CALL FOR PAPERS

Guest editor:
Desheng Dash Wu (managing guest editor), Shu-Cherng Fang, David L. Olson and John Birge

http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Dash.Wu/optm.htm
Optimization: A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research
Special Issue on “Optimizing Risk management in services”, 2008 Impact Factor 0.845

Optimization publishes refereed, theoretical and applied papers on the latest developments in fields such as linear, nonlinear, stochastic, parametric, discrete and dynamic programming, control theory and game theory. One of the advanced application areas is service sector. Optimization intends to publish a special issue dedicated to the theme of “Optimizing Risk management in services” in August 2012.
Service science and service engineering have emerged as a new area attracting a great deal of attentions. In the current turmoil world caused by the financial crisis, optimizing risk management inevitably demonstrates lots of value. Many risk issues are new and challenging to researchers. This also creates chances for traditional optimization tools such as linear, nonlinear, stochastic, parametric, discrete and dynamic programming, control theory and game theory to evolve and develop in new applications.
This special issue of Optimization on the theme of “Optimizing Risk management in services” is to present new advances in developing Optimizing Risk management tools to service industry. Both theoretical and applied work are welcome.

Topics of Interest: Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
• Financial risk management using optimization such as
o Portfolio management
o Catastrophe bond or CDO pricing using optimization-based simulation
• Efficiency analysis of financial entities such as
o  Insurer efficiency using DEA
o Banks merger evaluation
• Enterprise risk management such as
o Supply chain outsourcing risks
o Channel selection under risks
• Artificial intelligence and risk analysis
• Computer simulation in risk management
• Other issues related to Optimizing Risk management in services
Paper submission:
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them from http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713646500~tab=submit~mode=paper_submission_instructions
Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Each paper will go through a rigorous review process.
  The 3rd conference on Risk Management & Global e-Business in Incheon (Seoul), Korea is to be co-organized in August, 2009 by RiskChina Research Center at the University of Toronto. Submission to the Special Issue is however not restricted to conference participants.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2011
First-Round Reviews: December 1, 2011
Camera-ready version: early 2012

Editors and Notes

Each paper should be submitted via  Manuscript Central System

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gopt

During the submission procedure the authors have to answer the question

'Is the manuscript a candidate for a special issue?'

Here they have to tick 'yes' and then in the box

'If yes, what is the title of the special issue:' the have to write 61(6)-Optimizing Risk Management.

Questions can be directed to any of the guest editors.
Prof. David L. Olson
Department of Management
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
U.S.A.

Tel: +1-(402)-472-4521
Fax: +1-(402)-472-5855
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Prof. Shu-Cherng Fang
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7906
U.S.A.

Tel: +1- (919) 515-2192
Fax: +1- (919) 515-5281
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Prof. John R. Birge
Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Professor of Operations Management
Graduate School of Business
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637-1610
U.S.A.

Tel +1 (773) 834-1701
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Regarding your Special Issue 61(6) please let me inform you as guest editors

of that issue that the page budget should not go beyond 136 pages.

Each paper should be submitted via  Manuscript Central System

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gopt

During the submission procedure the authors have to answer the question

'Is the manuscript a candidate for a special issue?'

Here they have to tick 'yes' and then in the box

'If yes, what is the title of the special issue:' the have to write 61(6)-Optimizing Risk Management.

Then all manuscripts for the Special Issue 61(6) can be identified and assigned to you as guest editors (Associate Editors) who are processing these manuscripts. That means at first you will assign referees to these papers and invite them by clicking 'Invite'.

You will see a pop up window opens with the letter of invitation a reviewer, of course you can change the text or add text in such a letter.