1 June, 2008 Deadline for submission of full papers 15 June, 2008 Extended deadline for submission of full papers
1 August, 2008 Acceptance/Rejection notification
01 Sept, 2008 Final camera-ready papers due
Conference Scope and Themes
Service science, service operations, logistics, and informatics are becoming ever more complex and interdependent. They are playing an increasingly important role in today's world economy. Information and communications technology provides cyber-infrastructure and platforms to achieve more efficient and productive services operations. New types of service offerings are also emerging to meet the needs of customers and consumers. The IEEE Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI) conference series aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss issues, identify challenges and future directions, share their R&D findings and experiences in relative areas.
Conference Proceedings
All papers in the Proceedings of IEEE/SOLI'2008 will be
indexed by ISTP and included in the IEEE Xplore. SOLI'2006 and SOLI'2007 have been indexed by EI. According to the general rules of EI index, no conferences can be guaranteed to be indexed by EI before this happens even it is very possible. Selected papers will be published in special issues of International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics (EI indexed).
Areas of Interest
Papers relating to Services/Logistics Design, Innovations, Marketing, Operations, and Engineering; Information Technology / Systems, and their specific applications are strongly encouraged. Special sessions on specific service topics are also welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to:
1 Manuscripts must be electronically submitted at the conference website.
2 Manuscripts should be at most six pages in the IEEE two-column conference paper format, including figures, tables, and references.
3 A LaTeX style file and a MSWord template are available.
4 You can refer to the operation flowchart for the details in paper submission.
