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CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE OF Management Science ON E-BUSINESS

Proposals for papers due by APRIL 1 2001

A. Geoffrion and R. Krishnan, Co-Editors

As everyone knows by now, few organizations will long flourish without deliberately responding to the opportunities and threats brought by the digital economy. OR/MS has at least as much to offer in this new era as it did in decades past, but of course the problems are changing. The aim of this special issue of Management Science is to help OR/MS researchers recognize some of the most promising new research opportunities and understand the approaches most likely to be fruitful.

Theme

This issue will survey key OR/MS research areas relevant to e-business and report on innovative methodological applications in this domain.

Types of Papers Sought

The editors have just finished compiling a special issue of Interfaces on the applications and potential for OR/MS in the digital economy: see www.informs.org/ebiz/interfaces/ or the published issue (March-April 2001). As a result, they have identified application and technology areas in which OR/MS has a particularly bright immediate future, and these are the areas most favored for this special issue of Management Science:

* Auction and e-market design * Customer relationship management (CRM) * Data mining * Display ordering of search results * Dynamic pricing & revenue management * Hybrid microeconomic/OR models * Personalization and recommendation technologies * Quality of service modeling for network infrastructure * Supply chain management

This issue will consist of research-oriented reviews and surveys emphasizing OR/MS theory and technology. Actual applications that make novel use of OR/MS methodology will also be considered. Both types of contributions will demonstrate either the application or applicability of OR/MS theory and technology to real problems. Special Arrangements

Accelerated publication schedule after all papers are finalized (aiming for mid 2002) Companion Website containing all accepted papers and related research materials Active promotion of both the special issue and its companion site Submissions

Please submit a proposal, not an entire manuscript, to one or both editors by April 1, 2001. It should be specific about the ground to be covered, include a representative collection of references that would be covered, give the earliest realistic completion date for the full paper, and be no longer than a few pages.

Prospective authors will be notified of accepted proposals by May 15, including a target date for completion of first drafts (probably about six months later). All manuscripts will be refereed, and the editors reserve the right to finally accept only those papers meeting a sufficiently high standard of excellence in a timely manner.

Prof. Arthur M. Geoffrion James A. Collins Professor of Management Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management Box 951481, UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481 (310) 825-1113 tel, (310) 825-1581 fax ageoffri@anderson.ucla.edu

Prof. Ramayya Krishnan W.W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Information Systems The Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268 2174 tel, (412) 268 7036 fax rk2x@cmu.edu

---------------------------------------------- Ramayya Krishnan W.W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Information Systems The Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University http://krishnan.heinz.cmu.edu

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