2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008), Yilan, Taiwan, December 9-12, 2008
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January
HICSS 41 HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
Sponsored by the Shidler College of Business University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Jan 7 - 10, 2008, hicss.hawaii.edu

April
2008 International Conference on Service Science (ICSS 2008) April 17-18, 2008, Beijing, China;
Sponsored by IBM and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) icss2008.org

May
2008 POM - La Jolla - 19th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society
Hyatt Regency La Jolla, California, May 9 - May 12, 2008
poms.org/

June
2008 ISPIM Conference - Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration - will be held in Tours (Loire Valley), France on 15-18 June 2008. Organised by ISPIM and supported by ESCEM School of Business and Management, this conference will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation management. The conference format includes plenary and parallel sessions with both academic and practitioner presentations and workshops. Additionally, the conference will provide excellent networking opportunities together with a taste of local culture. To view the call for papers, please visit www.ispim.org/conference/CFP.html

SERVSIG International Research Conference 2008; Hosted by: University of Liverpool Management School, UK
5th-7th June 2008 servsig/

July
2008 5th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM 2008);
30 Jun - 02 Jul 2008; Hotel Conference Facility / Convention Centre at the Central Melbourne, Australia
ICSSSM

2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008)
July 8-11, 2008, Hawaii, USA; Services: Business, Technology, and Application;
See CFP below; SCC 2008

PICMET Technology Management for a Sustainable Economy"; July 27 - 31, 2008;
Westin Grand Hotel; Cape Town, South Africa PICMET

August
Working Conference on IT and Change in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century;
10-13 August 2008; Toronto, Ontario Canada ryerson

September
Cross Section on Service Science within the WCC08 of IFIP to be held in Milan on September 8th, 2008: see unipv and see the main WCC08 site wcc2008

October
Frontiers in Service 2008, October 2 -5 in Washington, DC rhsmith

2008 IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics;
October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China; ezconf

Recent presentation on SSME, 1680KB

Overview of SSME pubished in POMS, 115KB

July issue of Communications of the ACM contains a special section on "Service Science" edited by Jim Spohrer and Doug Riecken:

August IEEE Computer on "Services Science: A New Field for Today’s Economy"

Kazuyoshi Hidaka's (IBM TRL) article on SSME in "Science and Technology Trends - Quarterly Review," April 2006

Brenda Dietrich (IBM Watson) and Terry Harrison's (Penn State) article in ORMS Today, June 2006

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