Publications

[Lalit Wankhade]

Folks,

I am pleased to announce the publication of my book entitled “Quality Uncertainty and Perception”. The book is published by Physica-Verlag, a Springer company.

The book addresses the complex issue of quality uncertainty due to information asymmetry in the backdrop of information economics, total quality management and marketing science. Reliability Engineering, Seven Management Tools and System Dynamics are used to develop theories on quality uncertainty and perception. Quality perception is identified as a multidisciplinary measure of business performance. The tools are developed to minimize quality uncertainty or to maximize quality perception. A few worksheets are provided for applying these theories to improve business performance.

Keywords » Quality Uncertainty - Perceived Quality - Root Cause and Failure Analysis - System Dynamics - Total Quality Management

Related subjects » Innovation - Technology Management - Organization - Human Resource Management - Production & Logistics - Production & Process Engineering

Information about the print edition can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/alert/urltracking.do?id=L14ddfbM624022Sa8a8b69

Its unique electronic identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2195-6

Hope you will find this book very interesting.

[Roberta Spencer]

Four recent articles about health care have been published by Society members including Gary Hirsch, Jack Homer, Bobby Milstein and Kristina Wile. Please see the list of articles as well as all the authors below.

Milstein B, Homer J, Hirsch G. Analyzing National Health Reform Strategies with a Dynamic Simulation Model. American Journal of Public Health.
100(5):811-819, 2010.

Hirsch G, Homer J, Evans E, Zielinski A. A System Dynamics Model for Planning Cardiovascular Disease Interventions. American Journal of Public Health, 100(4):616-622, 2010.

Homer J, Milstein B, Wile K, Trogdon J, Huang P, Labarthe D, Orenstein D. Simulating and Evaluating Local Interventions to Improve Cardiovascular Health. Preventing Chronic Disease, 7(1), January 2010. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2010/jan/08_0231.htm.

Hirsch G, Homer J. System Dynamics Applications to Health Care in the United States. In Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. R Meyers. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. ISBN: 978-0-387-75888-6. July 2009.

[Peter Otto]

********************* REMINDER 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS *********************

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: September 30, 2010

SPECIAL ISSUE ON System Dynamics and other Simulation-based Approaches for Information Systems
International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA)

Guest Editors:
Dr. Peter Otto, Union Graduate College, USA
Dr. Andrej Skraba, University of Maribor, Slovenia

INTRODUCTION:
IS research aims to help decision-makers understand and anticipate opportunities to deploy IS and adding business value for organizations in today’s competitive environment. Decisions concerning IS are complex and challenging for a decision-maker; time pressure, incomplete information, unknown feedback loops, organizational contexts, and selfish motivations strongly influence such decisions. Inadequate decisions and subsequent actions might lead to undesired results. Enhancing the knowledge of gaining business value from IS is possible by achieving insights into the complex behavior of the system and the interaction among decision variables. Using simulation models permit the testing of various assumptions and provide decision-makers with the ability to explore the consequences of various scenarios and alternative functional relationships among variables in the system.

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
It is important to gain a broader, systemic view on the management and control problems in the fields of systems engineering, software engineering and information systems. This would contribute to better understanding of underlying system structure, dynamics and possibilities for efficient control. Papers in the special issue should therefore address practical application of System Dynamics and other simulation-based approaches in the field of Information Systems to improve understanding of business structures and decision making. Methodological papers as well as case studies are welcome.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Diffusion of new IS technology
• IS development
• IS-individuals interaction
• Implementation issues
• Outsourcing and country selection issues
• Social media and Web 2.0 issues
• Health informatics
• E-commerce and web-enabled delivery systems
• CRM, SCM applications
• Models and dynamics of efficient application of human resources and knowledge
• Organization structure, dynamics and improvements
• Optimization of systems engineering, software engineering and information systems by system dynamics models
• Sustainable financing dynamics in IT projects

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue System Dynamics and Other Simulation-Based Approaches for Information Systems on or before September 30, 2010. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/a ... ission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

ABOUT International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA): The Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created to disseminate and discuss high quality research results on Information Systems and related upper and lower level Systems as well as on its interactions with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Complex Systems and Philosophy issues, through rigorous Theoretical, Modeling, Engineering or Behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop organizational systems where Information Systems are the main objects of study and the Systems Approach –any variant- is the main research methodology and philosophical stance used. This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association (http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa)

IJITSA EDITORIAL BOARD
• Frank Stowell (EiC) University of Portsmouth, England
• Amitava Dutta (IT AE) George Mason University, USA
• Denis Edgar-Nevill (Sw AE) Canterbury Christ Church University, England
• Miroljub Kljajic (SE AE) University of Maribor, Slovenia
• John Mingers (Phil. AE) University of Kent at Canterbury, England
• Yasmin Merali (CS AE) University of Warwick, England
• Manuel Mora (OEiC) Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México
Published: Semi annual (both in Print and Electronic form)

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

All submissions should be directed to the attention of:
Guest Editors:
Dr. Peter Otto, ottop@union.edu
Dr. Andrej Skraba, andrej.skraba@fov.uni-mb.si

International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA)

[Lalit Wankhade]

Dear All,

I have published an e-book "HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH A RESEARCH PAPER" at Amazon Kindle. The book is priced at $11.00. The book is based on my publication experiences. It is highly informative and helpful to those who are enagaged in research work.

The book written in lucid style covers almost evry part ––from preliminary information to a conference paper to a journal manuscript to review and revision to further possible work in the area.

You can try the book and recommend it to others.

[Andrew Ford]

Folks,
I am pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd edition of my text on Modeling the Environment. The book is available from Island Press:

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and the book’s supporting website is at: [url][/url]http://www.wsu.edu/~forda/AA2nd.html[url][/url]

The publisher’s summary describes System Dynamics as one of the most widely known and widely used methods of modeling. The fundamental principles of system dynamics are demonstrated in the book with examples from geo-hydrology, population biology, epidemiology and economics. The applications demonstrate the transferability of the systems approach across disciplines, across spatial scales, and across time scales. All of the models are implemented with stock and flow software programs such as Stella and Vensim.

The publisher’s sumary concludes that:

System dynamics has emerged as the most common approach in collaborative projects to address environmental problems. The stock and flow structures and the emphasis on feedback control provide a common language that is understood by scientists from many disciplines. Although the interdisciplinary approach described here is widely used in practice, there are few books to aid instruction. Modeling the Environment meets the urgent need for instructional materials in interdisciplinary modeling of environmental systems. System dynamics has emerged as the most common approach in collaborative projects to address environmental problems. The stock and flow structures and the emphasis on feedback control provide a common language that is understood by scientists from many disciplines. Although the interdisciplinary approach described here is widely used in practice, there are few books to aid instruction. Modeling the Environment meets the urgent need for instructional materials in interdisciplinary modeling of environmental systems.

Andy Ford
Professor of Environmental Science
Washington State University

[Joanne Egner]

isee systems and The Creative Learning Exchange have published a new book titled Tracing Connections: Voices of Systems Thinkers. In tribute to their colleague and friend Barry Richmond, twelve contributing authors share their stories about applying systems thinking and system dynamics to their work.

With a foreword by Jay W. Forrester, the book includes chapters by the following authors:

• Tracy Benson, Waters Foundation Systems Thinking in Schools Project
• Frank Draper, Catalina Foothills School District
• James Doyle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Diana Fisher, Wilson High School
• Ali Mashayekhi, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
• John Morecroft, London Business School
• John Newman, The World Bank
• Corey Peck, Lexidyne, LLC
• Steve Peterson, Lexidyne, LLC
• Khalid Saeed, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Jeanine Skorinko, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning and MIT

All proceeds from Tracing Connections will be used to support scholarships through The Creative Learning Exchange, helping to further Barry's mission of bringing systems thinking practice to as many people as possible.

To learn more or to purchase a copy, visit http://www.iseesystems.com/store/TracingConnections/default.aspx.

[Jim Duggan]

Dear all,

Call for papers in the area of Behavioural Economics... might be of interest,

best regards,
Jim.

Special Issue on Behavioral Economics and Finance 
  Co‐editors 
Brad M. Barber, UC Davis 
Teck Ho, UC Berkeley 
Terrance Odean, UC Berkeley 
 
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010 
Expected Publication Date: Fall 2011 

 Management  Science  will  publish  a  special  issue  on  research  broadly  related  to  behavioral 
economics  and  finance  and  their  applications  in  related  fields  including  marketing, 
operations  management,  and  organizational  behavior.  The  goal  of  the  special  issue  is  to 
promote  research  on  behavioral  economics  and  finance  while  leveraging  the  cross‐
disciplinary  heritage  of  Management  Science to  provide  a  high‐quality  outlet  for  this 
research. 

We  welcome  experimental  (both  standard  and  brain‐imaging),  empirical,  and  theoretical 
papers  that  investigate  individual  decision  making,  interactive  decision  making  in  games, 
and  behavior  of  participants  in  markets. 

Participant is  broadly  defined  but  includes 
producers,  customers,  investors,  fund  managers,  analysts,  and  corporate  managers. 

Market is  also  broadly  defined  but  includes  commodity,  stock,  fixed‐income,  retail,  business‐to‐
business,  and  auction  markets.  We  particularly  welcome  research  that  investigates  the 
impact of participants’  behavior on  the current financial crisis and recession, meta‐analysis 
that  combines  results  from  multiple  studies  and  disciplines,  and  field  experiments  that 
point to clear conclusions. 
 
Submission:  Please  submit  your  manuscript  online  via  ScholarOne  Manuscripts  at 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ms.  Note  that  you  must  select  "Special  Issue"  as  the 
Manuscript  Type  in  Step  1  and  select  Teck  Ho,  Brad  Barber,  or  Terrance  Odean  as 
Department Editor  in  Step  5.  Manuscripts will generally be assigned to one of the Associate 
Editors for this issue (see below), but you may also recommend guest Associate Editors.  
  Associate Editors  
 
Wilfred Amaldoss, Duke University 
Malcolm Baker, Harvard Business School 
Nicholas Barberis, Yale University 
Shlomo Benartzi, UCLA 
Gary Charness, UC Santa Barbara 
Yan Chen, University of Michigan 
Josh Coval, Harvard Business School 
Stefano DellaVigna, UC Berkeley 
Simon Gervais, Duke UniverUri Gneezy, UC San Diego Brian Knutson, Stanford University 
Charles Lee, Stanford University 
Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley 
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University 
Jeff Wurgler, New York University 
Paul Zak, Claremont Graduate University 
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College 
 

[Jim Duggan]

Hi,

FYI Call for Papers for a special volume of OR in the Public Sector and Nonprofit Organisations.

regards,
Jim.

Call for Papers
Annals of Operations Research

Special Volume on
Operations Research in the
Public Sector and Nonprofit Organizations

Zilla Sinuany-Stern and H. David Sherman

We invite submission for a forthcoming special volume of the Annals of Operations Research (AOR) on Operations Research in the Public Sector and Nonprofit Organizations. These sectors have been growing substantially in the past decade and are expected to continue growing in light of the current economic crises. The types of organizations include: government on all levels, legal and law enforcement authorities, education, healthcare, art, charitable, social, international institutions, etc. The OR techniques may range from LP, NLP, DEA, decision analysis and AHP to goal programming, data mining, queuing, simulation, etc. We invite high quality research papers, innovative case studies, and state of the art and survey articles with OR applications to the public sector and nonprofit organizations.

If you intend to contribute to this special volume please contact the Guest Editors either by email or regular mail, as soon as possible. Sending an optional letter (or email) of intent specifying the area of contribution (type of organization and type of OR technique used) would greatly help the planning of this special volume.

The deadline for submission of the full paper is February 28, 2010.
Guest Editors:
Zilla Sinuany-Stern – zilla@bgu.ac.il
Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University,
PO Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.

H. David Sherman – h.sherman@neu.edu
Accounting Group, College of Business
Northeastern University
404 Hayden Hall
Boston, MA 02468, U.S.

Instructions to authors and information about the review process can be found at: http://www.springer.com/journal/10479/submission When submitting your paper, please select article type “SI: OR Public Sector and Nonprofit Orgs” .

[Gene Bellinger]

A new expanded Systems Thinking / Systems Sciences References page has been developed at:

http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Resources

If you are aware of additional references which would enhance the value of this page to others please send me an email with the reference info and I'll get it added to the page.

thanks in advance,
Gene Bellinger

[Roberta Spencer]

A chapter Warren Tignor authored has been published in the book Working Through Synthetic Worlds. The chapter title is "System dynamics and synthetic worlds," and the problem domain is climate change.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?pag ... n_id=12078