Call for Papers—Special Issue of Service Science: Innovation in Transportation-Enabled Urban Services

IT-Enabled Services as Complex Adaptive Service Systems: A Co-Evolutionary View of Service Innovation

One specific type of service innovation of particular interest to IT and business professionals is IT-Enabled Services (IES). Previous studies have suggested many roles for IT in service innovations. IT has proven a useful tool in service innovation. IT is an important component of most services in many industries, including healthcare, financial services, engineering, and management consulting...

Experiences from Ontology Development for Service Innovation in Transportation Industries

Many industries experienced a shift in sourcing and logistics strategies, the industrial demand for more dynamic logistics solutions with adequate IT support is increasing. Due to advances in wireless sensor networks and technologies, the transportation area in logistics industry is the most promising application field for new types of innovative services. The emerging applications in this fiel...

From Ontology-enabled Services to Service-enabled Ontologies Making Ontologies Work in e-Science with Onto⇔SOA

Innovation in Rehabilitation Services and Clinical Programs for Health Care

Rehabilitation program is a critical piece of clinical care strategy in order to accelerate healing and improve quality of life to the fullest extent possible. An innovated program should have 3 inspiring concepts: Seek inspire and Advance. Seeking and evaluating is a breakthrough technology, innovative methodology and emerging trend in the healthcare industry. The program should inspire clinic...

CAESAR: Context-Aware Event Stream Analytics for Urban Transportation Services

We demonstrate the first full-fledged context-aware event processing solution, called CAESAR, that supports application contexts as first class citizens. CAESAR offers humanreadable specification of context-aware application semantics composed of context derivation and context processing. Both classes of queries are only relevant during their respective contexts. They are suspended otherwise to...