ServiceWave 2010 Call for Workshops

Posted by on

ServiceWave 2010  Call for Scientific Workshops

ServiceWave 2010 solicits submissions for workshop proposals. The workshops will be held within the conference, December 13‐15 2010 at Ghent, Belgium.

The main goal of the ServiceWave 2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange and interaction related to any of the conference topics, which include, but are not limited to, the following: Service Engineering, Service Assemblies, Service Management, Service Oriented Architecture Runtime, Quality of Service, and Cloud Services, and Services in the Future Internet

We particularly encourage workshops on key research challenges that are:

Multidisciplinary: involve synergy between different scientific communities and research disciplines, with a special focus on requirements of the Future Internet,

Domain specific: focus on complete service oriented solutions for specific application domains, e.g. healthcare, telecommunications, government and public sector, military, etc.,

Operationally extreme: focus on solutions intended/designed for specific operational environments/requirements, e.g., providing 24×7 services, supporting communities of mobile/partially connected services, etc.,

Collaborative: promote collaboration between academic institutions, industry, and communities of users,

Reporting real‐world experience: focus on experience with service‐oriented architectures deployed in production settings.

Workshop Co‐Chairs

Michel Cezon, INRIA, Grenoble, France

Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

www.servicewave.eu

Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop proposals should not exceed three pages, and should include the following elements:

-a description of the workshop topic and the issues on which the workshop will focus,

-the motivation of why the workshop is of interest at this time,

-a description of the workshop format (including the number of anticipated accepted papers), the workshop duration,

-brief bios of the organizers.

Workshop proposals should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sw20100

Submission guidelines and format information are available on the conference website.

Important dates

Workshop proposal submission: July 23, 2010 11:59pm, GMT

Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2010 11:59pm, GMT

Publication of CFP’s of accepted Workshops: no later than August 27, 2010

Proceedings

Workshop Post‐Proceedings are expected be published by Springer‐Verlag Services Science series.

More information?  For additional information, consult with Workshop Chairs (workshop2010@servicewave.eu)  www.servicewave.eu

Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals):

Posted by on

Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals): The IBM Portugal Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Enterprise Engineering and Management (EEM) aims at being a preeminent applied research center of excellence in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), dedicated to foster collaboration among academia, industry, government, and IBM Research Laboratories, transfer scientific breakthroughs and innovations into IBM research… http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas/ Currently, they have a Call for Proposal for Individual Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Grants http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas/announcements.html

Service systems – special districts

Posted by on

Governance Within The Lines: How many different types of service system entities exist in the world.   From a service science perspective, it is important to know about the many, many different types of service system entities, because they can own property and take legal actions in the world in many different ways.  From a governance perspective, we have heard of towns, cities, counties, states, and nations…. but what about special districts?  http://www.csda.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=41 Counties provide many types of service to citizens, and special districts do as well – how are they similar and how are they different — who has made the best study of the different types of service system entities in the world and their rights?   http://www.csac.counties.org/images/users/1/Services%20Provided%20to%20All%20County%20Residents.pdf

Short takes 7/19

Posted by on

Disruptive Service Innovation Survey (UK) http://mbs.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_6l1po7WlWGdNFti

Grand Challenge Summit (UK)  Week of Sept 22 University of Cambridge http://tinyurl.com/26jzzu5

Annotated Service Science On-Line Bibliography (WW) http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/ssme/refmenu.asp

Innovation in Large Service Systems (WW) http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ilss/

Hospitality 2.0 (WW) Service Design http://auroralahti.blogspot.com/2010/07/hospitality-20-intro-and-community.html

Trillion Dollar Transportation Challenge (US) Churchill Club talk http://tinyurl.com/2cgv38q

2010 State of the Future (WW) http://millennium-project.org/millennium/SOF2010-English.pdf

Reframers Unleash Innovation (WW) http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/how_reframers_are_unleashing_a.html

Book:  Normann, Richard  (2001)  Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape. Wiley, Chichester, New Sussex

Agents at Your Service (MIT Press) http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/PBE/Your-Wish/

Systems Community of Inquiry (WW) http://syscoi.com/commons/

New Science Education Framework (US) http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html

Community of Academic Technology Staff (US) http://cats.cdl.edu/

CA State Employee Pay (US) http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/

Management Science for the Knowledge Economy (US) http://www.basex.com

IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/

Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World  http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php

Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China

Posted by on

Tianjin Eco-city: Gloria Ng, who leads Service Innovation Practice, at the Institute for Systems Science at NUS Singapore told me about the Tianjin Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China:  “We aim to build an economically thriving, environmentally friendly, socially harmonious and resource-efficient city. The key concept underpinning the planning and development of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is the “three harmonies” – man living in harmony with man, now and for future generations; man living in harmony with economic activities; and man living in harmony with the environment.” http://www.tianjinecocity.gov.sg/    She also mentioned that Singapore recently hosted the World Cities Summit:   http://www.worldcities.com.sg/

Karlsruhe Service Research Institute

Posted by on

KSRI Mission: Rudi Studer (KIT, Germany)  wrote about KSRI. The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) develops concepts, methods and technologies for innovators and decision makers, to generate and utilize economic value in a more and more “services-led economy”. We are employing a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to solve business relevant problems along the dimensions “people”, “organization”, “information” and “technology”.   See http://www.ksri.kit.edu

Short takes week of July 16

Posted by on

Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (Germany) AIFB http://www.aifb.kit.edu

FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) Karlsruhe http://www.fzi.de

Jobs Policy Debate (US) Andy Grove article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html

Jobs and skills (US)  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufacturing.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (India) IIT Bombay http://www.sineiitb.org/

Association of Cost Engineers (UK) Rajkumar Roy, Professor of Competitive Design, Cranfield University http://www.acoste.org.uk

American Education Research Association (US) ISSS Roundtable may be forming contact Sue Gabriele https://www.aera.net/
Gabriele Educational Materials and Systems (US) http://www.gemslearning.com

International Society for Systems Sciences (US) http://isss.org/world/index.php

Intense Video promoting Non-Fiction Book (US) Social Media Finding from Jean Paul Jacob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-i0faBPkY

Ocean Resources Sustainability (EU) Video Competition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTT9-xuWoMo

World Science and Engineering Academy and Society (WW) http://www.wseas.org

Student Engineering Exhibition (Pakistan) http://www.see2010.net/about_kiet.html

Qingdao Desalination Conference (China) http://www.desalination.biz/whatson/view_event.asp?id=124

Coro (US) Training civic leaders http://www.coro.org

Project Management (US) http://ilign.com/

International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (India) http://www.isb.edu/ICSEM2010/

International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (Italy) ICAART 2011  http://www.icaart.org/

International Conference on Emerging Economies (India) http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/smfconf/

LinkedIn Group Service Science (WW)  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=149276

Silicon Valley e-Learning Foundation (US) http://www.svefoundation.org/

Masters of IT in Business for Service Sector (Singapore) http://www.sjs.smu.edu.sg

Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (US) U Chicago, Booth School of Management http://www.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship

Global Knowledge Initiative (WW) http://globalknowledgeinitiative.org
Technology, Investment, and Policy (US) University of Minnesota  http://www.technoscan.com/

University of Pretoria Webcampus Blog for Students (South Africa) http://blogs.up.ac.za/esmwebcampus.php

Build Your Business (WW) http://www.smetoolkit.org

Governors Education Summits (US) http://www.achieve.org/Summits (as in http://www.corestandards.org/)

Irving’s Blog (US)  http://blog.irvingwb.com/

Future of Higher Education (Australia) Ross Dawson https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/griffith.edu.au.3684852440

Perspective Balancer (US) http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/06/why-i-returned-my-ipad.html

SRII Global Conference (US San Jose) March 30 – April 2, 2011 http://www.thesrii.org/index.php/global-conference

SRII Global Conference Call for Paper http://www.thesrii.org/index.php/global-conference/2011-confernce-papers

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php

Amazon and IBM are ‘cloud champions,’ report says

Posted by on

By Jon Brodkin  — July 15, 2010 03:47 PM ET
Network World – Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.

Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to ship data
All tech vendors are embracing the cloud. Even those that don’t provide public cloud services are fighting to become the top builders of infrastructures to support emerging cloud networks.

A new quarterly report from BTC Logic, an IT consulting firm, attempts to rank the top cloud players, and puts them into seven broad categories: cloud foundations, infrastructure, network services, platforms, applications, security and management.

BTC Logic claims Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” because they rank in the top five in four of the seven categories. The companies Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, Salesforce, Symantec, VMware, Citrix, EMC, Oracle, Level 3 and Cisco are deemed “cloud heavyweights,” one level below Amazon and IBM, because they rank highly in fewer categories.A third group of companies is listed merely as “cloud contenders,” and this group includes AT&T, Aylus Networks, Rackspace and SAP’s Business Objects division.
Neither Microsoft nor Google rank first in any of the seven cloud categories, but Google is second behind Salesforce.com in cloud applications and Microsoft is second behind VMware in cloud foundations. Cloud foundations refer to tools and software that make it possible to build cloud infrastructure.
BTC Logic says it is trying to help customers sort out the confusing mass of cloud vendors.
“The Cloud Computing marketplace still has a confusing array of vendors each promoting its own solution, and a steady increase in the number of new Cloud product and services,” the firm says. BTC Logic says its research shows that “enterprises will not significantly move applications and data into the Cloud until issues related to security, privacy, and data location (trust services) are fully resolved … [and] that enterprises want to retain more control over governance and have the ability to oversee applications and data running in a broad hybrid Cloud.”

IBM joined Amazon as a “cloud champion” by placing first in management with the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, third in security (behind EMC/RSA and Symantec), second in platforms, and second in infrastructure.

Engineering Graduates Still See Highest Salary Offers.

Posted by on

The Sacramento Business Journal (7/16, Johnson) reports, “Local engineering students should feel hopeful from a national finding released Thursday that recent engineering graduates are earning the top pay among the college class of 2010.” The summer 2010 salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that “engineering degrees account for four of the five most highly paid majors among the college class of 2010,” with “petroleum engineers receiving the highest starting salary offer – $74,799. Chemical engineers were next at $65,628,” followed by computer science students, computer engineers, and electrical/electronics engineers. “While the salaries are high among the class of 2010, the average salaries actually lost ground for all but chemical engineering graduates, the association said.” A NACE official said, “Those high starting salary offers reflect the uneven supply and demand that exists for these graduates, even in the current economy.”

Where We are Losing: The 2010 State of the Future report

Posted by on

Where We are Losing:   The 2010 State of the Future report has just been released by the Millennium Project (http://www.millennium-project.org).   I urge you all to read it soon.

I especially think the service science community needs to engage in understanding where we (as an instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent planetary community) are losing: fewer people voting, more corruption, more green-house-gases, more homicides, higher temperature, more unemployment, and more terrorism.   Both the carrying capacity of the planet and quality of life will be determined by the service systems we evolve and design as well as interconnect and don’t interconnect over the next century.   A good summary of the report is the following interview at the Kurzweil website:   http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-state-of-the-future