8th IMA International Conference on  Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability (MIMAR)

13 - 15 July 2014 St Catherine’s, Oxford, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 8th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability (MIMAR) will take place in Oxford, UK from 13 - 15 July, 2014. This event is the premier maintenance and reliability modelling conference in the UK and builds upon a very successful series of previous conferences. It is an excellent international forum for disseminating information on the state-of-the-art research, theories and practices in maintenance and reliability modelling and offers a platform for connecting researchers and practitioners from around the world.

Abstract and paper submission deadlines are listed below. All submissions are subject to rigorous review before an acceptance decision is made.

We hope you can attend and we will provide a warm welcome in Oxford in 2014

Conference website: http://www.ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/mimar8.cfm

Papers on the following topics will be presented in oral and poster sessions:

  • Decision Analysis and Methods
  • Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis
  • Healthcare Systems and Management
  • Human Factors
  • Information Processing and Engineering
  • Life cycle/performance analysis
  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing Systems
  • Expert Elicitation
  • Operations Research
  • Production Planning and Control
  • Quality Control and Management
  • Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
  • Safety, Security and Risk Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Systems Modelling and Simulation
  • Value Chain Management
  • Warranty Management and Data Analysis

Publication

All submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be indexed indexing by Engineering Index (EI). ). Selected and extended papers may be considered for a special issue of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, subject to further review.

Key Dates

Abstract submission to [log in to unmask] by 31 January 2014.

Paper submission for conference proceedings to [log in to unmask] by 25 April 2014.

Extended papers for consideration for fully refereed special issue of the IMA journal of Management Mathematics to be submitted to [log in to unmask] by 17 October 2014.

Organising committee

Philip Scarf, Chair (University of Salford, UK)

Wenbin Wang, Co-Chair (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)

Shaomin Wu, Co-Chair (University of Kent, UK)

 

Programme committee

 

Professor John Andrews (Nottingham University, UK)

Professor M.D. Berrade Ursúa (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)

Professor David Coit (Rutgers University, USA)

Professor Frank Coolen (Durham University, UK)

Professor Li-Rong Cui (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Professor Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University, The Netherlands)

Professor Tadashi Dohi (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Dr Ralf Gitzel (ABB)

Professor Carlos Guedes Soares (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)

Professor Dong Ho Park (Hallym University, Korea)

Professor Geert van Houtum (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Professor Hong-Zhong Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Professor Andrew Jardine (University of Toronto, Canada)

Professor Renyan Jiang (Changsha University of Science & Technology, China)

Professor Gregory Levitin (The Israel Electric Corporation, Israel)

Professor Pra Murthy    (University of Queensland, Australia)

Dr Rui Peng (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)

Professor Hoang Pham (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA)

Professor Liliane Pintelon (University of Leuven, Belgium)

Professor  Rajkumar Roy (Cranfield University, UK)

Dr Mahmood Shafiee

Professor Adiel Teixeira de Almeida (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

Professor Lesley Walls (The University of Strathclyde, UK)

Professor Hongzhou Wang (Lucent Technologies, USA)

Professor Jing Wang (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Professor Min Xie (City University of Hong Kong, China)

Dr Keming Yu (Brunel University, UK)

Professor Enrico Zio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Professor Ming J Zuo (University of Alberta, Canada)

 

Enquiries

Lizzi Lake, The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF

Email: [log in to unmask]

Tel: 01702 356102

Fax: 01702 354111

 

Pamela Bye

Conference Support Officer

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Tel: 01702 354020

 

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