Third International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences

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Call for Papers

Building on previous editions (2010 and 2011) and the growing momentum in this emerging and exciting discipline, IESS is further strengthening its position as an academic conference focusing on the exploratory aspects surrounding services science. Acknowledging the relative recency of this area and its essential interdisciplinary setting the goal of IESS is to offer academics, researchers and practitioners of all disciplines this exploratory outlet to communicate and share their results. To achieve the best possible mix of disciplines and approaches, the call for papers is structured around general research thematic and specific tracks. General research thematic includes Service Engineering and Service Management. Specific tracks cover several domains and represent a more specialized research area.

For IESS1.2, we invite authors to submit their original research manuscript to the conference either in one of the following tracks below:

The list of Tracks is open and we invite all interested researcher by the organization of a specific track to submit a track proposition no later than 17th September 2011.

2nd ICSEM Intl Conf on Emerging Markets

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2nd International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (ICSEM) http://www.som.iitb.ac.in/ICSEM2011/ is being jointly organized by Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay (www.som.iitb.ac.in) with the Service Research and Innovation Institute (India Chapter) (www.thesrii.org) at IIT Bombay between September 29 – October 1, 2011. The objective of this conference is to provide a venue for academics, government. NGOs, and industry to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest ideas about the Services Innovations which are driving governments and industry in delivering services. This will also be an opportunity for the community to discuss and debate the state and the evolution of the Services from and to Emerging Markets. The technical program for the three-day conference will include refereed papers and case study presentations, plenary talks, panels, tutorials and Service Innovation Challenge. Submissions to all these tracks are invited.

Center for Complexity in Business CFP

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http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ccb/conference/2011/

The Center for Complexity in Business invites you to submit an abstract for consideration for the 3rd annual Complexity in Business Conference. The conference will be held in Washington DC on October 14th, 2011.

Submissions are encouraged that apply complex systems methods to any area of management science. Areas of focus include agent-based modeling, network science (social network analysis), nonlinear optimization (machine learning), spatial modeling (geographic information systems) and other techniques to analyze and solve problems that arise when large numbers of entities (consumers, employees, traders, firms, etc.) interact in ways that are too complex to be understood by more traditional management research tools. Interesting submissions could be based in practically any area of modern management, including marketing, information systems, operations and logistics, finance, and organization science. Specific topics might include:

·      Computational Consumer Behavior Modeling

·      Geography and Computational Modeling

·      Diffusion of Innovation

·      Network-based Organizational Learning

·      Advanced Data Mining and Agent-based Modeling

·      Leverage Points and Scenario Analysis

·      Understanding the Economic and Cultural Implications of Internet-enabled Social Media

 

CFP ICORES (1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems

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ICORES (1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems – http://www.icores.org/) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is set for July 27, 2011. We hope you can participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research in any of the following tracks:
– Methodologies and Technologies
– Applications

ICORES 2012 will be held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal next year, on February 4-6, 2012.
The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and technically co-sponsored by APDIO (Associacao Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional).
INSTICC is member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC).

ICORES would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of operations research. CEFZ
Since the conference focuses on real world applications, the authors should highlight the benefits of Operations Research Methodologies and Technologies for industry and services, either in general or for particular applications. Ideas on how to solve business problems, using operations research methodologies and technologies, will arise from the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, case studies, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.

The conference program features a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, including those listed below.

The proceedings of ICORES will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and Elsevier Index (EI).
All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of the best presented papers will be published in a special issue of The Open Operational Research Journal entitled OR Methodologies and Technologies in Decision Making.

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.icores.org/best_paper_awards.asp).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

Workshops, Special sessions as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

Please check further details at the ICORES conference website (http://www.icores.org).
Should you have any question please don’t hesitate contacting me.

ICORES 2012 will be held in conjunction with ICAART 2012 (http://www.icaart.org/) and ICPRAM (http://www.icpram.org/) in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. Registration to ICORES will enable free access to the ICAART and ICPRAM conferences (as a non-speaker).

Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100033
Fax: +44 203 014 8556
Email: icores.secretariat@insticc.org

IMPORTANT DATES:
Conference date: 4-6 February, 2012
Regular Paper Submission: July 27, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 14, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 27, 2011

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).

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