CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of the IMA JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICS
OR in SPORT
Co-edited by John Norman, Sheffield University, UK and Philip
Scarf, Salford University, UK.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that discuss modelling
approaches in Sport. While contributions that address decision-
making issues are particularly welcome, contributions of a general
statistical, mathematical and econometric nature are also
welcome. Some particular themes are:
* Optimal strategies in Sport
* Performance measurement
* Modelling of sporting outcomes
* Decision-making in gambling
* Econometrics and Sport
* Analysis of scoring systems
* Analysis of tournaments
* Decision support for the management of sport
A particular aim of the special issue is to publish papers presented
at EURO/INFORMS 2003 in the OR in Sport stream which is being
organised by John Norman. Other contributions are of course
welcome. All papers will be subject to the usual peer review
process for publication in the journal.
SCHEDULE
1 Jul 2003-last date for receipt of papers for consideration.
1 April 2004-last date for receipt of final papers (i.e. last date for
completion of review by referees and revision(s) by authors).
September 2004-publication of special issue.
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Manuscripts must follow the layout for Management Mathematics;
details can be found at http://www3.oup.co.uk/imaman/instauth/
When submitting, authors must indicate that they wish the
manuscript to be considered for the special issue of Management
Mathematics on OR in Sport. All papers should be submitted to:
Philip Scarf,
Centre for OR and Applied Statistics (CORAS),
University of Salford,
Salford,
M5 4WT,
UK.
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