OR/MS Today - August 2000 - Call For Papers

August 2000

Call For Papers

International Symposium on Forecasting

The 21st International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF2001) will be held at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga., USA, June 17-20, 2001. ISF2001 will bring together academics and practitioners from a wide range of organizations, disciplines and countries. The theme of ISF2001 is "The Future of Forecasting."

Areas include: business forecasting issues (operations, logistics, marketing, etc.), econometrics and economic forecasting, time series statistics, demographic forecasting, judgement in forecasting and all forecasting applications.

Papers should relate to the conference theme or to an appropriate topic of forecasting research and practice. Submit abstracts, in English, of 300 words or less, as soon as possible, but no later than Feb. 15, 2001 to the ISF2001 Director: Xiao-Yin Jin, Technology Policy & Assessment Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0525, USA; fax: 404-894-8573 (or 2301), Tel: 404 894-6703; e-mail: j.xiyiu@isye.gatech.edu.

Visit the symposium Web site (http://www.isf2001.org/) for more information.

Disruptive Technologies and Discontinuous Innovations

A special issue of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management on the "Commercialization of Disruptive Technologies and Discontinuous Innovations" will be co-edited by Sul Kassicieh, Bruce Kirchhoff and Steve Walsh. The issue is scheduled to appear in late 2001 or early 2002.

Disruptive technologies are scientific discoveries that break through the usual product/technology capabilities and provide a basis for a new competitive paradigm. Discontinuous innovations are products/processes/services that provide exponential improvements in the value received by the customer. No longer the domain of entrepreneurial firms, disruptive technologies change the current product-technology paradigms. These paradigms are replaced by new manufacturing bases with new technological capabilities or by new technologies with a new manufacturing base for products and industries that do not yet exist. They initiate the development of new firm-based competencies and are the wellspring of future sustaining technologies.

Discontinuous innovations have been called radical, architectural, generational and revolutionary. They are often based on disruptive technologies but can also be the product of current sustaining technologies that produce higher value propositions. They provide step-function improvements to current product market paradigms or produce the physical and service products that initiate new industries or markets that define a new and differing product platform from which incremental innovations are generated.

The special issue is designed to foster the emerging literature on commercialization of disruptive technologies and discontinuous innovations (DT/DI) and their effect on the management of research and development and the technology transfer processes used to move disruptive technologies to the commercial marketplace. The role disruptive technologies play in firms' competitiveness and in national and international economies will be of importance to managers, scientists, economists and policy makers.

Submissions may be theoretical, conceptual or empirical. They should relate to the following questions: How are DT/DI commercialized? How are technologies in these areas managed in a R&D environment? How has the market reacted to these technologies from a marketing, financial and behavioral standpoint? What techniques are used for successful transfer and commercialization of these technologies? What is the role of entrepreneurship in the commercialization of disruptive technologies?

The deadline for submissions is Nov. 30, 2000. Send five copies of the manuscript to: Professor Sul Kassicieh, Regents' Professor and Director of MOT Program, The Robert Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131; phone:(505) 277-8881; fax:(505) 277-7108; e-mail:kasicieh@unm.edu

E-Business and Supply Chain Management

The Web is having unimaginable impact on how firms interact with each other and their customers. Stumbling blocks for supply chain integration such as high transaction costs between partners, poor information availability, and the challenges of managing complex interfaces between functional organizations are rapidly dissolving on the Web. Digital exchanges are making transaction costs insignificant, moving vast quantities of complex information is becoming cheap and easy, and Web-centric software that facilitates collaboration is simplifying interfaces. Tools in each of these categories are rapidly maturing, fundamentally changing supply chains.

In recognition of these developments, Production and Operations Management will publish a focused issue on "e-Business and Supply Chain Management." The possible paper topics are vast, for example:

integration of supply chain planning and procurement,
models for B2B exchanges,
analysis of auctions,
impact of information intermediaries on supply chains,
Web-centric product design,
order fulfillment and returns management in B2C and
forecasting and inventory management in B2C.

Send five copies of the manuscript to one of the two focused issue editors by Nov. 31, 2000: M. Eric Johnson, Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755; e-mail: m.eric.johnson@dartmouth.edu; phone: 603-646-0526; fax: 603-646-1308; or Seungjin Whang, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4024; e-mail: whang_jin@gsb.stanford.edu; phone: (650)723-4756; fax:(650) 725-0468

Enterprise Resource Planning: Modelling and Analysis

The management of materials, information, and other resources in organizations has expanded beyond the role of typical operations managers. Along with the breakdown of internal and external organizational boundaries has come the more open environment that is espoused by enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Practitioners and managers throughout the world have realized the enormity and importance of these evolved systems. No longer are they just for the exclusive use of large multinational organizations, but are diffusing to small and medium-sized organizations as well.

These systems are meant to encourage and support communication and cooperation among various functions, vendors and customers of organizations. Their importance is strategically vital to organizations that wish to remain competitive. Practitioners have realized this importance by spending billions of dollars on these systems and supporting processes, yet researchers have been slow to critically investigate their roles in organizations.

Papers are sought for a special issue on "Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning" for the European Journal of Operational Research. Conceptual and strategic frameworks, empirical research, case studies and analytical models focusing on improving the design and development of design and development of ERP systems for improving organizational competitiveness are especially encouraged. Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to: planning for ERP systems, design and analysis of ERP systems, operations of ERP systems, and monitoring and control of ERP systems.

Mail four copies of the manuscript to one of the following guest editors by Dec. 31, 2000: Professor Joseph Sarkis, Graduate School of Management, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, USA; phone: (508) 793-7659; fax: (508) 793-8822; e-mail: jsarkis@clarku.edu; or Dr. A. Gunasekaran, Department of Management, University of Massachusetts, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300, USA; phone: (508) 999-9187; fax: (508) 999-8776; e-mail: agunasekaran@umassd.edu

IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering

Over the past decade, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has emerged as one of the success stories in applying information technology to production systems. The next generation of ERP systems is expected to allow greater integration between information systems and operations models. Furthermore, we expect greater use of cross-functional models. Such models may integrate data and decisions associated with several entities within a supply chain. This special issue of IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering is dedicated to models and methods designed to solve large-scale optimization problems that encompass multiple functions of an enterprise. The term optimization is used in its broadest sense, allowing heuristics, complementarity problems, generalized equations, game theory and related methodologies. Papers that incorporate probabilistic concepts as in stochastic programming and stochastic dynamic programming are especially welcomed.

Submit five copies of the manuscript no later than Oct. 30, 2000 to the guest editor: Suvrajeet Sen, SIE Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; e-mail: sen@sie.arizona.edu. All submissions should include a one-page description of "Why this paper is relevant" for the special issue on Large-Scale Optimization in Logistics, Production and Manufacturing Systems.

Special Issue on Optimization in Medicine

Applications of combinatorics and optimization to problems arising in medicine have, in recent years, gained greater visibility and participation within the research community. A significant number of optimization and mathematical programming researchers are actively involved in problems arising from the medical arena, and in the development of realistic models and efficient algorithms in a wide variety of application contexts. This special issue of the Annals of Operations Research is intended to capture the essence of the state-of-the-art research in this dynamic and exciting area.

The editors seek original, high quality contributions that investigate theoretical or methodological work on models and algorithms involving continuous, linear and nonlinear optimization, integer programming and combinatorial optimization, applied to medical applications. Such applications include, but are not limited to, problems in treatment planning, tomography and imaging, medical diagnosis, and molecular biology. The editors particularly encourage manuscripts reflecting collaboration between researchers in the optimization and medical fields.

Send five copies to one of the editors by Dec. 15, 1000: Eva K. Lee (linear, integer programming and combinatorial optimization), Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205; E-mail: eva.lee@isye.gatech.edu; or Ariela Sofer (nonlinear equations and nonlinear programming), Systems Engineering & Operations Research, George Mason University, MS4A6, Fairfax, VA 22030; E-mail: asofer@gmu.edu; or Peter Hammer, Rutgers Center for Operations Research, Rutgers University, 640 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8003; e-mail: hammer@rutcor.rutgers.edu.

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