LISS 2011-2016 were successfully held in Beijing (China), Reading (UK), Berkeley (USA), Barcelona (Spain) and Sydney (Australia) by Beijing Jiaotong University, in cooperation with University of Reading (UK), The Pennsylvania State University (USA), University of California, Berkeley (USA), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) and the University of Sydney(Australia), respectively. In total, there are more than 1300 authors from 35 countries attending these conferences. The proceedings have been or will be indexed by CPCI-S (former ISTP) and EI Compendex since 2011. In 2015, the LISS was approved by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) to be one of IEEE conference series and the conference proceeding has been included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library since then. Also, the authors with excellent papers in the conference proceedings have been invited to publish their academic thoughts and methods in some international academic journals indexed by SSCI/SCI or EI with high priority.

LISS'2017 will be hosted by the International Center for Informatics Research of Beijing Jiaotong University, China Center for Industrial Security Research of Beijing Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Management of Beijing Jiaotong University, in cooperation with Kyoto University, Japan, University of Reading, UK and will be held during 24-27 July, 2017 in Kyoto, Japan, with satellite sessions in Beijing Jiaotong University, China. The topics of the conference are related to service science, service innovation, service engineering, service marketing, ERP, E-commerce, low-carbon logistics, low-carbon transportation, green construction, enterprises informatics, logistics informatics, logistics and supply chain management, information and communication technology, Internet of things, Internet technology and applications, service informatics and other related areas.