Journal of Nature Inspired Business Computing  (JNIBC) 

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Special Issue on: Natural Computing Approaches for Achieving Competitive Organizational Performance

 

Organizations are  confronted by market, societal, and technological  pressures in dynamic, complex environment.  To remain competitive, organizations  must  respond strategically with operational actions to meet operations performance objectives:  quality, speed, dependability, flexibility, and cost.  Hard computing and soft computing methodologies have been used to find  solutions for  problems of limited complexity.    However, many problems are difficult to solve due to amount of computation involved or the level of complexity involved in defining a solution.  Nature inspired computing (NIC)  has been used to find “robust” business computing solutions that remain effective in the dynamic, complex environment. Nature inspired computing applications include  agent-based systems, swarm intelligence (ant-colony, bee-colony, particle swarm algorithms etc.), cellular automata, chaos theory, evolutionary algorithms, artificial immune systems, neural and fuzzy systems etc. Organizations that use NIC methodologies for solving business problems can their improve the competitive and operational performance.

The main goal of this special issue of JNIBC is to increase the awareness of the effectiveness and power of nature inspired business computing technology in addressing operational performance objectives.  We invite researchers to submit papers on  nature inspired computing applied to problems that impact operational performance objectives based on quality, speed, flexibility, dependability, and cost.

The scope of the journal is available at http://www.ibimapublishing.com//journals/JNIBC/jnibc.html and topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of Soft Computing in accounting, finance, marketing, operations management
• Soft Computing data mining for business
• Multi-Agent System Applications in business
• Genetic Algorithms, Rough sets and Fuzzy sets in business
• Swarm Intelligence applications in business
• Artificial Neural Networks in business
• Soft computing approaches for business modeling
• Ant colony optimization in business
• Soft Computing for classification and prediction
• Intelligent agents  and Data Mining
• Hybrid Computational Approaches for data mining
• Nature-inspired concept learning and machine learning
• Immunity based approaches  in business
• Computational Intelligence for data mining
• Evolutionary computation in data mining
• Biology in business

Submission Guidelines
Only original research papers will be considered. Authors should limit initial submissions to no more than 30 double-spaced pages in 12-point font with appropriate margins, inclusive of all materials (i.e., references, figures, tables and appendices).  

Submission guidelines are available at:  http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JNIBC/author.html
 
A double-blind review will be conducted and papers will be returned to the authors, often with brief explanatory notes for further action. Submissions will be screened to ensure the submissions fit with the special issue.
 
Tentative Schedule
Deadline for manuscript submission:      May 15, 2010

Review and return to authors:                 June 15, 2010

Deadline for revised papers:                  July 15, 2010
Notification of final acceptances:           Aug. 15, 2010
Deadline for final versions:                    Sept. 15, 2010
Tentative Publication Date:                   Oct. 15, 2010
 
Submissions may be sent by email to: submit@ibimapublishing.com.
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The Journal of Nature-Inspired Business Computing (JNiBC)  is an international peer reviewed and open-access applied research journal for publication of high quality papers on nature-inspired solutions for business problems.

Sergio Davalos
Editor-in-chief

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