Dear Colleagues,

This is to inform and invite you to contribute to the International Conference on Production and Operations Management, POMS 2018 - Sri Lanka (www.poms2018.org). The conference will be held in Kandy, Sri Lanka on December 14-16, 2018. The conference is hosted by the Depts. of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering, Dept. of Operations Management and Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Peradeniya in collaboration with the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) based in US. With a history of over 25 years, this is the first time a POMS conference is held in Sri Lanka.

Following are some of the distinguished plenary speakers lined up for the event:

• Prof. George Shanthikumar (President - POMS) - Distinguished Professor of Management, Purdue University
• Prof. Houmin Yan - Director, Research Center for One-Belt-One-Road, City University of Hong Kong
• Prof. Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes - Professor of Operations Management, Head of Center for Supply Chain Improvement, University of Derby, UK.
• Prof. Chelliah Sriskandarajah - Professor of Operations Management - Texas A&M University
• Prof. Sushil Gupta – Professor, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics College of Business, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
• Prof. Fazleena Badurdeen - Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Graduate Studies, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 414L CRMS Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA

Themes of the conference are listed below:

• Artificial Intelligence/Computational Intelligence Applications in Operations Management / Industrial Engineering (OM/IE)
• Big Data and Data Analytics for OM/IE
• Digitization of Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Design of Experiments and Industrial Statistics for OM/IE
• Humanitarian Operations and Resilience after a Crisis
• IoT, Industry 4.0 Applications in OM/IE
• Lean and Agile Manufacturing
• Maritime Logistics & Transportation
• Operations Strategy and Global Production Networks
• System Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Manufacturing and Service Operations
• Product Innovation and Technology Management
• Production Planning and Control
• Quality Planning and Six Sigma
• Risk and Reliability Analysis of Operations
• Service Operations and Servitization
• Sustainable Manufacturing towards Operations Excellence
• Tourism,Healthcare,Defence and other Emerging IE/OM Issues Paper

Submission:

• Paper submissions will be using www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poms2018
• Full papers – 9 pages
• Paper Template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Important Dates
• 10/08/2018 –Abstract submission closes (No more extension)
• 20/08/2018 –Notification of acceptance of abstract
• 20/09/2018 –Full paper submission (optional) closes
• 25/10/2018 –Notification of acceptance of (optional) full paper submission
• 30/10/2018 –Early Bird online registration closes Contact information Email: pomslk2018@gmail.com

For further information please visit http://poms2018.org/ Hope to see you in Kandy in December!