Food production and supply chain management

to be published in the ISI rated journal OR Spectrum.

Possible topics for contributions are

• Design of food production and distribution systems
• Advanced Planning in the food sector
• Application of OR to problems in agriculture
• Risk assessment, safety management and traceability in food supply chains
• Detailed planning and scheduling of processing operations
• Shelf-life and perishable inventory management
• Logistics execution and transportation management
• Demand and revenue management in the food industries
• Sustainability, such as environmental issues in production and distribution, reverse and closed-loop supply chains, animal friendliness

Due to the focus of the journal on Operations Research, the papers must also make an original contribution with regards to the development of quantitative methodology.

Editors of the special issue are Jack van der Vorst from Wageningen University and myself, Martin Grunow, Technical University of Denmark. Deadline for submissions is 31 December 2008. Please find more details in the attached call for papers.

We are looking forward to your submissions. Please contact me in case you have any questions relating to the special issue.

Best regards, Martin

Martin Grunow
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Management Engineering
Industrial Engineering and Management
Produktionstorvet
Building 425, office: 111
2800 Kgs. Lyngby (Copenhagen), Denmark
phone : + 45 45 25 44 40
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fax : + 45 45 25 60 05
mailto:grunow@ipl.dtu.dk

http://www.ipl.dtu.dk/grunow

Call For papers

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies  (IJMSO)

Special Issue on: “Agricultural Metadata and Semantics”

A common vision that may serve as an enabler for sustainable development, environmental preservation and fighting hunger in the world is the involvement, collaboration and coordination of activities dealing with the production, organisation and exchange of agricultural knowledge. Numerous technical and subject experts are working on related topics, tackling with issues such as classifications and taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, thesauri, authority files, glossaries, metadata specifications and their application profiles, as well as ontology-driven applications.
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Topics of interest are:

- Optimization techniques applied agriculture and environment,

- Data mining techniques in agriculture and environment,

- UML (The Unified Modeling Language) and its applications in agriculture and environment,

- OCL (Object Constraint Language) and its use in agricultural and environmental systems

- MDA (Model Driven Architecture)

- Crop modeling techniques and applications,

- Decision Support Systems and other topics of interests.

Proposed papers will be examined by a group of three reviewers to ensure high quality of the volume.

Important dates:

November, 30, 2008 is the deadline for accepting papers March 30, 2009 is the deadline for delivering the volume Around end June 2009 for volume publication