OR/MS Today - August 1997 - Call for Papers

OR/MS Today, August 1997

Call for Papers

Interfaces Special Issue &endash; "Supply Chain Management"

The goals of the special issue are to improve the exchange of information between managers and professionals in Supply Chain Management (SCM) and to inform the academic community about practice. Appropriate papers are descriptions of the practice of SCM in commerce, industry, government or education with strong emphasis on implementation.

Submission guidelines are listed in the "Instructions to Authors" section in the January-February issue of Interfaces. Submissions must be postmarked no later than Feb. 27, 1998. Send entries to: Yasemin Aksoy, Director, Consortium for Supply Chain Management, Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, New Orleans, La., 70118-5669; ph: (504) 865- 5499; e-mail: yaksoy@freeman.tulane.edu

Computer Simulation in Business 1998 Annual International Simulators Conference

The Computer Simulation in Business 1998 Annual International Simulators Conference will be held April 5-9, 1998 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts describing use of simulation in MIS, operations research, decision analysis, business statistics/resampling, cost management, production and operations, marketing, and related areas. Also of interest are description of use of simulation in teaching and experiential learning.

Submit three copies of an abstract/draft (electronic versions OK) to: Todd A. Schultz, College of Business Administration, Augusta State University, 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, Ga., 30904-2200; ph: (706) 667-4534; fax: (706) 667-4064; e-mail: tschultz@aug.edu

Deadline for entries is Sept. 25.

Special Issue of the IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics

This special issue on manufacturing logistics will focus on topics which go across the traditional boundaries of production and operations management.

Papers that study new aspects of manufacturing logistics are encouraged. Manufacturing logistics refers to all planning and coordination activities required to carry out all manufacturing activities between the point where end-item customer demands are determined, and the point where they are fulfilled.

Topics of interest include:

Planning and coordination of production across multiple facilities;
Integration issues between manufacturing and other functional areas (e.g., sales and marketing, engineering design);
Integrating emerging technologies (e.g., EDI, Intranet, Internet) in production.

All submissions should include five copies of a one-page description of "why this paper is important" in addressing the issues outlined above. Format of the paper should follow the specification described in "Instructions for Authors" on the back of each Transaction issue or check the following address for instructions: http://www.thomson.com:866/ii/default.html

Submit five copies of the paper to one of the following guest editors by Nov. 15:

S. David Wu, Co-Director, Mfg. Logistics Institute, Mohler Laboratory, 200 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., 18015; e-mail: sdw1@lehigh.edu
Robert H. Storer, Co-Director, Mfg. Logistics Institute, Mohler Laboratory, 200 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., 18015; e-mail:rhs2@lehigh.edu
Louis A. Martin-Vega, Dept. of IMSE, Mohler Laboratory, 200 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., 18015; e-mail: lam4@ lehigh.edu

1998 Combinatorial Optimization Conference

The 1998 Combinatorial Optimization Conference, hosted by the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, will be held on April 15-17, 1998 in Brussels. This conference theme is: Combinatorial Optimization: Recent Advances in Theory and Practice.

Papers and abstracts are invited on the following areas of study: logistics and routing, scheduling, financial modeling, network optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, computer vision and location analysis. Abstract entries should be written in plain text or Latex and must contain the following information: title, each author's first and last name, affiliation, name and affiliation of the speaker, up to three keywords, and the content of the abstract (not to exceed 300 words).

Send electronic versions to the following e-mail address: co98@smg.ulb.ac.be Consult the conference web site at: http://smg.ulb.ac.be/co98 or send e-mail to co98@smg.ulb.ac.be

Deadline for submissions is Nov. 30.

Special Issue of Information Systems Research on "The Information Industries"

The Information Industries &endash; including computers, communications, consumer and industrial electronics, and the content industries (media, publishing, movie) &endash; are a large and growing sector of the global economy. This special issue of Information Systems Research focuses on the information industries and, as a secondary theme, on their impact on the information systems domain

Examples of the types of topics sought for the special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

Effects of industry forces &emdash; suppliers, customers, substitute products, and competition &emdash; on both the producers and users of its products;
Studies of industry structure, strategic alliances and product classification; and
Studies of the adoption of different information industry technologies and its impact on the structure of information systems.

Send four copies of the manuscript to one of the guest editors and a copy of your transmittal letter to the other editor.

Guest editors: Haim Mendelson, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 94305-5015; e-mail: haim@haim.stanford.edu; and Kenneth L. Kraemer, CRITO, 3200 Berkeley Place, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, Calif., 92697-4650; e-mail: Kkraemer@uci.edu

Deadline for submission is Oct. 31

*Note: By submitting an article to the special issue, you are guaranteeing your willingness to serve as referee with a 30-day response time. Failure to comply with this promise will result in withdrawal of your paper from consideration for the special issue. If there is a window over which you cannot guarantee a 30-day response-time for refereeing other authors' papers, state it in your submission letter.

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