Humanitarian Service Science and Engineering Workshop at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, on October 8, 2007

研究，以了解今天和明天的人道主义服务系统的全方位需要不同的研究人员团队谁跨学科工作，以及与专业人士开发和应用新的跨学科知识，方法和战略。我们需要的工程师不仅能够设计效率或成本效益比，而且能够设计影响人道主义服务活动的各种社会，行为，政治，文化和经济问题。我们需要社会科学家，他们可以将自己的领域和评估方法与工程界的定量建模和模拟方法相结合。为了应对这一挑战，越来越多的科学家、工程师、通信专家和人道主义工作者一直在探索灾害管理的创新方法。在最近的NSF研讨会上，这个不断发展的，高度跨学科的努力被称为人道主义服务科学与工程（HSSE）。HSSE是工程研究的一个新兴前沿，它探索了我们如何有效地设计、评估和预测服务系统行为的能力，可以扩展到非营利领域和总是混乱、中断、复杂的参数和目标使其复杂化。该奖项支持NSF-主办研讨会，汇集了众多相关研究学科的领导者，这些学科为不断发展的HSSE领域做出了贡献，以及参与制定提供人道主义服务的新方法和战略的人道主义专业人员。我们将利用这次研讨会（1）定义和扩展HSSE社区，（2）定义和扩展HSSE问题和方法，（3）为人道主义服务科学与工程的新兴研究前沿制定共同议程。 本次研讨会将是动员前沿，跨学科的研究社区准备在服务科学和工程的独特和复杂的问题上以创造性的方式进行合作的关键一步。这不仅有助于满足人道主义需求，还将扩大我们对服务科学的基本理解。

Research to understand the full range of humanitarian service systems for today and tomorrow requires diverse teams of researchers who work across disciplines as well as with professionals to develop and apply new interdisciplinary knowledge, methods and strategies. We need engineers who can design not only for efficiency or cost-benefit ratios, but for the full ranges of social, behavioral, political, cultural and economic issues impacting humanitarian service activities. We need social scientists who can integrate their field and assessment methods with the quantitative modeling and simulation methods of the engineering community. In response to this challenge, a growing community of scientists, engineers, communications experts, and humanitarian practitioners has been exploring innovative approaches to disaster management. At a recent NSF workshop on this subject, this evolving, highly interdisciplinary effort was called Humanitarian Service Science and Engineering (HSSE). HSSE is an emerging frontier in engineering research that explores how our ability to effectively design, evaluate, and predict the behavior of service systems can be extended into non-profit areas and situations that are invariably chaotic, disrupted, and complicated by complex parameters and goals.This award supports an NSF-sponsored workshop that brings together leaders from the numerous relevant research disciplines that are contributing to the evolving HSSE field, as well as humanitarian professionals involved in developing new methods and strategies for delivering humanitarian service. We will use this workshop to (1) define and extend the HSSE community, (2) define and extend HSSE issues and methodologies, and (3) articulate a common agenda for the emerging research frontier of Humanitarian Service Science and Engineering. This workshop will be a key step towards mobilizing a cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research community prepared to collaborate in creative ways on the unique and complex issues of service science and engineering. This will not only help address humanitarian needs, but will also expand our basic understanding of service science.