Copyright 2007 INFORMS Section on Service Science

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Conference Information

  • New! INFORMS Annual Meeting (Washington D.C.) Oct. 12-15, 2008. On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the INFORMS-2008 Service Science Cluster, Dr. Ruoyi Zhou would like to invite you to organize sessions and/or submit presentations. If you are interested in organizing a session or presenting a paper, please contact the Cluster Chair Dr. Ruoyi Zhou at <ruoyi@us.ibm.com> directly. Please share this information with your colleagues, friends, and students.

    Look forward to meeting you in Washington D.C., USA.

  • The 2008 Logic and Science of Service, Hawaii, June 19-21, 2008
    Co-Sponsored by: INFORMS (Service Science) (CFP in general)

    Call for participants and registration information New!

    The 2008 conference expands the discussion of service science by emphasizing changes in the global economy such as globalization, competing through knowledge and service, the pervasive growth of outsourcing, and the increasing interdependence among organizations and individuals. 

    Service Science Section is soliciting 5-6 speakers to attend this conference. We are especially interested in abstracts that focuses on “Competition and Competence Issues in Globalized Services” or related subjects. Academics and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts of not more than one page (single-spaced, 12-point type).

    Submission Deadline: Feb. 17, 2008.  Dr. Robin Qiu (robinqiu@psu.edu)

  • New! 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI2008) Oct. 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China
    Sponsored by: IEEE and INFORMS Service Science

  • New! 2008 Frontiers in Service Conference
    Co-Sponsored by: INFORMS (Service Science)

  • The Service Science Section is organizing its first cluster of sessions during the 2007 INFORMS Annual Conference in Seattle, WA. On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the INFORMS-2007 Service Science Cluster, we would like to invite you to organize sessions and/or submit presentations. So far we have eight invited sessions from IBM, GM, Google, etc, and four jointly sponsored sessions with Healthcare and Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR). The submission deadline is May 15 2007. If you are interested in organizing a session or presenting a paper, please contact the Cluster Chair Prof. Fugee Tsung at < season@ust.hk> directly. Please share this information with your colleagues, friends, and students, and thank you again for your support and participation in the Services Science Cluster.
  • 2007 IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI2007) Aug. 27-29, 2007, Philadelphia, USA (http://www.ieeesoli.org)
    Sponsored by: IEEE and INFORMS (Service Science and AI)

    If you are interested in abstract submission and would like to present your work at the conference, you do have an opportunity NOW. We just opened new special abstract tracks. Please submit your abstract to Dr. Robin Qiu (robinqiu@psu.edu) directly. The submission deadline is July 15 2007.

INFORMS Conferences

Each year, the Service Science Section sponsors a cluster at the INFORMS Annual Conference. Please see the INFORMS Conference Calendar for updated information on the next Annual Conference, as well as other conferences sponsored by INFORMS and its subdivisions.