Within Industrial Organization (e.g., e-commerce, energy markets, mergers, commercial aviation), groups, work teams, systems and organizations are considered to be complex phenomena. Until now these phenomena have been studied in the laboratory or the field with as few variables as possible in part because manipulating independent variables increases the complexity of the research in and of itself.
This difficulty of managing research on complexity has slowed the development of theory and direct approaches to its study in organizations. Computational models may solve this problem or exacerbate it (faulty input producing faulty output). However, computational approaches based on sound first principles of groups, teams, organizations or systems offer a grand opportunity to speed the discovery of new theory and novel applications to the study of collective phenomena in industrial organizations.
The main focus of Industrial Organization is on cooperation and competition, especially decision-making and its effects on efficiency, innovation, systems and society. Proposed papers may deal widely with internal organization processes, economic sectors or developed and developing economies. But the primary interest should be on theory and hypothesis testing with computational models verified by empirical evidence or case studies.
The objective of this special session is to focus on basic and applied computational, mathematical or physics models of groups, teams, systems and industrial organizations.
We welcome computational, agent-based, mathematical physics based, dynamic or quantum models of industrial organizations. In addition, other approaches may also be considered (e.g., biology, game theory) in the context of industrial organization.
Important dates:
Full paper submission due: 2006.3.1
Paper acceptance notification date: 2006.5.15
Final (Camera-ready) paper submission due: 2006.7.15
Paper submission:
Authors are invited to submit the extended abstract, limited to 4 pages. Papers should be formatted with double columns and should be single-spaced in a 10 point font such as Times Roman. Please email the papers to Bill Lawless at lawlessw@mac.com.
Publication:
This special session is held in conjunction with CIEF'2006 to be held October 8-11, 2006 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. CIEF is included with ISIP citations, EI indexing with Elsevier and possibly with SCI or SCI-E. A number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the Journal of Information Sciences, New Mathematics and Natural Computation, or a book volume published by an internationally renowned publisher.
CIEF is one of track of JCIS. JCIS has ISIP citation for many years. Elsevier has accepted the JCISĄŻs application for EI indexing. |
