CALL FOR PAPERS
The international journal “Problems
of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems” http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/science/ans/journals/ansj.html
is seeking submissions for a special issue to be published in the second half
of 2003 or first half of 2004 on the following topic:
The aim of this special
issue is to provide a representation of current or completed research applying
various soft systems approaches (known also as Alternative Operations Research
Approaches) to practical problems or theoretical issues related to their
application to the management or design of technical systems, technology
development and technology management. The methods involve one or more of the
following (the originators of the methods are in brackets): soft systems
methodology (Checkland), SAST (Mason and Mitroff), Interactive Planning (Ackoff),
Interactive Management (Warfield), Strategic Choice (Friend), Robustness
Analysis (Rosenberg), SODA (Eden), Critical Systems Thinking (Jackson, Flood, Midgley, Mingers, Ulrich) and
other related methods.
The
application areas involving the above methods may include one of the following
or related topics applied to technical systems, technology management or
technology development:
- Systems Design
- Systems Management
- Technology Management
- Design of large scale systems
- Design of Telecommunication systems
- Management of Telecommunications
Guest
editors: Prof Don Petkov,
Submit
papers before 11th of August
2003 to petkovd@easternct.edu. The
length of a submission should not exceed
6500 words with the references. Please send papers by email in MS Word
format. Include any illustrations and tables as they need to appear in the particular
place in the text. Use the Harvard method of referencing please (http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/ls/docs/harvfron.htm
). The first page should contain the title, the authors, their affiliation and
emails, to whom should correspondence be sent, classification about whether the
paper is on research in progress, completed research or a case study. The
second page should contain only the title (without the authors), an abstract,
up to 5 keywords and then follow with the rest of the paper. The introduction must contain a clear and concise definition
of the contribution of the paper. Remove personal details about the owner
of the computer on which the paper is created by selecting in MS Word
Tools/Options/Security and click on Remove personal information. A paper will
be rejected before any reviews if it does not comply with all of the above
requirements. The format of the final accepted submissions will be communicated
to the authors of the accepted papers additionally. If you have further
questions do not hesitate to send an email please to:
Dr D. Petkov
Associate Professor MIS, Dept of Business
Administration,
Eastern
email petkovd@easternct.edu
The
reviews are expected to be completed by the 26th of September. Then the authors
will be notified about any changes suggested by the reviewers. The revised
papers, ready for publication are expected to be received from the authors by
the 17th of October. Please inform the guest editors if you are willing to
serve as a reviewer of submitted papers before