Angel A. Juan & Daniel Riera {ajuanp, drierat}(@)uoc.edu Open University of Catalonia (UOC) Computer Sciences, Multimedia and Telecommunication Rambla del Poblenou, 156 08018, Barcelona, Spain Tel: +34 933 263 627 Fax: +34 933 568 822 Javier Faulin javier.faulin(@)unavarra.es Public University of Navarre (UPNA) Dep. Statistics and Operations Research Campus Arrosadia 31006 Pamplona, Spain Tel: +34 948 169 211 Fax: +34 948 169 204 Scott E. Grasman grasmans(@)mst.edu Missouri University of Science & Technology (MST) Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Rolla, MO, USA Updated January 5th, 2010

http://dpcs.uoc.es/IJISSCM09 Call for Papers - IJISSCM Special Issue Int. J. of Information Systems & Supply Chain Management Hybrid Algorithms for Solving Realistic Routing, Scheduling and Availability Problems CALL FOR PAPERS - IGI IJISSCM Full-paper Deadline: January 31st, 2010 (extended) Special Issue Title: Hybrid Algorithms for Solving Realistic Routing, Scheduling and Availability Problems Journal: Int. J. of Information Systems & Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM) http://www.igi-global.com/IJISSCM Editor-in-Chief: John Wang, Montclair State University, USA: Guest Editors: A. A. Juan - J. Faulin - S. Grasman - D. Riera ajuanp(@)gmail.com - javier.faulin(@)unavarra.es - grasmans(@)mst.edu - drierat(@)uoc.edu INTRODUCTION Every day, enterprises and organizations around the world struggle with the complexity of problems related to vehicle routing, scheduling, system reliability/availability and supply chain management issues. Efficient approaches to confront these problems require combining knowledge from multiple disciplines such as Computer Science (CS), Operations Research (OR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Technologies & Systems (ITS). The aforementioned problems represent important challenges for strategic sectors in any developed country such as industry and services, which explains the relevance of the proposed topics to current international research. RECOMMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING: Vehicle Routing Problems Scheduling System Reliability & Availability Supply Chain Management Information Systems & Technologies Collaborative Systems Distributed Systems & Distributed Problem Solving Computer Simulation & Probabilistic Algorithms Heuristics & Parallel Programming Grid & Cloud Computing Multi-Agent Systems Constraint & Dynamic Programming Hybrid Intelligent Algorithms Related Software & Industrial Applications OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The main objective of this special issue is to contribute to the dissemination of original and high-quality research work regarding the development and/or application of new hybrid approaches combining CS, OR, AI and ITS for any of the problems described above. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Hybrid Algorithms for Solving Realistic Routing, Scheduling and Availability Problems on or before January 31st, 2010. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. Interested authors must consult the journal's guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.