OR/MS Today, December 1997 Call for Papers

Interfaces Special Issue on Ecologically Sustainable Business Practices Preference will be shown to papers that examine and demonstrate the integration of ecological sustainability into the primary operating systems of companies, with special attention to implementation processes. Papers are invited that describe decision-making analyses in which sustainability played a role, with detail on how and why such analyses have resulted in new approaches and specific benefits. These benefits may include cost savings and other efficiencies, organizational changes and improvements, and resulting market and competitive advantage. Editors are looking for papers from academicians and practicing managers. Papers must describe operations practice, have strong implementation emphasis, and document usage and benefits. Appropriate papers include reports on training programs dealing with management/operations issues in sustainability, description and analysis of specific applications, practice-oriented state-of-the-art reviews and surveys of use, and comments from corporate managers/executives. Papers should not have been submitted elsewhere or have been published; the length of the paper should be between 10-20 pages, and the abstract no more than 150 words. Send three copies to: Andrea Larson, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Box 6550, University of Virginia Deadline for submissions is Feb. 16. Journal of Service Research Sage Publications has introduced a new service research journal, the Journal of Service Research (JSR), sponsored by the Center for Service Marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. The journal will be published quarterly, and the premier issue will appear in August 1998. The mission of JSR is to provide information on research in the following areas: service marketing, service operations, service human resources and organizational design, service information systems, customer satisfaction and service quality, electronic commerce, and the economics of service. Authors are invited to submit papers of any length, and all articles will be sent to three reviewers. Authors should submit five copies of their article, in JMR/JM format, to: Roland Rust, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, 410 21st Ave., South, Nashville, Tenn., 37203. International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making The 14th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making will be held on June 8-12, 1998, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of MCDM, including: theory and methodology; applications of MCDM in the private and public sectors; risk management within the MCDM framework; mathematical and algorithmic developments in MCDM; social and behavioral studies of MCDM processes; and conflict resolution, negotiation and group decision support. Entries should be no more than 200 words in length and should include the authors' names and addresses (with the presenting author listed first) and up to four key words. Electronic submissions preferred or on a DOS diskette. Send abstracts to: MCDM 98, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, 103 Albert Small Building, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 22903; Phone: (804) 924-0960; ; E-mail: [email protected]