Welcome to the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM2012) held from November 11 to 14, 2012 at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan and supported by Sichuan University (Chengdu, China), Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad, Pakistan) and The National Natural Science Foundation of China. The International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management is the annual conference organized by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management. The goals of the Conference are to foster international research collaborations in Management Science and Engineering Management as well as to provide a forum to present current research results.

The papers are classified into 8 sections: Computer and Networks, Information Technology, Decision Support System, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Manufacturing and Ecological Engineering. The key issues of the sixth ICMSEM cover various areas in MSEM, such as Decision Support System, Computational Mathematics, Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Scheduling and Control, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Electronic Commerce, Neural Networks, Stochastic models and Simulation, Heuristics Algorithms, Risk Control, and Carbon Credits.

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Jiuping Xu holds Ph.D. of Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. of Physical Chemistry from Sichuan University, where he became professor in 1995. At present, he is the Dean of Business School in Sichuan University, Lifetime Academician of International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, President of International Society for Management Science and Engineering Management and General Chair of International Conference on Management Science and Engineering ManagementMasoom Yasinzai is Meritorious Professor of Biochemistry and currently the Vice-Chancellor of Quaid-i-Azam University. Benjamin Lev holds Ph.D. of Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University. At present, he is the head of Decision Sciences Department, LeBow College of Business of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science.