as high-speed transit, telecommunications and the Internet, have allowed many services to join tangible goods as a major force in the global marketplace.  Despite making up a considerably larger chunk of the world’s economy than manufacturing, services trade has received much less attention than trade in goods.

Why is this?  Well, for one, trade in services in much harder to measure.  When an Italian suit, a bottle of French wine or a Ford truck is exported, it passes through customs, it is identified, assessed levies (if appropriate), and catalogued.  The stats are then compiled and shipped to economists and academics around the world that use the data to paint a very clear picture.

However, when an architect gets on a plane or when a lawyer advises an international client by phone, it is far harder to identify, quantify and catalogue.  As a result, the products (and profits) of this lucrative trade can go undocumented or get underreported.  The policy implications of this are profound.  Too often, especially among OECD countries, politicians and trade negotiators fight to protect the last vestiges of obscure manufacturing sectors while expending little effort and political capital on liberalizing trade in services, which would confer far greater benefits.

When U.S. politicians discuss trade in services, the stereotypes of the overseas call centers or low paid computer programmers from China or India often dominate the discourse.  However, as Dr. Jensen makes clear, this mischaracterizes the reality.  A few examples:
Significantly more people work in the “engineering services” sector of the U.S. economy than work in the manufacture of automobiles and automotive parts.
Almost three times the number of people in the United States are employed in the “computer systems design engineering” sector than the entire field of aerospace manufacturing.
At least 60 percent of the U.S. economy is services related – and some metrics suggest it is more like 80 percent of the economic activity of the United States.
“Business services,” which make up some of the most easily exportable services, account for nearly a quarter of the U.S. economy.  Compare this to manufacturing, which accounts for only 10 percent of employment in the United States.  Furthermore, these are not low-paying jobs, as the average business services employee makes 25 percent more than the average manufacturing employee.  And the majority of U.S. “business services” are in sectors in which the United States has a comparative advantage.  Therefore, these industries will only expand as the international trade in services becomes more liberalized.  The story is likely similar in other developed countries, especially in the European Union.  As discussed earlier, the relative gains would be massive.

The costs associated with the displacement of current workers from foreign competition are small compared to the gains that come from liberalization, and these costs more easily borne as well.  Unlike manufacturing jobs lost to exports that are largely centered in specific cities and regions, tradable service activities are largely scattered among the major urban centers that have dynamic and diverse local economies.  In fact, no region of the country has more than 3 percent employment in the type of low-wage services that would be the likely candidates to be replaced by foreign workers.

What are the obstacles to liberalizing trade in services?

If focusing on services liberalization is a win-win for all involved, what stands in the way of achieving this?  First of all, liberalizing in service sectors is more difficult.  As opposed to lowering tariffs on goods, which is relatively easy in practice once the political will exists, lowering barriers to trade in services requires hard work. Regulations, certifications and licensing need to be harmonized.  Also, protectionist measures can be more easily disguised.  A country can claim to be holding up its own high-standards in a particular industry by not allowing practitioners from other countries into the market and countries like China can cite national security and public morals concerns to block foreign web services and platforms but not domestic ones.

In the international arena, some strides have been made but much work still needs to be done. The General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) is good start but it has some major defects. The most glaring problem is that the GATS is a “positive list” treaty where signatory countries have to commit to which sectors they want to liberalize, as opposed to under its “goods” cousin, the GATT, where countries have to explicitly say which goods they are not including.

The difference might sound mundane and procedural, but the consequences are real.  In the services world, each new advancement in technology has to be added to the list of commitments if it is to enjoy the protection of the GATS.  This especially impacts cutting edge industries, like the Internet and technology sectors, where new products and services are being created at a much faster speed than the wheels of international economic diplomacy turn.
What are the opportunities going forward?

Currently there is an effort underway in Geneva to create a GATS+ agreement that takes unilateral commitments made by negotiating parties in their bilateral FTAs related to electronic commerce and “internationalizes” them across all countries willing to participate. This process is just one part of a new focus on electronic commerce that WTO member countries have committed themselves to.  Significant strides can also be made in the plurilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, which include a number of highly advanced Pacific Rim economies, including the United States, Australia and Singapore.

Progress also needs to be made on the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) as a global boom in infrastructure investment, largely by developing country governments, could generate as much as $40 trillion in spending over the next two decades.   It is precisely these major projects that need the assistance of the world-class expertise available in the U.S. business services sectors.

Finally, the Internet must take center stage in modern trade agreements.  As I have argued in the past, it is time for a 21st Century trade agenda that focuses much more attention on the Internet.  More than any other medium, the Internet enables the worldwide exchange of “services” to an extent never possible before. It does this in a way that is inherently “borderless” and that gives clever people in any country in the world the opportunity to export their ideas and services – provided they can get a good Internet connection.

If the international trade regime is to keep pace with the modern world, bits and bytes must be afforded the same protection as beef and bolts in modern trade negotiations.

Unfortunately a cloud looms over the services sector as more nations move to place restrictions on the free flow of information and online commerce.  If service providers and web platforms are made liable for the actions of all of their users or countries are allowed to indiscriminately block access to companies providing goods and services over the Internet, the gains made on international trade in the 20th century will soon begin to erode as the most dynamic platform for trade in services in human history is reined in.

 

For More Information:

URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/edblack/2012/03/15/a-real-jobs-plan-for-the-21st-century/

Call for Papers Journal Pengurusan (Malaysia): Transformative Service

Call for Papers Journal Pengurusan (Malaysia): Transformative Service

Themed Issue – Journal Pengurusan

Dear All,
Attached is a Call for Papers for Journal Pengurusan (JP)’s themed (special) issue, “Creating & Delivering Service Value thru Transformative Service”. A list of examples of issues relevant for this themed issue is given in the Call 4 papers (deadline for manuscript submission: 30 April 2012 for publication in late 2012).
Thanks.
Best regards,
Farzana
Farzana Habib <fqbhabib@yahoo.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL PENGURUSAN THEMED ISSUE:
Theme: “Creating and Delivering Service Value through Transformative Service”
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JOURNAL PENGURUSAN (UKM’s Journal of Management) is an international scholarly journal indexed in SCOPUS and published by Penerbit UKM, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
The service industry has grown exponentially in the Asian region since the mid-20th century, and in many countries it now constitutes the most vital component of the economy. The service sector accounts for more than 70 percent of the gross domestic product of economically advanced as well as developing countries. Levels of expectations of service performances are rising as consumers grow wealthier, are better informed and travel more. To stand out from the intense competition and to build a loyal clientele, service companies should strive to improve their service delivery or performances by providing exceptional value to their customers. With the stiff competition and rapid growth in the service industry, interest is also growing among practitioners and academics in learning what the values are and how they should be created, communicated, and delivered to the customers.
Despite a proliferation of studies on the service industry, systematic studies focusing on the various aspects and dimensions of “value creation” have received relatively little attention in the literature.

This “Call for Papers” announces a Themed Issue with a theme “Creating and Delivering Service Value through Transformative Service”. Transformative service research has been generally defined as service research that focuses on “creating uplifting changes and improvements in the well-being of both individuals and communities”. The main purpose is to enhance the quality of life of current as well as future generations via service provisions. Thus, the goal of this themed issue is to provide a body of knowledge that explains the relationships and impacts of the service value offered to the market in improving the well-being of both the individual customer and overall society. Papers are expected to focus on issues, problems, or contexts related to service value, transformative service, or the integration of the two constructs. We also welcome papers that adopt an inter-disciplinary approach, integrating known (or the proposal of new) marketing, finance, and management theories with services theory. This themed issue pursues manuscripts related to topics including, but not limited to:
 Creating and enhancing tools for capturing the value in use for transformative service
 The roles of technology or social networks in value creation and delivery process
 Employees’ roles and participation in value creation and delivery
 Sustainable marketing, service value, and transformative service
 Cross-cultural studies related to service value and transformative service
 Ethical issues in transformative service
 Quality issues in value creation and delivery
 E-service and service value
 The impacts of service value offerings on organizational, customers or society well-being
 Managing service operations to provide better service value
 Internal and/or external value co-creation process
 Communicating and promoting service value and/or transformative service

 

URL: http://www.mampu.gov.my/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=6d0c34a8-83c4-47ae-9270-fe76b95a42b6&groupId=10136

Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE)

Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE)

GRCSE Sample Objectives.

1. Effectively analyze, design, and implement feasible, suitable, effective, supportable, affordable, and integrated solutions throughout the life cycle of systems of systems, enterprises, services, and products.

This could be tailored by explicitly stating the types of systems that graduates develop and a given domain (e.g., aerospace or telecommunications) or by specifying a portion of the system life cycle.

2. Successfully assume a variety of roles in multi-disciplinary teams of diverse membership, including technical expertise and leadership at various levels.

3. Demonstrate professionalism. Grow professionally through continued learning and involvement in professional activities. Contribute to the growth of the profession. Contribute to society through ethical and responsible behavior.

4. Communicate (read, write, speak, listen, and illustrate) effectively in oral, written, and newly developing modes and media, especially with stakeholders and colleagues.

 

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) defines systems engineering (SE) as
an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, and then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem: operations, cost and schedule, performance, training and support, test, manufacturing, and disposal. Systems engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs.

 

 

 

URL: http://www.bkcase.org

URL: http://www.bkcase.org/fileadmin/bkcase/files/GRCSE_0.5/GRCSE_Version0_5_Final.pdf

SoEA4EE 2012: Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering

SoEA4EE 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
(http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/SoEA4EE_2012/SoEA4EE_2012_flyer.pdf)

Fourth International Workshop on Service oriented Enterprise
Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE’12)

in conjunction with EDOC 2012
September 11th, 2012, Beijing, China
http://edocconference.org/

Papers submission deadline: April 1, 2012

Organisers:
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Aalen University, Germany

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SCOPE
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Several developments, such as the success of cloud-computing show that
not the ownership of IT resources but their management is the foundation
for sustainable competitive advantage . According to Ross et al. , smart
companies define how they (will) do business (using an operating model)
and design the processes and infrastructure critical to their current
and future operations (using an enterprise architecture).

Enterprise Engineering (EE) is the application of engineering principles
to the design of Enterprise Architectures. It allows deriving the
Enterprise Architecture from the enterprise goals and strategy and
aligning it with the enterprise resources as shown in Figure 1,
Enterprise architecture aims (i) to understand the interactions and all
kind of articulations between business and information technology, (ii)
to define how to align business components and IT components, as well as
business strategy and IT strategy, and more particularly (iii) to
develop and support a common understanding and sharing of those purposes
of interest. Enterprise architecture is used to map the enterprise goal
and strategy to the enterprise’s resources (actors, assets, IT supports)
and to take into account the evolution of this mapping. It also provides
documentation on the assignment of enterprise resources to the
enterprise goals and strategy.

There are different paradigms for creating enterprise architecture. The
most important is to encapsulate the functionalities of IT resources as
services. By this means, it is possible to clearly describe the
contributions of IT both in terms of functionality and quality and to
define a service-oriented enterprise architecture (SoEA). SoEA easily
integrates wide-spread technological approaches such as SOA or emerging
ones as cloud computing because they also use service as structuring and
governing paradigm. The enterprise goals and strategies are mapped to a
SoEA.

SoEA differentiates four layers of services. Thus, its scope is much
broader than the scope of SOA and also includes services not accessible
through software such as business and infrastructure services. Services
of different layers may be interconnected in service (value) nets to
provide higher level services.

1. Business services are services, which directly support business
processes. Business processes can also be developed dynamically
(on-the-fly) using business services which are available in a repository
for a given business domain. An example is call-centre services provided
by an external service provider.
2. Software services exist as two types: (i) human-oriented
applications, which are provided as Software as a Service, (ii)
application services which are part of so-called SOA  that are a popular
paradigm for creating enterprise software.
3. Platform Services provide support of the development of applications.
They provide services for the execution of applications, middleware
stacks, web servers etc.
4. Infrastructure services are more hardware-flavoured services, which
are provided using computers. They may have a human addressee but
contain many infrastructure services such as providing computing power,
storage etc. They are an important topic in management and practice
collections such as ITILV3  or standards such as ISO/IEC 20000 have
gained a high popularity.

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GOALS
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The goal of the workshop is to develop concepts and methods to assist
the engineering and the management of service-oriented enterprise
architectures and the software systems supporting them. Especially four
themes of research shall be pursued:
1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategies with the
service-oriented enterprise architecture
2. Design of the service-oriented enterprise architecture
3. SoEA and Cloud-Computing
4. Mapping of service-oriented enterprise architecture to enterprise
resources

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TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
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During the workshop we will discuss the following topics:

1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the SoEA
– Which interdependencies exist between services and business strategy?
– Which concepts and methods are necessary to align services with the
business strategy?
– Which new potentials to reengineer business processes are created by
services?
– How are non-functional requirements derived from enterprise goals and
strategy?
– How are services aligned with non-functional requirements?
– How are services aligned with compliance requirements?
– Are the compliance and governance requirements enforced using SoEA?

2. Design of SoEA
– How are business, software, platform and infrastructure services defined?
– How are business services assigned to business processes?
– How are business services assigned to non-functional requirements?
– How do meta-services differentiate for business, software, platform
and infrastructure services?
– How are appropriate meta-services designed?
– Which phases do the lifecycle of business, software, platform and
infrastructure services contain?
– How can the fulfilment of non-functional requirements be monitored?
– Which benchmarks and key performance indicators should be applied to
services?
– Which approaches exist for the continual improvement of services?

3. SoEA and Cloud-Computing
– How does SoEA interrelate with cloud computing?
– How are Enterprise Architectures designed using cloud-services?
– How differ cloud-services from other kinds of services?
– How are Enterprise Architectures designed using cloud-environments?
– Which meta-services are necessary for cloud-environments?
– How are service (value) nets -consisting of business, software,
platform and infrastructure services- created?

4. Mapping of SoEA to enterprise resources
– Which resources are relevant for SoEA?
– How are services mapped to enterprise resources?
– Which approaches exist to map services to resources?
– Which information system architectures are adequate for services?
– How can non-functional requirements be mapped to capacity planning of
resources?

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SUBMISSION
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Full papers (8-10 pages in the IEEE-CS format) describing mature results
are sought. In addition, short papers (4 pages in the IEEE-CS format)
may be submitted to initiate discussion around ideas or preliminary
research results and ongoing projects. The paper selection will be based
upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its
quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All contributions
will be peer reviewed based on the complete version, being full or
short. The review process for the two types of papers will be different
because of their distinct purposes.

All papers published in the EDOC 2012 workshop proceedings must be in
the IEEE Computer Society format
(http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). It is strongly
recommended that all papers are already in this format when they are
first submitted to workshops. This gives precise picture of the paper
length and avoids rework if the paper is accepted.

Please submit your paper to Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soea4ee2012

At least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to
register for the whole EDOC 2012 conference and attend the workshop to
present the paper. Analogously to previous years, there will be no
workshop-only registration at EDOC 2012. If a paper is not presented in
the workshop, it will be removed from the workshop proceedings published
in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

The SoEA4EE workshop has been a full day workshop in conjunction with
EDOC’09 in New Zealand, with EDOC’10 in Brasil and with EDOC’11 in Finland.
The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2009 workshops is:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5331971&isYear=2009.
The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2010 workshops is:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5626915.
The link for the proceedings of EDOC 2011 workshops is:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6036125.

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EXPECTED RESULTS
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All papers will be published in the workshop wiki (www.soea4ee.org)
before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that
are important for other participants. The workshop will consist of long
and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. A
workshop report will be created collaboratively using the workshop wiki.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission due: April 1, 2012
Notification: May 28, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: June 15, 2012

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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João Paulo A. Almeida – Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Judith Barrios – Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
Khalid Benali – LORIA, Nancy, France
Ilia Bider – IbisSoft, Sweden
Ayon Chakraborty – Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Chiara Francalanci – Politechnico Milano, Italy
Xavier Franch – Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Francois Habryn – KSRI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Sung-Kook Han – Won Kwang University, South Korea
Ron Kenett – KPA Ltd., Israel
Peter Kueng – Crédit Suisse, Switzerland
Marc Lankhorst – Novay, The Netherlands
Michel Léonard – University of Geneva – Switzerland
Lin Liu – Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Heiko Ludwig – IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA
Hui Ma – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Florian Matthes – Technical University Munich, Germany
Selmin Nurcan – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Erik Proper – Public Research Centre – Henri Tudor, The Netherlands
Gil Regev – EPFL & Itecor, Switzerland
Colette Rolland – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Shazia Sadiq – University of Queensland, Australia
Rainer Schmidt – Aalen University, Germany
James C. Spohrer – IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

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Selmin NURCAN
Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor
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The University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne has been
running for the last 14 years, a highly successful 2-year Masters
programme (SIC – apprenticeship) that is now open to Foreign students
http://www.iksem.org
http://mastersic.univ-paris1.fr/
http://www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-prix-de-linnovation/universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne-master-information-and-knowledge-systems-engineering-and-management-iksem.html

http://www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-management-des-systemes-dinformation/universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne-master-systemes-d-information-et-de-connaissance.html

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The 13th edition on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support
(BPMDS’2012) in conjunction with CAISE’2012
*BPMDS is a WORKING CONFERENCE in conjunction with CAISE*.
June 25-29, 2012, Gdansk, Poland
http://bpmds.org/
Previous Springer LNBIP proceedings:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-21758-6/
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-13050-2/
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-01861-9/
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*Surface mail*
Université Paris 1 – Panthéon – Sorbonne
Centre Broca
21, rue Broca 75240 Paris cedex 05 FRANCE
Tel : 33 – 1 53 55 27 13 (répondeur)    Fax : 33 – 1 53 55 27 01
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Université Paris 1 – Panthéon – Sorbonne
Centre de Recherche en Informatique
90, rue de Tolbiac 75634 Paris cedex 13 FRANCE
http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/
Tel : 33 – 1 44 07 86 34        Fax : 33 – 1 44 07 89 54
mailto:nurcan@univ-paris1.fr
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To handle yourself, use your head.
To handle others, use your heart.
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ECoMASS-2012: Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems

 ECoMASS-2012: Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation Workshop

Workshop URL: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/ecomass/

to be held as part of the

2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 28, 2012

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Evolutionary computation (EC) and multi-agent systems and simulation
(MASS) both involve populations of agents. EC is a learning technique
by which a population of individual agents adapt according to the
selection pressures exerted by an environment; MASS seeks to
understand how to coordinate the actions of a population of (possibly
selfish) autonomous agents that share an environment so that some
outcome is achieved. Both EC and MASS have top-down and bottom-up
features. For example, some aspects of multi-agent system engineering
(e.g., mechanism design) are concerned with how top-down structure can
constrain or influence individual decisions. Similarly, most work in
EC is concerned with how to engineer selective pressures to drive the
evolution of individual behavior towards some desired goal. Multi-agent
simulation (also called agent-based modeling) addresses the bottom-up
issue of how collective behavior emerges from individual action.
Likewise, the study of evolutionary dynamics within EC (for example in
coevolution) often considers how population-level phenomena emerge from
individual-level interactions. Thus, at a high level, we may view EC and
MASS as examining and utilizing analogous processes. It is therefore
natural to consider how knowledge gained within EC may be relevant to
MASS, and vice versa; indeed, applications and techniques from one field
have often made use of technologies and algorithms from the other field.
Studying EC and MASS in combination is warranted and has the potential
to contribute to both fields.

The goal of this workshop is to facilitate the examination and
development of techniques at the intersection of evolutionary
computation and multi-agent systems and simulation.

The ECoMASS workshop welcomes original submissions in the theory and
practice on all aspects of Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent
Systems and Simulation, which include (but are not limited to) the
following topics and themes:

– Multi-agent systems and agent-based models utilizing evolutionary
computation
– Optimization of multi-agent systems and agent-based models using
evolutionary computation
– Evolutionary computation models which rely not on explicit fitness
functions but rather implicit fitness functions defined by the
relationship to other individuals / agents
– Applications utilizing MASS and EC in combination
– Biological agent-based models (usually called individual-based
models) involving evolution
– Evolution of cooperation and altruism
– Genotypic representation of the complex phenotypic strategies of MASS
– Evolutionary learning within MASS (including Baldwinian learning and
phenotypic plasticity)
– Emergence and feedbacks
– Open-ended strategy spaces and evolution
– Adaptive individuals within evolving populations

*Paper Submission
Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop and
distributed in the workshop proceedings to all GECCO attendees. Authors
should follow the format of the GECCO manuscript style; refer to
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/ for details. Manuscripts should not
exceed 8 pages. Papers should be submitted by 28 March, 2012 in
PostScript or PDF format to: forrest.stonedahl@centre.edu

*Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 28 March, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 9, 2012
Camera-Ready Accepted Papers Due: April 16, 2012

*Workshop Chairs
Forrest Stonedahl, Centre College
Rick Riolo, University of Michigan

*Workshop Program Committee
Bill Rand, University of Maryland
Jim Reggia, University of Maryland
Michael North, Argonne National Laboratory
Robert G. Reynolds, Wayne State University
Tina Yu, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University
Matt Knudson, Carnegie Mellon University
Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).


Forrest Stonedahl (forrest.stonedahl@centre.edu)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Centre College (http://www.centre.edu/)

Website: http://forrest.stonedahl.com/
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Advanced School: Service-Oriented Computing (Greece July 2-7)

Advanced School: Service-Oriented Computing

This year, once more, the Advanced School opens for graduate students and young professionals in the area of Service Oriented Computing. It will take place in Crete, Greece, from July 2 to July 7, 2012. For more information please visit: http://www.summersoc.eu

Listening to the participants’ recommendations, the Advanced School continues the structure introduced last year: we focus on a small number of specific topics (tracks) and have lectures only on these. The tracks are:

Conceptual Foundations

Computing in the Clouds

People in Service Oriented Computing Systems (SOCS)

Emerging Topics

The tracks are color coded on the program to be easily recognizable. In addition, as in previous years, we will have a special session where PhD candidates can present their thesis, sessions for presenting running state-of-the-art FP7 projects on Services, System Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE), a visit to the archaeological sites of Knossos and Festos, and of course for relaxation, a program rich in social events (beach party, visit to a traditional Cretan village, etc.).

Graduate students can take the Advanced School as a graduate-level course, and earn 3 ECTS units. The course credits are recognized by several Universities, and those interested can contact us to inquire whether the Advanced School on Service-Oriented Computing is recognized by their University.

The Advanced School on Service-Oriented Computing 2012 will be, once more and without doubt, a successful combination of knowledge acquisition along with the opening of the mind on all topics related to Service Oriented Computing.

Come to learn, network and enjoy!

Contact:

Themistoklis Koutsouras <kutsuras@tsl.gr>