Feature Issue of EJOR on
Advances in Complex Systems Modeling

Names and affiliations of Guest-Editors (in alphabetic order)

The scope of the feature issue

The feature issue focuses on innovative methods and tools supporting the entire life-cycle of model development, maintenance and analysis, including various modeling paradigms, techniques and tools. The methodology for modeling and analysis of complex systems includes optimization-based approaches, multi-criteria decision analysis, non-standard simulation and multi-agent systems approaches. Modeling of uncertainty using uncertainty theories, such as probability theory, fuzzy set theory and possibility theory, is an integral part of the complex systems we are focusing on. Development of new methodologies is closely related to real world applications. Application areas of particular interest for this feature issue include telecommunication, production planning and scheduling, logistics, transportation, environmental policy-making, and electronic commerce. One particular focus is on virtual worlds and modeling, including distributed decision technologies and collaborative modeling.

Sources for papers

Authors of papers presented at the two workshops listed below, are particularly invited to submit their full papers for this Feature Issue:
  1. The IFIP Working Group 7.6. Workshop on Virtual Environments for Advanced Modeling, March 25-27, 2002, JAIST, Kanazawa, Japan.
  2. CSM'02, the 16th JISR-IIASA Workshop on Methodologies and Tools for Complex System Modeling, IIASA, July 15-17, 2002, Laxenburg, Austria.
However, the Feature Issue is not limited to these two events. The editors encourage all OR researchers and practitioners to submit papers that present original contributions to Complex Systems Modeling that are within the scope summarized above.

Submissions

Submission to the Feature Issue implies that the paper is not submitted to any other journal at the same time. All papers will be reviewed according to the EJOR standards.

The submitted papers should be written in English and they should follow the EJOR guidelines. The only exceptions from these guidelines are:

  1. The submission deadline: the papers should be submitted by September 30, 2002.
  2. The address to which the papers should be submitted: the papers should be emailed as PDF or PS files to Prof. H.-J. Sebastian: Sebastian@or.rwth-aachen.de.
    Should the author not be able to provide her/his paper in either PDF or PS format, then four copies of the paper should be mailed to:
    Prof. H.-J. Sebastian
    Department of Operations Research and Logistics Management
    RWTH Aachen
    Templergraben 64
    D-52062 Aachen,
    Germany

Approximate date of completion

May, 2003

marek@iiasa.ac.at

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