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Textbook New Edition: Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice
“In this classic book, Professor Victor Fuchs draws on his deep understanding of the strengths and limitations of economics and his intimate knowledge of health care institutions to help readers understand the problems every nation faces in trying to allocate health resources efficiently and equitably. In a new Introduction to the second expanded edition, Professor Fuchs examines the major changes in health, medical care, and U.S. health policy of the past four decades. Nine of his more recent papers dealing with poverty and health, aging, the socio-economic correlates of health, the future of health economics, and his recommendations for health care reform accompany the original 1974 text. ” Continue reading ‘Textbook New Edition: Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice’ »
Webinar: April 27 on Future Work Skills
April 27th CHE Future Skills Webinar.
http://chronicle.com/webinars/universityofphoenix4
Jim Spohrer will be speaking!
REGISTRATION OPEN – LOOK!!
Registration is Open!
4rdAnnual Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education and Faculty Institute
June 3-4th, 2011
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Please join us for an exciting fourth annual symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education. The program includes a keynote talk by Dr. David Ferrucci, Semantic Analysis and Integration Department, IBM Watson Research Center. Dr. Ferrucci is perhaps best known for heading the team of researchers that developed “Watson,” the natural language processor recently featured on the quiz show “Jeopardy,” where it claimed victory over its human competitors.
Other highlights include an industry panel session, panel and discussion sessions on various aspects of integrating engineering and the liberal arts, a poster session, and on Saturday afternoon, a faculty development workshop.
The full program is available here: http://www.union.edu/integration/2011_schedule/
Register here: http://www.union.edu/integration/2011_registration/
There is no registration fee for the symposium. With generous support from our sponsors (IBM and Union College), we will be able to provide a limited number of complementary hotel rooms for symposium attendees. Hotel information is available on the symposium web site – please make reservations as early as possible
Hotel reservation deadline: April 29th
Registration deadline: May 23rd
Integrate to Innovate Faculty Institute
A set of four workshops will be held on Saturday afternoon, June 4, for faculty to learn more about enhancing their courses and curricula by integrating engineering and the liberal arts. See the symposium program page for descriptions of the workshops.
Symposium Co-chairs:
Cherrice A. Traver, Union College
J. Douglass Klein, Union College
Program Committee:
Ari Epstein, MIT
Atsushi Akera, RPI
Borjana Mikic, Smith College
Cliff Brown, Union College
David Gillette, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Diane Michelfelder, Macalester College
George Catalano, Binghamton University
John Krupczak, Hope College
Linda Head, Rowan College
Mark Somerville, Olin College
Mark Walker, Union College
Mike Toole, Bucknell University
Peter Robbie, Dartmouth College
Sharon Jones, Lafayette College
Stacie Raucci, Union College
Wendy Murphy, IBM
Call for papers – Servicewave 2011
Poznan, Poland, 26th – 28th October 2011
Submission Deadline: May 16th 2011
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CONFERENCE GOAL
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The ServiceWave conference series aims to establish the premier
European forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to
discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns
and to set the agenda for research on the Future Converged Internet of
Content (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT) and related underlying
network technologies. ServiceWave fosters cross-community excellence
by bringing together industrial and academic experts from various
disciplines.
SCIENTIFIC TRACKS
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ServiceWave 2011 will feature four scientific sub-tracks bringing
together different communities contributing to at least one central
aspect of the Future Converged Internet. For each of the four themes
ServiceWave 2011 seeks submissions about novel ideas, original
research contributions as well as original reports on the state of
practice and real-world experience. More precisely, the focus of the
four scientific sub-tracks will be:
Business Services:
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This track will deal with ideas and techniques that allow expressing,
understanding, representing, and managing business processes in a
service-oriented manner. The topics of interest encompass but are not
limited to:
* Economics of business services provided following the software as a
service (SaaS) model
* Markets and marketplaces for business services
* Business service identification, modeling, & granularity
* Business service pricing and revenue models
* Quality of business services
Cloud Computing
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This track will discuss the potential of emerging techniques and
technologies to contribute to a European Cloud Computing Strategy.
Concrete topics comprise but are not limited to:
* Cloud management and enablement technologies
* Interoperability and portability
* Federation and aggregation of clouds
* Security for clouds
* Efficient energy usage of resources
Security, Privacy and Trust
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This track seeks contributions taking us from a fragile current
internet to a trustworthy Future Internet bridging the virtual and
physical worlds. Concrete topics comprise:
* Identity, privacy and the Internet of Things
* Trust and privacy in cloud/online services
* Content security challenges and solutions
* Digital forensics and the Future Internet
* Dynamic, federated trust and security
* Security assurance of dynamic/open systems
* Security, privacy and trust metrics
Service Engineering Fundamentals
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This track will deal with topics around fundamental engineering
techniques that allow us to move towards a Future Internet Service
Infrastructure. The topics of interest encompass but are not limited
to:
* Requirements, design and architecture for service-oriented systems
* Verification, validation, and testing of services and
service-oriented systems
* Adaptation, evolution and maintenance of service-oriented systems
* Service description, discovery, and composition
* Service deployment, binding, and monitoring
* Quality of service (QoS) in service-oriented systems
OTHER EVENTS
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ServiceWave 2011 will also feature the following events:
** Industry Track: Invited industrial talks will provide insight into
best practices, innovations and ideas of key industrial players.
Industrial panels will discuss hot cross-disciplinary topics from
different angles.
** Demonstration Evening: The demonstration evening will provide an
interactive forum to present and discuss about demonstrators, tools
and automation of specific aspects of hot topics of the Future
Converged Internet and its application domains.
** Workshops and Trainings: The Workshops & Training day will
stimulate and facilitate the active exchange and interaction between
practitioners and researchers around cross-communities topics.
** NESSI Sessions: Dedicated sessions will focus on ongoing
initiatives and results of NESSI, the European Technology Platform
dedicated to Software and Services.
SUBMISSIONS
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We invite high quality submissions of research papers describing
original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual
and experimental research related to one (or more) topics of the
ServiceWave scientific tracks. We especially are interested in
submissions describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems
and submissions addressing cross-communities issues.
In addition, ServiceWave explicitly solicit submissions from the
industrial community covering the state of practice and real-world
experience in service engineering. Industry papers should describe
innovative service-based implementations, novel applications of
service-oriented technology as well as insights and improvements to
the state-of-practice. Papers should provide sufficient details on the
application domain, the service-oriented techniques used, the issues
surrounding actual implementations and applications, and the lessons
learned in the field.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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We invite authors to submit full papers (up to 12 pages) describing
original contributions related to ServiceWave 2011 which have not have
been published elsewhere, or are not under review or submitted for
review elsewhere. Submissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size and
formatted in LNCS style (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details).
Papers should be submitted using Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sw2011
PUBLICATION
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The ServiceWave 2011 proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS
Service Science series.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline May 16th, 2011
Workshop Proposal Submission May 30th, 2011
Acceptance notification July 1st, 2011
Camera ready copy August 1st, 2011
Demonstration Submission June 3rd, 2011
ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CHAIR
Klaus Pohl, Paluno, Germany
SCIENTIFIC TRACK CHAIRS
* Business Services: Witold Abramowicz, Poznan Univ. of Economics,
Poland
* Cloud Computing: Ignacio M. Llorente, Complutense Univ. of Madrid,
Spain
* Security, Privacy, Trust: Mike Surridge, Univ. of Southampton IT
Innovation Centre, UK
* Service Engineering Fundamentals: Andrea Zisman, City Univ. London,
UK
WOKRSHOP CHAIRS
Andreas Metzger, Paluno, Germany
Michel Cezon, INRIA, France
DEMONSTRATION CHAIR
Julien Vayssičre, Smart Services CRC, Australia
Service Science INFORMS sponsorship – contribute scholarly articles
The <<Service Science: http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/>> team is working extremely hard in pursuit of receiving its full INFORMS sponsorship. If done successfully, all papers (including previously published papers) will be archived as INFORMS publications.
I understand that we all are passionate about the fast development of Service Science. To ensure that we have good quality papers published in our next couple of issues, I sincerely invite you to contribute your scholarly research work to Service Science.
Please help invite your colleagues, friends, students, and others, who are interested in the service science research, development, practice, and education, to contribute their scholarly research work to Service Science..
Sincerely,
Robin Qiu
Cambridge Service Alliance
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a unique global alliance between leading businesses and universities. Founded by Cambridge University, in alliance with BAE Systems and IBM, the Alliance was formed in 2010 and is designed to bring together some of the world’s best firms and researchers devoted to delivering today the insights, education and approaches needed for the Complex Service Solutions of tomorrow.
10th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education
October 24-27, 2011
Shanghai, China Shanghai International Conference Center
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) invites you to the annual Global Colloquium, which brings together the world’s leaders in engineering education. This year’s Colloquium will take place in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai International Conference Center. This year, ASEE is partnering with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working under the theme of The Future of Engineering Education in the Age of Globalization.
The colloquium, held previously in Beijing, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Cape Town, Budapest and Singapore, with the assistance of engineering education organizations from the host country, links engineering educators across international borders and brings together teachers, researchers and corporate colleagues who would otherwise never have an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and perspectives.
Education in the Age of Smart Machines
Education is arguably society’s most important type of service. Education is also slow to change in many ways. However, that was before the age of smart machines. To find out why and how things are about to change, be sure to be on hand, when on June 3 at Union College in Schenectady, New York, David Ferruci, the IBM Researcher who led the creation of the Watson/Jeopardy supercomputer, will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education. At this annual symposium, researchers and educators from Union College and a network of universities including MIT, ASU, and over a dozen others, have been working for several years on innovative curriculum reform that breaks free of the zero-sum, knowledge-silo thinking that has hampered real progress in education. Find out more and register today (http://www.union.edu/integration/).