CFP SERVICE COMPUTATION 2011: The Third International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing September 25-30, 2011 – Rome, Italy

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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SERVICE COMPUTATION 2011: The Third International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing

September 25-30, 2011 – Rome, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SERVICECOMPUTATION11.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPSERVICECOMPUTATION11.html

Submission deadline: April 20, 2011

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

SERVICE COMPUTATION 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Service innovation, evaluation and delivery

Service requirement validation; Service design; Service deployment; Service delivery; Service lifecycle; Service knowledge and service innovation; Model-driven service engineering; Knowledge-intensive services; Risk management in services management; Service testing and validation; Service consumption and delivery outcome; Quality of service; Quality of experience; Quality of service impact; Service audit metrics; Service innovation; Service bundling; Service research; Service composition; Collaborative services; Service business models; Service personalization; Security and trust in services

Ubiquitous and pervasive services

Foundations of ubiquitous and pervasive services, networks and applications; Specification, discovery, and matching of ubiquitous and pervasive services; Computing, orchestration and harmonization of ubiquitous and pervasive services; Technologies for modeling, designing, and testing ubiquitous and pervasive services; Service-oriented agent-based architectures, protocols and deployment environments; Integration and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive services; Ubiquitous and pervasive services in peer-to-peer and overlay networks; Ubiquitous and pervasive services in mobile networks and sensor networks; Ubiquitous and pervasive services in unmanned air, underwater, and ground vehicle networks; Adaptive and self-adaptive ubiquitous and pervasive services; Context awareness, adaptation and management of ubiquitous and pervasive services; Security, trust and privacy management in ubiquitous and pervasive services; Semantics and ontology for ubiquitous and pervasive services; Web services and middleware support for ubiquitous and pervasive services; Energy management and harvesting for network with ubiquitous and pervasive systems; Case studies, lessons learned, experiments, simulations and trials for ubiquitous and pervasive services

WEB Services

Basics and formalisms on Web services; Web x.0 concepts in Web services evolution in this framework; Methodologies for specification, deployment and enhancements of Web services; Modeling and composition of Web services; Discovery, matching, and integration of Web services; SLA/QoS/QoE in Web services (privacy, security, performance, reliability, fault tolerance); Testing and validating Web services; Publishing, discovery, tracking, and selection of Web services; Web services lifecycle management; Semantics and Ontology in Web services; Cloud computing, service-as-a-software and on-demand Web services; Mobile and intermittent Web services; Web services-based services, applications and solutions; Web services standards and formalizations; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure and middleware

Society and business services

Public (mail, schools, banking, financial, personal, real estate, health, government, insurance, hospitals, transportation, library); Utility (broadcasting & cable TV, printing & publishing, energy, Internet, hotels, retail, waste management, security, rental); Entertainment (advertising, casinos & gaming, recreational, restaurant, travel); Business (communications, specialty, technology, planning, supply chain management, marketing, design, wholesale distribution); Business process management (business knowledge, business protocols, service level agreements, business licensing models, business financial models, and business advertizing models

Art & Science of Service deadline extended

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The submission deadline for refereed research papers have been extended to February 28, 2011. The submission deadline for non-refereed research abstracts and proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, and symposia have been extended to March 30, 2011.

The 2011 Annual Meeting
of the
Art & Science of Service

June 8-10, 2011
IBM Research – Almaden
San Jose, California

Service Science in Developing Countries

CFP Service Science Track of the Annual INFORMS Meeting in Charlotte, NC

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The construction of the Service Science Track of the Annual INFORMS Meeting in Charlotte, NC is underway.  We need session chairs and papers.  Please consider participating in one of these capacities.
—
Ralph D. Badinelli, Professor, Virginia Tech; Secretary, SRII
Past Chair, INFORMS Service Science Section; ralphb@vt.edu
(540) 231-7688
Department of Business Information Technology
Pamplin College of Business 0235; Virginia Tech; Blacksburg, VA 24061

SERVICE SCIENCE Cluster
Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 16, 2011
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract or serve as a Session Chair for the Service Science Cluster at the INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting.
The theme for the INFORMS Annual Meeting is TransfORmation – “a thorough or dramatic change.” Across the globe, industries are transfORming to create sustainable and innovative approaches to meet the fast-growing needs for natural resources, products and services. Our community is at the heart of this transfORmation, generating new ideas and technologies to enable this change.
In the last 100 years, the importance of service in all facets of the economy has dramatically increased, leading to the current industry-led imperative on service science. Service science is an emerging field that requires an interdisciplinary approach to the study of service. It may integrate domain knowledge and methodologies from disciplines such as operations management, marketing, service research, information systems and computing, economics, and organization. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 The concepts, principles, paradigms, and theories of service science
 Methodologies, modeling, techniques, and tools for service science
 Service innovations and business transformation
 Service management and marketing
 Service operations and productivity
 Service value networks
 IT service, customer service, and service satisfaction
 Service economics and pricing
 Service engineering, systems, and computing
 The dynamics of service-oriented system
Email your first and last name, email address, and the title or preliminary title of your abstract or session to the Cluster Chair (huangmh@ntu.edu.tw) before April 16 if possible. You will receive a confirmation for you to submit the abstract or fill in the session information online. As a Session Chair, you will need to invite 3 to 4 abstract submissions. As an author, you will need to submit a short abstract (50 words) to the conference website by May 16. More information regarding the meeting and submission guidelines are available on http://meetings.informs.org/charlotte2011.
Roland T. Rust
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
Vice President and President-Elect INFORMS Service Science
rrust@rhsmith.umd.edu
Ming-Hui Huang
Professor, National Taiwan University
Cluster Chair INFORMS Service Science
huangmh@ntu.edu.tw

Article: Growing Imperative for Innovation Scientists and Engineers

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Go here to read the article. at “Blogging Innovation”

Paul HobcraftPaul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to organizations core capabilities.

Quote:

“What are the disciplines required to be mastered?

There is a real need to blend the exciting areas emerging from social sciences, drawing from the many disciplines of engineering schools and schools of science (operations, computer sciences, industrial design & system engineering) and finally the school of management (marketing, accounting, management of technology, operations and customers found from MBA programs) and a fair level of working experience and exposure across organizational problems and present disciplines.”

KIT / KSRI Rotating Guest Professorships in Service Research

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Look here:  http://www.ksri.kit.edu/Upload/Users/jobs/2010-12-16-ksri-job-guest-proferssorship.pdf

The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) is an interdisciplinary research institute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the area of Service Research.

From different perspectives, we investigate complex service systems where economic value is created jointly by multiple independent parties which act together efficiently through the systematic use of ICT.
In this context, KSRI continuously seeks to fill rotating positions for 3-6 month’s guest professorships in dedicated subfields of Service Research

NEW Japan’s S3FIRE (Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated REsearch) Program

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Japan’s S3FIRE (Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated REsearch) Program
http://www.ristex.jp/servicescience/EN/index.html

In fiscal 2010, Japan’s Science & Technology Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (JST RISTEX) organization established the Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated REsearch Program.  The aim of the Program is to identify the specific or latent needs of society and use actual data and case studies to develop technologies and methodologies for solving problems based on a multidisciplinary approach, as well as pursue research designed to establish a “Service Science” research infrastructure.

Call for Papers for special issue in computers in industry

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“Product‐Service System Engineering: From Theory to Industrial Applications”

http://www.elsevierscitech.com/dronsite/COMIND-CfP-SergioCavalieri-Jan2011.pdf
Goal of the issue is to provide strategic frameworks conceptual and analytical models, and case studies that focus on the systematic development, design and implementation of Product-Service Systems.
Submissions to this Special section must represent original material that have been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstract (2 pages): March 15th 2011
Submission of full paper: June 30th 2011
Camera‐ready version: February 15th 2012
Publication of the Special Issue: Early Summer 2012
Guest Editors: Sergio Cavalieri, Giuditta Pezzotta, Yoshiki Shimomura

ITSqc at the IAOP Outsourcing World Summit

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ITSqc directors, Bill Hefley and Jeff Perdue, will be presenting an overview of the eSourcing Capability Models and their use in Organizational Certification at the IAOP Outsourcing World Summit.

This tutorial for executives and senior sourcing professionals, will be held on Sunday afternoon, February 20, 2011.  The Summit this year is being held at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, Indian Wells, CA.  See this URL for more information:IAOP Outsourcing World Summit

The IAOP Outsourcing World Summit offers a great opportunity to learn about the latest in sourcing best practices and developments in global sourcing.  ITSqc will be actively participating in this year’s Summit.

If you haven’t already registered for the Summit and this highly valuable tutorial, you can do so by clicking on “Workshops” where you will see the details and the link to register for this event.