Guest Editorial: In Search of a New Alignment in Service Research-Dual-Journal Special Sections

IEEE Transactions onServicesComputing and INFORMSService Science issued a joint call for papers targeting the bridging of service perspectives from business (e.g., service science, servicesmarketing and information systems) to services computing. The intent was to advance transdisciplinary research agendas that could generate advances that go beyond the sum of independent research streams. Aswith all transdisciplinary research ideals, these efforts are extremely difficult, as pioneers need to overcome significant barriers, including different vocabularies, different researchmethods and differences in each field’s historical evolution. This special section provides a snapshot of research efforts that begin to break down barriers.We offer special thanks to those authorswho took the risk of having their manuscripts processed by an esteemed set of invited guest editorswho have expertise fromacross the services spectrum.