Today's business environment is getting highly competitive. Schedulers, planners and production managers in organizations make frequent decisions regarding scheduling. In today's challenging business setting, these decisions could drastically affect the company's bottom line. In some cases, making effective decisions in scheduling may mean successful continuation of the business. However, making wrong decisions could result in very poor financial conditions, ultimately becoming disastrous for the company. Can these decisions be made more effectively or efficiently? This special issue of IJOQM is dedicated to investigating how to make scheduling to become more competitive in today's highly competitive business environment.

All papers involving basic, applied, theoretical and case study research in the field of scheduling are invited. The potential topics include, but not limited to:

• new scheduling methods that are either computationally efficient or provides better solutions than the methods available in the literature,
  
  
• analysis of results for computational experiments in scheduling, and
  
  
• new fast and accurate heuristic scheduling methods.

E-mail your paper in MS Word to the guest editor by Oct. 1. Visit www.ijoqm.org/Info_authors.pdf and download "Information for Authors" for detailed guidelines on how to prepare a paper for submission. The guest editor will make an initial determination of the suitability of the manuscript for the special issue. Manuscripts that lack clarity in presentation or are outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review.

The guest editor's contact information is: Dr. Ceyhun Ozgur, Professor of Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383; phone: 1-219-464-5178; Fax: 219-464-5789; E-mail: ceyhun.ozgur@valpo.edu.






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