February 1996 € Volume 23 € No. 1

Call for Papers

1996 Association for Consumer Research Conference

The Association for Consumer Research announces a call for papers for its 1996 Annual Conference to be held October 9-13, at the Loewes Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona. Submissions for the conference must be received no later than Friday, March 22, 1996. Acceptance decisions will be made by July 15, 1996. Additional details about the conference and the detailed version of the call for papers can be obtained through the ACR list server. To subscribe to the ACR list server, send an E-mail message to listserv@listserv.arizona.edu. Type the following message: subscribe ACR96 your full name. Your full name means your first and last name (not your E-mail address or an E-mail "signature").

The following types of submissions are considered:

Competitive and Working Papers.
Special Topic Proposals. Special topic sessions reflect topics of special importance and interest to consumer researchers.

For more information, contact: Debbie MacInnis, Department of Marketing, University of Southern California; Phone: 213-938-1449 (home) or 213-740-5039 (office); Fax: 213-938-0230 (home); 213-740-7828 (office); E-mail: macinnis@mizar.usc.edu.

Special Volume of Annals of Operations Research

The Annals of Operations Research is planning to publish a special volume devoted to reliability and maintenance in the context of production control. Original papers dealing with modeling algorithms or review are sought. The special volume will include new advances in the subject.

Authors should send four copies of the manuscript to the guest-editor listed below. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 1996. Contact: Zilla Sinuany-Stern, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Phone: 972-7-472223; Fax: 972-7-472958; E-mail: zillas@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.

EJOR Special Issue

Papers are now being sought on tabu search for a special issue of the European Journal of Operations Research. The deadline for submissions to this special issue is March 31, 1996. Authors are encouraged to submit papers earlier.

There is no restriction on aspects of tabu search that may be covered in submissions for this special issue.

Instructions for submission: Please use standard EJOR guidelines for manuscript preparation, and send 4 copies to: Winnie Bartley, School of Business, CB 419, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309. Alternately, a postscript file can be sent via E-mail: bartleyw@spot.colorado.edu.

1996 Winter Simulation Conference

The 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, to be held December 8-11, 1996, at the Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, Calif., invites papers for all aspects of discrete and combined discrete-continuous simulation, including tutorials, research, applications, exhibits, and a poster session. We encourage submissions in the following tracks: introductory and advanced tutorials, manufacturing applications, state-of-the-art reviews, military applications, software and modelware tutorials, general applications, modeling methodology, poster session, analysis methodology, and Ph.D. student colloquium.

Deadlines:
By March 1, 1996: a one- to three-page proposal to present tutorials or state-of-the-art reviews, to organize and chair regular paper sessions, or to organize and chair panel sessions should be received by the program chair.

By April 1, 1996: four copies of contributed papers not previously published or presented should be received by the program chair.

Further submission details are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.cc.ukans.edu/wsc96.

Contact: Daniel T. Brunner, WSC '96 General Chair, Systemflow Simulations, Inc., 6366 Guilford Avenue, Suite 310, Indianapolis, IN 46220; Phone: (317) 466-0664; Fax: (317) 466-0821; E-Mail: brunner@systemflow.com; or James J. Swain, WSC '96 Program Chair, Dept. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899; Phone: (205) 895-6749; Fax: (205) 895-6733; E-Mail: jswain@ebs330.eb.uah.edu.

IFORS, EURO Conference

Papers are sought for the Simulation, Gaming, Training and Business Process Re-engineering in Operations International Conference to be held September 19-21, 1996, in Riga, Latvia.
Abstracts (not more than 200 words) should be sent by E-mail to Rigaconf96@IDA.LiU.SE before May 15, 1996. You can also send your abstract through the IFORS WWW-pages at http://www.IFORS.org/. In order to have the abstract considered for publication, a prepayment must be made of $50 to IMIT at the bank account SE-banken 5026-1198270 in Sweden. Please state your name and Rigaconf96. If the abstract is not accepted, the amount will be repaid. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by June 15, 1996.

There will be a special issue dedicated to this conference in "International Transactions in Operational Research." The guest editor will be professor Birger Rapp of Linkoping University. Please send three copies of the full paper as soon as possible to M.B.A. Mikael Ankelius, Economic Information Systems, IDA, Linkoping University, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.

Further information can be found on the World Wide Web at http://am.itl.rtu.lv/riga/index.html.

1997 ABSEL Conference

Authors are invited to submit papers for the 1997 Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL) to be held March 19-21, 1997, at the Doubletree Hotel in New Orleans.

The conference will include traditional academic papers and demonstrations dealing with design, evaluation and application of simulations, games and experiential exercises in teaching, research and assessment; and panel discussions, workshops, and symposia on meeting the needs of students, colleagues and industry. Submissions that include interactive participation of attendees are highly encouraged.

Papers and proposals no more than 15 double-spaced pages should be received by October 1, 1996.
Contact Alan L. Patz, University of Southern California, School of Business Administration, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421; Phone: (213) 740-0761 or 740 0728; Fax: (213) 749-0541; E-mail: apatz@sba.usc.edu.

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