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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The Sponsored Cluster of Service Science calls for session chairs who would like to organize invited sessions under this cluster for the INFORMS Annual Conference (October 26-29, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia) .<br>
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The cluster is sponsored by the INFORMS Service Science Section, whose mission is "to promote and disseminate research and applications among professionals interested in theory, methodologies, and applications in Service Science, which cuts across the fields
of service business strategy and modeling, service operations research and management, information systems, marketing science and analytics, management science, e-commerce and e-business, industrial engineering, and social and cognitive science." (</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.informs.org%2Fservice-science%2Fabout-us%2Fabout-service-science&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Cb56fd686e75b4e44c41708dd8276ec35%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638810169460297698%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D8ekZ8ksnLwwUc7%2F6QdkNGmg5EYoW9pZYLVsfsiOS3Q%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://connect.informs.org/service-science/about-us/about-service-science" title="https://connect.informs.org/service-science/about-us/about-service-science"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://connect.informs.org/service-science/about-us/about-service-science</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">)<br>
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If you are interested in proposing a session (typically 4-5 abstracts per session), please contact the Cluster Chair Dr. Guiping Hu (</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:gphu@iastate.edu" title="mailto:gphu@iastate.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">gphu@iastate.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">) or
Dr. Kejia Hu (</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk" title="mailto:kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">) by May
15. We welcome all topics related to the aforementioned mission. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Important Dates</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">· <span style="background:white">May 15</span>: Deadline for session chair identification</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">· June 5: Deadline for session chairs to enter presenters</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">· June 16: Deadline for presenters to submit abstract</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">· Sept 1: Speaker registration deadline</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Cluster Co-Chairs:</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">· Guiping Hu, Oklahoma State University, </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:guiping.hu@okstate.edu" title="mailto:guiping.hu@okstate.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">guiping.hu@okstate.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">· Kejia Hu, Oxford University, </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk" title="mailto:kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">kejia.hu@sbs.ox.ac.uk</span></a></span></u><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Thank you for your support!</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#E97132">Guiping Hu, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Professor and Head<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Donald & Cathey Humphreys Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">School of Industrial Engineering and Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oklahoma State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Email: <a href="mailto:guiping.hu@okstate.edu">
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