Call for Papers

Submission Deadline – September 30, 2023

Submission Link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/abstract/index.cfm?ID=MjzPmiN
Registration Link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=Fphyf14

IEOM Society International is organizing the first EV conference. The conference aims to provide a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and recent developments in the field of smart mobility and vehicle electrification. The conference is also expected to foster networking, collaboration and joint effort among the conference participants to advance the theory and practice as well as to identify major trends in EV.

Authors can submit full paper(s) or abstract(s) only. Authors MUST use the conference template to prepare papers or abstracts. IEOM Society encourages to submit full paper(s). All full papers will be subjected to double peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and indexed. Any submission implies that an author will present the paper or abstract virtually or orally.

Templates

Paper Template: http://ieomsociety.org/documents/paper-detroit2023.docx
Abstract Template: http://ieomsociety.org/documents/abstract-detroit2023.docx
Paper Checklist: http://ieomsociety.org/documents/paper-checklist.pdf
IEOM Reference Format: http://ieomsociety.org/documents/ieom-reference-format.docx

Sample Reference Format:

Reimer, D., Islam, T. and Ali, A., Engineering education and the entrepreneurial mindset at Lawrence Tech, Proceedings of the 12^th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. xx-xx, Istanbul, Turkey, July 3-6, 2012, https://doi.org/10.46254/AN4.12.202201.

Sample IEOM Papers can be followed to prepare a quality paper:
Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, Paper 4, Paper 5, Paper 6, Paper 7, Paper 8, Paper 9, Paper 10 and a sample review paper.

Papers will be indexed in EBSCO, Google Scholar and IEOM Index.

IEOM Index includes the following:

Each paper will have a landing page
Each paper will have a DOI
Open Journal Systems (OJS) integration with Google Scholar Index Analytics
Paper citation analytics
Author publication analytics
Advanced search capability
Open access
Paper Download statistics
Library subscription option

If you need an acceptance letter/invitation letter or have any question, please contact Dr. Taufiq Islam (info@ieomsociety.org).

Tracks

Topics covering industrial issues/applications and academic research include, but are not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicle
Data Analytics and Big Data
Design and Analysis
Electric Vehicles
Energy
Engineering Education
Engineering Management
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
EV Batteries
EV Charging
EV Ownership
EV Servicing
EV Sustainability
Financial Engineering
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Information Technology/Information Systems
IoT
Modeling and Simulation
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)
Product / Service Configuration
Product Design and Development
Product Lifecycle Management
Production Planning and Management
Project Management
Quality Control and Management
Reliability and Maintenance
Sensors and Sensing Systems
Smart mobility
Statistical Process Control
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability and Green Systems
Sustainable Manufacturing
Systems Dynamics
Systems Engineering
Technology Management
Transportation and Traffic
User experiences
Work Design, Measurement and ISO

COMPETITIONS:

Industry Best Practice Competition
Innovation Competition
Design Competition
Simulation Competition
SCM Competition
Undergraduate student paper competition
Graduate student paper competition

Special Tracks

Global Engineering Education (GEE)
Global Business Management Education
Industry 4.0 / Industry Solutions
Diversity and Inclusion / Women in Industry and Academia (WIIAA)

Deadlines

Abstract/Paper Submission: September 30, 2023
Registration Deadline: September 30, 2023
Final Paper: October 5, 2023
Conference: October 10-12, 2023

IEOM Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Paper Formatting Guidelines

Paper Template (*.docx) Use IEOM Template to Prepare Your Manuscript Abstract Template (*.docx)

Title

Paper Title should be 18 font with bold and center justification.
All titles should be in standard mixed case, where the first letter of each word is capitalized and followed by lower case letters, as noted here: “Lean Manufacturing, Operations Management and Six Sigma Applications”

Authors and Affiliations

Author name – 12 font with bold and center justification
Affiliation – 12 font with center justification
Authors with same affiliation should be together
Authors with different affiliation should be listed separately with one space in between
Email can be added for each author
Single space between affiliation and abstract title
Abstract title – 12 font with bold and center justification
Abstract text – 10 font with full justification
Abstract not exceeding 250 words.

Keywords (12 font)
Keyword 1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3, Keyword 4 and Keyword 5. (10 font)

No more than five keywords (10 font)

Page Layout

8 1/2″ X 11″ paper
All margins: 1.00″
Full justification
Times New Roman font
Maximum 12 pages
Minimum 8 pages
Single space for entire manuscript
Each paper should have abstract, introduction, literature review with minimum 15 citations including some recent publications, methods, data analysis, numerical and graphical results, statistical analysis, validation, conclusion and references.
Conference header should be “Proceedings of the 5th European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rome, Italy, July 26 – 28, 2022” and copyright information as footer must be used as “© IEOM Society International”. Copyright information implies that IEOM Society International has right to publication the paper.

1. Headings (12 font)

12 font size with bold and left justification
Header should have numbering
No space between header and text

1.1 Sub-Headings (11 font)

Title – 11 font with sub-numbering
Text – 10 font with no indexing
One space between paragraphs
No space between header and text

Figures

Texts of figure should be readable
Original high quality pictures
Center justification
Title of Figure should be in center and it must be mentioned as “Figure x: …”
Title of figure should be sentence case with center justification and 10 font
Title should be after figure
All figure numbers must be mentioned in the body of the paper.
One space between texts and figure, figure and title of the figure and title of the figure and texts.

Insert Figure Here

Figure 1. Name of the figure

Tables

Texts of table should be readable
Center justification
Title of table should be in center and it must be mentioned as “Table x: …” It should be added before table.
Title of table should be sentence case with center justification and 10 font size
All table numbers must be mentioned in the body of the paper.
One space between texts and table, table and title of the table and title of the table and texts.

Table 1. Name of the table

Insert Table Here

Equations

Equation numbering is optional.

Acknowledgements

Add acknowledgement if needed

References

References title – 12 font with bold and left justification
References texts – 10 font
No numbering should be used for reference title
Last name and year should be used for any reference citation. Last name and year should be used for single author and double authors. For more than two authors, last name of the first author and “et al.” with year should be used. For examples: Reimer (2009), (Reimer 2009), Reimer and Ali (2009), (Reimer and Ali 2009), Reimer et al. (2009) and (Reimer et al. 2009). Number is not allowed in the reference citation.
All references must be cited in the paper.
Journal and conference names should in in italic.
Title of the book should be in italic.
All lines after the first line of references list should be indented one-fourth (1/4) inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation. .
Last name and first initial should be should in the reference formatting like below examples.
Internet resources should have author(s) if any, title of website, company or organization, URL, Accessed Day.

Sample Reference Format (Alphabetical Order)

Chang, T., Wysk, R., and Wang, H., Computer-Aided Manufacturing, 3^rd Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2006.
Cook, V., and Ali, A., End-of-line inspection for annoying noises in automobiles: trends and perspectives, Applied Acoustic, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 265-275, 2012.
Khadem, M., Ali, A., and Seifoddini, H., Efficacy of lean metrics in evaluating the performance of manufacturing system, International Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 176-184, 2008.
Krstovski, S. , IEOM Lean Six Sigma Global Competition: COVID-19 Pandemic, IEOM Society, http://ieomsociety.org/ieom/covid-19/, Accessed Day: June 9, 2020.
Pandian, A., and Ali, A., Automotive robotic body shop simulation for performance improvement using plant feedback, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 269-291, 2011.
Rahim, A., and Khan, M., Optimal determination of production run and initial settings of process parameters for a deteriorating process, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, April 2007, vol. 32, no. 7-8, pp. 747-756, 2007.
Rahman, M. A., Sarker, B. R., and Escobar, L. A., Peak demand forecasting for a seasonal product using Bayesian approach, Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 62, pp. 1019-1028, 2011.
Reimer, D., Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Available: http://www.ieomsociet.org/ieom/newsletters/, July 2020.
Reimer, D., and Ali, A., Engineering education and the entrepreneurial mindset at Lawrence Tech, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. xx-xx, July 3 – 6, 2012.
Shetty, D., Ali, A., and Cummings, R., A model to assess lean thinking manufacturing initiatives, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 310-334, 2010.
Srinivasan, G., Arcelus, F.J., and Pakkala, T.P.M., A retailer’s decision process when anticipating a vendor’s temporary discount offer, Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol. 57, pp. 253-260, 2009.

Biography / Biographies (for single author – biography and multiple authors- biographies) – 12 font bold

Include bio of each author at the end of the paper
Limited to 250 words

Mario Fargnoli is currently employed at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and collaborates with Sapienza – University of Rome as Contract Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, where he earned his PhD in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he worked at the Department of Precision Machinery of the University of Tokyo as JSPS Fellow Researcher. His research interests mainly concern design for safety and human error, product-service systems (PSS), ecodesign as well as engineering tools and methods such as Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process (ANP), Life Cycle Assessment.

Patrick Dallasega is an Assistant Professor of Factory Planning and Project Management at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bolzano (Italy). He studied at the Free University of Bolzano (Italy), at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) and got his PhD at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). From 2005 until 2010, he worked in the fields of plant and factory planning in a local food processing industry. Later, from 2012 until 2015, he was employed as Research Associate at Fraunhofer Italia Research where he managed and executed several research projects for private and public customers. Since 2016, he has been employed as Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His main research interests are in, supply chain management, Industry 4.0, lean construction, lean manufacturing and production planning and control in MTO and ETO enterprises.

Matteo Mario Savino is a Professor of Industrial Operations and Industrial Management at the University of Sannio. He received a PhD in Industrial plants in 1999 at the University Federico II of Naples, Department of Design and Industrial Engineering. Among his research interests there are Project Management, Risk Assessment, Quality aspects related to industrial production. He has managed several National and EU Funded research and educational projects. Since 2008 he has been a Delegate of the Rector for Quality Assurance and is the President of the University Quality Centre. He is the author of more than 50 Scientific Publications and participates in International Journals and International Peer Review proceedings.

Ahad Ali is an Associate Professor, and Director of Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA. He earned B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, Masters in Systems and Engineering Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and PhD in Industrial Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published journal and conference papers. Dr Ali has completed research projects with Chrysler, Ford, New Center Stamping, Whelan Co., Progressive Metal Manufacturing Company, Whitlam Label Company, DTE Energy, Delphi Automotive System, GE Medical Systems, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, International Truck and Engine Corporation (ITEC), National/Panasonic Electronics, and Rockwell Automation. His research interests include manufacturing, simulation, optimization, reliability, scheduling, manufacturing, and lean. He is member of IEOM, INFORMS, SME and IEEE.

Donald M. Reimer is the managing member of The Small Business Strategy Group, L.L.C and serves as an adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Detroit/Mercy. He has been recognized as a professional management consultant with over 45 years of experience in working with closely-held businesses. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, management and corporate entrepreneurship and innovation for engineers. Mr. Reimer served as member of the Minority Economic Development Committee of New Detroit. He has served as a KEEN Fellow for The Kern Family Foundation. He is member of the Lawrence Tech Alumni Board of Directors and has elected a Fellow of the IEOM Society International. Mr. Reimer is a faculty advisor of the Student Chapter of the IEOM Society at Lawrence Tech.