IJAM welcomes original papers that pertain to state-of-the-art, research and development, product development, novel applications, and tools in the areas related to agile manufacturing. IJAM addresses the utilization of Agility, and includes areas of information modeling, distribution, planning and scheduling, and collaborative decision-making, as well as organization and management. Agile technologies that result in faster productivity and better customer value are emphasized, Major research areas include process characterization and matrices, enterprise modeling, multi-enterprise integration, information sharing and collaboration, networked collocation tools for multi-media conferences, distributed environments, corporate technical memories, Agility language and tools, intelligent retrieval, virtual teams, architectures, and emerging standards and practices.