Award and Special Issue
Accepted papers presented on the conference will be considered for Best Papers Award and publication in a special issue of Asia-pacific Journal of Industrial Management.

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

1. Production Management
• Scheduling and Line Balancing
• Production Planning and Inventory Strategy
• Total Quality Control and its Perspective
• Process Design and Facility Layout Planning
• Human Factors
2. Advanced Production Management Methodologies
• Lean Production
• Agile Manufacturing
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Just in Time Production
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Green Manufacturing
• Reengineering in Industrial Management
3. Project Management
• Network Techniques in Large Scale Project Management
• Cost/Resource Control in Project Management
• Theory and Practice of Project Management
4. Research and Development
• Management of Science and Technology
• Technology Transfer
• Innovation and Diffusion of Technology
5. Quantitative Analysis in Industrial Management
• Decision Analysis and Decision Making
• Applications of Mathematical Programming in Industrial Management
• Fuzzy Set and its Applications in Industrial Management
6. Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology in Industrial Management
• Factory Automation and Industrial Robots
• Knowledge-based Systems in Industrial Management
• Neural-Network Technique and its Applications in Industrial Management
• Decision Support Systems (DSS)   
• Management Information Systems (MIS)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Strategic Information Systems (SIS)
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
7. Practice and Experiences in Industrial Management
• Joint Venture Management
• Comparative Studies on Industrial Management among China, Japan and other Countries
• New Advances and Trends in Industrial Management
8. Digital Factory
• Management over Internet
• Manufacturing System Supported by Image Processing
• Electric Commerce
• System Simulation and its Applications in Management

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
ICIM 2010 Secretariat Office
Dept. of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University,
Tsushima Naka 3-1-1, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan 700-8530
Fax: +81-86-251-8060
E-mail: icim2010@icim.jp

Conference Organization

	China	Japan
Chairman	HuiwenWANG	Hirokazu OSAKI
Co-Chairman	Xiangdong CHEN	Masao GOTOH
Program Coordinators	Jing WANG	Katsuhiko TAKAHASHI
Program Committee	Haijun HUANG	Shusaku HIRAKI
	Guoping XIA	Shigeru YAMADA
	Ning ZHANG	Yasuhiro KAJIHARA
	Hong ZHOU	Masakazu KANEZASHI
	Zhixin LIU	Kazumasa OHASHI
	Meiying YANG	Yutaka FUJIHARA
	Fajie WEI	Akimine NISHIKORI
	Lu LIU	Hiroyuki MATSUBARA
	Bo YU	Shigekazu ISHIHARA
	Sifeng LIU	Katsumi MORIKAWA
	Yizhong MA	Akihiro KANAGAWA
	Ershi QI	Sang-Jae SONG
	Naiding YANG	Ikou KAKU
	Xuedong GAO	Yoshiomi MUNESAWA
	Ronggui DING	Mitsuru JIDAI
Organizer	Weiguo FANG	Kazumasa OHASHI
		Hiroshi YAMAOKA
Secretaries	Hui REN	Yoshiomi MUNESAWA
	Xing CHEN	Mitsuru JINDAI