ICIM 2018
THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT

SEP. 12-14, 2018
Hangzhou
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Call for Papers

Sponsors
Beihang University (BUAA)
Japan Industrial Management Association Chugoku-Shikoku Branch (JIMA)


Cooperations
National Natural Science Foundation of China

Schedule / Important Dates

March 15

Deadline for extended abstract submission

April 30

Deadline for paper submission

May 31

Notification of preliminary acceptance

June 30

Deadline for camera-ready paper submission

July 1

Notification of formal acceptance
and registration to conference

July 31

Deadline for registration


Registration Fees
Participant:60,000JPY, Student:30,000 JPY

Award and Special Issue
Selected papers presented at the conference will be considered for Best Papers Award and/or publication in a special issue of Asia-pacific Journal of Industrial Management. (Submission Rule)

Topic Category
Papers in the area of industrial management are welcome.
Suggested topics include, but need not be limited to:

1.     Production Management

o   Scheduling and Line Balancing

o   Production Planning and Inventory Strategy

o   Total Quality Control and its Perspective

o   Process Design and Facility Layout Planning

o   Human Factors

2.     Advanced Production Management Methodologies

o   Lean Production

o   Computer Integrated Manufacturing

o   Logistics and Supply Chain Management

o   Green Manufacturing

o   Reengineering in Industrial Management

o   Internet of Things

3.     Project Management

o   Network Techniques in Large Scale Project Management

o   Cost/Resource Control in Project Management

o   Theory and Practice of Project Management

4.     Research and Development

o   Management of Science and Technology

o   Technology Transfer

o   Innovation and Diffusion of Technology

o   Three Dimension Printing Related Issue

5.     Quantitative Analysis in Industrial Management

o   Decision Analysis and Decision Making

o   Applications of Mathematical Programming in Industrial Management

o   Fuzzy Set and its Applications in Industrial Management

6.     Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology in Industrial Management

o   Factory Automation and Industrial Robots

o   Knowledge-based Systems in Industrial Management

o   Decision Support Systems (DSS)   

o   Management Information Systems (MIS)

o   Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

o   Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

7.     Practice and Experiences in Industrial Management

o   Joint Venture Management

o   Comparative Studies on Industrial Management among China, Japan and other Countries

o   Servitization

8.     Digital Factory

o   Management over Internet

o   Manufacturing System Supported by Image Processing

o   Electric Commerce

o   System Simulation and its Applications in Management

9.     Energy and Environment Management

o   Energy system optimization

o   Energy and environmental policy simulation

o   Low carbon economics

Paper Submission Requirements

1.     Only electronic submissions in MS Word are acceptable.

2.     All these elements must be in this order: title; authors with institutional affiliations; abstract; keyword list; content; references; and endnotes (if any).

3.     At most 6 printed pages with 10-point font size and single line spacing.

4.     Format of final paper submission can be downloaded from the Website. (Instruction, Sample)

Correspondence / Inquiry
Papers and inquiries should be sent to

Japan
Yoshiomi MUNESAWA ICIM 2018 Secretariat Office
Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima Institute of Technology,
2-1-1 Miyake, Saeki-ku, Hiroshima 731-5193 Japan
Fax: +81-82-921-8973
E-mail: icim2018@icim.jp

Conference Organization

China

Japan

Chairman

Huiwen WANG

Katsuhiko TAKAHASHI

Co-Chairman

Renqian ZHANG

Shigeru YAMADA

Honorary Chairman

Guoping XIA

Hirokazu OSAKI

Program Coordinators

Haitaio ZHENG

Yasuhiro KAJIHARA

Program Committee

Haijun HUANG

Akihiro KANAGAWA

Ying FAN

Akimine NISHIKORI

Liyan HAN

Hisashi YAMAMOTO

Zhixin LIU

Ikou KAKU

Xiangdong CHEN

Katsumi MORIKAWA

Ning ZHANG

Mitsuru JINDAI

Hong ZHOU

Shinji INOUE

Guozhu JIA

Shuichi TOKUNAGA

Ning ZHOU

Takayuki KATAOKA

Zhong YAO

Yoshiaki ISHIHARA

Qiuhong ZHAO

Yoshinari YANAGAWA

Sifeng LIU

Yoshinobu TAMURA

Jing WANG

Yukihiro MATSUBARA

Qiong TIAN

Yuzo TAKAHASHI

Zhongfeng QIN

Zhong SHAO

Weiguo FANG

Zhuqi XU

Organizer

Jichang ZHAO

Takashi TANIZAKI

Yashuai LI

Yoshiomi MUNESAWA

Secretaries

Xing CHEN

Daisuke HIROTANI

Yi HAO

Seiko TAKI