CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of the
IMA JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT MATHEMATICS
on
MAINTENANCE, REPLACEMENT AND RELIABILITY
co-edited by Philip Scarf, Salford University, UK and Joseph
Hartman, Lehigh University, USA.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that discuss traditional
and innovative modelling approaches to improve the performance of
plant, products and processes. Of particular interest are
contributions to modelling issues in:
* Maintenance (inspection, overhaul, preventive maintenance, fault
diagnosis, condition based maintenance)
* Replacement analysis (fleet replacement, life-cycle costing,
capital replacement, investment appraisal)
* Reliability (reliability growth, risk analysis, risk management,
reliability-centred-maintenance)
* Warranty modelling
* Logistics in maintenance and reliability
* Human factors assessment
A particular aim of the special issue is to publish papers presented
at IFORS 2002 in the Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability
stream which was organised by the co-editors. Other contributions
are of course welcome. All papers will be subject to the usual peer
review process for publication in the journal.
SCHEDULE
1 June 2003-last date for receipt of papers for consideration.
1 February 2004-last date for receipt of final papers (i.e. last date
for completion of review by referees and revision(s) by authors).
July 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 Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability.
Papers originating from North America should be submitted to the
North America guest editor:
Joseph C. Hartman,
Associate Professor,
Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Lehigh University,
H.S. Mohler Lab,
W. Packer Ave,
Bethlehem, PA 18015-1582
USA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Papers originating from the UK, Europe and the rest of the world
should be sent to the other guest editor:
Philip Scarf,
Senior Lecturer,
Centre for OR and Applied Statistics (CORAS),
University of Salford,
Salford,
M5 4WT,
UK.
email: [log in to unmask]
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