CALLS FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications

Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and their processes, including manufacture and support. This approach leads developers, from the outset, to consider all the stages of the product life cycle, from conceptual through disposal, including quality, cost, schedule and customer requirements.

Papers are sought that discuss architectures for supporting virtual teams, decision-support tools and design rationale, as well as those that concentrate on more theoretical issues such as specifications of shared languages, constraint-based problem solving and negotiation. In particular, the editors are soliciting papers dealing with various aspects of enterprise integration such as assessing an organization's readiness, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, agile manufacturing and virtual enterprise. Also, papers related to the following topics are welcome:

  • Modeling manufacturing resources, processes, and strategies to support concurrent engineering.
  • Designing performance measurement systems for improving the application of the concurrent engineering process.
  • Experience from implementing concurrent engineering systems in real life environments.
  • The role of multimedia in enterprise management and integration.
  • Decision support systems for integrating organizational decision making.
  • Improving communication and decision making within quality function deployment.

    Deadlines: 1- to 2-page abstracts are due before Jan. 15, 1996; five copies of full manuscript due Feb. 15, 1996; notification of acceptance March 15, 1996; final version of manuscript due May 15, 1996.

    Please submit your manuscripts to one of the following co-editors: Dr. A. Gunasekaran, School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria 3842, Australia; Phone: +61 51 22 6832; ; E-mail: [email protected]