CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Services Sciences (LISS’2013)

21-24 August, 2013, Reading, UK with satellite sessions in Beijing, China http://icir.bjtu.edu.cn/liss2013 http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk/bisa/News/irc-news.aspx

Hosted by School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University The International Center for Informatics Research of Beijing Jiaotong University Cooperated with Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK) China Center for Industrial Security Research Sponsored by NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) K. C. Wong Education Foundation (Hong Kong) Springer

Aims Information and communication technologies have been providing an effective network infrastructure and development platform for logistics and service operations. To meet the needs of consumers and promote core competences of firms, new types of services will be required. LISS’2013 is a prime international forum for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics and service sciences. Both researchers and practitioners will discuss academic issues, seize future development opportunities, master the subject developing trends and exchange the latest academic thinking thoughts.

LISS’ 2011, 2012 were held in Beijing by Beijing Jiaotong University, and sponsored by University of Reading (UK) and The Pennsylvania State University (USA). About 200 authors from 26 countries attended LISS 2011 and 163 authors from 12 countries attended LISS2012. The proceedings have been submitted for index of CPCI-S (former ISTP) and EI Compendex. In addition, selected best papers were recommended to publish in some respected international journals like Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations etc.

LISS’2013 will be hosted by Beijing Jiaotong University, cooperated with Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK) & China Center for Industrial Security Research, and held on 21-24 August, 2013 in the United Kingdom with satellite sessions in Beijing, China. The theme of this conference is “New Challenges of Management Sciences under Low-Carbon Economy”. The topics of the conference are related to service science, service innovation, service engineering, service marketing, ERP, E-commerce, low-carbon logistics, low-carbon transportation, green construction, enterprises informatics, logistics informatics, logistics and supply chain management, information and communication technology, Internet of things, Internet technology and applications, service informatics, industrial security and other related areas.

This conference will be sponsored by Springer-Verlag, one of the world’s largest scientific publishers. It has a history of over 150 years and famous for its academic publications. It is also the earliest publisher to turn the printing journals to electronic versions.

Keynote Speakers (To be confirmed)  Prof. James M. Tien Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Miami, USA

Conference Subjects The conference will inherit the current research of international academic community on the emerging fields of logistics, informatics and service science developments and applications, which not only focus on the theory developments, but also pay more attentions to practical applications of the methods and techniques. Through this conference, participants will share the latest research findings and practical experiences and make profound exchanges on their innovative ideas.

Topics Special sessions on specific topics are also encouraged. Topics of interest mainly include, but not limit to:

 Service Management:

●Strategic Services Management ●Service Operations Management ●Service System and Service Network Design ●Quality-of-Service Assessment ● Service Product Design ● Service Profit Management ●Service Innovation Management ●Service Supply Chain Management ●Service Information System ●Service Process Reengineering ●Service Purchasing and Supplier Management ●Service Marketing ●Public Service Management ●Financial and Insurance Service Management ●Education Service Management ●Healthcare Service Management ●Telecom Service Management ●Hotel Service Management ●Tourism Service Management ●Product Post-sale Service Management ●Service Management of Transportation (aviation \ railways \ highways \ water(passengers and cargo)) ●Successful Case Study

 Logistics Management：

●Material Flow Theory ●Logistics Services Strategy ●Innovation and Logistics Services ●Supply Chain Management ●Low-Carbon and Logistics ●Low-Carbon Supply Chain ●Logistics Alliance ●International Logistics ●Regional Logistics ●Emergency Logistics ●Internet of Things and Logistics Services ●Logistics Service System Optimization ●Logistics Industry and Policy

 Information Management：

●Accounting Information System ●Business Intelligence and Business Analysis ●Innovative Enterprise Digitalized Operation Mode ●Dynamic Supply Chain Planning and Management ●Customer Relations Management ●Digital Enterprise Infrastructure ●Enterprise Commercial Intelligence ●E-commerce and E-government ●Wireless Communications and Mobile Business ●Enterprise Information Resources Management ●Sensor Network and Internet of Things ●RFID Technology and Application ●Pervasive Computing and Intelligent Living Space ●Cloud Computing Theories and Technologies ●Collaborative E-commence Mechanism and Technology ●Network Marketing Strategy and Application ●Electronic Commerce Application and Benefit Appraisal ●Network Transaction, Trust Mechanism and Information Security ●Electronic Market and Intervening Mechanism ●Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing ●Organization Semiotics and Informatization ●IT Project Management ●Information Technology and Enterprise Sustainable Development Strategy ●Other topics on related enterprise management theory and application

 Engineering Management：

●Engineering Consultant Management ● IT in Construction ●Engineering Information System ●Informatics of Construction Industry ●Supply Chain Management in Construction ●Logistics Management in Construction ●Engineering Economics ●Project Management in Engineering

 Industrial Security Management：

●Security Management Theory ●Security Management Methods ●Industrial Security Evaluation and Warning ●Finance Industrial Security ●Informatics Industrial Security ●Logistics Engineering Security ●Energy Economics and Energy Security ●Real State Industrial Security

Other relevant management theory and application issues are welcome, especially successful case studies in the above area.

Meeting Venue The meeting venue is arranged in Reading. Additionally, a satellite session will be organized at Beijing Jiaotong University. In accordance with the convention of international conferences, at least one of authors must register and participate in the meeting (main venue or satellite session) once a paper is accepted. For more information, please visit our website: http://icir.bjtu.edu.cn/liss2013 or http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk/bisa/News/irc-news.aspx

Important Dates 20 April, 1 April, 2013 Deadline for submission of full papers 20 May, 2013 Acceptance/Rejection notification 20 June, 2013 Final Paper Submission and Registration 21-24 August, 2013 Conference Open

Paper Submission Guidelines Manuscripts must be submitted through the conference website: http://icir.bjtu.edu.cn/liss2013.The submitted paper and relevant information must be written in English. the maximum length of the paper is 15 pages in the required Springer format. Full research papers as well as work-in-progress reports are welcome. Authors are required to certify that their papers are original and not published yet. Simultaneous submission to any other conference, workshop or journal is not allowed. The manuscript must be submitted in the prescribed format (Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates are available on the conference website). For more information please refer to our website (http://icir.bjtu.edu.cn/liss2013or http://www.henley.reading.ac.uk/bisa/News/irc-news.aspx).

Publications Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of LISS’2013. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. The proceedings will be published by Springer and sent to ISI-Knowledge for CPCI-S (former ISTP) indexing and Elsevier for EI Compendex indexing. In addition, revised and extended versions of selected best papers, will be recommended to respected international journals as follows:

Journal of Applied Research and Technology (JART) (SCI) International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITD ) (SCI) Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) (SCI) Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) (EI Compendex ) Journal of Computing and Information Technology (JCIT) (EI Compendex) Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) (EI Compendex) Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) (EI Compendex)

Accommodation Discounted rates have been arranged for the Conference participants in listed Hotels close to the University of Reading or in Beijing (depending on participation in main venue or satellite session). Student accommodation is also available on campus. For more information please visit the Conference website.

Organizing Committee Honorary Chairman: Academician Shoubo Xu General Chairs: Zhongliang Guan, John Board, Runtong Zhang, Kecheng Liu Program Chairs: Zhenji Zhang, Juliang Zhang, Xianliang Shi Secretary: Dan Chang Organisation Chair: Yinshan Tang Publication Chairs: Guowei Hua Finance Chairs: Shifeng Liu Special Session/Workshop Chairs: Guowei Hua, Juanqiong Gou Publicity Chairs: Mingcong Tang

International Steering Committee

Chair Shoubo Xu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Members Veenstra Albert, TNO, the Netherlands Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua University, China Jian Chen, Tsinghua University, China Yu Chen, Renmin University of China, China) Zhixiong Chen, Mercy College,USA T. C. Edwin Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Waiman Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Jae-Sun Choi, Korea Maritime Institute, Korea Dingyi Dai, China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, China Xuedong Gao, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Renchu Gan, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Liming He, China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, China Songdong Ju, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Kim Kap-Hwan, Pusan National University, Korea Harold Krikke, Tilburg University, Netherlands Der-Horng Lee, The National University of Singapore, Singapore Dong Li, University of Liverpool, UK Menggang Li, China Center for Industrial Security Research, China Cheng-Chang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK Yisheng Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Qining Mai, The University of Hong Kong, China Yannis A. Phillis, The Technical University of Crete, Greece Robin Qiu, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. Yihong Ru, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Pingnan Ruan, Beijing University of Technology, China Kurosu Seiji, Waseda University, Japan Zuojun, Max Shen, University of California, USA Jiuh-Biing Sheu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, China Shouxin Song, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Yinshan Tang, University of Reading, UK A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Erwin van der Laan, RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands Lida Xu, Old Dominion University, USA Zhounan Yang, Roland International Freight Services, China David C. Yen, Miami University, USA Jianxin You, Tongji University, China Jianming Zhu, Central University of Finance and Economics, China Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University of China, China

International Program Committee Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany Gabriele Bavota, University of Salerno, Italy Lamia Hadrich Belguith, ANLP Research Group, MIRACL, University of Sfax, Tunisia Noureddine Belkhatir, Grenoble University, France Ida Bifulco, University of Salerno, Italy Antonio Borghesi, Università Degli Studi Di Verona, Italy Danielle Boulanger, IAE- Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France Linning Cai, Tsinghua University, China Coral Calero, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Angélica Caro, University of Bio-Bio, Chile Nunzio Casalino, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Italy Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada David Chen, Université Bordeaux 1, France Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Shiping Chen, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Zhigao Chen, East China University Of Science And Technology, China Zhixiong Chen, Mercy College, United States T. C. Edwin Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China William Cheng-Chung Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan, China Daniela Barreiro Claro, Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA), Brazil Francesco Colace, Università Degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia Jose Eduardo Corcoles, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain Bernard Coulette, University of Toulouse 2 - IRIT Laboratory, France Karl Cox, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Sharon Cox, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom Dingyi Dai, China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, China Wei Dai, Victoria University, Australia Peter Dell, Curtin University, Australia Kamil Dimililer, Near East University, Cyprus José Javier Dolado, University of the Basque Country, Spain Baotian Dong, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Ming Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Edilson Ferneda, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil Maria João Silva Costa Ferreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Juan J. Flores, University of Michoacan, Mexico Cipriano Forza, Università di Padova, Italy Susan Foster, Monash University, Australia Rita Francese, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Leonardo Garrido, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Ergun Gide, Central Queensland University Sydney International Campus, Australia Pascual Gonzalez, Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Gustavo Gonzalez-Sanchez, Mediapro Research, Spain Feliz Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa / Cerem, Portugal Maria Carmen Penadés Gramaje, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Jatinder Gupta, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Maki K. Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait S. Hariharan, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, India Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Paul Hawking, Victoria University, Australia Peter Higgins, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jun Hong, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan, China Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, U.S.A. Kai-I Huang, Tunghai University, Taiwan, China Lei Huang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Lihua Huang, , China Alexander Ivannikov, State Research Institute For Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Russian Federation Ivan Jelinek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Michail Kalogiannakis, University of Crete, Greece Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Kap Hwan Kim, Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia Alexander Knapp, Universität Augsburg, Germany Harold Krikke, Tilburg University, Netherlands Stan Kurkovsky, Central Connecticut State University, United States Rob Kusters, Eindhoven University of Technology &; Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands Der-Horng Lee, the National University of Singapore, Singapore Eng Wah Lee, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore Ming Lei, Peking University, China Kauko Leiviskä, University of Oulu, Finland Daniel Lemire, UQAM - University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada Dong Li, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Hongxin Li, Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, China Da-Yin Liao, National Chi-Nan University, Chinese Taipei Cheng-Chang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China Ching-Torng Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Chinese Taipei Zongkai Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hong Ling, Fudan University, China Jianbing Liu, Beijing Research Center of Urban System Engineering, China Jun Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Miguel R. Luaces, Universidade da Coruña, Spain Yongsheng Ma, University of Alberta, Canada Cristiano Maciel, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil K. L. Mak, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Nuno Mamede, INESC-ID, Portugal Hamid Mcheick, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada Luo Ming, Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology, Singapore Subhas Misra, IIT Kanpur, India Chiung Moon, Yonsei University, Korea Paula Morais, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, United Kingdom Pietro Murano, University of Salford, United Kingdom Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Paolo Napoletano, University of Salerno, Italy Eric Ngai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Andreas Ninck, Berne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland David L. Olson, University of Nebraska, United States Hichem Omrani, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg Samia Oussena, Thames Valley University, United Kingdom Tansel Ozyer, TOBB ETU, Turkey Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Rodrigo Paredes, Universidad de Talca, Chile Namkyu Park, Wayne State University, U.S.A. Gan Oon Peen, Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology, Singapore Laurent Péridy, IMA-UCO, France Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Yannis A. Phillis, the Technical University of Crete, Greece Michael J. Piovoso, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. Ángeles S. Places, University of A Coruña, Spain Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ramalingam Ponnusamy, Vinayaga Missions University, India Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland T. Ramayah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Nuno de Magalhães Ribeiro, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal Michele Risi, University of Salerno, Italy Alfonso Rodriguez, University of Bio-Bio, Chile Daniel Rodriguez, University of Alcalá, Spain Pilar Rodriguez, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Spain Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain Gustavo Rossi, Lifia, Argentina Yihong Ru, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Ozgur Koray Sahingoz, Turkish Air Force Academy, Turkey Priti Srinivas Sajja, Sardar Patel University, India Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada Isabel Seruca, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Zuojun, Max Shen, University of California, United States Jiuh-Biing Sheu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, China Hala Skaf-molli, Nantes University, France Cleyton Slaviero, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Young-Jun Son, University of Arizona, United States Martin Stanton, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Renate Strazdina, Riga Technical University, Latvia Stefan Strecker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, United States You-Fa Sun, Guangdong University of Technology, China Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Vladimir Tarasov, Jönköping University, Sweden Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia Santhanamery Thominathan, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia Chunhua Tian, Business Optimization Team IBM China Research Lab, China Amy Trappey, National TsingHuaUniversity, Chinese Taipei Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece Albert Veenstra, RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands François Vernadat, European Court of Auditors, France Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Renato Vieira, Petrobras Distribuidora S.A., Brazil Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute JurInfoR, Russian Federation Wen-Yen Wu, I-Shou University, Taiwan, China Xianrong Wu, Asia University, Chinese Taipei Mudasser Wyne, National University, United States Lifeng Xi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States Qi Xu, Donghua University, China Huacheng Xue, Fudan University, China Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia Lili Yang, Loughborough University, United Kingdom Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Zhounan Yang, Roland International Freight Services, China Jasmine Yeap, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Shang-Tae Yee, General Motors Research and Development Center, U.S.A. David C. Yen, Miami University, United States Ming Yu, Tsinghua University, China Ping Yu, University of Wollongong, Australia Yugang Yu, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona Tucson, U.S.A. Zhenxiang Zeng, Hebei University of Technology, China Qiang Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Xuemin Zhang, Nankai University, China Yi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Eugenio Zimeo, University of Sannio, Italy

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