INFORMS Open Forum

The Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management Special Interest Group (iFORM SIG) of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society will hold its annual conference in-person, June 26, 2022 preceding the MSOM 2022 conference (June 27-28).

On behalf of the iFORM SIG, we would like to invite you to submit papers to this conference. Acceptance decisions will be based on full paper submissions. In-person presentations of the accepted papers will be scheduled in a single track. We are seeking high quality papers to be presented at the meeting. These papers can be analytical, empirical, theoretical, methodological, or applied, and may address any topic within the broad range of topics covered by iFORM.

Important Dates 

Submission deadline (full paper):              

February 28, 2022 (Central European Time at midnight)

Please note that no extensions will be given for the submission deadline. To facilitate the review process, we encourage you to submit your papers as early as possible.

Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2022

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

Submission portal: http://www.msom-2022.com/submitSIG/

This year, the MSOM conference is creating a "fast-track" process with the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal (M&SOM) for accepted SIG Day papers that are not under review at any journal. M&SOM editors may invite these accepted SIG Day papers to be revised and submitted to M&SOM for potential publication. You will be asked to complete the fast-track statement sheet during the submission process, please refer to the submission portal link above.

Paper Format

• Each paper should comply with MSOM journal formatting standards: https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/msom/submission-guidelines
• Each paper will undergo a double-blind review process by an expert panel. To facilitate double-blind review, the paper should not contain author names.
• The paper should be submitted as a PDF file.
• The submitting author should be the presenter and will be considered "primary author" in the system. Once your paper is accepted, you will upload a non-blinded paper with author names in the order they should appear.

Guidelines

• The same work can be presented only once during the entire conference period. Therefore, please do not submit the same work to both SIG and MSOM or to multiple SIGs.
• You may indicate (in the submission portal) that you would like to be considered for presentation at the MSOM Conference in case the paper is not accepted by the SIG Conference (which has higher priority).
• Please submit a short abstract (with less than 500 characters) to the submission system. This will be posted on the conference website.
• Each attendee is limited to one submission for the MSOM conference, one submission for each SIG Meeting, and two presentations during the entire conference period.
• Final acceptance of your presentation is conditional on your registration for the conference by May 31, 2022.

Conference Website

http://www.msom-2022.com/

2022 iFORM SIG Conference Co-Chairs:

Gerry Tsoukalas, Boston University (gerryt@bu.edu) and

Yuqian Xu, University of North Carolina (Yuqian_Xu@kenan-flagler.unc.edu)

MSOM Society iFORM SIG Chair:

Onur Boyabatli, Singapore Management University (oboyabatli@smu.edu.sg)