---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: Special issue on Scheduling Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:19:10 -0500 From: Jeet Gupta 00jngupta@BSUVC.BSU.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

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A special issue of the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers is planned to cover the recent developments in scheduling theory. Detailed Call for Papers can be found at the following URL addresses on the web:

http://bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00jngupta/schc.pdf in pdf file

http://bsuvc/bsu.edu/~00jngupta/schc.doc in MS Word 97 file.

The deadline for the submission of papers is November 30, 2001.

Briefly, the gist of the CFP is as follows:

Interest in the various approaches, tools, and techniques to solve scheduling problems (e.g., genetic algorithms, evolutionary heuristics, neural networks, heuristic programming, expert systems, optimizing techniques, and constraintsbased reasoning and optimization) continues to grow. However, the majority of the existing literature is focused only on the issue of theory development without considering the specific needs of the practitioner. This special issue will focus on both the development of scheduling theory and the use of various tools and techniques to solve scheduling problems faced by the practitioner including the recent developments in e-commerce and supply chain management. Hopefully, the reader will be able to develop a better appreciation of these tools and techniques, their use in problem solving, and their relationship to methods and emerging philosophies in our discipline.

This special issue will provide the advantage of grouping together highquality papers in the area of scheduling theory and applications. The term scheduling is adapted in its most generic sense and includes the service as well as manufacturing environments. Examples of the subject matter of the papers suitable for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

§ § Recent developments in scheduling theory that can help practitioners, and their integration with other production planning and control, information technology, and management sciences tools and techniques.

§ Development of appropriate solution techniques for scheduling problems either in service or manufacturing sectors such as the scheduling of jobs in a flow shop and staff scheduling problems in hospitals.

§ Application papers (i.e., actual or potential applications of various scheduling techniques and approaches to problems of specific interest to the business community).

§ Identification and solution of scheduling problems that provide integrative viewpoints of lot-sizing, supply chain management, e-commerce, and related emerging trends in industry.

§ Description and evaluation of information technology and software packages available to solve scheduling problems All manuscripts will be promptly and carefully refereed. Authors should follow the Instructions to Authors for the Journal of Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers (available from the guest editorial team, or from the web site www.ciie.org.tw) when preparing their manuscripts. Please submit five copies in English, by no later than November 30, 2001, to one of the following members of the guest editorial team of this special issue:

Dr. Jatinder N.D. Gupta, Guest Editor Department of Management Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306, U.S.A. Tel: 1-7652855301 FAX: 1-765-285-8024 email: jgupta@bsu.edu

Dr. Pei-Chann Chang, Guest Associate Editor Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Yuan Ze University 135 Yuan-Tung Road Chung-Li, Taoyuan Taiwan 320 Tel: +886-3-4638800 ext. 509 Fax: +886-3-4638907 e-mail: iecchang@saturn.yzu.edu.tw

Dr. Bertrand M.T. Lin, Guest Associate Editor Department of Information Management National Chi Nan University Nan-Tou County, Taiwan 545 Tel: +886-49-2910960 ext. 4142 Fax: +886-49-2915205 e-mail: mtlin@im.ncnu.edu.tw

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