Call for Submissions
For the last several years, APMS is a major event and the official conference of the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems, bringing together leading experts from academia, research and industry.
APMS 2012 is looking for high quality contributions in key areas of Competitive Manufacturing, including Innovative Production Management Systems and Services, Enabling Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Enterprise Information Systems and Interoperability, as well as Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Production.
A special sessions’ call is now open (see important dates), to raise visibility on topics of focused interest in a particular scientific or applications area. Special sessions proposals should be submitted by sending a 1-page summary, outlining the session objectives and topics, as well as details of the session organizers.
Extended abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed, looking at both the academic as well as industrial value of the paper. Accepted papers of registered participants will be included in the Conference proceedings. Presented papers will be included in the Conference post-proceedings (book) published by Springer in the series titled "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology" (IFIP AICT).
Authors will be asked to improve their final paper to be included in the Springer book after the Conference. A copy of the published book (edited by Springer) will be sent to the registered attendees.
Selected papers will be considered for development into journal papers for a Special Issue in Production Planning and Control, as well in other journals.
APMS invites Ph.D. researchers to submit papers to be included in the Doctoral Workshop.
Following the tradition of past APMS conferences, two types of awards have been planned for APMS 2012 participants:
- Burbidge Awards for Best paper and best presentation,
- Doctoral Workshop Award.
Regular and Special Session Papers and Doctoral Workshop contributions can be submitted using the on line system (available in due course).