Category Archives: Conferences

Suffering from deadlinitis

Posted on January 9, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Too many deadlines? Yes, that’s what January is all about, it’s a peak of deadlines for SCM-related conferences and special issues in journals – not to speak of the journal special issues that are linked to conferences.

- The Humanitarian Logistic Symposium of CCHLI is linked to a (yet to be announced) special issue of IJPDLM (yep, the deadline was on Jan 5),
- CSCMP Europe to a special issue of JBL (deadline today, Jan 9),
- NOFOMA to IJPDLM (deadline Jan 12)
- POMS to POM (deadline Jan 15)
- EUROMA to IJOPM (deadline Jan 16)…

… and that’s only the conferences with a deadline in January. Plus there are conferences that also have a deadline in January but are not all that visibly linked to journals. And special issues that are not related to conferences. Phew!

Gyöngyi

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Conferences for service operations junkies

Posted on December 5, 2008 by | Leave a comment

…though, if you truly are a service operations junkie, you are aware of SERVSIG’s newsletters. But for wanna-be junkies, here are three conferences of interest:

- the Frontiers in Services Conference, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2009 in Hawaii/USA (note the location!)

- a Service Conference & Workshop hosted by the Royal Automobile Club, Nov 5-7, 2009 in London/UK

- the SERVSIG International Research Conference, Jun 17-19, 2010 in Porto/Portugal

Interestingly, all of these attempt to build a bridge between services marketing, service operations management, and the newest fad, service science.  In principle, all streams of literature and all schools should be represented.

Apart from these, there are a number of CFPs out for services-related special issues, e.g.on

- “Special section on new advances of risk management in services“ (The International Journal of Services Sciences, deadline Dec 31, 2008)

- “Lean principles in manufacturing, service and public sectors“ (International Journal of Technology Management, deadline Jan 1, 2009)

- “Global service supply chain management“ (Int’l Journal of Services, Economics and Management, deadline of extended abstracts Jul 10, 2009)

and book chapters are also called for, more specifically for the topics of service science and logistics:

- Call for chapters for a book on “Service Science and Logistics Informatics: Innovative Perspectives“. Proposals to be submitted by Jan 15, 2009 to Zongwei Luo

Gyöngyi

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Nofoma – now as .net (was .org)

Posted on November 15, 2008 by | Leave a comment

In case you are searching for Nofoma on Google and other search engines, bear in mind that the research network is now hosted at www.nofoma.net

This site contains information of past and future conferences, and announcements of other research- and teaching related activities.

Árni

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Defence logistics research

Posted on May 23, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Logistics research takes many forms, but now a different type of conference invitation landed in my mailbox: one to a “military logistics symposium“. It’s in fact a research convention that’s organised by the Nordic Defence Logistic Research Network and takes place during Dec 4/5 in Stockholm. What makes it particularly interesting is that this research network is quite engaged in humanitarian logistics, and CIMIC research at the same time. Not to forget the traditional defence logistics topics that will come up as well.

Interested? Contact Per Skoglund [firstname.lastname@ihh.hj.se] or Michael Dorn [firstname.lastname@fhs.se] for more info. And don’t forget to send in an abstract by June 25, 2008!

Gyöngyi

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Discussing ideas at conferences

Posted on May 8, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Why do we organise and attend academic conferences? Yes, here it comes, it’s the debate that matters. Discussing ideas, refining our arguments, getting feedback, input, maybe even co-operation partners. Unfortunately, this seems to be lost at some conferences. More and more academics only attend with papers of their “honours students”, reluctant to share their ideas, not wanting to even hint what they are actually working on. One may suspect they have no own ideas ;-)

It’s funny how people think one may steal their brilliant idea. Sure, it happens, but such unethical behaviour always comes right back at those who do this. But usually the one who came up with an idea has a first mover advantage in any case (or does s/he?); having developed it much further than any copy-cat could follow up.

But well, it is a competitive environment, and I was just confronted with what a difference it can make to live in a publish-or-perish climate. If you don’t steal the other’s idea you’ll at least attempt to shoot it down at a conference… Where did the common goal of advancing science disappear? Publish or (and?) perish has been argued to kill the spirit of higher education, it seems to now kill the spirit of academic conferences. I have started to understand the EU’s stance of having to combine efforts for grant applications; it forces you to collaborate and to discuss your research throughout the process. It’s just sad we need to be forced to do so…

Gyöngyi

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Now: CSCMP Europe

Posted on April 24, 2008 by | Leave a comment

CSCMP has ventured out for several years to different continents. CSCMP Southern Africa was held in March in Johannesburg, right now ongoing is the CSCMP Europe conference in Brussels. It follows pretty much the same format as the original CSCMP one, with a research seminar (which in this case is just not called Educators’ Day and does not publish proceedings but rather sends out papers to be reviewed for the Journal of Business Logistics), and a main, rather practitioner-oriented conference. It’s a nice place for people from different European roundtables to meet – that is, if they come from a country where there is one. Maybe others might feel inspired to establish one…?

Gyöngyi

PS. Presentations of the main conference will be available from the CSCMP website. And the next CSCMP Europe conference will be held in Copenhagen.

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Free conference

Posted on January 16, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Too good to be true, there is a “free” conference on Transport in Supply Chain Networks coming up at Cardiff Business School. For more info and to sign up, contact Rebecca Harvey at CUIMRC (what an acronym!).

Gyöngyi

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Nofoma 2008 abstracts – how many?

Posted on January 16, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Thanks to all of you who submitted an abstract to Nofoma 2008 – and special thanks to those who wrote sthg for the Educators Day! Don’t forget your abstract verification number :-)

All educators, I’d like to draw your attention to the ITP programme; right now we have a really good bunch of SCM educators attending – if you’re lucky, that’s also the case in further “editions” of the programme. It should not go unmentioned that in 2 years (i.e. in 2009/2010) it’s the turn of the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University, as to say, Sunil Chopra) to organise the entire programme. That should be special to SCM educators at least.

So, asking in the spirit of Mel Silberman, how many of you will be attending…?

Gyöngyi

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Nofoma 2007 — Special Issue of IJPDLM

Posted on January 9, 2008 by | Leave a comment

It’s out now! The Special Issue of of IJPDLM (International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management) from the Nofoma 2007 conference. Guest Editors are Gunnar Stefansson and Arni Halldorsson.

Árni

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NOFOMA 2008 – Jun 4-6 in Helsinki

Posted on November 22, 2007 by | Leave a comment

The abstract deadline for NOFOMA 2008 is approaching soon – note Jan 15 in your calendars! Uniquely, the conference is co-organised by four different universities, actually, ALL of those that have logistics education in the Helsinki region (and yes, I say Helsinki region, because oddly enough, the Helsinki University of Technology is actually located in Espoo, not in Helsinki). The big four are Hanken, the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology, and the National Defence University. Just in time that they’ve started to co-operate, after all this is nothing smaller than the 20th anniversary conference! So you can be sure of a great celebration in Helsinki during Jun 4-6.

While the website is migrating (we are still waiting for access rights), here are the crucial dates to note. And a link to the call for papers. UPDATE: you’ll find the CFP on the Nofoma 2008 page of this blog!

First to the dates:
- Deadline for structured abstracts (for Nofoma and Educators Day): Jan 15, 2008
- Full paper deadline (for Nofoma and Educators Day): Mar 28, 2008
- Revisions, WIP papers, poster sessions, and papers for the NORDLOG doctoral workshop: May 2, 2008
- Early bird registration: May 2, 2008
- NORDLOG Doctoral Workshop: Jun 4, 2008 (at the Helsinki University of Technology)
- NOFOMA Educators Day: Jun 4, 2008 (at the Helsinki School of Economics)
- NOFOMA main conference: Jun 5-6, 2008 (at HANKEN)

As you’ll note from the CFP, there are a couple of new features coming up with the conference.
- First of all, the educators day has a call for papers! I.e. please submit your teaching-relevant publications to the conference! They’ll be reviewed, and the ones that make it as a full paper will be included in the conference proceedings.
- Secondly, there is a poster session with a special deadline.
- And… lots of surprise elements to come. But they wouldn’t be surprises if I were to post them here, would they? ;-)

So, note the dates and have a look at the CFP. You’ll find all traditional logistics/SCM themes on it (from theoretical developments, modelling and simulation tracks, to TPL-related issues, ICT in logistics etc.). And a couple of new ones: humanitarian logistics, security & safety in traffic and transport (greetings to the EU’s 7FP), and healthcare supply chains.

Most importantly, this is a conference with a full paper review. And, best papers will be selected for the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.

Welcome to Helsinki in June!

Gyöngyi

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