Call for papers - Special Session on: Efficiency & Productivity

October 14-16, 2014-Istanbul, Turkey http://www.imss14-cie44.org

Session chair

Dr. Mehdi Toloo, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Session description

fficiency and productivity growth enables businesses to raise profit and enhance market

share at the micro level. Furthermore, it helps a country to counteract inflation, create job

opportunities, and to force the necessary industrial restructuring at the macro level. There

is widespread and pervasive consensus among academic researchers in the field of growth

theory, policy makers, and/or businessmen that efficiency and productivity growth is

indispensable to sustainable economic growth. The thrust of this session is to present both

theoretical and practical recent researches dealing with efficiency, productivity and performance

measurement and improvement. Indeed, this session seeks to develop an understanding in and

across manufacturing, service, and public sector organizations. Topics of interest include, but are

not limited to, following topics:

Productivity measurement: parametric and nonparametric approaches

Efficiency measurement and its improvements

Performance measurement tools and techniques

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and its recent applications

Case study

I would like to point out that the conference proceedings are registered under ISSN 2164-8670 for

the CD-ROM version and ISSN 2164-8689 for the online version. They are also indexed in SCOPUS

and COMPENDEX. A special issue of the journal Computers & Industrial Engineering (Impact

Factor 1.516) will include enhanced versions of a selected number of papers in the proceedings.

Submission:

To submit your full paper or abstract please visit http://www.imss14-cie44.org/Paper-Submissions.

Important dates:

March 30, 2014: deadline for abstracts. April 20, 2014: Notification of abstracts acceptance.

June 30, 2014: deadline for full papers. July 20, 2014: Notification of full papers acceptance.

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