August 1996 € Volume 23 € Number 4
Call for Papers
Software Quality Engineering
Papers are sought for the First International Conference on Software Quality
Engineering (SQE 97), May 5-7, 1997, in Udine, Italy -- the first in a planned
series designed to bring together scientists, engineers, academic professionals
and industrialists interested in software engineering quality and education.
Topics include software quality engineering issues such as design, methodologies, CASE technology, testing and validation, software maintenance, application experience and risk assessment; educational issues such as philosophy of computer-based learning course design, teaching techniques and development and industrial collaboration; choice of support software; and software engineering issues such as innovative teaching schemes, human computer interfaces, natural language understanding and processing, laboratory data visualization, specialist teaching programs, and pattern and speech recognition.
Submit four copies of a draft paper (not more than 10 pages long in 12-point type) by September 23, 1996, to Clare Shepherd, SQE 97 Conference Secretariat, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, U.K. SO40 7AA; Phone: 44 1703 293 23; Fax: 44 1703 292 853; E-mail: c.shepherd@witcmi.ac.uk
Educational Computing Conference
Original research papers (not published or submitted elsewhere) are sought
on the general theme of using technologies to enhance education for the
National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) to be held in Seattle,
Wash., June 30-July 2, 1997.Papers that relate to teaching with computers, telecommunications, and other technologies are encouraged. Topics include: Current/Emerging Technologies, New Curriculum Designs, Improved Productivity/Adminstration, Technology Implementation, Educational Reform, Broad Issues, New Organizational Structures. Full papers should be submitted; accepted papers will be included in the proceedings.
Contact NECC '97 Office at NECA, 1244 Walnut St., Suite A, Eugene, OR 97403-2081; Phone: (541) 346-2834; Fax: (541) 346-2565; E-mail: necc@oregon.uoregon.edu
Special Issue of Systems Research
Systems Research will publish a special issue dedicated to the topic of
"Systems Science/Systems Approach and Information Systems Research"
in 1997. Submissions from both theoretical and applied studies are encouraged
for consideration for publication in this special issue.Two kinds of articles are sought:
Suggested topics include but are not limited to: systems science/systems approach and information systems; systems science and artificial intelligence; systems approach and software engineering; systems approach and object-oriented analysis and design.
Interested authors should submit four copies (hard copy) of their article by Dec. 15, 1996, to Dr. Li D. Xu, Department of MSIS, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA; phone: (513) 873-2890; fax: (513) 873-3301; E-mail: lxu@alpha.wright.edu.
Viennese Workshop
Papers are sought for the Sixth Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic
Games and Nonlinear Dynamics -- Theory and Application in Economics and
OR/MS, to be held May 21-23, 1997. Topics of interest include optimal control
theory, dynamic programming, differential games, evolutionary games, learning,
economic modeling, chaos theory, complex systems and related fields.Contact Prof. Gustav Feichtinger, Department of Operations Research and Systems Theory, Vienna University of Technology, Argentinierstrasse 8/119, A-1040 Vienna, Austria; Fax: + 43 1 5054524; E-mail: we_vie97@e119ws1.tuwien.ac.at; WWW: http://www.math.tuwien.ac.at:1063/OR/ws_vie97.html.
Operations and Quantitative Management Conference
Papers are sought for the International Conference on Operations and Quantitative
Management (ICOQM) -- Operations and Quantitative Management in the 21st
Century: A Global Perspective -- to be held January 5-8, 1997, in Jaipur,
India. Subjects are open to all facets of operations management, operations
research, quantitative management and management science.Completed articles will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management.
For more information, contact Omprakash K. Gupta, Indiana University Northwest, 3400 Broadway. Gary, IN 46408-1197; Phone: (219) 980-6901; Fax: (219) 980-6579; E-mail: icoqm@iunbus1.iun.indiana.edu.
Special Issue of Omega
A special issue of Omega is planned which will be devoted to the role and
effectiveness of management science in the Asia-Pacific countries. This
special issue will focus on methods of performance evaluation, including
data envelopment analysis (DEA) and its variants. Papers which combine the
methods of evaluation employed in an intrinsically interesting field would
be particularly welcomed. Papers must be submitted by Dec. 31, 1996, and should be prepared according to Omega guidelines as illustrated in "Instructions to Authors" in each issue of the journal.
Send papers to Professor W.W. Cooper, Dept. of Management Science and Information Systems, College and Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, CBA 5.202, Austin, TX 78712-1175; or Professor Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Department of Industrial Administration, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278, Japan; or Professor Kaoru Tone, Saitama University, Graduate School of Policy Science, Urawa, Saitama 338, Japan.
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