The Special Interest Group on Services (SIG SERV) will again host a pre-ICIS workshop for IS researchers interested in information systems and service science. A full workshop description as well as a pdf version of the cfp can be found here:

 

http://servicescience.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/sig-svc-2013/

 

You are invited to contribute research-in-progress (7 pages) and full research papers (14 pages) to the workshop according to the following

deadlines:

 

Key Dates for SIGSVC Workshop

 

*             Submissions due to Easy Chair before September 2nd, 2013

*             Author notification: October 15th, 2013

*             Camera ready papers due: November 15th, 2013

*             Social event / Dinner: December 14th, 2013

*             Workshop: December 15th , 2013

 

This year’s Workshop will make awards for the best workshop paper, the best reviewer, and for the best theme paper. While papers adhering to the theme are encouraged, research in other service science domains will also be considered. Potential topics areas include (but are not exclusive to):

 

*             Theories, challenges and impacts of service-orientation

*             Digital innovation in information services (data centers, e-publishing, social media)

*             Services innovation & management

*             User driven innovation in services

*             Servitizing and managing servitized IT organizations

*             Service ecosystems, service architecture, service modularity

*             Services governance and organizational transformation, measurement, and service offshoring

*             Alignment of IT services, IT organizations and business impacts and value

*             Service business models: issues of excellence and productivity

*             Commoditization of hardware, software, business processes (e.g. out-tasking, ITIL, SCORE)

*             Customer Integration in service design, delivery and operation

*             Risk management or legal aspects of services

*             Service design and engineering approaches, methods and practices

*             Service systems, components, platforms, technologies, security, and architectures

*             Service provisioning, Cloud services

*             Theories and approaches for integrating and/or sourcing services computing and automated BPM

*             Theories and approaches to services design & engineering and modeling & simulation

*             Service typologies and their implications for management, IT support and IT-based innovation

*             Pedagogy and teaching of services-related topics

*             Other services-related topics

 

Keynote Speaker

 

Prof. John Leslie King, University of Michigan

 

Submission Instructions

 

Send your paper as an attachment in AIS Sprouts-format (sprouts.aisnet.org/sprouts-style.html) to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigsvc2013  before September 2nd, 2013. We invite completed research papers which must not exceed fourteen (14) single-spaced pages. The 14 pages must include all text, figures, tables, and appendices. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page count. Research-in-progress papers must not exceed 7 single-spaced pages and must include all text, figures, tables, and appendices. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page count. Both should include an abstract of up to 250 words. For panel proposals, please send in a one page proposal with at least 5 persons from different institutions stating the objective, importance, expected outcomes, key statements (per participant), and proposed way of getting the workshop participants involved.

 

Proceedings & Journal Fast-Tracking

 

The accepted papers will be published in the AIS Sprouts working paper series after the workshop. Selected full research papers will also be invited for submission to JITTA: Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (www.jitta.org) as full research papers.

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Roman Beck | Stiftungsjuniorprofessur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. E-Finance & Services Science

Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | Abteilung Wirtschaftsinformatik
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