Services Science has emerged as a new research discipline that receives growing attention both in academia and practice. It combines research from various disciplines which have evolved more or less separately. While theories from organizational and marketing science usually capture the nature of these products, engineering disciplines focus on shaping and developing these information goods, and the information systems field on integrating services which are perceived as encapsulated application functionalities with standardized (XML) interfaces. These research streams converge in the new interdisciplinary area of Services Science which integrates the principles, design, and management of economic and technical services.
 
The „Second International Symposium on Services Science” will take place at the University of Leipzig between September 30th and October 1st, 2010 as a part of the Annual Conference of the ‘Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.’ (GI). The goals of the symposium were to present the current state of the art in research and industry regarding the Services Science, to establish a platform for the exchange of interested experts from various disciplines. Leipzig University is located at the heart of Germany and celebrates its 600th anniversary in 2009.
 
For more information, please visit the ISSS webiste: isss2010.uni-leipzig.de