Information Management for Productivity Enhancement

                               CALL FOR PAPER  FOR

  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGILE MANUFACTORING - IJAM
               (http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~snd7483/IJAM.html)


                      Paper Submission due January 10th, 2000


                                      Sponsored by the
               International Society for Agile Manufacturing - ISAM
                  (http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~snd7483/ISAM.html)


                                    Dr. Suren N. Dwivedi
                                          Chief Editor
                                        suren@usl.edu


                                       Dr. Sofiane Labidi
                                        Associate Editor
                                       labidi@elo.com.br



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  About  IJAM:

     The International Journal of Agile Manufacturing -IJAM  welcomes
original
     papers that  pertain to state-of-the-art research and development,
product
     development, novel applications, and tools in the areas related to
agile
     manufacturing. The Journal addresses the utilization of Agility,
and includes
     areas of information modeling, distribution, planning and
scheduling, and
     collaborative decision-making, as well as the organization and
management.
     Agile technologies that result in faster productivity and better
customer value
     are emphasized. Major research areas include process
characterization and
     matrices, enterprise modeling, multi-enterprise integration,
information
     sharing and collaboration, networked collocation tools for
multi-media
     conferences, distributed environments, corporate technical
memories, Agility
     languages and tools, intelligent retrieval, virtual teams,
architectures, and
     emerging standards and practices.  IJAM is published four times a
year
     with papers selected from all parts of the world.


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   About the Session:

     The Information Management for Productivity Enhancement Session
will study
     the importance of the definition of new interdisciplinary
technologies for Knowledge
     Management and its impact for productivity enhancement.   As we
move forward in
     toward the age of infinite information  and start using widely new
technologies in
     diverse areas for a wide range of  simple to complex applications.

     Thus, we expect that most of the forthcoming papers will cover
theoretical
     and  practical approaches to knowledge management concerning the
following
     (and not limited) topics:

          Corporate Memory,
          Workflow Management,
          Distribution, Planning and Scheduling,
          Web-Based Technologies,
          Knowledge Discovery and Data-Mining,
          Concurrent Engineering, etc.

     This session of the Journal would then review the progress and
prospects
     in this interesting  area focusing on (1) Innovative applications,
(2)  Challenges
     of successful deployment of new Technologies, Theory and Approaches
for
     Information Management.



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Submission Details:

          Submit your articles electronically (in PDF, Postscript, or MS
WORD format)
          through the email:  labidi@elo.com.br    until January, 10.

          Authors are encouraged to submit prior to this an abstract of
their
          contribution.

          Submissions must not exceed 15 pages, including title page,
figures, and
          references. The title page must contain: title and authors;
physical and e-mail
          addresses; an abstract of no more than 200 words; a list of
five keywords.

          Paper should be formatted according to ISAM format, see:
Manuscript Preparation.
          (http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~snd7483/submission.html)

          Submitted papers must be written in English and describe
original work not
          previously published.  Submissions will be judged on
significance, originality,
          quality and clarity. Each paper will be cross-reviewed by
three referees.


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The Session Editors:

Dr.  Sofiane Labidi
Electrical Engineering Department,
Federal University of Maranhão,
Campus of Bacanga,
65080-040 São Luis, MA,
Brazil.
Fax:     +55 98 217 82 41
Phone: +55 98 91 12 04 61 (mobile)


Dr. Suren N. Dwivedi
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southwestern Louisiana,
P.O. Box 44170, 241 E.Lewis St.,
CLR Hall Rm. 223, USL,
Lafayette, LA 70 504 - 4170
Tel: (318) 482 - 53 61  -  Fax: (318) 262 - 54 72
E-mail: snd7483@usl.edu
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see:        http://www.elo.com.br/~labidi/ijam.html