Service Enterprise Engineering

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Service Enterprise Engineering: The Service Enterprise Engineering program addresses focused research on design, planning and control of operations and processes in commercial and institutional service enterprises. Contributions should extend the range of analytical and computational techniques addressed to these systems, and/or advance novel models offering policy insight or the prospect of implementable solutions. The SEE program is a new venture that became fully operational with the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2002. Service enterprises dominate the US economy, and the SEE program is intended to parallel more traditional activities in modeling and analysis of manufacturing enterprises with a new focus on engineered systems in service operations. Sectors represented initially include: * Commercial Transportation * Logistics and Distribution * Health Care Delivery * Electronic Markets and Auctions * After Sale Equipment Monitoring, Maintenance and Repair * Retailing * Hospitality and EntertainmentCustomer Call/Contact Centers Contributions may involve generic issues for such enterprises such as staff scheduling, dynamic pricing, facilities design, and quality assurance, or they may address more focused questions of interest mainly in particular sectors.