SPECIAL ISSUE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Coronavirus Pandemic’s Impact on the Design and Management of Production Systems and Supply Chains
AIM OF SPECIAL ISSUE:
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus first detected in Wuhan China, and its rapid spread around the globe, rekindled the attention of the world towards the effects of such epidemics on people’s everyday life. This happened in the past when the “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” (SARS) in 2003 in mainland China, the “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome” (MERS) in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, and the MERS in 2015 in South Korea (de Wit et al., 2016) took the scene.
As observed, this kind of epidemic can rapidly spread by a group of infectious agents through several methods of interactions and threaten the health of many people in a short time (Medina, 2018). These kinds of viruses, and their induced related epidemic crises, are having a great impact on every aspect of the economy, finance and society, raising new challenges in the field of epidemic disease prevention and mitigation.
Specifically, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to light a new dimension in the interpretation of “sustainability” and “resilience” of production systems and supply chains. As to industrial production and distribution, suddenly the need arose for:
- Safer production systems which apply new (or advanced) standards for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), new logics of functioning and organization, and new shift planning methods in order to prevent occupational exposure to health-threatening factors or diseases such as COVID-19. This has also affected those industrial sectors where eye, face and respiratory protections were not required before the coronavirus emergence.
- More flexible and more responsive production systems and supply chains, able to easily adapt to the profound and rapid changes that have occurred since the new virus emerged (controlled and reduced personal contacts in order to limit human-to-human transmission, rapid variation in volumes and prices, new marketing, financial and logistic policies, and so on).
This Special Issue of Computers & Industrial Engineering aims to attract world-leading research which may help to understand the impact of the coronavirus on production systems and supply chains. Further aims are to identify new potential work-related exposure and health risks, to develop new solutions for increasing safety of production systems, and flexibility and resilience of domestic and cross-border supply chains.
Contributions are expected, but not limited, to the following topics:
- evidence-based analysis of the pandemic’s impact on modern supply chains and production systems.
- novel safety management practices and strategies to prevent rapid epidemic diffusion in production environments (both goods and services production).
- optimized workforce management models and organizational methods to limit inter-personal contacts and disease transmission.
- innovative models for highly responsive PPE supply chains and PPE production facilities.
- novel design and management strategies for resilient supply chains and production systems.
- new supply chain sustainability models to encompass epidemic disease related issues.
- reconfiguration models for supply chains during emergency management.
Methodologies adopted cover the areas of classical decision-making approaches, including analytical modelling and combinatorial optimization, stochastic modelling, statistical analysis, simulation of complex systems, dynamic control methods, multi-attribute models and so on. Review papers are also welcome.
References
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Manuscripts should be submitted through the publisher’s online system, Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/caie/. Please follow the instructions described in the “Guide for Authors”, given on the main page of the EES website. Please make sure you select “Special Issue” as Article Type and “Pandemic’s Impact” as Section/Category. In preparing their manuscript, the authors are asked to closely follow the “Instructions to Authors”. Submissions will be reviewed according to C&IE’s rigorous standards and procedures through a double-blind peer review by at least two qualified reviewers.
GUEST EDITORS:
Eleonora Bottani (eleonora.bottani@unipr.it)
University of Parma, Department of Engineering and Architecture,
Viale delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Elisa Gebennini (elisa.gebennini@unimercatorum.it)
Universitas Mercatorum, Faculty of Economics,
Piazza Mattei 10, 00186 Roma, Italy
Donato Morea (donato.morea@unimercatorum.it)
Universitas Mercatorum, Faculty of Economics,
Piazza Mattei 10, 00186 Roma, Italy
Teresa Murino (murino@unina.it)
Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”
Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
DEADLINES (tentative)
Deadline for paper submission: October 31st, 2020
First round of review: January 31st, 2021
Notification to the authors: February 15th, 2021
Revision of papers: April 15th, 2021
Second round of review: July 15th, 2021
Final decision notification: July 30th, 2021
Expected publication of the special issue: last quarter of 2021
特刊公告
冠状病毒大流行对生产系统和供应链的设计和管理的影响
特刊目标：
最近在中国武汉首次发现的由新型冠状病毒引起的COVID-19疾病的爆发及其在全球范围内的迅速蔓延，重新引起了世界各国对这种流行病对人们日常生活影响的关注。过去，中国大陆2003年的“严重急性呼吸综合征”（SARS）、2012年沙特阿拉伯的“中东呼吸综合征”（MERS）和2015年韩国的MERS（de Wit等，2016年）都曾出现过这种情况。
据观察，这种流行病可以通过一组传染源通过多种相互作用方式迅速传播，并在短时间内威胁许多人的健康（Medina，2018）。这些病毒及其引发的疫情危机对经济、金融和社会的方方面面都产生了巨大的影响，给防疫减灾领域提出了新的挑战。
具体而言，Covid-19大流行的影响揭示了生产系统和供应链的“可持续性”和弹力”的新层面。关于工业生产和分配，突然需要：
1.更安全的生产系统，采用新的（或先进的）个人防护设备（PPE）标准、新的功能和组织逻辑以及新的轮班计划方法，以防止职业暴露于威胁健康的因素或疾病，如COVID-19。这也影响到那些在冠状病毒出现之前不需要眼睛、面部和呼吸保护的工业部门。
2.更灵活、反应更迅速的生产系统和供应链，能够轻松适应新病毒出现以来发生的深刻和迅速的变化（控制和减少个人接触，以限制人与人之间的传播，数量和价格的快速变化，新的营销，财务和后勤政策等）。
本期《计算机与工业工程》特刊旨在吸引世界领先的研究，这可能有助于了解冠状病毒对生产系统和供应链的影响。进一步的目标是确定新的与工作相关的接触和健康风险，为提高生产系统的安全性以及国内和跨境供应链的灵活性和弹性开发新的解决方案。
预计将对以下主题作出贡献，但不限于：
- 以证据为基础分析大流行对现代供应链和生产系统的影响。
- 新的安全管理实践和策略，以防止疾病在生产环境（商品和服务生产）中迅速扩散。
- 优化劳动力管理模式和组织方法，以限制人际接触和疾病传播。
- 高响应性PPE供应链和PPE生产设施的创新模式。
- 弹性供应链和生产系统的新颖设计和管理策略。
- 新的供应链可持续发展模式，包括流行病相关问题。
- 应急管理中的供应链重构模型。
所采用的方法涵盖了经典决策方法的领域，包括分析建模与组合优化、随机建模、统计分析、复杂系统仿真、动态控制方法、多属性模型等。也欢迎发表评论文章。
参考文献
de Wit, E.; van Doremalen, N.; Falzarano, N.; Munster, V.J. (2016), “SARS and MERS: recent insights into emerging coronaviruses”, Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol. 14, pp. 523-534.
Medina, R.A. (2018), “1918 influenza virus: 100 years on, are we prepared against the next influenza pandemic?”, Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol. 16, pp. 61-62.
提交指南：
Eleonora Bottani (eleonora.bottani@unipr.it)
University of Parma, Department of Engineering and Architecture,
Viale delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Elisa Gebennini (elisa.gebennini@unimercatorum.it)
Universitas Mercatorum, Faculty of Economics,
Piazza Mattei 10, 00186 Roma, Italy
Donato Morea (donato.morea@unimercatorum.it)
Universitas Mercatorum, Faculty of Economics,
Piazza Mattei 10, 00186 Roma, Italy
Teresa Murino (murino@unina.it)
Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”
Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
截止日期（暂定）
论文提交截止日期：2020年10月31日
第一轮评审：2021年1月31日
通知作者：2021年2月15日
论文修改：2021年4月15日
第二轮评审：2021年7月15日
最终决定通知：2021年7月30日
预计特刊出版时间：2021年最后一个季度