Services Computing (discontinued) - SSME
SSME Page in IBM
IBM is working with academics, industry
leaders, and governments around the
world to establish a new academic discipline
known as Services Sciences, Management
and Engineering (SSME). Seeking
to address the need for more systematic
approaches to service innovation, SSME
also draws heavily on traditional computer
science in disciplines ranging from AI
and HCI to programming methodologies
and theory of computation. Systematic
approaches to service innovation are
important to governments (GDP growth
depends on it), businesses (revenue and
profit growth increasingly depend on it),
and academics (both for challenging multidisciplinary
research problems relevant
to societal and business needs, as well as
for preparing students for future careers).
SSME deals with the multidisciplinary
study of service system design and evolution,
in which clients and providers co-produce
value via work sharing, risk sharing,
information sharing, and decision sharing
configurations of people, technology,
and organizations. Topics in the design
of fault-tolerant, distributed computing
systems that can be generalized to
reliable socio-technical system design are
especially relevant. Business Performance
Transformation Services (BPTS) is an area
of special interest, as business strategy
often needs to change at faster speeds
than underlying legacy technology implementations
can today. IBM is collaborating
with universities to establish IT
and business services-oriented curricula,
degree programs, and research agendas,
and also augmenting this initiative
through such university programs as
Ph.D. fellowships and faculty awards.
SSME efforts seek to establish the empirical,
analytical, engineering, theoretical,
and design frameworks that will underlie
this emerging academic discipline and
related profession
Major Conferences
Major Journals
IEEE transaction on service computing
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
IBM Journals of R&D