OR/MS Today - October 1997 - Call for Papers

OR/MS Today, October 1997

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the
IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics

This special issue on manufacturing logistics will focus on topics which go across the traditional boundaries of production and operations management.

Topics of interest include:

Planning and coordination of production across multiple facilities;
Integration issues between manufacturing and other functional areas (e.g., sales and marketing, engineering design);
Integrating emerging technologies (e.g., EDI, Intranet, Internet) in production.

All submissions should include five copies of a one-page description of "why this paper is important" in addressing the issues outlined above. Format of the paper should follow the specification described in "Instructions for Authors" on the back of each Transaction issue or check the following address for instructions: http://www.thomson.com:866/ii/default.html

Submit five copies of the paper to one of the following guest editors by Nov. 15:

S. David Wu, Co-Director, Mfg. Logistics Institute, Mohler Laboratory, 200 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., 18015; e-mail: sdw1@lehigh.edu
Robert H. Storer, Co-Director, Mfg. Logistics Institute, Mohler Laboratory, 200 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., 18015; e-mail:rhs2@lehigh.edu
Louis A. Martin-Vega, Dept. of IMSE, Mohler Laboratory, 200 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., 18015; e-mail: lam4@ lehigh.edu

1998 Combinatorial Optimization Conference

The 1998 Combinatorial Optimization Conference, hosted by the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, will be held on April 15-17, 1998 in Brussels. This conference theme is: "Combinatorial Optimization: Recent Advances in Theory and Practice."

Papers and abstracts are invited on the following areas of study: logistics and routing, scheduling, financial modeling, network optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, computer vision and location analysis. Entries should be written in plain text or Latex and must contain the following information: title, each author's first and last name, affiliation, name and affiliation of the speaker, up to three keywords, and the content of the abstract (not to exceed 300 words).

Send electronic versions to the following e-mail address: co98@smg.ulb.ac.be or consult the conference web site at: http://smg.ulb.ac.be/co98

Deadline for submissions is Nov. 30.

Special Issue of Information Systems Research
on "The Information Industries"

The Information Industries — including computers, communications, consumer and industrial electronics, and the content industries (media, publishing, movie) — are a large and growing sector of the global economy. This special issue of Information Systems Research focuses on the information industries and, as a secondary theme, on their impact on the information systems domain.

Examples of the types of topics sought for the special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

Effects of industry forces &emdash; suppliers, customers, substitute products, and competition &emdash; on both the producers and users of its products; and
Studies of industry structure, strategic alliances and product classification.

Send four copies of the manuscript to one of the guest editors and a copy of your transmittal letter to the other editor.

Guest editors: Haim Mendelson, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 94305-5015; e-mail: haim@haim.stanford.edu; and Kenneth L. Kraemer, CRITO, 3200 Berkeley Place, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, Calif., 92697-4650; E-mail: Kkraemer@uci.edu

Deadline for submission is Oct. 31

*Note: By submitting an article to the special issue, you are guaranteeing your willingness to serve as referee with a 30-day response time. Failure to comply with this promise will result in withdrawal of your paper from consideration for the special issue. If there is a window over which you cannot guarantee a 30-day response-time for refereeing other authors' papers, state it in your submission letter.

Special issue of
International Journal of Technology Management

Papers are sought for a special issue on "Innovation in Manufacturing: A New Perspective for Improving Competitiveness" for the International Journal of Technology Management. Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to:

Innovation in international manufacturing operations
Product development strategies and innovation
Interrelationships between technological, economic, social and political objectives of innovation in manufacturing
Innovation strategies in manufacturing

Research surveys and application papers in the above areas are also welcome. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages including figures and illustrations. Four copies of the manuscript, following the standard guidelines for the International Journal of Technology Management should be mailed to the guest editor by Dec. 31.

Guest editor for the special issue: Dr. A. Gunasekaran, Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Systems, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, U.K.; Phone: +44 1895 274 000, Ext. 2634; Fax: +44 1895 812 556; E-mail: emstagu@brunel.ac.uk; URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~emstagu/

Special issue of
International Journal of Production Economics

The purpose of the special issue is to help the senior managers and researchers in understanding and appreciating the concepts, design and implementation of Agile Manufacturing Systems (AMS).

Papers are sought on the following topics: rapid prototyping, supply chain management, lean production, quick response manufacturing, concurrent engineering and rapid partnership formation.

Manuscripts should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages including figures and illustrations. Four copies of the text, following the standard guidelines for the International Journal of Production Economics should be mailed to: Dr. A. Gunasekaran, Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Systems, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom; Phone: +44 1895 274 000, ext. 2634; Fax: +44 1895 812 556; E-mail: emstagu@brunel.ac.uk; URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~emstagu/

Deadline is Dec. 31

16th European Conference on Operational Research

EURO XVI, the 16th European Conference on Operational Research will be held July 12-15, 1998, in Brussels, on the Campus-Plaine of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the adjacent Campus-Oefenplein or the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Topics of interest include: applied probability, combinatorial optimization, decision technology, education of OR, financial modeling, game theory, heuristics, integer programming, large scale optimization, material requirement planning, neural networks, operations management, queueing systems, routing and scheduling.

Send papers to: EURO XVI - Organizing Committee - Secretariat, c/o Jacques TEGHEM, MATHRO/FPMs, 9, rue de Houdain, B-7000 Mons, Belgium; Phone: 32 65 374687; Fax: 32 65 374689; E-mail: euro@mathro.fpms.ac.be

Deadline for entry submission is March 30, 1998.

Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics

The Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics is a new publication of the Academic Forum devoted to the interdisciplinary nature of mathematics. Each volume is scheduled to appear in three issues, published in February, June and October, commencing in 1998.

Papers are sought which discuss fresh applications and research findings which encompass both applications and some theoretical components which help the decision-making process by utilizing mathematical modeling. These applications may come from widely diverse fields.

Please submit three copies of your manuscript to Dr. H. Arsham, School of Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 21201-5779, USA; Phone: 410 837-5268; Fax: 410 837-5722; E-mail: harsham@ubmail.ubalt.edu

Journal of Forecasting:
1997 Doctoral Research Paper Prize Competition

John Wiley and the editors of the Journal of Forecasting are inviting submissions for the annual Journal of Forecasting Doctoral Paper Prize.

This is for the best paper submitted to the competition, originating from doctoral research into forecasting methodology. Any topic or application relevant to the aims and scope of the journal is welcome, but the paper must meet the publishing criterion in the Journal of Forecasting.

Three copies of the paper should be sent to: Professor Derek W. Bunn, Editor-in-Chief, London Business School, Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA, England, UK. Entries should include a statement from the student's supervisor or institution, confirming the status of the candidate as either being a current doctoral student or within 12 months of graduating.

The closing date for the first prize is Nov. 28.

Bi-Annual Corporate Award for Forecasting Excellence

The Corporate Award for Forecasting Excellence is a bi-annual presentation sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) and will be made at the Edinburgh Forecasting Symposium in June 1998. The purpose of the award is to recognize corporations that have demonstrated high levels of quality forecasting performance during a three- to five-year period leading to significant improvements in decision-making.

Nominations must include a letter describing the forecasting system and its effects on the organization, plus any additional information. Evidence of forecasting must be supported by written statements from at least one senior officer in the organization.

Entries should be sent to: Michael Lawrence, President of the IIF, School of Information Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia; e-mail: m.lawrence@unsw.edu.au

Deadline is May 1998.

Special Issues of Interfaces

Interfaces Special Issue —
"Supply Chain Management"

The goals of the special issue are to improve the exchange of information between managers and professionals in Supply Chain Management (SCM) and to inform the academic community about practice. Appropriate papers are descriptions of the practice of SCM in commerce, industry, government or education with strong emphasis on implementation.

Submission guidelines are listed in the "Instructions to Authors" section in the January-February issue of Interfaces. Submissions must be postmarked no later than Feb. 27, 1998. Send entries to: Yasemin Aksoy, Director, Consortium for Supply Chain Management, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, New Orleans, La., 70118-5669; ph: (504) 865- 5499; e-mail: yaksoy@freeman.tulane.edu

Interfaces Special Issue on Ecologically Sustainable Business Practices

Preference will be shown to papers that examine and demonstrate the integration of ecological sustainability into the primary operating systems of companies, with special attention to implementation processes.

Papers are invited that describe decision-making analyses in which sustainability played a role, with detail on how and why such analyses have resulted in new approaches and specific benefits. These benefits may include cost savings and other efficiencies, organizational changes and improvements, and resulting market and competitive advantage.

Editors are looking for papers from academicians and practicing managers.

Papers must describe operations practice, have strong implementation emphasis, and document usage and benefits. Appropriate papers include reports on training programs dealing with management/operations issues in sustainability, description and analysis of specific applications, practice-oriented state-of-the-art reviews and surveys of use, and comments from corporate managers/executives.

Papers should not have been submitted elsewhere or have been published; the length of the paper should be between 10-20 pages, and the abstract no more than 150 words.

Send three copies to: Andrea Larson, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Box 6550, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 22906; Phone: (804) 924-3221.

Deadline for submissions is Feb. 16, 1998.

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Special Issue of the IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics