Invited Sessions

We plan to organize several Invited Sessions at the Seventh International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management (August 3-5, 2006). The following note provides brief information on organizing an Invited Session:

• An Invited Session is organized by a scholar on a special topic of his/her interest after receiving in invitation from the Conference-chair. Some examples are: Intelligent Manufacturing, Issues in Teaching Decision Analysis, Outsourcing, Six Sigma in Auto Industry, Nonlinear Optimization, etc.

• He/she will invite scholars to submit abstract/paper for the Session. If the abstract/paper is found appropriate, he will accept the same for the Invited Session.

• An Invited Session should have 3 to 4 papers.

• Invited Session cannot have a paper in absentia.

• The session will clearly be identified as an Invited Session in the Conference Programme bulletin.

• Invited Session organizer will submit the session plan to the Conference Chair by May 31, 2006. The session plan will have listing of papers, abstracts, and names of authors.

• It is expected that the scholar organizing Invited Session would attend the conference, and chair the Invited Session. If he/she cannot attend, he/she will identify a chair for the Invited Session.

• All participants attending the conference, including speakers and organizer of the Invited Session, are required to follow the process of paper submission for the proceedings (in case they wish to publish), and pay the requisite registration fee, like other conference participants.

• Invited Sessions will be listed as “Invited Session” in the conference programme bulletin.

• All Invited Sessions chairs will be explicitly recognized in the conference programme bulletin.

Complete information about the conference can be downloaded from
www.aims-international.org/icoqm7 and all questions should be addressed to the Conference Chair Dr. Gupta at: icoqm7@aims-international.org