- From: Patrick Hung <Patrick.Hung@uoit.ca>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:33:27 -0400
- To: Patrick Hung <Patrick.Hung@uoit.ca>
*** IEEE Transactions on Services Computing *** *********** INFORMS Service Science *********** In Search of a New Alignment in Service Research An Unprecedented, Dual-Journal Call For Papers ================================================ It is high time for engineering and business scholars to join forces to advance service research. The editors of two of the top journals in the service area, one from IEEEfs services computing community and one from INFORMSf service science community, invite you to break out of your disciplinary comfort zone. Parallel special issues have been commissioned to intentionally challenge and disrupt the status quo. This dual special issue is intended to reconcile existing multi-pronged orientations and approaches to service research. Trans-disciplinary service research will leapfrog the current landscape to improve services computing formalisms while concomitantly designing and delivering the highest quality business service systems that can profitably delight customers and clients. In many areas, modern research advances have benefited from multiple perspectives. Trans-disciplinary research means reaching out to scholars from other backgrounds. It means that vocabulary, research methods and historical foundations need to be shared, taught, challenged and reconciled. Itfs going to be hard work. It will take time. But itfs what is needed. This dual-journal call-for-papers is intended to catalyze trans-disciplinary and risk-taking research, and the review policies and procedures for both special issues will be tuned to this end. What is missing has been a research agenda to reconcile business service systems and systems of systems ideals with services computingfs formal methods, standards, best practices and repeatable processes. New research is essential to address what has become an important inflection point: the business services and services computing research agendas need to be viewed from a common, global, societal lens. At stake is the continued viability of both research streams. Some science and engineering scholars view business services research as a soft discipline, but there is significant respect for formal business process and workflow methods that can deliver model-driven development. Business researchers often view the engineering and computer science perspectives as remiss in addressing the essential and dynamic elements of customer co-production, B2B contracting and pricing, but there is significant respect for services computingfs role in distributing, cost-effective scaling and personalization of computing service capability. Both areas are in transition, given the increasing value of big data methods and associated possibilities. Yes, there will be dueling methodologies, ranging from empirical to execution benchmarks to proof, and there will be dueling problems, ranging from NP-Complete to novel business strategy frameworks. Potential authors will need to leave their comfort zones behind and work together across disciplinary lines. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Big Data Analytics and Algorithms - Service-Centric Business Models - Service Modeling and Implementation - Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance Service - Value Chains, Value Co-creation, and Service Innovation - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks - Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing/Big Data - Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration - Service Security, Privacy and Trust - Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Services Engineering Practices and Case Studies - Trust and Loyalty in Service Business Models - Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Service Business Models - Case Studies in Service Business Models (e.g., healthcare, financial, aviation, etc.) - Business Process Integration, Collaboration and Management - Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture - Monitoring of Services, Process Mining, and Quality of Service - Practices in Service Science and Big Data Important Dates: Deadline for paper submission: March 1, 2015 First-round reviews (expected): May 1, 2015 Revisions due: June 15, 2015 Second-round reviews (expected): August 1, 2015 Final papers due: October 1, 2015 Expected publication: Late 2015 or early 2016 Submissions: To submit to the dual-journal special issue, authors must first select which journal to target for their manuscripts. Each journal will follow its standard review and manuscript acceptance policies. The editors reserve the right to suggest reassignment of papers from one journal to the other, with author permission. If possible, please contact the editors with questions regarding appropriateness or fit prior to submission. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. For the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), please submit your papers through the online system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsc-cs) and select SI on New Alignment in Service Research. Paper formatting guidelines are available at the journal website (http://www.computer.org/tsc). For the INFORMS Service Science, please submit your papers through the online system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/serv) and select SI on New Alignment in Service Research. Paper formatting guidelines are available at the journal website (http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/serv/submission-guidelines). Guest editors: Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Email: Michael.Goul@asu.edu Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada and National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan Email: patrick.hung@uoit.ca Paul P. Maglio, University of California, Merced, USA Email: pmaglio@ucmerced.edu Associate Editors: Wil van Der Aalst Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Steven Alter University of San Francisco School of Management 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117 Rahul C. Basole Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing and Tennenbaum Institute 85 Fifth Street N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30332 Elisa Bertino Cyber Center CERIAS and CS Department Purdue University 305 N. University Street? West Lafayette, IN 47907-2107 Mary Jo Bitner Department of Marketing W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University P.O. Box 874106? Tempe, AZ 85287-4106 M. Brian Blake Department of Computer Science University of Miami 1252 Memorial Drive, Ungar Bldg. Coral Gables, FL 33124 Athman Bouguettaya RMIT University School of Computer Science and Information Technology GPO Box 2476, Melbourne 3001 Victoria, Australia Ryan Buell Harvard Business School Technology and Operations Management Morgan Hall 429 Soldiers Field Road Boston, Massachusetts 02163 Peter Chen Software Engineering Institute 4500 Fifth Ave. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Ernesto Damiani Via Bramante 65 I-26013 Crema Universita degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Informatica - Sede di Crema Italia Mark M. Davis Management Department Bentley University 175 Forest Street Waltham, Massachusetts 02452 Andrea Delgado Universidad de la Republica Facultad de Ingenieria, Instituto de Computacion Julio Herrera y Reissig 565 11300 Montevideo, Uruguay Haluk Demirkan University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402-3100 Schahram Dustdar Distributed Systems Group Vienna University of Technology Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1 A-1040 Wien, Austria Elena Ferrari Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate Via Mazzini 5, 21100 Varese University of Insubria Varese, Italy Joao Eduardo Ferreira Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica, Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao Rua do Matao 1010, Butanta 05508-900 - Sao Paulo, SP - Brasil Hemant Jain Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 He Keqing State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering School of Computer Wuhan University Wuhan, China Furen Lin Institute of Service Science National Tsing-hua University 101, Section 2 Kuang-Fu Road Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C. Kelly Lyons Faculty of Information University of Toronto 140 St. George St. #612 Bissell Building Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3GS A. Parasuraman Department of Marketing School of Business Administration University of Miami PO Box 248147 Coral Gables, FL 33124-6554 Munindar Singh Box 8206 Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206, USA Jim Spohrer IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120 USA Christine Strauss Faculty of Business Economics and Statistics University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Eleni Stroulia Department of Computing Science 221 Athabasca Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E8, Canada Tuure Tuunanen Department of Computer Science and Information Systems PO Box 35, (Agora, Ag D514.3) FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla Finland Stephen L. Vargo Department of Marketing University of Hawaii at Manoa 2404 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 Stephen Yau School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Arizona State University PO Box 878809 Tempe, AZ 85287-8809 J. Leon Zhao Department of Information Systems City University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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