OR/MS Today - February 2000

February 2000

Call For Papers

Special Issue on Web Data Mining

The journal Decision Support Systems is seeking high-quality research papers for a special issue on "Web Data Mining." With an ever-increasing number of users, access sites and a range of electronic business activities, the Internet is witnessing a rapid growth of online data. There has arisen consequently the challenge of utilizing this wealth of data for improved business intelligence, better decision-making, enhanced customer relations, and better design of services and product offerings.

Individuals, too, in a digital networked society have to contend with far greater information than one can analyze, understand or absorb.

Papers related to the general theme of utilizing web-based data are welcomed. Topics of interest include: warehousing web data, web data capture and preparation, querying web data, analytical processing, intelligent retrieval and filtering, user profiling, web personalization, analyzing web usage data, intelligent assistants and information agents, web-based market research, direct marketing, and structuring and managing the data mining process.

The submission deadline is July 31. Four copies of papers should be submitted to either: Gary J.Koehler (koehler@ufl.edu), Dept. of Decision and Information Sciences, College of Business Administration, PO Box 117169, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 or Siddhartha Bhattacharyya (sidb@uic.edu), Infor-mation and Decision Sciences Department, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S. Morgan Street (MC 294), Chicago, IL 60607-7124.

Special Issue on Cutting, Packing and Related Problems

The European Journal of Operational Research is planning to publish a special issue on "Cutting, Packing and Related Problems" in 2001. Papers are invited on both theoretical and practical aspects of cutting and packing. Papers from related areas, including pallet and container loading, nesting, bin packing, multi-processor scheduling and knapsack problems, are also invited. Case studies are particularly welcomed.

Authors should send five (paper) copies to either Prof. Pearl Y. Wang, Computer Science Department MSN 4A5, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax VA 22030-4444 USA or Prof. Gerhard Waescher, Martin-Luther-Universitaet, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany.

Manuscripts may also be submitted electronically (as postscript or pdf-files) to either pwang@cs.gmu.edu or waescher@wiwi.uni-halle.de. All papers must be received by June 30.

EJOR Seeks ŒA Global View of Industrial Logistics'

The European Journal of Operational Research is planning a special issue on the topic, "A Global View of Industrial Logistics." Submissions should be sent to guest editor Professor Lilian Barros, POB 212, Southampton, SO14 OHG, United Kingdom; fax: +44 1703 512 654; e-mail: lilianbarros@yahoo.com. Michael Riley and David Brown of the Business Engineering Group, University of Southampton, are co-editors.

This special issue of the EJOR should include 10 papers on modeling approaches applied to various fields of industrial logistics. These will be classified according to three broad categories: 1. product support logistics, 2. production support logistics, and 3. industrial sector support logistics.

The emphasis of the special issue is on modelization of these various aspects using a variety of operations research techniques with a view towards industrial applications. Papers should be in English, not exceeding 10 pages in length. The deadline is Feb. 20.

International Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications

The International Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA/2000) will be held at the University of Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia, on Dec. 12-15. The conference web site is: www.icsc.ab.ca/isa2000.htm.

The Congress aims to provide researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with a forum to report on the latest developments in intelligent systems and their applications within the four major areas of computational intelligence, interactive and collaborative computing, industrial systems and biologically inspired systems.

Prospective authors are requested to either send a draft paper (maximum seven pages) or an extended abstract for review by the International Program Committee. All submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. Submissions must be received by March 31.

Submission by electronic mail is strongly recommended to: operating@icsc.ab.ca or else by fax or mail (2 copies) to the following address: ICSC, P.O. Box 279, Millet, AB T0C 1Z0 Canada; fax: +1-780-387-4329; phone: +1-780-387-3546.

Call for MCDM Nominations

The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making will be making awards at its 15th International Conference in Ankara, Turkey, July 10-14. The web site is: http://mcdm2000.ie.metu.edu.tr/ The Society welcomes nominations for the following awards: 1. MCDM Gold Medal, 2. Edgeworth-Pareto Award, and 3. George Cantor Award.

Submit nominations (roughly one page in length) to: Professor Stan Zionts, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA or by e-mail, szionts@acsu.buffalo.edu. Contact him for further information.

You should indicate the name of the nominee, why he or she is worthy of the award, his/her contributions to the field, and anything else that is relevant to the award. More information may be found concerning the awards on the web site at www.cba.uga.edu/mcdm. Awardees are expected to attend the conference and present a paper.

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