Dr. Michael P. Papazoglou
The Case of a Service Management, Engineering & Innovation Research Institute
in the Middle East
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Summary: This talk describes the vision and strategic objectives of a Service Management, Engineering & Innovation Research InsTitute (SMART) in the Middle East and discusses research and education plans. It describes the crucial elements of the discipline of Service Science and advocates the need for a preeminent interdisciplinary research institute devoted to world-leading basic and applied research and education to address inter-disciplinary research, scientific initiatives, new multi-disciplinary educational offerings, and innovative concepts related to services.
Biography:Michael P. Papazoglou holds the chair of Computer Science and is director of the INFOLAB at the Univ. of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Trento in Italy, and professorial fellow at the Universities Lyon 1 (France), Univ. of New South Wales (Australia). Prior to this he was full Professor and head of School of Information Systems at the Queensland Univ. of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane Australia (1991-1996). He also held senior academic positions at the Australian National University, University of Koblenz, Germany, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany, the National German Research Centre for Computer Science (GMD). Papazoglou serves on several international committees and on the editorial board of nine international scientific journals and is co-editor in charge of the MIT book series on Information Systems. He has chaired numerous well-known international scientific conferences in Computer Science. These include the International Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), International Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), International Conf. on Digital Libraries (ICDL), and the International Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), International Conf. on Entity/Relationship Modeling and others. He is the founder of the International Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) and more recently of the International Conf. on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC).
Papazoglou has authored/edited fifteen books and over one hundred and fifty scientific journal articles and refereed conference papers. His most two recent books are "e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations" published by J. Wiley May 2006, and "Web Services: Principles and Technologies" published by Prentice-Hall, September 2007. His research was/is funded by the European Commission, the Australian Research Council, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and Departments of Science and Technology in Europe and Australia. He is a golden core member and a distinguished visitor of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Science section.