Special issue published: "Challenges and Advances in Management and Production Engineering"

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 28(4/5/6) 2014

• Creation and evaluation of software teams - a social approach
• Objective-based multiple attribute decision-making method for plastic manufacturing process selection
• Review and outlook of work breakdown structure for complex product manufacturing 
• Learning rate of gradient descent multi-dividing ontology algorithm
• A combination of data analytic and compensatory methodology for material selection in sugar manufacturing industry
• IEQMS model: a leveraging mechanism to polarise quality in engineering educational institutions - an empirical study
• Recruitment, selection, training and performance evaluation at the Portuguese Public Safety Police - repercussions on work satisfaction, motivation and performance
• Management of remanufacturing - strategic challenges from intellectual property rights 
• A profile shaft connection technique and its applications in transmission structure
• Partner selection in a manufacturing virtual enterprise based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets
• Energy consumption in relation with buffer design during the pre-build stages of manufacturing system