Introduction: IJIMS is oriented toward elucidating policy-making process, with the emphasis laid on the applications, especially on policy analysis of information management technology. It also explores the contributions and implications of knowledge-based models in the study of socio-economic systems, develops applications of computer-process database and knowledge-base to policy analysis and integrates the coupling of these various systems intelligently to a particular community, especially to developing countries that are in the process of stimulating national construction and development. Another major aim of this journal is to provide a forum for those researchers who attempt to quantify something or formulate a quantitative model from the qualitative problems.