December 1997
Call for Papers
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.
Journal of Service Research
Sage Publications has introduced a new service research journal, the Journal of Service Research (JSR), sponsored by the Center for Service Marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. The journal will be published quarterly, and the premier issue will appear in August 1998.
The mission of JSR is to provide information on research in the following areas: service marketing, service operations, service human resources and organizational design, service information systems, customer satisfaction and service quality, electronic commerce, and the economics of service.
Authors are invited to submit papers of any length, and all articles will be sent to three reviewers.
Authors should submit five copies of their article, in JMR/JM format, to: Roland Rust, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, 410 21st Ave., South, Nashville, Tenn., 37203.
International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
The 14th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making will be held on June 8-12, 1998, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of MCDM, including: theory and methodology; applications of MCDM in the private and public sectors; risk management within the MCDM framework; mathematical and algorithmic developments in MCDM; social and behavioral studies of MCDM processes; and conflict resolution, negotiation and group decision support.
Entries should be no more than 200 words in length and should include the authors' names and addresses (with the presenting author listed first) and up to four key words. Electronic submissions preferred or on a DOS diskette.
Send abstracts to: MCDM 98, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, 103 Albert Small Building, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 22903; Phone: (804) 924-0960; Fax: (804) 924-0865; E-mail: mcdm98@virginia.edu. Information about the conference can be found at: http://www.virginia.edu/~risk/mcdm98.html
Deadline for entry submission is Jan. 5.
Chicago Risk Management Conference
The Chicago Risk Management Conference, to be held May 6-7, 1998, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, is accepting papers on the following topics:
- Value-at-Risk and Credit-Risk;
- Energy Derivatives;
- Corporate Risk Management; and
- Computational Finance, Analytic Models and Systems.
For more information, consult the conference web site at:
http://cpd.engin.umich.edu/cpd/conferences/chicago
or call (313) 647-7200.
Sponsors of the conference include: ABN-AMRO; Arthur
Andersen; Illinois Institute of Technology; The MathWorks,
Inc.; SwissBank Corporation; University of Chicago; and the
University of Michigan.
Deadline for submissions is Feb. 2.
International Symposium on Operations Research and its Applications
The symposium, to be held in Kunming, China, Aug. 17-19,1998, is intended to provide a forum for researchers working in Operations Research dealing with theoretical, computational and the application aspect of optimization.
ISORA '98 will focus on Global Optimization; other topics will include: linear and nonlinear programming; quality technology and reliability; simulation; micro-computer software of OR method; and manpower planning.
Authors should submit three copies (in English) of an extended abstract to the following: Dr. Xiaodong HU, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2734, Beijing 100080, P.R. China; Fax: 86 10 6254 1689; E-mail: isora@amath3.amt.ac.cn
For more information, send inquires to the above address. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 1998
International Journal of Mathematical Algorithms
The International Journal of Mathematical Algorithms will be concerned with research at the interface of computer science and mathematics. In particular, the journal will focus on applicable mathematics with a significant computing science component.
Editors are looking for papers with a strong mathematical foundation and information on recent advances in computing — generally with a view to solving problems of a practical nature.
Authors should submit copies to one of the following: Vic J. Rayward-Smith, Editor-in-Chief, School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, UK; E-mail: ijma@sys.uea.ac.uk; or Teodor G. Crainic, North American Editor, Départment des Sciences Administratives, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; E-mail: theo@crt.umontreal.ca
This call for papers will not have a deadline as it is a new journal and therefore will need new papers indefinitely.
Transportation Science Issue on Planning & Operational Control in Mass Transit
Public mass transit has become one of the critical ingredients for success with respect to economic as well as ecological performance in highly populated conurbations. During the last two decades operations research methods played a major role in solving the complex problems of planning and operational control in public transit organizations.
Many of those activities have focused on the classical scheduling problems, but now related fields of research are also becoming more and more relevant, especially in a world of continuous change. Based on the idea of looking at public transit not only as the technical problem to providing mobility but more as a specific public service in competition with motorized individual transport, efficient organizational arrangements and technological innovations, for example, must be taken into consideration.
Therefore, high quality scientific contributions as well as application-oriented case studies are sought on the following topics:
Strategic and tactical planning
- basic data management including GIS applications;
- line network planning; and
- timetable construction and schedule synchronization.
- vehicle scheduling; and
- duty scheduling and rostering.
- vehicle and personnel dispatching; and
- automated vehicle monitoring.
Information management
- passenger information; and
- information and communication infrastructure.
Deadline is June 30, 1998.
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