Services Sciences, Management, and Engineering (SSME) invited talk by Dr. Jim Spohrer (IBM Almaden Research Center) on 12/08/2005

* Invited Speaker Dr. James Spohrer, from IBMandapos;s Almaden Research Center, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;Services Sciences, Management, Engineering (SSME): A next frontier in education, innovation, and economic growth and the role of knowledge representation techniques in services innovation * Date Thursday, December 8, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 * Abstract Services sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) hopes to bring together ongoing work in computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, management sciences, social and cognitive sciences, and legal sciences to develop the skills required in a services-led economy. Services are the application of knowledge and skills for the co-production of value for the service recipient. As such, a fundamental aspect of service engagement is the representation of the knowledge that the parties involved in the service process use to communicate and collaborate. Ontology development is one approach to knowledge codification that allows it to be human and machine processable and therefore help and facilitate the service enactment. Paths to service innovations, especially for services deployed over the Web (i.e., Web services and software as a service) will increasingly require better knowledge representation techniques. For instance, to automatically (or semi-automatically) discover, engage, and enact Web services solutions on the intranet as well as the internet as a whole. SSMEandapos;s primary objective is to discover means for all types of service innovation; therefore, placing ontology and other knowledge representation techniques at the center stage of the SSME agenda.