2011 Int’l Conf on Management Science and Engineering

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2011 2nd International Conference on Managenment Science and Engineering (MSE 2011) will be held on October 1~2, 2011 in Chengdou,China.  http://www.ieee-ett.cn/mse2011/

MSE 2011 is co-sponsored by Engineering Technology Press and Southern Illinoic University Carbondale and National University of Singapore.

The conference proceedings will be published byAdvances in Artificial Intelligence, ISSN：2160-147X.

All papers accepted will be indexed by ISTP.You are invited to contribute papers either in English or Chinese, which must include English title, abstract and references.

Integration of Simulation Technology into Engineering Curricula: A University-Industry Workshop

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ISTEC 2011  at  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

July 22-23, 2011

http://www.mae.cornell.edu/swanson/workshop2011/

Cornell University will be hosting a university-industry workshop on the integration of simulation technology into engineering curricula during July 22-23, 2011 in Ithaca, NY. This workshop will be of interest to all engineering faculty who use or would like to use simulation technology in their courses and projects. It will also be of interest to engineers in industry who work with simulation technology.

Currently, the deployment of sophisticated commercial simulation software in engineering curricula is primarily done by individual faculty in their respective courses without the widespread sharing and standardization of materials. In order to scale up the effective use of advanced simulation in curricula, there needs to be increased collaboration among the major stakeholders: educators, industry practitioners, software vendors, professional societies and funding agencies. The ISTEC 2011 workshop will bring together these major stakeholders in a sustained conversation on scaling up the effective use of advanced simulation in engineering curricula.

The following simulation technologies/areas are of particular interest:
-Finite-element analysis
-Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
-Multi-body dynamics and control
-General-purpose numerical analysis and programming

If you are interested in participating, please register using the Registration Page on the above website. If you have questions or clarifications, please contact Dr. Rajesh Bhaskaran <bhaskaran@cornell.edu>.

HICSS SSME mini-track & workshop

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Conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

Minitrack: Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45dt.htm#DT9

Workshop: Five Years of SSME at HICSS: Looking Back and Looking Ahead http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45swt/WS/SSME.pdf

A “service system” is in an integrated, value-creating configuration of service providers, their clients, their partners, and others. The best-performing service systems are IT-enabled, customer-centered, relationship-focused, and knowledge-intensive – yet span multiple formal and informal organizations. Because of this multidisciplinary context, researchers and practitioners in management, social
sciences, and computer sciences are all working to increase service innovation. We think these multiple perspectives can be unified using the theoretical construct of the service system, in which entities (like people, businesses, government agencies, etc.) interact to co-create value via value propositions that describe dynamic re-configurations of resources, with governance mechanisms to resolve disputes. This
minitrack will focus on papers that connect rigorous disciplinary research with the emerging interdisciplinary framework of the service system, elaborating stakeholder perspectives and the broad context of use for specific cases.

As ever more people in academia and industry recognize the need for service innovation, HICSS remains an excellent venue for this emerging discipline. And the HICSS community in particular can continue to play a leadership role. To that end, this minitrack will encourage the submission of research papers from a variety of disciplines and a variety of participating communities to address issues related to service policies, service process modeling, service delivery management, innovated service technologies, and the role of the Internet, the digital economy, and information technology. But more important than providing a forum for reporting  research related to service and service systems, the SSME minitrack also aims to fit the research into the novel theoretical framework of the service system, and ultimately to contribute to development of service science itself.

Toward this end, there will also be a full-day workshop, held January 4, 2012, organized in conjunction with this year’s SSME minitrack. Now in its 5th year, the SSME minitrack has already established itself as a leading venue for presentation and publication of service science-related research. And now it is time to take stock of what has been accomplished, observe what the emerging field has done, and plot a
course from here. The workshop will combine presentations from thought leaders in service science, academics who have developed related programs and courses, and SSME-minitrack paper presenters over the years. Discussion will aim to develop plans for building and maintaining the service science community and for setting the
future research agenda. Output of the workshop will provide the basis for an edited volume (Springer’s Service Science series), combined with research papers from the minitrack. Participation in the workshop will be by invitation based on submission of a short (500-word) abstract. Authors are encouraged to submit to both the workshop and minitrack.
Research related to but not restricted to the following topics will be addressed.
• Service science concepts and theory
• Research methodologies for service science
• Application of SSME to the digital economy
• Service modeling, optimization and analysis
• The dynamics of service evolution
• Business process management and transformation for service enhancement
• Mechanisms of service innovation
• Service process synthesis and decomposition for automated service delivery
• Methodologies, techniques, and tools for automated service composition and delivery
• Case studies on service innovation in various industries
• Behavioral studies for service system design
• Management of software as a service, web services, and related issues
• Integration of IT services (back-end) and customer services (front-end)
• The role of information technology and digitization in service innovation

The SSME minitrack has already created a body of literature related to SSME—both in the HICSS proceedings and in special issues of the journal Information Systems and eBusiness Management (Vol 7, no 4, and Vol 8, no 1, 2009; and also Vol 9, no 2, 2011).

Submissions to HICSS-45 minitrack and workshop on SSME ought to make use of this literature.

IMPORTANT DATES
SSME Minitrack
–Abstracts: Authors may contact the Chairs for guidance at anytime.
–June 15th: Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following;  Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site  (www.hicss.hawaii.edu).  All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references.
–August 15th: Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System.
–September 15th: Authors submit final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of  each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper.

SSME Workshop
July 15th: Authors submit 500 word abstracts to the Workshop Chairs (via email).
August 15th: Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors.
Minitrack and Workshop Co-chairs:
Fu-ren Lin; Institute of Service Science; National Tsing Hua University
101 Sec. 2 Kuang-fu Road; Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300; R.O.C.
Phone: 886-3-5742216; Fax: 886-3-5745310; Email: frlin@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Paul P. Maglio; IBM Research – Almaden; Service Systems Research
650 Harry Road; San Jose, CA 95120-6099; Phone: 408-927-2857
Fax: 408-927-1920; Email: pmaglio@us.ibm.com
Michael J. Shaw; Department of Business Administration; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 350 Wohlers Hall; 1206 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820; Phone: 217- 333-5159; Fax: 217-333-2922
E-mail: mjshaw@uiuc.edu

55th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

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Hull University Business School, Hull, UK:   July 17-22, 2011

Theme and conference information: All together now – working across disciplines: People, principles and practice

***update:  Please note that, although the deadline for getting papers into the proceedings has passed, people who register late can still write a paper that will be published in the proceedings next year, if you want to take up that option.

The 2011 Conference of the International Society for Systems Sciences will be hosted by Hull University Business School, one of the top Business Schools in the UK, and home to one of the oldest teaching departments in Management Systems and the Centre for Systems Studies.

Call for Papers
Special integration groups (SIGs) and exploratory sessions are being planned
in the following areas (see the website for contact details for each group):
Agent-based Social Systems
Arts-based Inquiry
Balancing Individualism and Collectivism
Critical Systems Theory & Practice
Designing Educational Systems
Economic and Financial Systems
Evolutionary Development
Foundations of Information Systems
Hierarchy Theory
Human Systems Inquiry
Information Systems Design and Information Technology
ISSS Roundtable
Living Systems Analysis
Medical and Health Systems
Organizational Transformation and Social Change
Research Towards General Theories of Systems
Service Systems Science
Socio-Ecological Systems
Spirituality and Systems
Student SIG
Systemic Approaches to Conflict and Crises
Systemic Approaches to Poverty and Disadvantage
Systems Applications in Business & Industry
Systems Biology and Evolution
Systems and Mental Health
Systems Modeling and Simulation
Systems Pathology
Systems Specific Technology
What is Life and Living

Important Dates
January 1, 2011:  The start of abstract submission and registration.
January 31, 2011:  On-line registration begins.
March 1, 2011: T he deadline for panel, workshop and stream proposals.
April 30, 2011:  The end of early, discounted registration.
May 15, 2011: T he deadline for full papers. Only ONE submission per
registered participant will be accepted for the conference.
June 1, 2011.  The final deadline for abstracts, recognising that
abstracts may not be developed into full papers for this conference.

Only ONE abstract per registered participant will be accepted for the conference.
June 1, 2011. The deadline for poster abstract submission. Posters are
exempt from the one abstract/paper submission rule.

HICSS 2012 Service Science, Systems and Cloud Computing Services Minitrack@HICSS 45 – Grand Wailea, Maui Island

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HalukDemirkan is serving as a co-chair of the “Service Science, Systems and Cloud Computing Services” Minitrack in the Decision Technology, Mobile Technologies and Service Science Track of the upcoming 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45dt.htm#DT8).

CALL FOR PAPERS

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UCLA Anderson School of Management July 29-30

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Service Industrialization and the Global Information Economy

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x36372.xml

This conference addresses the technology driven transformation of information intensive services through the process of “industrialization”.  Since every organization can be thought of as a bundle of services, and since all industries involve information intensive services, industrialization is taking place inside companies as well as across all industry sectors without exception.   This is a very substantial change that affects every industry sector and every company down to the level of individual jobs and tasks.

The themes of the conference include services, technology, strategy and globalization.  The industries that are impacted include perhaps every possible known sector including Healthcare, Entertainment-Media, Energy, Defense, Financial Services, Telecommunication, High-tech, Retail and many others.

MINDSET employers want: Global, Good and Grit

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go to yahoo finance story:  http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/3gs-mindset-over-skill-set-critical-landing-job-125910227.html?nc

 

the 3 G’s

Global: This is the big picture perspective. It is your ability to lift your eyes out of the weeds, look at the world and understand the ripple effect of your actions.

Good: This is the sensitivity to people and awareness of and the inkling to do good for others around you.

Grit: This is the intestinal fortitude, that uncommon tenacity, intensity, resilience in everything that you do.

Watson earns WEBBY award

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Watson is Webby Person of the Year

The Webby Awards

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson-for-a-smarter-planet/index.html