TAMKANG JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Published by:
Tamkang University
151 Ying-chuan Road
Tamsui, Taipei County
Taiwan 251, Republic of China
Publisher:
Flora Chia-I Chang, Ed.D.
President, Tamkang University
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Ou-Yang, Liang-yu
Professor
,
Tamkang University, Taiwan
Editorial committee:
| Dr. Liang-yu Ou-Yang (Editor-in-Chief) Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan |
Dr. Wei-tzen Yang |
| Dr. Horng- Jinh Chang Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan |
Dr. Miao- Sheng Chen President, Nan-Hua University , Taiwan |
Dr. Louis R. Chow |
Dr. Wen-Tao Huang Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan |
Dr. Kuo- Ren Lou (Managing Editor) |
Managing Editor:
Dr. Kuo- Ren Lou
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Management Sciences, Tamkang University
Mailing Information:
All correspondence regarding submission of manuscripts should be addressed to either the Editor-in-Chief or the Managing Editor. All correspondence regarding subscription, exchange and other matters should be addressed to the Managing Editor. Both are with the Graduate
Institute of Management Sciences, Tamkang University, 151 Ying-Chuan Road, Tamsui, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China.Tel: +886-2-8631-3221
Fax: +886-2-8631-3214
Web site: http://jims.ms.tku.edu.tw/
Aim:
The International Journal of Information and Management Sciences (IMS) is a journal since 1990. In fact, it is an old journal that is merged from two former Journals, namely the International Journal of Policy and Information (PAI) and the Tamkang Journal of Management Sciences (TJMS). At any rate, it follows the traditions of these two former journals.
The tradition of PAI, IMS is aimed at elucidating policy-making process, with emphasis laid on the applications, especially on policy analysis, information management technology, and case studies. IMS also explores the role and implications of knowledge-based models for socio-economic systems, developing applications of computer-processable data-bases and knowledge-bases to policy analysis, and the intelligent coupling of these systems to the particular community, especially for current issues in the national construction and development of developing countries.
The tradition of TJMS, IMS covers such areas as operations research, decision theory, system theory, statistical analysis, etc. It covers all management problems using information science, not only for numerical computation and simulation, but also in the application of decision support system, expert systems, knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, etc.
The areas covered by PAI and TJMS are closely interrelated and intertwined, so that the demarcation of these two former journals has never been very clear-cut. Policy-making is a hight level of decision making, which is also a part of management sciences. On the other hand, no quantitative problem in management sciences can be solved completely without the application of computer science. This is, in fact, one of the main reasons for merging the two former journals into the present one.
Management sciences covers only a subset of the areas covered by business administration, namely, those areas where the problems can be solved mathematically and even quantitatively, or mostly optimization problems. However, the modern trend is that every problem may be attempted to be solved from the general systems approach. Certain traditionally qualitative problems, such as organizational and behavioral problems, are now being solved quantitatively. In other words, the modern trend is to expand or enlarge the realm of management sciences, with a view to converting the whole area of business administration into management sciences. Therefore, to follow this trend, another major aim of this journal is to provide a forum for those research results that attempt to apply quantitative methods to originally qualitative problems.
The journal welcomes contributions of papers from professors, scholars, research scientists, experts, consultants, etc, in all fields of information and management sciences from countries all over the world.
