The Fifth European Conference on
Intelligent Management Systems in Operations – IMSIO 5 (2013)
3-4 July 2013
THINK LAB, University of Salford, M5 4WT, U.K.
Call for Papers
Operations management poses a number of problems of significant complexity whose solution would lead to
more effective operations and bring significant economic benefits. Their solution, however, require novel
approaches that are based on techniques and principles from both Operational Research and Artificial
Intelligence.
As business and industry become more global, diverse and market driven, the drive for more effective solutions
for problems in operations management increases. Using traditional OR techniques alone has long been
recognised as being too restricted for many applications, leading to research on the use of a combination of AI
and OR techniques for problems in operations management.
This will be the fifth in a series of conferences that aims to bring together researchers developing and applying
techniques from AI and OR to problems in operations management. Previous conferences held in 1997, 2001,
2005 and 2009 proved to be very successful and led to a total of six special issues of the Journal of the
Operational Research Society and the International journal of Manufacturing Technology Management.
This conference, to be held in the Think Lab at Salford University, aims to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on the challenging problems in operations management that are at the OR-AI interface.
Researchers and practitioners from industry and academia are invited to submit papers in all areas related to
aspects of design, development, testing and implementation of intelligent management systems in manufacturing
and service operations covering but not restricted to:
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Media Operations
HealthCare
Knowledge Management in Operations
E-Business and E-Manufacturing
Finance and Credit Scoring
Logistics
Maintenance and Fault Diagnosis
Scheduling and Capacity Planning
Supply Chains and Inventory Management
Process Design, Quality Management & Control
Operations and Control of Intelligent Buildings
Papers describing case studies utilising or evaluating AI techniques such as Neural Networks, Data Mining,
Knowledge Discovery, Semantic Ontologies, Knowledge Based Systems, Case Based Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic,
Bayesian Networks, Agent Technology as well as Hybrid Intelligent techniques are particularly encouraged.
Key Dates & Extended Deadlines
* Indication of intention to present a paper A.S.A.P.
* Extended abstract of around 500 words to be submitted by 01 March 2013
* Accepted papers to be notified by 05 March 2013.
* Full papers to be submitted by 01 April 2013.
Organising committee
Khairy A. H. Kobbacy, University of Salford (Chair)
Sunil Vadera, University of Salford (Co-Chair)
Hilary Wilkes, Conference Organiser, the OR Society
www.theorsociety.com/IMSIO2013
Submission Procedure
Send intent to attend/submit a paper or abstract to:
Khairy Kobbacy or Sunil Vadera,
The University of Salford,
Salford, M5 4WT UK.
EMail: k.a.h.kobbacy@salford.ac.uk; s.vadera@salford.ac.uk