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Call for Papers

The Scientific World Journal (SCI, 2012 Impact factor: 1.730)

Special Issue on "Optimization Methods in Information and Management Sciences"

On the occasion of the International Conference on Business, Information, and Cultural Creative Industry (ICBIC) to be held in Taipei (Taiwan) on 6-8 August 2014 (http://icbic2014.conf.tw), the journal The Scientific World Journal (SCI, 2012 Impact factor:1.730) invites submissions of papers to a special issue on "Optimization Methods in Information and Management Sciences". Participants of the ICBIC 2014 are cordially invited to submission.

Manuscripts that advance or apply the knowledge on the information and management sciences are welcome. Papers having relevance to the central theme of the special issue on topics listed below are invited.

·         Optimization Methods and Applications

·         Operations Management

·         Supply Chain Management

·         Management Information System

·         Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems

·         Heuristic Methods

·         Multi-Criteria Decision Making

·         Game Theory

·         Decision Support System

·         Electronic Commerce

·         Cloud Computing

·         Big Data

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

 

Manuscript Due

July 5, 2014

First Round of Reviews

September 27, 2014

Publication Date

November 22, 2014

 

 

 

 

When submitting your paper via the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, please choose the subject area “Operations Research” and select the special issue “Optimization Methods in Information and Management Sciences”.

 

Lead Guest Editor

Jung-Fa Tsai, Department of Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung-Hsiao East Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan; jftsai@ntut.edu.tw 

Guest Editors

C. Alec Chang, Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; ChangC@missouri.edu

Chih-Chou Chiu, Department of Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung-Hsiao East Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan; chih3c@ntut.edu.tw

Steve HsuehMing Wang, Engineering, Science, and Project Management Department, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508-4614, USA; hswang@alaska.edu