2013 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013)

 Call for Papers

2013 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference
Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 18-22, 2013

 Track: Social, Environmental and Sustainability

Deadline for Abstract Submission is November 7, 2012
Abstracts are required to be between 100 and 200 words

Abstract submission site: http://www.xcdsystem.com/iie/

Conference web site: www.iienet.org/annual

  Dear Colleagues,

 The Sustainability Division within the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) is sponsoring the Social, Environmental and Sustainability Track at the 2013 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC).  ISERC, which is part of the IIE Annual Conference and Expo, is a forum for exchanging knowledge and discoveries in the industrial and systems engineering research community.

 As track chairs of the Social, Environmental and Sustainability Track, we would like to encourage you to contribute to the conference by submitting an abstract.  Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work in ISERC sessions. Each session will be 75 minutes and have 3 or 4 presenters. Abstracts are welcome in the following areas:

 

Closed loop supply chain

Creating a sustainability culture

Economics of Sustainability

Emergency and disaster logistics

Energy efficiency

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Expeditionary logistics

Humanitarian logistics

Integration of Lean and Sustainability

Integrating sustainability into business strategy

Remanufacturing and recycling

Renewable energy systems

Social and environmental decision making

Social Entrepreneurship

Sustainable communities

Sustainable design and product development

Sustainable food supply

Sustainable manufacturing and operations

Sustainable public higher education

Sustainable supply chains

Sustainability assessments

Sustainability metrics

Sustainability modeling

Sustainability transformation

 

We encourage all presenters to submit a full length paper for the conference proceedings.  The papers should contain results that are significant and have archival value to the industrial and systems engineering research community.  Full papers have a ten-page limit and will undergo a double-blind peer review process.  All accepted papers are indexed by ProQuest.  Presentations without a paper are acceptable, but will not be indexed in the conference proceedings. 

The important deadlines for the conference are:

  • Abstract Submissions:                                                                   November 7, 2012
  • Notification of Decision on Abstract:                                          December 5, 2012
  • Submission of Full Papers (optional but encouraged):                 January 11, 2013
  • Notification of Decision on Paper:                                               February 22, 2013
  • Final Version of Full paper Due:                                                  March 8, 2013
  • Presenting Author Registration Deadline:                                    March 15, 2013

If your abstract or paper is accepted: (a) the presenting author for the paper must register for the conference by March 15, 2013 (presentations/papers without the presenting author being registered for the conference will be withdrawn from the program and the proceedings); (b) the presenting author must attend and present the paper at the conference; and (c) we ask that you be ready to serve as a reviewer for fellow authors and follow review deadlines.

There are also opportunities to organize invited sessions, or panels.  In addition to research presentations, the annual conference offers many opportunities for attendees, including the Applied Solutions Conference program, plant tours, networking, and keynote speakers.

We look forward to seeing you in San Juan!

Regards,

Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo, University of Lincoln (UK)

Gregory Weisenborn, Fort Hays State University (USA)

Social, Environmental and Sustainability Track Chairs