CALL FOR PAPERS

It is my pleasure and privilege to inform you that Communications in Dependability and Quality Management (CDQM), An International Journal is publishing by The DQM Research Center, quarterly in english, continuous from 1998.

Communications in Dependability and Quality Management is well-established, high-quality specialized scientific and technical journal is devoted to research, development, manufacturing and using advanced and complex systems.This interdisciplinary journal considers papers with both theoretical and practical aspects on dependability management and life span, configuration management and quality management, safety and environmental protection, project management and production management. It is dedicated to researchers and practitioners who work in: design, production control, quality, reliability, maintenance, logistic, testing, simulation, computing, software, electronics, mechanics, aerospace, power systems, nuclear systems, communication systems, mechatronic systems and similar areas.

You are invited to submit original papers for publication in an international journal focusing on the theoretical and applied aspects of dependability and quality management.

Professor Ljubisa Papic,
Editor-in-Chief of CDQM,
Director and Founder,
The DQM Research Center

EDITORIAL STAFF

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Professor Ljubisa Papic
The DQM Research Center, P.O. Box 132, 32102 Cacak, Serbia
E-mail: papicdqm@ptt.yu

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Professor Dimitri Golenko-Ginzburg
Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,
P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Academic College of Judea and Samaria,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,
Ariel 44837, Israel

MANAGING EDITOR

Dr. Avner Ben-Yair
Sami Shamon College of Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,
Bialik / Basel Sts., Beer-Sheva 84100, Israel

SECTION EDITORS

Dependability Management and Life Span

Prof. B.S. Dhillon University of Ottawa, Canada
Prof. Jezdimir Knezevic Mirce Academy, UK
Prof. Vladimir Shper Electrotechnical State Institute, Russia

Quality Management and ConfigurationManagement

Dr. Yury Adler Russian Quality Academy, Russia
Dr. Mohammed Khan University of Bradford, UK
Dr. Zohar Laslo Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel

Safety and Environmental Protection

Prof. Joseph Aronov Scientific Research Certification Institute, Russia
Prof. Felician Campean University of Bradford, UK
Dr. Ilia Frenkel Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel

Project Management and Production Management

Prof. Aharon Gonik Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Prof. Emanuel Itzkovitch Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Prof. Vladimir Voropaev Russian Project Manag. Assoc., Russia

EDITORIAL BOARD

Prof. Aleksandr Berezin Institute Mashinovedenie, Russia
Prof. Andres Carrion Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain
Prof. Konstantin Frolov Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dr. Sergey Ljubkin Russian Project Management Assoc., Russia
Prof. Hoang Pham Rutgers University, USA
Prof. Nikolay Makhutov Institute Mashinovedenie, Russia
Prof. Susana San Matias Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain
Prof. Ajit Srividya Indian Institute of Technology, India
Prof. Ajit Verma Indian Institute of Technology, India
Prof. Nikola Vujanovic University of Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Mirko Vujosevic University of Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Miomir Vukobratovic Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia

FUNCTIONAL AREAS

All submitted papers are reviewed by selected referees, all of whom are recognized experts in their fields. Acceptance of papers is the responsibility of the editorial board. The journal is published quarterly.

Examples of subject areas of Dependability Management Life Span include:
* Life Cycle Cost Analysis * Design to Cost * System Performance * Dependability * Reliability * Systems Effectiveness * Robustness and Survivability * Compatibility, Simplicity, Commonality and Friendliness * Availability * Maintainability and Testability * Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) * Failure Analysis * Adaptability and Life Span * Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) * Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) * Software Reliability * Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Examples of subject areas of Quality Management and Configuration Management include:
* Configuration Management * Configuration Control * Quality Management (including TQM) * Quality of Design (Value Engineering-VE, Quality Function Deployment-QFD, etc.) * Benchmarking * Design of Experiments * Taguchi Methods * Quality Assurance (QA) * Quality Control (QC) * Economic Aspects of Quality * Six Sigma Methodology * Software Quality * Just-in-Time * Quality Education * Brainstorming and Brainwriting * Quality and Environment Management Systems * Conformity Assessment

Examples of subject areas of Safety and Environmental Protection include:
* Diagnostics of Processes * Hazard Analysis Techniques * Work Physiology * Safety Systems * Risk Analysis and Contingency Planning * Economic Aspects of Safety * Industrial Health * Toxicology * Radiation * Pollution Engineering * Product Stewardship and Materials Recycling * Risk Management * Safety Engineering * Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) * Event Tree Analysis (ETA) * Technological Risk * Human and Organizational Factors

Examples of subject areas of Project Management and Production Management include:
* Network Models’ Structure * Project Scheduling * Cost Optimization * PERT-Cost Models * Resource Levelling * Resource Supportability Models * Stochastic Projects * On-Line Control * Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) * Production Planning and Control (including Production Scheduling) * Controlling Hierarchical Production Systems * Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) * Planning Under Uncertainty * Concurrent Engineering * Business Process Reengineering * Artifical Intelligence

GUIDELINES TO AUTHORS

Authors of papers within the scope of Communications on Dependability and Quality Management are invited to submit of their previously unpublished papers to the Editor-in-Chief or to Associate Editor, Managing Editor and the appropriate Section Editor. Each paper submitted the journal is subject to the following review procedures: 1. the Editor-in-Chief or the Section Editor after receiving the paper reviews it for general suitability for publication; 2. if it is judged suitable, two reviewers are selected and a double blind review takes place; 3. based on the recommendation of the reviewers and Section Editors, a decision is taken as to whether the paper is accepted as it is, returned for revision or rejected. The designated corresponding author will receive galley proofs to check the accuracy of typesetting. Only corrections of typesetting errors are allowed.

Communications on Dependability and Quality Management will consider two types of papers: papers and short papers. papers will be full-length papers reporting original contributions or significant results. Short papers present new ideas, preliminary and brief results. Papers emphasizing on applications are especially welcome. papers should be written in English and arranged in the following orders:

1. Title of the paper
2. Name of the authors
3. Summary
4. Keywords
5. Introduction
6. Main body of the paper
7. Conclusions
8. Acknowledgements
9. References
10. Appendices.

Title of the paper. Please suggest a title of not more than 12 words.

Name of the authors. Name of the all authors with affiliations and mailing address for each author. A brief biographical note should be supplied, including appointment, name of organization and short career biography. To facilitate communication, address, phone number, fax number and email address of the corre-sponding author.

Summary. The summary should not exceed 500 words, containing the purpose, methods, scope, contribution of the paper. It should contain sufficient information to enable readers to decide whether they should obtain and read the paper.

Keywords. Authors should provide 1-6 keywords or descriptors that clearly describe the subject matter of the paper. These terms have two purposes: to help describe the subject content the paper to pro-spective readers and to index the paper for retrieval from a database or bibliography.

Introduction. Introduction to explain background work, nature and purpose of the paper.

Main body of the paper. Body to contain primary message with clear lines of thought and of mathematical expressions.

Conclusion. Conclusion to indicate significant contribution with its limitations, advantages and possible applications.

Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements when appropriate.

References. All references to publications made in the text should be numbered and presented in a numbered list of references following the main text of the manuscript. References cited within text are indi-cated by arabic numerals enclosed in square brackets such as [2], or [2,3].

The following type of format should be used for the Reference list:

a. For journals
Dhillon, B.S. and Yang, N. (1995), Probabilistic Analysis of a Maintainable System with Human Errors, Journal of Quality in Maintenance, 1 (2): 50-59.

b. For proceedings of conferences, symposia, etc.
Papic, L. (1993), Procedures Automatization for Reliability Estimation in the CIM Concept, Pro-ceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 2, Singapore, pp. 499-504.

c. For books
Taguchi, G., Elsayed, A. and Hsaig, T.C. (1989), Quality Engineering in Production Systems, McGraw-Hill, New York.

d. For edited books
Yage, R.R. (1986), An Introduction to Fuzzy Set Theory, in: Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory in Human Factors (edited by Karwowski, W. and Mital, A.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, pp. 29-39.

Appendices. Appendices (if any) should be supplied on separate pages.

Illustrations. All illustrations should be given separately, not pasted on pages and not folded. Illus-trations should be numbered according to their sequence in the text using Arabic numbers. References should be made in the text to each figure. Each illustration should be identified on the reverse side by its number and the name of the authors. An indication of the top of the illustration is required where doubt can arise. Illustrations should be designed with the format of the paper. Make sure that size of the lettering is big enough to allow a reduction of 50% without becoming illegible. The lettering should be in the language of the manuscript. Use the same kind of lettering throughout. Each illustration should be accompanied by a caption. Put the captions on a separate list, added to the manuscript. Explanations should be given in the typewritten legend. Drawn text in the figures should be kept to a minimum. Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity. Sharp and glossy copies are required. Reproductions of photographs already printed cannot be accepted.

Tables. Tables should be typewritten on separate pages, added to the manuscript. They should never be included in the text. A table should not exceed the printed area of the page. If this seems impossi-ble, reversing columns and rows will often make “the impossible possible”. Large tables should be avoided. If many data are to be presented, an attempt should be made to divide these over two or more tables. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all tables. Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title. Explanations, essential to the understanding of the table, should follow this title. Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Units of measurements should be added between parentheses.

Mathematical expressions. All mathematical formulae should be typewritten, if possible. Leave ample space around the formulae. Subscripts and superscripts should be set off clearly. Greek letters and other non-Latin or handwritten symbols should be explained in the margin where they are first used. Take special care to show clearly the difference between zero (0) and the letter O, and between one (1) and the letter l. Give the meaning of all symbols immediately after the equation in which they are first used. For simple factors use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line, e.g. Ip/2m rather than . The use of fractional powers instead of root sings is recommended. Also powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Equations should be numbered serially in the right-hand side and in parentheses. Only equations which are referred to in the text need to be numbered.

Units. The use of SI units is recommended. In cases where non-SI units are used their conversion factor to SI units should be provided.

Submission of papers. Authors are requested to submit manuscripts to the Editor-in-Chief or to Assosciate Editor, Managing Editor and the appropriate Section Editor. The manuscript must be typed in double spacing. Pages of manuscript should be numbered serially.

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