Le 01/02/2007 par roadef :

Special issue: Novel Models and Approaches for Semiconductor
Manufacturing

Call for papers:
This is a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Production Planning and Control (for a description of the Journal's style see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tppcauth.asp) following the conference INCOM'06. This issue will be devoted to Novel Models and Approaches for Semiconductor Manufacturing. Papers presented in the track of the same title of the INCOM'06 conference will be considered for the special issue. In addition, we invite other potential contributors to submit their papers for this issue. In particular, we welcome articles in the following areas:
- Wafer production planning and scheduling, parallel and batch scheduling, lot sizing,
- Resource qualification, capacity planning,
- Design of semiconductor fabs,
- Simulation for semiconductor manufacturing,
- Lot transportation strategies, automated transportation,
- Semiconductor Supply Chain Management (SCM), demand management, yield management,
- Information systems for semiconductor manufacturing, process modeling,
-Wafer quality management, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Advanced Process Control (APC).

Guest editors
Pr. Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès
Ecoles des Mines de Saint-Etienne CMP-Site Georges Charpak
Avenue des Anémones - Quartier Saint-Pierre
F-13541 Gardanne - France

Pr. Subhash C. Sarin
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
blackburg, Virginia-24061, U.S.A

Dr. Claude Yugma
Ecoles des Mines de Saint-Etienne CMP-Site Georges Charpak
Avenue des Anémones - Quartier Saint-Pierre
F-13541 Gardanne - France

Important dates
Deadline for submission of the article March 1, 2007.
End of the reviewing process April 15, 2007
Completion of special issue by guest editors June 1, 2007

Send the articles to: yugma@emse.fr