Category — General

CALL – FRONTIERS OF BUSINESS CHANGE – BUDAPEST – JULY 2003
CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

CHALLENGING THE FRONTIERS IN GLOBAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY:
IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES IN VALUES, STRATEGY AND POLICY

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION
http://www.gbata.com/updatejune4.html
Budapest, Hungary
July 8-12, 2003

This is going to be a truly global conference sponsored by the Tobin
College of Business, St. John's University; the Robins School of
Business, University of Richmond; Budapest Business School; State
University of Management, Moscow; and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The deadline for submission of proposals is March 15, 2003. However, we
accommodate submitters by having a double-blind rolling review of
proposals. If you would like a prompt response we would appreciate your
including in your cover letter: “Prompt decision for this submission
would be appreciated.” Full papers received by May 1, 2003, will be
included in an associated volume of readings that we are preparing and
that will be distributed at the meeting. DETAILS ON THE SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE are at:
http://www.gbata.com/home.html

The 2003 will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, where
discounted rooms have been arranged for conference participants.
www.budapest.hilton.com

GBATA has had successful meetings for several years now with great
successes last year in Rome and in 2001 in Istanbul. It is one of the
main international meetings for reporting business research.

For future correspondence, please use delenern@stjohns.edu or phone me
at (718) 990-6764 to ask any questions you might have about the
conference and associated processes.

Best Regards,

Nejdet

Nejdet Delener, Ph.D.
GBATA Conference Chair
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Tobin College of Business
St. John's University
Jamaica, New York 11439 USA
delenern@stjohns.edu
Phone: (718) 990-6764
Fax: (718) 990-5966

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International Twelfth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks will be organized byCanakkaleOnsekizMartUniversitybetween 02 – 04 July, 2003, in Canakkale, TURKIYE. Referred & Submitted Papers will be published in Symposium Proceedings. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer SciencesÊISSN 1300-0632,ÊElectronic ISSN 1303-6203.

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The Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences is reviewed by Chemical Abstracts, Engineering Index & Published by The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. (http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/index.html)

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Detailed Online Information can be accessed at http://cs.comu.edu.tr/tainn03

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