Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

 

Special Issue on: "Streamlining the Supply Chain Operations Through Intelligent Systems"

Guest Editors:
Dr. Henry C.W. Lau and Mr. George T. S. Ho, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Supply chain management is a growing area that consists of interrelated components including global logistics operations, production scheduling and distribution and intelligent systems for decision support. Due to the increasing awareness of supply chain management and the requirement of strategic change, it is important that logistic practitioners are able to streamline the supply chain operations with latest technologies and approaches.

This special issue on intelligent supply chain operations invites the submission of full length and short correspondence papers. It will embrace the latest research and development of intelligent logistics systems and address the most current issues and challenges. It will include the latest research results and efforts at different levels including performance measurement, logistics workflow management and intelligent supply chain operations. Prospective papers should be unpublished and present novel, fundamental research offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or an application perspective.

Subject Coverage
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Logistics decision support systems
• Supply chain management
• Intelligent system for logistics operations
• Logistics workflow management system
• Performance measurement in logistics
• Application of RFID for supply chain management

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Paper submission by prospective authors : 30 July 2007

Communication of results of peer review to authors : 30 September 2007

Final manuscript submission : 30 November 2007