October 2000 Call For Papers Special Issue on Teaching E-Commerce Business Education Sharenet, an electronic journal co-sponsored by the business schools at Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT and Northwestern and by AT&T, Baxter, Honeywell, Proctor & Gamble and Thermo Electron, will publish a special issue on teaching e-commerce. The journal invites submissions on curriculum development, design of degree programs and specializations, executive development programs; pedagogy (cases, games, exercises, videos, and so forth), course designs (highlights, syllabus, innovative teaching material, information on getting the material not available in open literature), and proposals to review textbooks and other teaching materials. Please send five copies to Kalyan Singhal, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA by Jan. 31, 2001; e-mail: KSINGHAL@UBmail.ubalt.edu. ISPE/CE2001 ISPE/CE2001, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, will be held Aug. 20-22, 2001, in Anaheim, Calif. ISPE/CE2001 is a major forum for the international scientific exchange of multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational aspects of concurrent engineering (CE). The focus is on the use of integrated enterprise processes, collaborative work, information sharing, co-locating resources and integrated frameworks and tools. This conference addresses research and applications issues of CE. Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all life-cycle areas of product design, engineering and manufacturing, including, but not limited to: Planning & Scheduling in CE, Chair: Dr. Ip-Shing Fan (I.S.Fan@cranfield.ac.uk); Collaborative Decision Making in CE, Chair: I.R. Reid (I.Reid@shu.ac.uk); Internet-based Modeling in CE, Chair: Ahmed Al-Ashaab (ahmed@tamayo.mty.itesm.mx); Collaborative Product Commerce in CE, Chair: Dr. Ming Lu (MingLLu@hotmail.com); Design Technologies in CE, Chair: F. Giannini (franca@ima.ge.cnr.it); Networking and Distribution in CE, Chair: F. Wang (fwang@arrirs04.uta.edu); Knowledge Engineering and Management of CE, Chair: J. Pokojski (Jpo@simr.pw.edu.pl); CE Education and Training, Chair: V. Thompson (thomson@mecheng.mcgill.ca); CE - Industrial experience, Chair: J. Cugy (jean-francois.cugy@dassault-aviation.fr); Standards in CE, Chair: R. Goncalves (rg@uninova.pt); CE in Virtual Environment, Chair: P. Ikonomov (pavel@ddd.co.jp); CE in Construction, Chair: N. Evbuomwan (nosa.evbuomwan@marchFIRST.com); Virtual Prototyping in CE, Chair: Prof. Terrence Fernando (t.fernando@salford.ac.uk). Authors should submit a full draft paper or extended abstract, not exceeding seven single-spaced pages, directly to the session chairs by Jan. 1, 2001. Table of Contents OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2000 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1999, 2000 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.