IFIP Working Group 7.6 Workshop on

Modeling and Decision Support in Service and Knowledge Management

7th—8th March 2011, JAIST, Japan

Jointly with

International School on Mathematical Decision Analysis

7th—11th March 2011, JAIST, Japan

Objective and Topics

 The main objective of the Workshop is to provide a forum for exchanges of research results, ideas for and experience of application among researchers and practitioners involved with Working Group 7.6 :

The topics of the workshop include the following

 Modeling of services — optimization and analysis, agent-based modeling and game theory, operations research modeling such as optimization, multi-criteria decision analysis, simulation and uncertainty-based approaches in designing service-specific IT systems.

 Service-based support of modeling — web services for modeling and optimization-based problem solving, management of software as a service-oriented architectures for modeling environments, integration of organizational design and IT architecture for services systems, grid computing, and others.

 Network-based decision support — new technologies enabling value webs, supply chain management, service-oriented architectures for Value Webs, standards and ontology for inter- and intra-organizational collaboration in Value Webs, and others.

 Knowledge science and engineering — knowledge science and knowledge-based approaches to services and their modeling, semantic Web and ontology for modeling, ontology, semantic Web and business rules for services computing and others.

 Application areas — decision support systems and models for supply chain management, traffic and transportation, telecommunications, health care, sustainable environments, emergency response, homeland security.

Abstract Submission

The Program Committee cordially invites you to submit your (extended) abstract to be a presenter at the Workshop. The abstract submission should be made via email to Van-Nam Huynh at huynh@jaist.ac.jp, by December 15, 2010 at the latest.

All abstracts will be reviewed and the final selection will be made by PC members.

A Workshop-related special issue of an international journal (or edited book) will be announced soon.