SoCPaR 2009
December 4-7, 2009, Malacca, Malaysia

Call for Papers

Special Session on Service Engineering and Soft Computing

Co-Chaired by Hideyasu Sasaki & Takeshi Takenaka

The mission of the Special Session:

Soft computing demands interdisciplinary research in the innovative field of service engineering.

“Soft computing” has been exploring realistic solutions in complex and uncertain environments
by using computational techniques. “Service Engineering” is a new research field to support
actual services by integrating academic disciplines such as engineering, computer sciences,
human sciences, and social sciences, etc. These two research fields have close ties together.

This special session makes an intelligent bridge between service engineering and soft computing
from a variety of focal points.

The objective of the Special Session:

The objective of this special session is to share some research examples and to discuss
desirable research methodologies for services. We are looking forward to having broad,
interdisciplinary discussions in service engineering and soft computing.

The improvement of service productivity needs thorough cross-disciplinary methodology in
streamlining of service processes and enhancement of service values. The recent necessity
of nation wealth creation activates environment-surrounding service businesses, which are
getting more complex with the rapid growth of available information in the networked society.
The values of services for people must be understood from various viewpoints: psychological
and technological, economical and social.

We invite various theoretic and practical researches on those interdisciplinary approaches
which are purported to study service engineering and soft computing.

Specific topics of interest:
We invite not previously published original papers of substantial quality discussing the
following but not limited topics:
* Adaptive Architecture
* Artificial Immune Systems
* Ambient Intelligence
* Autonomic Architecture
* Cloud Computing
* Collective Intelligence
* Computational Intelligence
* Data Mining of Actual Services
* Decision Science
* Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
* Economic Clusters
* Economics and Economic Experiments
* Emergent Intelligence
* Game Theory
* Human Modeling in Services
* Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
* Knowledge Discovery
* Nature Inspired Computing Techniques
* Optimization of Service Processes
* Psychological Approaches to Services
* Self Organizing Infrastructure
* Sensing of Human Behaviors
* Service Engineering
* Service Marketing
* Service-Oriented Architecture
* Service Oriented computing
* Soft Computing
* Sustainable Frameworks
* Swarm Intelligence
* Value Creation in Services

Submission:
Please refer to the author templates given below:
http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar/papersubmissions.html

Please submit your manuscripts in the below submission site by June 26, 2009:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2009


Special Issue:
A certain number of extended versions of selected papers should be included into
a special issue of the International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence
(IJOCI), Vol. 2 No. 2.

You may refer on that at the below site:
http://sites.google.com/site/hsasakilab/Home/ijoci

Special Session Program Committee:

Co-Chairs:
* Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan / Editor-in-Chief, IJOCI
* Takeshi Takenaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Japan / Guest Editor of Special Issue, IJOCI Vol. 2. No. 2.

PC Members:
* Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong, PR China
* Nobutada Fujii, Kobe University, Japan
* Ivan Jordanov, University of Portsmouth, U.K.
* Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, U.K.
* Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, PR China
* Yoichi Motomura, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
* Nariaki Nishino, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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