Impressions of SOLI 2007

The 2007 IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics was held in Philadelphia. This conference is clearly more industry-oriented, although it still follows the classical academic format (and as the proceedings are published by IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore, there's even quite strict technical format to follow).

Some highlights from the conference:

• Keynote "Service Supply Chain Customer Value Delivery: Optimization, Performance Incentives and Implementation" by prof. Morris A. Cohen (Service supply chain strategy & solutions; supply chain coordination; global operations strategy; product design management; benchmarking of manufacturing/logistics systems; manufacturing/marketing interfaces; procurement/supplier management);
• NSF Workshop on Service Science;
• Papers on applying data mining, customer behaviour modelling and forecasting on real-world data;
  

In my free day after the conference, I took a rental car and headed towards Lancaster county, with a plan to see a bit of Pennsylvania countryside and Amishes.