PREFACE It is our great pleasure to introduce you to the Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Information Management & Management Science (IMMS 2018), Southwest Jiaotong University, China, August 25-27, 2018. Over the past years, interests on relevant topics has remarkably increased. Novel ideas and impressive effort on data analysis and software engineering, intelligent business and enterprise management, product design and management, and modern information technology and applications are the evidence of good attempts and significant progress in the fields. The main aim of IMMS 2018 has always been bringing together a large group of researchers, scientists, academics, and engineers in the area of Information Management and Management Science from all over the world, to share much more than research findings, among other things, culture and history. It provides a high-standard international forum for exchanging brilliant ideas and experience. The distinguished speakers have provided different perspectives of research and results in different countries. All the full papers have gone through a rigorous blind peer-reviewing process. The participants have found the discussions fruitful and useful, and also enjoyed the opportunity for setting up future collaboration. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to all the individuals who have contributed to IMMS 2018. And the time, enthusiasm and expertise of all the authors, the Program Committee members and reviewers have enabled us to ensure high-quality and make the conference a successful event in this hot summer. With our warmest regards, Shuliang Li, Conference Chair - IMMS 2018 Fellow of the British Computer Society The University of Westminster, London,United Kingdom School of Economics & Management of Southwest Jiaotong University, China |