期刊名称：EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ISSN： 1751-5254 出版频率： Bi-monthly 出版社： INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD, WORLD TRADE CENTER BLDG, 29 ROUTE DE PRE-BOIS, CASE POSTALE 856, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, CH-1215   出版社网址： http://www.inderscience.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ejie 影响因子： 1.371 主题范畴： ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL;    OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal The main goal of EJIE is to present state of-the-art, high quality, research developments in all areas of industrial engineering, including applications in industry and services, to a broad audience of academics and professionals. Target areas include manufacturing, operations management, product and process design, information systems, business and strategy, and quality management amongst others. In order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, applications and case studies are particularly welcome. As regards theoretical papers, originality and research contributions will be regarded as key during the evaluation process. The Editorial Board is committed to a quick and swift process of less than 10 weeks (from submission to initial decision) ensuring not only that authors know the outcome of the evaluation process as soon as possible but also that the latest developments and advances are made available without delay to professionals, academics, researchers, and practitioners. Readership EJIE provides a platform for the dissemination of information, knowledge, and new developments among professionals, academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in the broad field of industrial engineering. Contents EJIE publishes original full or short papers, as well as comprehensive reviews of special areas in the field. Real applications are particularly welcomed. Subject Coverage EJIE covers a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, the following: Business and strategy Case studies in industry and services Decision analysis Engineering economy and cost estimation Environmental issues Facility location, layout, design and materials handling Human factors, ergonomics and safety Industrial engineering education Information and communication technology and systems Innovation, knowledge management and organisational learning Inventory, logistics and transportation Manufacturing, control and automation Operations management Performance analysis Product and process design and management Forecasting, production planning and control Project management Reliability and maintenance engineering Service systems and service management Scheduling in industry and service Systems and service modelling and simulation Supply chain management Total quality management and quality engineering   Instructions to Authors Typescript preparation N.B. 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Please accept it as a candidate for publication in the [journal title]. Below are our responses to your submission requirements. 1. Title and the central theme of the article. Paper title: "Mobile Agents for Network Management." This study reviews the concepts of mobile agents and distributed network management system. It proposes a mobile agent-based implementation framework and creates a prototype system to demonstrate the superior performance of a mobile agent-based network over the conventional client-server architecture in a large network environment. 2. Which subject/theme of the Journal the material fits New enabling technologies (if no matching subject/theme, enter 'Subject highly related to [subject of journal] but not listed by [please type in journal title or acronym]) 3. Why the material is important in its field and why the material should be published in [please type in journal title or acronym]? 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Prof. Dr. William Gates Chair Professor of Information Technology 321 Johnson Hall Premier University Lancaster, NY 00012-6666, USA phone: +1-888-888-8888 - fax: +1-888-888-8886 e-mail: wgates@lancaster.edu Expertise: published a related paper ("TCP/IP and OSI: Four Strategies for Interconnection") in CACM, 38(3), pp. 188-198. Relationship: I met Dr. Gate only once at a conference in 1999. I do not know him personally. Assoc Prof. Dr. John Adams Director of Network Research Center College of Business Australian University 123, Harbor Drive Sydney, Australia 56789 phone: +61-8-8888-8888 - fax: +61-8-8888-8886 e-mail: jadams@au.edu.au Expertise: published a related paper ("Creating Mobile Agents") in IEEE TOSE, 18(8), pp. 88-98. Relationship: None. I have never met Dr. Adams. Assoc Prof. Dr. Chia-Ho Chen Chair of MIS Department College of Management Open University 888, Putong Road Keelung, Taiwan 100 phone: +886-2-8888-8888 - fax: +886-2-8888-8886 e-mail: chchen@ou.edu.tw Expertise: published a related paper ("Network Management for E-Commerce") in IJ Electronic Business, 1(4), pp. 18-28. Relationship: Former professor, dissertation chairman. Mr. Frank Young Partner, ABC Consulting 888, Seashore Highway Won Kok, Kowloon Hong Kong phone: +852-8888-8888 - fax: +852-8888-8886 e-mail: fyoung@abcc.com Expertise: Mr. Young provides consulting services extensively to his clients regarding network management practices. Relationship: I have worked with Mr. Young in several consulting projects in the past three years. Finally, this paper is our original unpublished work and it has not been submitted to any other journal for reviews. Sincerely, Johnny Smith Instructions to Authors authorguide.pdf Editorial Board Editors Ali Allahverdi Kuwait University Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering College of Engineering and Petroleum PO Box. 5969 13060 Safat KUWAIT ali.allahverdi@ku.edu.kw Jose M. Framinan University of Seville School of Engineering Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n 41092 Sevilla SPAIN jose@esi.us.es Rubén Ruiz García Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Departamento de Estadistica e Investigacion Operativa Aplicadas y Calidad Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Camino de Vera S/N 46021, Valencia SPAIN rruiz@eio.upv.es Associate Editors Imed Kacem Université Paul Verlaine Metz FRANCE Jorge M.S. Valente Universidade do Porto PORTUGAL József Váncza Hungarian Academy of Sciences HUNGARY Editorial Board Members Carlos Andrés RomanoCa Universidad Politécnica de Valencia SPAIN Christian ArtiguesCh Université de Toulouse FRANCE Robert D. AustinRo Harvard University USA M. Emin AydinM. 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