Special issue published: "Atypical Projects and Atypical Management of Projects: Conceptual and Empirical Developments"

International Journal of Project Organisation and Management 7(3) 2015

• Processual knowledge production in organisations dealing with projects
• Fuzzy projects: a qualitative investigation of project leaders' service role
• Atypical perspectives on project management: moving beyond the rational, to the political and the psychosocial
• Project management for academic research projects: balancing structure and flexibility
• BIM: in search of the organisational architect

Additional paper

• Exploring the impact of team rapport and empowerment on information processing and project performance in outsourced system development 

Special issue published: "Hybrid Soft Computing Approaches for Image Processing: the 'X' Dimension"

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms 7(2) 2015

• Differential evolution versus genetic algorithm in optimising the quantisation table for JPEG baseline algorithm
• A systematic review on advances and perspectives of image compression in telemedicine
• An efficient reversible data hiding approach for colour images based on Gaussian weighted prediction error expansion and genetic algorithm
• Visual attention-based leukocyte image segmentation using extreme learning machine
• A colour features-based methodology for variety recognition from bulk paddy images 

Call for papers: "Business Strategy - Then and Now"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management.

This special issue will focus on changes in business and related strategy – in practice, theory and research – during the past twenty-one years. More specifically, the issue seeks to explore the relationship between business strategy in practice and academic theory and research in a field that, generally speaking, began in the 1960s with, in particular, Igor Ansoff, and the Business Policy group at Harvard Business School.

 

These concerns were examined by Trevor Williams in "The End of Strategy", the lead article in a special issue of the international policy journal Futures in May 1994. In looking at the history and the current state of strategy, the article and special issue as a whole questioned whether it was valid or useful to make a distinction between, on the one hand, practice and, on the other hand, academic theory and research.

 

More recently, in the 50th Anniversary Edition of the McKinsey Quarterly (2014, Number 3), Ghemawat detects a worsening disconnect between "what companies want from strategy" and "current conversations among strategy researchers in academia". Going further, in Business Strategy: Uncertainty, Opportunity and Enterprise, Spender wondered whether "… a book on business strategy [should] be informing its readers about academics' work? If so, I have failed completely. Everything I have done is to stand all available theory on its head to show what it does not do". Is Spender's judgment useful?

 

In examining claims for practical novelty and significance, we should not, perhaps, be too concerned to be merely polite. For example, the so-called "Strategy-as-Practice" "turn" has been claimed, as illustrated by the publication of a Cambridge Handbook, to be significant. But its underlying motivation is bogus. Imagine a telephone conversation:

 

Caller: "I wish to speak to your company."

Receptionist: "Who in particular would you like to speak to?"

Caller: "No, no. You don't understand. Your company's annual report states that your company has a strategy. I wish to speak to your company, not to a human representative."

 

The notion that, in practice, anybody believes and acts as if strategy could exist independently of human agency is bizarre. It is an academic fantasy. And since nobody in practice could behave as if strategy could be anything other than what people do, the need for a new “domain” of interest is, to put it mildly, suspect. But, whether or not any good will come from the strategy-as-practice "turn" in strategy research, was the diagnosis of an earlier academic turning away from what people do in strategy correct? If so, what had led to that turning away?

 

In considering strategy over the last twenty-one years, some questions that arise may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• What, in practice, has happened to business models in the world over the last twenty-one years?
• Has technology - including but not limited to information technology - been the main "driver"?
• Have genuinely new organisational forms appeared?
• Does twentieth century science, and the science of the new millennium, have something useful to contribute to business strategy?
• While knowing that the future cannot be predicted, i.e. foretold with certainty, what sorts of developments might be envisaged? Are there any credible and useful "scenarios" for the development of business strategy?
• In Mintzbergian terms, how have "strategies" in business and other organisations been in practice "formed"?
• Has "strategic planning" survived in any recognisable form?
• Is the attempted newish brand from INSEAD, so-called "Blue Ocean" thinking, both new and significant?
• Is there any validity in the not infrequent current claim that both the pace of change and the extent of "turbulence" have increased and are continuing to increase? In the context of, say, the last two hundred years, what is the evidence?
• How, if at all, has the teaching of "strategy" changed?
• Have successive editions of textbooks changed significantly?
• Is Freedman (Strategy: a History, 2013) correct in identifying common elements in strategy in war, politics and business - and in his account of the history of business strategy?
• How, in practice, have managers responded to Ackoff's (somewhat ponderous) question, "What in the world is going on in the world?"?
• And, for example, are Nonaka and Zhichang correct (in Pragmatic Strategy, 2012) in identifying a four-fold shift in the environment of business?
• Has "systems thinking" become, in practice, influential? And have any other "...ologies"?

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 31 October, 2015

Notification to authors: December 31, 2015

Final version due: 31 January, 2016

Special issue published: "Contemporary Issues in Corporate Governance"

International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 8(2) 2015

Expanded versions of papers presented at the SIBR-RDINRRU 2014 Conference on Interdisciplinary Business and Economic Research.

• The effect of earnings management with special item to investment decision: empirical study at manufacture firm listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange 2008-2010
• An empirical examination of the role of the remuneration committee in the relationship between board of directors and remuneration
• The impact of corporate governance on corporate social disclosure: comparative study in South East Asia
• Intellectual capital disclosure, corporate governance structure and firm value in Indonesian banking industry
• Can shareholder rights protection reduce corruption in lending?
• Large shareholders' relationship, active shareholder and supervision
• Market reaction on income smoothing in the Indonesian manufacturing industry
• The effect of audit committee quality and internal auditor objectivity on the prevention of fraudulent financial reporting and the impact on financial reporting quality (a survey on state-owned company in Indonesia)

Call for papers: "New Approaches for Transport, Logistics and Transformation"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Supply Chain and Inventory Management.

Transport, logistics and transportation continue to present new challenges and demand that researchers and practitioner find new and powerful approaches for dealing with the everyday complexities that affect operational and management processes. To this end, there is a growing effort towards the application of artificial intelligence techniques as well as mathematical modelling and software development.

Given that, the aim of this special issue is twofold: to appraise the current state of research, and to provide advanced approaches for the future development of the field. Therefore, the issue calls for papers that go beyond the current state of the art and have the potential to stimulate and guide future research efforts delineating critical paths for future research.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 2014 International Workshop on Innovation for Logistics (WIN-LOG 2014), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Bulk terminals
• Container shipping
• Container terminals
• Control of logistics processes
• Decision support in logistics
• Environmental impact of logistic operations
• Green logistics
• Green supply chain operations
• Logistics and manufacturing
• Multimodal transportation
• Naval training systems
• Port management
• Production planning and control
• Railways
• Resource planning
• Supply chain management
• Supply chain risks and vulnerabilities
• Supply chain security
• Supply chains
• Sustainability in logistics
• Traceability along the supply chain
• Transportation and distribution
• Urban transportation
• Vessel traffic systems
• Warehouse services and management

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 30 September, 2015
Notification to authors: 30 November, 2015
Final versions due: 30 December, 2015

Special issue published: "IT-based Sustainable Agricultural Systems Management"

International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics 1(2) 2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the 35th Commission Internationale de l’Organisation Scientifique du Travail en Agriculture Conference.

• Multi-criteria evaluation of sustainable supply chains in the agrifood sector
• Coverage planning for capacitated field operations under spatial variability
• An adaptive scaring device
• Optimisation of thermal performances in livestock housing design solutions using genetic algorithms
• A simulation study on the use of co-state variables as strategic setpoints for tomato greenhouses
• Radio frequency identification and wireless sensor networks application domains integration using DASH7 Mode 2 standard in agriculture

Special issue published: "Applications of AHP/ANP in Government Policy and Decision Making"

International Journal of Management and Decision Making 14(3) 2015

• Government policy and healthcare management: proposal of a shared decision-making model
• Measuring economic sustainability of energy use: an ANP-based evaluation of some European Union countries and Turkey
• Using different pair-wise comparison scales for developing industrial strategies
• Analytic hierarchy process as a ranking tool for decision making units

Call for papers: "Grind Hardening"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties.

Grinding is one of the most important processes in the manufacturing discipline. One of the key goals for successful grinding is controlling the heat transfer in order to ensure that the workpiece material does not undergo any metallurgical changes. However, this problem can also be considered as an opportunity, as controlling the amount of heat that is conducted in the workpiece material can result in its surface heat treatment. The grind-hardening process is thus a novel, non-conventional machining process that can be used for the simultaneous surface hardening and grinding of metallic components.

The grind-hardening process has a history of almost twenty years. Since its introduction, numerous studies have been presented focusing on a number of aspects of the process such as its modelling, the impact of process parameters, the grinding wheel importance, etc.

The objective of this special issue is to present innovations and breakthroughs that have recently been developed in grind hardening.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theoretical and practical aspects of the grind-hardening process
• Computer modelling and optimisation
• Microstructural and grain size control
• Material properties
• Hardening/tempering/stress relieving
• Residual stresses
• Nondestructive testing
• Failure analysis
• Thermal processing development
• Process monitoring and quality assurance
• Grinding wheel designs

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 31 March, 2016

Special issue published: "Management of Copyright and Related Rights by Collective Management Organisations: Part I"

International Journal of Intellectual Property Management 7(3/4) 2014

• Collective administration of online rights in musical works: analysing the economic efficiency of the Directive 2014/26/EU
• The EU Collective Rights Management Directive and the RRO
• The regulation of the Spanish Copyright Commission and the 2014 reform: a missed chance for change in Spain and Europe?
• Will the CRM-directive succeed re-aggregating the mechanical reproduction rights in the Anglo-American music repertoire?
• Protection of popular culture and collective management organisations: appropriation of the commons and unjust enrichment?
• Collective management organisations on the eve of Directive 2014/26/EU - the case of Portugal 

Call for papers: "Inventory Management in the Fashion Industry"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Inventory Research.

The fashion and textiles industry is one of the most important industries in the world. Its markets are characterised by short product life cycles and high demand volatility. To be profitable in this fast-paced and uncertain environment, effective and efficient supply chain management is necessary. This special issue is devoted to the latest and most significant findings on inventory management in fashion supply chains.

We seek cutting-edge developments, novel concepts, innovative practices and research opportunities in inventory management in the fashion industry. We actively encourage submissions of analytical, empirical and case-based studies, with methodologies including mathematical modelling, simulation and conceptual framework formulation with suitable case studies or large-scale surveys.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Inventory management and production planning in the fashion industry
• Job scheduling problems in fashion manufacturing and remanufacturing
• Optimal lot sizing in fashion supply chains
• Inventory control methods in fashion supply chains
• Healthcare apparel product management
• Inventory management for sourcing and outsourcing in fashion supply chains
• Risk management for fashion product inventory
• Sustainability issues in inventory management in the fashion industry
• Demand forecasting and inventory planning for fashion products
• Performance measurement for fashion inventory management
• Vendor-managed inventory in the fashion industry
• Information technology for inventory management in the fashion industry
• Multi-criteria, multi-objective decision making models for inventory management in the fashion industry
• Facility location models and network design methods for inventory management in the fashion industry

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 1 May, 2016

New Editor for the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

Prof. Timothy B. Patrick from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the USA has left his Managing Editor position for the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine to become its new Editor in Chief.

Heal thyself, Patient 2.0

Writing in the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, researchers in Denmark explain how the new paradigm of a digital healthcare system, as it matures, is putting the picture of the doctor-patient relationship in an entirely new frame and not always in a positive way.

The advent of electronic healthcare records and the mobile computer in the form of the laptop, tablet and smart phone has led to the notion of patient empowerment. The new medical ethos that began to emerge in the mid-2000s was of a transformation of the traditional healthcare system into a modern digital system in which we, as patients, have access to the information and knowledge previously available only to medical professionals and can now meet our physicians on a more equitable footing.

Søsser Brodersen and Hanne Lindegaard of the Center for Design, Innovation and Sustainable Transitions at Aalborg University Copenhagen, explain how the headline proclamations that future patients will take of themselves via tele-healthcare systems are yet to happen. Patients would not interact with a face-to-face meeting with stethoscopes and sphygmomanometers and a “stick-out-your-tongue”, but via digital sensors and domestic diagnostic devices and a video conference call to their doctor.

“In Scandinavia, the design of future healthcare systems and healthcare technology innovation are top priorities for politicians and technology developers,” the researchers argue. ” An ageing population and an increasing number of patients who are living with chronic diseases have led to increased healthcare system costs,” they add. The same can be said for many other parts of the world. Information and communication technology (ICT) could be key to reducing the number and length of hospital visits in the digital age. But, to make the necessary adaptations to healthcare and upgrade us to the Patient 2.0 paradigm, there are many issues yet to be addressed and questions to be answered:

• Will the technology-based, self-management view result in an increased number of technologies in private homes?
• How will the vision change the relationships between doctors and patients, and patients and relatives in practice?
• How will the newly-empowered patients (or their relatives) become experts on their own illnesses?
• How will patients’ identities shift from being ‘treated’ to being ’empowered’ when living with a chronic illness?

The transfer of power to patients will inevitably involve additional work and costs for someone, but perhaps reduce the burden on the healthcare worker. The researchers argues that the changes will have implications beyond the economic and logistic gains anticipated by politicians looking to free up hospital beds and reducing waiting times. But, while our evolution into Patient 2.0 means we could undergo home diagnosis and home treatment and continue to work or live out our retirement, Patient 2.0 will have to learn how to share the responsibility for their own health, seek information, stick to medication regimes, measure vital signs and be attentive to symptoms.

The researchers’ case studies of elderly and chronically ill patients show that a 150-year old Patient 1.0 tradition might be overturned to the benefit of both patient and physician, and perhaps even politicians.


Brodersen, S. and Lindegaard, H. (2015) “Empowering patients through healthcare technology and information? The challenge of becoming a Patient 2.0“, Int. J. Healthcare Technology and Management, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.7388.

Original article: Heal thyself, Patient 2.0.
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Inderscience is media partner for 14th Annual HR Directors Business Summit

Inderscience is a media partner for the 14th Annual HR Directors Business Summit (2-4 February, 2016, Birmingham, UK).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management
• International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management
• International Journal of Strategic Change Management

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from ICNC-FSKD'2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the ICNC-FSKD'2015 (15-17 August 2015, Zhangjiajie, China) will be published by the following journals:

• International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
• International Journal of Embedded Systems
• International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking

Special issue published: "Current Developments on Advanced Systems"

International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems 6(2/3) 2015

• A class of adaptive robust controllers for uncertain dynamical systems with unknown virtual control coefficients
• Semiautonomous centipede-like robot for rubble - development of an actual scale robot for rescue operation
• Control of an air spring type anti-vibration apparatus using minimal order observer
• Unified controller for swing-up control of parallel and serial double inverted pendulum systems
• Robustness investigation of a ducted-fan aerial vehicle control, using linear, adaptive, and model predictive controllers
• Terminal sliding mode formation control of uncertain multiple robots
• Robot control intelligent interfaces using the DSmT and the neutrosophic logic

Inderscience is media partner for Occupational Safety and Health Middle East 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Occupational Safety and Health Middle East (15-17 March 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

The journal involved is the International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management.

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from Int. Conf. on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

Extended versions of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (4-6 November 2015, Krakow, Poland) will be published by the following journals:

• International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
• International Journal of Embedded Systems
• International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking

Call for papers: "Export Marketing Management Related to Knowledge and Innovation"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Export Marketing.

Rapidly changing environments and technologies, the development of new knowledge and the continuous flow of innovations are sources of new challenges for international firms operating in different markets. Therefore, this special issue addresses the need to look at firms of any size and examine their internationalisation pathways, their innovativeness, their international marketing strategies and their overseas distributor relations. Research into other areas related to international marketing management strategies of firms is also welcome.

The issue invited all types of studies – quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods as well as meta-analysis/critical review/conceptual papers, empirical studies and case studies.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 2016 Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) Conference, but we also encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 30 April, 2016
Notification to authors: 31 July, 2016
Final versions due: 30 November, 2016

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems are now available here for free:

• A robust hybrid active noise control system using IIR notch filters
• Hybrid optimal filtering for linear continuous-time Markovian jump systems with non-Gaussian noises by MPT approach
• Multiple model adaptive control of a hydro turbine plant - performance of H∞, LQG and PI controllers
• Robustness investigation of the linear multi-variable control technique for power management of DFIG wind turbines
• A robust high-speed position control scheme based on computed torque method for 2 DOF flexible link robot arms
• Design and experimental evaluation of a data-oriented multivariable PID controller
• Design of a multirate PD control system for improvement in the steady-state intersample response
• Oscillation criteria of solutions for a new class of impulsive parabolic equations with delay

Inderscience is media partner for Emergency and Response Disaster Prevention 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for Emergency and Response Disaster Prevention (15-17 March 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

The journal involved is the International Journal of Emergency Management.

Special issue published: "Intelligent Grid and Cloud Computing"

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing 6(3/4) 2015

• Collective advancements on access control scheme for multi-authority cloud storage system
• Support vector machine-based stuttering dysfluency classification using GMM supervectors
• An efficient methodology to improve service negotiation in cloud environment
• Fast query by humming system based on complex multiscale music entropy and CMMEB Kd tree
• Text-to-speech synthesis with an Indian language perspective
• The design of tractor CAN bus intelligent node based on dual-core processor
• Semi-partitioned scheduling for fixed-priority real-time tasks based on intelligent rate monotonic algorithm
• Hardware implementation based on FPGA of semaphore management in μC/OS-II real-time operating system
• Network congestion control methods and theory
• The architecture design of the wearable health monitoring system based on internet of things technology
• BSN-mesh and its basic parallel algorithms

Additional papers

• Multi-keyword ranked searchable public-key encryption
• A model for resource management in computational grid for real-time jobs using game theory

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from INCoS-2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (2-4 September 2015, Taipei, Taiwan) will be published by the following journals:

• International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
• International Journal of Embedded Systems
• International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking

Call for papers: "Creating Solutions with Sustainable Entrepreneurship"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing.

Entrepreneurial activities of individuals and organisations are of growing significance to creating solutions to existing social and environmental problems. Entrepreneurship is addressed increasingly often, both in literature and in corporate and societal practice, as an approach to achieving sustainability goals and to contributing to sustainable development. The phenomenon embraces small and large companies, start-ups and non-profit organisations alike. Yet, while some conceptual papers have dealt with the topic in sustainability management and entrepreneurial journals, the research remains sporadic. The role of individual actors is frequently mentioned but has thus far not been examined in depth. Only a few empirical studies have been conducted, mainly as single case studies, thus leaving ample research space for comparative case studies and large-scale empirical investigations.

 

The rationale for this special issue is that entrepreneurs in small and large companies and across NGOs and governmental organisations, entrepreneurship as a philosophy and approach to creating sustainability solutions can act as a catalyst for the sustainability transitions of markets and sustainable development of societies. This issue will explore approaches to sustainable entrepreneurship and its interaction with sustainability innovations, sustainability-oriented business models and business cases. Sustainable entrepreneurship and related concepts such as ecopreneurship (Schaltegger 2002) and social entrepreneurship (Dees 1998) have been characterised in different ways. This special issue intends to embrace the broad variety of research foci in this area including, for example, entrepreneurial approaches to reducing environmental degradation through entrepreneurial action (Dean & McMullen 2007), to preserving nature and communities in the pursuit of perceived opportunities of economic and non-economic gains (Sheppert & Patzelt 2011), to initiating entrepreneurial discovery (Kirzner 1997) of “worthy contributions” (Parrish 2010) and solutions to social and environmental problems, to searching for the most effective methods of serving social missions (Seelos & Mair 2007), to realising processes of creative destruction (Schumpeter 1939) of unsustainable products, services and organisations through sustainability innovations and the introduction of more convincing sustainable offers (Schaltegger & Wagner 2011), and to creating sustainability transformations of the mass market (Hockerts & Wüstenhagen 2010).

 

Sustainable entrepreneurship thus encompasses a broad range of mission-driven, profit- and non-profit-oriented, social, environmental and sustainability ventures including hybrid organisations, sustainability-oriented niche pioneers and companies creating sustainability transformations of mass markets. Sustainability innovations, furthermore, are necessary drivers of sustainable entrepreneurship which create variations to existing unsustainable products, services and organisations (Hansen et al. 2009; Schaltegger & Wagner 2011). This raises questions of what is different between sustainable and conventional (e.g. Austin et al. 2006), social, environmental and sustainable entrepreneurs (Thompson et al. 2011), or between sustainability pioneers in market niches, in mass markets or non-market societal contexts. Also, international and industry comparisons may serve for extended research papers. Conceptual and empirical papers specifying the existence or non-existence of differences are welcome.

 

As many sustainable entrepreneurs want to change their environment for the better, their sustainability innovations need to diffuse and/or scale up. In this upscaling and diffusion process, entrepreneurial success with sustainability innovations depends on reacting to strategies and activities of competitors as well as constant changes in the societal and regulatory environment. Sustainable entrepreneurs are challenged to create new solutions, bring them into the market and adopt them to market, competitor and societal reactions. Once innovative sustainability-oriented business models (Boons & Lüdeke-Freund 2013), products and organisations are developed and established in a market niche, the question arises of which of these survive market selection and remain to finally influence mass markets. We invite papers which examine sustainable entrepreneurship and/or its interaction with sustainability innovations, business models and business cases for sustainability as elements of entrepreneurship. Purely conceptual papers are as welcome as theory-driven empirical works applying qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods.

 

References

Austin, J. & Leonard, H. (2008). Can the virtuous mouse and the wealthy elephant live happily ever after? California Management Review, 51(1), 77-102.

Boons, F. A. A. & Lüdeke-Freund, F. (2013). Business models for sustainable innovation: State-of-the-art and steps towards a research agenda. Journal of Cleaner Production, 45, 9-19.

Dean,T. J. & McMullen, J. S. (2007). Toward a theory of sustainable entrepreneurship. Reducing environmental degradation through entrepreneurial action, Journal of Business Venturing, 22, 50-76.

Dees, J. (1998). The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Hansen, E. G.; Große-Dunker, F. & Reichwald, R. (2009). Sustainability innovation cube. A framework to evaluate sustainability-oriented innovations. international Journal of Innovation Management, 13(4), 683-713.

Hockerts, K. & Wüstenhagen, R. (2010). Greening Goliaths versus emerging Davids. Theorizing about the role of incumbents and new entrants in sustainable entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 25(5), 481-492.

Kirzner, I. (1997). Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approach. Journal of Economic Literature, 35(1), 60-85.

Parrish, B. D. (2010). Sustainability-driven entrepreneurship. Principles of organization design. Journal of Business Venturing, 25(5), 510-523.

Schaltegger, S. (2002): A Framework for Ecopreneurship. Leading Bioneers and Environmental Managers to Ecopreneurship, Greener Management International, Theme Issue on Environmental Entrepreneurship (Schaper, M., Ed.), Issue 38, 45-58.

Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. (2011). Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions. Business Strategy and the Environment, 20(4), 222-237.

Seelos, C. & Mair, J. (2005). Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty. A Strategic View. Academy of Management Perspectives, 21(4), 49-63.

Sheppert, D. & Patzelt, H. (2011). The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking "What Is to Be Sustained" With "What Is to Be Developed. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 35(1), 137-163.

Thomason, N.; Kiefer, K. & York, J. (2011). Distinctions not Dichotomies. Exploring Social, Sustainable, and Environmental Entrepreneurship, In: Lumpkin, G. & Katz, J. (eds.): Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Vol. 13, Bingley (UK): Emerald, 201-229.

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Processes, obstacles and opportunities of sustainable entrepreneurship
• Business models and entrepreneurship for sustainability
• Entrepreneurship and sustainability innovations
• Sustainability pioneers as entrepreneurs
• The interface between sustainability innovation and entrepreneurship
• Innovations in social entrepreneurship
• The role of mission or purpose in innovation and resource acquisition processes
• Opportunity identification by sustainable entrepreneurs
• Responsible innovation and entrepreneurship
• Sustainable entrepreneurship in the international context and in international comparison
• Financing sustainable entrepreneurship
• In-depth qualitative analyses of case studies and comparative case studies
• Motivations and psychological studies of entrepreneurs
• Empirical analyses of sustainability-oriented business models and business model development
• Transformation processes and effects in markets and society induced by new business models and entrepreneurship
• Further studies on the phenomena of sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainable business model development and sustainability innovations

 

Important Dates

Deadline for papers: 31 March, 2016

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management are now available here for free:

• Customer attribution of service failure and its impact in social commerce environment
• Improving decision for banking to support customer knowledge retention: a quantitative study in Jordanian banking sector
• Internet banking services as tool of CRM: a study of customer satisfaction in the National Capital Region, Delhi
• Empowering customers in electronic health (e-health) through social customer relationship management
• Testing cloud computing for customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Contemporary challenges in CRM technology adoption: a multichannel view
• The effect of CRM stages along with brand images and values on sustainable corporate performance
• Customer's life-time value using the RFM model in the banking industry: a case study
• Death of a salesman: birth of a knowledge broker

Call for papers: "Political Systems: the Drivers of Tourism Policy"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Tourism Policy.

This special issue invites research papers on political, economic, social, cultural or environmental policy commands that chart the course of tourism development in a country or destination.

The objective of the issue is to assess the role of political influence on policy formulation in regard to tourism development and its merits/demerits. Questions regarding the forms and formats of governance having impact on tourism policies may also be raised. Studies focusing on and highlighting tourism policy initiatives or the lack thereof will also be considered.

Papers should focus on the symbiotic relationship between the organisation of tourism and the political system of the destination country. Contributions in either the form of research papers or case studies are welcome.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism 2015, but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Political systems and tourism development
• Political interference in governance of tourism
• Government policies and destination management
• Social and cultural environment and its impact on tourism development
• Politics of destination branding
• Political systems and destination image
• Policy, planning and development of tourism
• Tourism policy initiatives or lack thereof
• Effect of change of government on policy directions
• Form of government and tourism development
• Local, national and regional tourism policies and planning
• International organisations and policy implications for tourism management
• Role of NTO/DMO in tourism development, management, marketing and promotion
• Relationship of DMO and government

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 15 November, 2015

Special issue published: "Sustainable Development and Industrial Sustainability"

Asian Journal of Management Science and Applications 1(4) 2014

• Sustainable value analysis tool for value creation
• Integration of computer-aided design and DFE principles for the development of a tennis ball retriever concept: a case study
• Impact analysis of political decisions on business sustainability
• Analytical hierarchy process for justification of JIT implementations in Indian manufacturing industries 
• Selection of performance measure in JIT through fuzzy logic-based simulation

Int. J. of Electronic Governance to publish expanded papers from Hybrid City International Conference

Extended versions of papers presented at the 3rd Hybrid City International Conference 2015 - Data to the People (17-19 September 2015, Athens, Greece) will be published by the International Journal of Electronic Governance.

Call for papers: "Recent Advances and Emerging Topics in Computer Vision Methods and Image Analytics"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics.

Computer vision methods and image analytics have steadily progressed over the last few decades and taken the lead in showing the significance of vision technology in our life. There is growing interest in theoretical aspects of image and video formation, modelling, preprocessing, recognition, motion detection, analysis, etc. The accumulation of big data sets is another serious challenge for established vision and imaging techniques.

Computer vision techniques and image analytics can be applied in a wide range of domains including healthcare, retail, transport, smart homes, biometrics, safety and security. The use of embedded imaging system in mobile devices has created a new domain of applications for imaging and vision techniques. The new requirement of computer vision methods and image analytics is to have high computing capabilities at limited resources and with real-time constraints.

This special issue will provide a forum to consolidate a broader range of the current research achievements and future trends in developing new theories, algorithms, architectures and applications of computer vision methods and image and video analytics.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Vision & Robotics (ICCVR) 2014, but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Image denoising and deblurring
• Image enhancement
• Super-resolution
• Multispectral imaging
• Image interpolation
• Image matching
• Image fusion
• Image retrieval
• Image and video watermarking
• Image registration and alignment
• Computational models of image and vision
• Integration of camera systems
• Camera calibration
• Object segmentation
• Shadow and background removal
• Feature learning
• Scene parsing
• Object classification
• Object recognition
• Shape and range analysis
• Motion analysis and object tracking
• 3D vision and perception
• Gait recognition and analysis
• Pose estimation
• Gesture recognition
• Human activity recognition
• Affective computing
• Abnormal behaviour detection
• Augmented video
• Video summarisation
• Visual tagging
• Mobile visual search
• Visual computing in cloud
• Visual content sharing
• Face recognition
• Video surveillance
• Optical character recognition
• Medical imaging
• Biometric analysis
• Mobile applications
• Big visual data handling and analysis
• Applications of computer vision

Important Dates
Manuscript submission deadline: 31 December, 2015
First review notification: 31 March, 2016
Revised manuscript submission: 31 May, 2016
Final decision: 30 June, 2016
Final manuscript submission: 31 July, 2016

Inderscience is media partner for Firefighting Middle East (FFME 2016)

Inderscience is a media partner for Firefighting Middle East (15-17 March 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Emergency Management
• International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Special issue published: "Advances in Computational Economics and Econometrics"

International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics 5(3) 2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics (IWCee13).

• Uni- vs. bi-directional kinetic exchange models
• Simulating demand-side effects on innovation
• A computational experiment on elicitation task bias in time preference
• The time profile approach to production with an application to gestation lags
• Univariate forecasting of Indian exchange rates: a comparison
• Asymptotic forecasting error evaluation for estimated temporally aggregated linear processes
• Sectoral specialisation in an evolutionary growth model with a Kaldorian flavour
• Macroeconometric models in practice: the Istat experience

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Competition and Growth

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Business Competition and Growth are now available here for free:

• An inquiry into direct selling practices in Mexico: analysis of internal and external fit
• Exploring the role of technology strategy in technological innovation through mixed methods research
• Factors determining export performance: a comparative study of three industrial sectors
• Renewable energy market in Mexico: a research framework
• The impact of knowledge sharing on firm performance: an empirical investigation of information technology firms

Call for papers: "Intelligence in Teaching/Learning Support Environments and Functionality"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence.

This special issue will focus on intelligence in teaching/learning support environments and functionality from the viewpoint of promoting and encouraging human activities. Our IT-based environment provides various kinds of computing and networking systems, and it has become clear that their roles and effects are too complex and diverse in terms of information sharing, knowledge exchange, virtual communication/discussion, etc. for effective evaluation.

 

From a viewpoint of promoting the learning process effectively it is important to observe the learning situation from the actions and reactions of individual learners step by step, and to instruct them by using appropriate teaching resources or functional learning tools. Well-defined or well-formed environments for teaching and learning play important roles in making the teaching and learning process effective.

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Intelligent tutoring systems
• E-learning
• Skill management
• Strategic contents composition
• Interoperability in teaching and learning
• Data mining for instructing learners smartly
• Innovation-specific teaching strategies
• Advanced intelligence support functionality
• Intelligent learning environment
• New viewpoints in future teaching and learning
• Coordination and collaboration in learning
• New interaction frameworks in distributed personal learning

 

Important Dates

Submission of papers: 30 November, 2015

Notification of acceptance: 25 January, 2016

Re-submission of papers: 29 February, 2016

Inderscience is media partner for 14th Annual Benelux Infrastructure Forum

Inderscience is a media partner for the 14th Annual Benelux Infrastructure Forum (23-24 November 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands).

The journals involved are:

• EuroMed Journal of Management
• International Journal of Accounting and Finance
• International Journal of Financial Services Management
• International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance

Special issue: "Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Big Data"

International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 2(3) 2015

• A survey on big data processing infrastructure: evolving role of FPGA
• Benchmarking multi-GPU communication using the shallow water equations
• Unstructured data mining: use case for CouchDB
• DLS: a cloud-hosted data caching and prefetching service for distributed metadata access

Additional paper

• Classification and comparison of NoSQL big data models

New Editor for International Journal of Inventory Research

Prof. Tsan-Ming (Jason) Choi from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Inventory Research.

Call for papers: "Knowledge Management in Innovation and Intelligence"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence.

This special issue will focus on perspectives and practices in advanced knowledge management from the viewpoint of innovative and intelligent work. This subject in knowledge management has been regarded as one of the most important and basic resources for creative and challenging activities carried out in order to develop and promote future horizons.

Strong economic growth, good enterprise performances, innovative product development, creative research project promotion, intelligent education/learning environment design, etc. can be derived from innovative and unpredictable investigation for knowledge sharing, knowledge refinement, knowledge paradigms and so on. This special issue hopes to present many advanced practical and theoretical results from these discussion points.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Innovation and the knowledge economy
• Knowledge management tools and technologies
• Competitive intelligence
• Collaboration, knowledge creation and sharing
• Knowledge management strategies and implementations
• Knowledge management education

Important Dates

Submission of papers: 27 February, 2016

Int. J. of Arts and Technology to publish expanded papers from 5th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation

Extended versions of papers presented at the 5th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (2-4 May 2016, Esbjerg, Denmark) will be published by the International Journal of Arts and Technology.

New Editor for International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management

Prof. Yanko Yanev from the Nuclear Knowledge Management Institute in Austria has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management.

Call for papers: "Airports as Engines of Community Economic Development"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Aviation Management.

In today’s global industrial environment it has been said that a sound economic development plan is the “lifeblood” of a community. In addition to existing infrastructure and required talent, a community’s amenities rank near the top of a would-be company’s wish list. Whether used for business travel, air cargo or even personal leisure, local airports should be viewed in their proper place as important engines of community economic development.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Economic development (i.e. job growth, business retention, expanded incomes and tax base)
• Strategic planning and management (i.e. asset management, facility development, forecasting and planning)
• Financial issues (i.e. general funding, grant writing, relocation incentives)
• Competitive advantage (i.e. accessibility, efficiency, productivity, sustainability)
• Legal and regulatory issues (i.e. FAA, EASA and other regulatory agencies)
• Professional development and educational opportunities

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 31 January, 2016
Notification to authors: 31 March, 2016
Final versions due: 31 May, 2016

Inderscience is media partner for Infosecurity Middle East

Inderscience is a media partner for Infosecurity Middle East (15-17 March 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
• International Journal of Migration and Border Studies

Special issue published: "Maintenance Performance Measurement and Management"

International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management 2(2) 2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the Maintenance Performance Measurement and Management (MPMM) Conference 2013.

• Asset maintenance maturity model: structured guide to maintenance process maturity
• Value elements of industrial maintenance: verifying the views of the customer and service provider
• Maintenance business model: a concept for driving performance improvement
• Economic lifetime of a drilling machine: a case study on mining industry
• Modelling of decision-making process using scenario methods in maintenance management of selected technical systems
• Corporate asset management - a semi-quantitative business-driven approach to support the evaluation of improvement options

Call for papers: "Innovation and Competitiveness: Enterprise, Industry and Country Perspectives"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems.

The objective of this special issue is to present the most recent research into new approaches to innovation and their contribution to competitiveness at enterprise, regional and national levels.

 

The relationship between innovation and the competitiveness of enterprises, industries and countries is an important topic for both academic research and economic policy. However, over the past ten years we can observe a kind of paradigm shift in the way innovation is understood and interpreted.

 

Today, innovation cannot be limited the traditional set of product, process, organisational and marketing innovation implemented in enterprises. There are new forms of innovation, as the traditional concept has been extended to innovation in the public sector, social aspects of development or ecological innovations. In addition, the new paradigm of open innovation that has appeared as a result of collaborative efforts of different partners has also emerged. Therefore, the question arises of how these new forms of innovation contribute to competitiveness at enterprise, regional and national levels.

 

Given the above considerations, this special issue will focus on the relation between innovation and competitiveness and invites theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions from all areas of the economics of innovation and competitiveness.

 

The issue will carry revised versions of selected papers presented at the World Economy Research Institute Conference "New Forms of Innovation and Their Impact on Competitiveness: Enterprise, Industry and Country Perspective", although we also strongly encourage other researchers who were unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New approaches to innovation and their role in the process of building competitive advantage for countries, regions and enterprises
• Innovations in the public sector and their impact on competitiveness of countries and regions
• Open innovation and its implementation in practice
• Innovations in green technologies and their role as tools for improving competitiveness
• Innovation policy at different levels: national, regional, local

Important Dates

Submission of papers: 20 September, 2015

Inderscience is media partner for International Exhibition for National Security and Resilience 2016

Inderscience is a media partner for the International Exhibition for National Security and Resilience (15-17 March 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
• International Journal of Migration and Border Studies

New Editor for Internatinal Journals of Services, Economics and Management

Dr. Martin Liu from University of Nottingham Ningbo in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Services, Economics and Management. IJSEM's previous Editor in Chief, Dr. Alain Yee-Loong Chong, will continue to support the journal as Executive Editor.

Call for papers: "Technology Transfer and Commercialisation in the 21st Century"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation.

As we move further into the 21st century, the world’s greatest challenges – environment, energy, education and economy (4Es) – can be addressed by developing new technologies and transferring them into commercial products and services. Technology transfer is an important component of a nation’s economic development. In recent years, technologies such as robots, computer-integrated manufacturing, automated guided vehicle systems, the Internet of Things, enterprise resource planning, cloud computing, big data and business analytics have become not only important enablers of national economic development, but also essential for survival in this competitive world. Consequently, so has the process of transforming technological innovations into financial and economic values.

Thus, translating basic technological advances into commercial innovations is a central focus of a knowledge-based economy. There are several strategies and techniques for successful technology transfer and commercialisation. For example, technology-transfer offices are central agents in converting publicly funded academic inventions into commercially valuable product and service innovations (York and Ahn, 2012).

Technology transfer and commercialisation have changed because of rapidly changing consumer behaviour and expectations, global market competition, and the influence of social media and other communication technologies. These include platforms for open innovation and social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Hence, there is a need to explore the latest developments in technology transfer and commercialisation. Realizing the importance of technology transfer and commercialisation in the 21st century’s global market and operations, this special issue has been proposed in order to encourage and disseminate latest research results in technology transfer and commercialisation.

The aim of this special issue is to be a conduit for scholars who wish to explore the above and related issues in the field, providing a brief overview of some theoretical reasons underlying the undeniable relevance of technology transfer and commercialisation for both industries and society as a whole (Bigliardi, Galati, Marolla and Verbano, 2013) in the 21st century. The Guest Editors are especially interested in high-quality papers presenting original research results in all aspects of technology transfer in the 21st century and the translation of their research discoveries into commercial products and services.

References

York, A.S. and Ahn, M.J. (2012) ‘University technology transfer office success factors: a comparative case study’, Int. J. Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, Vol. 11, Nos. 1/2, pp. 26–50.

Bigliardi, B., Galati, F., Marolla, G. and Verbano, C. (2013) ‘Technology transfer and innovation: exploring the multifaceted nature of this interaction’, Int. J. of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, Vol. 12, No. 1/2/3, pp. 1-7.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 21st century models for technology transfer and commercialisation
• Intellectual property rights/patents and licenses in the technology transfer process
• The Internet of Things, networking and next-generation networks in technology transfer and commercialisation
• Role of entrepreneurs in commercialisation of technology transfer
• Energy and economics of technology transfer
• Direct and foreign investment in technology transfer and commercialisation
• Universities/academia/research institutes in technology transfer and commercialisation
• Cloud computing, mobile computing and big data in technology transfer and commercialisation
• Technology transfer and sustainable product development
• Emerging food processing technology and commercialisation
• Technology transfer in logistics and supply chain management
• Role of public and private R&D centres in technology transfer and commercialisation
• Technological cooperation in international strategic alliances
• Technology transfer and commercialisation in social development
• Transfer of technology myths in the 21st century

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 15 December, 2015

Review reports: 15 March, 2015

Revised paper submission: 15 May, 2016

Manuscript acceptance: 15 July, 2016

Final versions due: 15 August, 2016

Inderscience is media partner for Biosimilars and Biobetters USA

Inderscience is a media partner for Biosimilars and Biobetters USA (16-17 November 2015, Iselin, USA).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• International Journal of Biotechnology
• International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design
• International Journal of Environment and Health

More information on this event is available here.

Special issue published: "Dynamism and Mobility Handling in Mobile and Wireless Networking"

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 19(3/4) 2015

• Cross layer trigger-based handover scheme for mobile WiMAX networks
• SPEED-3D: a geographic routing protocol for 6LoWPAN networks
• RSSI-based localisation algorithms using spatial diversity in wireless sensor networks
• Reliable multicast as a Bayesian coalition game for a non-stationary environment in vehicular ad hoc networks: a learning automata-based approach
• An energy-efficient and client-centric data streaming technique on smartphones
• Efficient authentication approach for highly dynamic vehicular ad hoc networks
• Developing a wireless based dynamic management mechanism for intravenous drip scheduling
• SocioCar: a transient social vehicular network
• Spectrum sharing model for OFDMA macro-femtocell networks
• QoE preserving resource scheduling for M2M terminals and human users in LTE networks
• A resource management scheme and its performance analysis for integrated wireless and mobile networks with multiple traffic
• Evaluating 3D wireless grids as parallel platforms

Call for papers: "Modelling and Optimisation of Kinematics and Kinetics of Off-Road Vehicle Mobility and Performance by Artificial Intelligence"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing.

Off-road vehicle engineering is the study of the overall performance of a machine in relation to its operating environment – the terrain. Terrain-vehicle mechanics is concerned with the tractive performance of a vehicle over unprepared terrain, ride quality over unprepared surfaces, handling, obstacle negotiation, water crossing and other related topics. The aim of this scope is to provide guiding principles for the rational development, design and evaluation of off-road vehicles.

 

The modelling of vehicle behaviour, characterisation of the mechanical properties pertinent to vehicle mobility, and the mechanics of vehicle-terrain interaction is a substantial task. As the performance of off-road vehicles over unprepared terrain constitutes a central issue in vehicle mobility, this special issue will focus on the study of vehicle-terrain interaction, particularly those of kinetics and kinematics of off-road vehicles from the modeling and optimisation perspectives.

 

Vehicle motions are largely due to the shear forces generated between tyres and the road, and therefore the tyre model is an essential part of the mathematical model. The tyre model must produce realistic shear forces during braking, acceleration, cornering and combinations on a range of surface conditions. Rapid advances have been made in the field of vehicle kinetics and kinematics in terms of improving steering, suspension and traction control systems. Optimising vehicle performance has led to the development of new and more efficient systems.

 

Some attributes or aspects of vehicle dynamics are purely aerodynamic or based on geometric mass and its distribution and tyres. We invite investigators to contribute their original research articles as well as review articles focused on modelling and optimiaation of kinematics and kinetics of off-road vehicle mobility and performance by artificial intelligence. Particular attention will be given to research into and enhancements of emerging technologies dealing with the modelling of vehicle dynamics and optimisation of the associated systems while traversing over irregular terrains. Soft computing-based modelling tools such as artificial neural networks, support vector regression, fuzzy logic, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems and optimisation approaches of heuristic and meta-heuristics are particularly welcome.

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Research and enhancements of emerging technologies of vehicle dynamics
• Optimisation of the associated systems while traversing over irregular terrains
• Experimental and analytic studies on kinematics and kinetics of off-road vehicle mobility
• Optimisation of tyre-soil interactions from energetic perspective
• Adoption of soft computing-based modelling tools such as artificial neural networks, support vector regression, fuzzy logic and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems
• Appraisal of heuristics and meta-heuristics for vehicle mobility and traction optimisation

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 15 October, 2015

Notification to authors: 15 December, 2015

Final versions due: 15 February, 2016

Call for papers: "Advances in the Use of Big Data for Quantitative Finance"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics.

This special issue is an attempt to explore and bring together methodological and practical studies dealing with the use of big data in finance. It also welcomes the exploration of suitable software solutions to extract, process and exploit big data in financial contexts, as well as applications of big data methodologies for forecasting purposes.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Computational methodologies for big data in finance
• Trading and machine-learning algorithms
• Software solutions to extract, process and exploit big data in finance
• Simulation methods for big data in finance
• Forecasting of financial trends through the use of big data
• Micro-structure applied to finance using big data
• Applications of big data methodologies to the foreign exchange market
• Applications of big data methodologies to the stock market
• Applications of big data methodologies to monetary policies
• Applications of big data methodologies to financial derivatives

Important Dates

Submission of Manuscripts: 31 January, 2016
Notification to Authors: 31 March, 2016
Final Versions Due: 28 May, 2016

Special issue published: "Modelling of Advanced Composite Materials (ACM) for Automotive Applications Future Perspectives"

International Journal of Automotive Composites 1(2/3) 2015

• Computational parametric study of low-velocity impact response of composite cylinder for automotive components
• Use of cohesive zone models to design automotive bonded joints
• Prediction of residual tensile strength model after drilling on coconut-husk fibre reinforced plastic by response surface and genetic algorithm
• Dispersive shear-wave propagation in a periodic layered composite with imperfect interfaces
• Stress-strain analysis of specimens subjected to tensile loading during moisture uptake
• A new progressive failure analyses model: development, implementation, parametric study and validation
• Viscoplastic model analysis about the influence of graphene reinforcement in poly (lactic acid) time-dependent mechanical behaviour
• Robust design of multimodal shunt circuits for vibration attenuation of composite structures 
• A numerical/experimental procedure for the assessment of the crash response of composite structures

Call for papers: "Virtual Networking, Cloud and Wireless Systems"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations.

This special issue aims to discuss the issues and challenges of virtual networking and cloud services, which is now a major threat to our technical environments. The importance of Cloud Computing is increasing and it is receiving growing attention in the scientific and industrial communities. It discusses emerging problems related to security and privacy, infrastructure and data management

It also aims to discuss the challenges of virtualisation in cloud computing. It focuses on the development of cloud computing applications with hands on experience including virtualisation. The scope of “virtualisation technologies” includes techniques and concepts to enable virtual machines, virtual networks, virtual storage and virtual applications.

This special issue will also be a platform to create awareness with students, faculties and industrial community and with society regarding the usage of virtual networking and cloud services.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and control (ISCO 2016), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Security, privacy and legal issues specific to virtual network
• Intelligence and scientific discovery
• Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing
• Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis
• Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation
• Data-driven innovation, computational modeling and data integration
• Data intensive computing theorems and technologies
• Open Source cloud and Cloud architecture
• Security, privacy Cloud services and applications
• HPC on cloud
• Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation of Wireless Networks
• Hardware and infrastructure, green data centers/environmental-friendly perspectives
• Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability
• Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated
• Big data and social networking concepts and applications
• Management issues of social networks
• Security challenges in big data and social networks
• Network infrastructure for social networking and big data

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 15 February, 2016
Notification to authors: 15 April, 2016
Final versions due: 15 June, 2016

Inderscience is media partner for Security and Counter Terror Expo

Inderscience is a media partner for Security and Counter Terror Expo (19-20 April 2016, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
• International Journal of Emergency Management
• International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

More information on the event is available here.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Abrasive Technology

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Abrasive Technology are now available here for free:

• Surface roughness and material removal models for magnetorheological finishing
• Study on the deposition and tribological properties of diamond/DLC composite coating on WC-Co substrate
• Numerical simulation of multiphase flow field in abrasive waterjet machining
• Effects of interatomic potentials on the determination of the minimum depth of cut in nanomachining
• The influence of drill geometric accuracy on steady tool wear development and catastrophic tool failure in high aspect ratio gundrilling of Inconel-718

Call for papers: "Applications of Risk Analysis and Analytics in Engineering, Economics and Healthcare"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies.

Risk analysis and analytics methods and techniques have rapidly evolved over recent years. One factor that explains this development is the outstanding and continuous improvement in software and computing power, which facilitates the use of hybrid algorithms combining risk/reliability principles with modern optimisation and simulation frameworks. Another factor is the increasing use of problem solving approaches that benefit from the so-called ‘big data’ phenomenon.

However, despite these significant advances in this scientific arena, there seems to be an important gap between theory and practice; most industrial sectors (including engineering, economics and finance and healthcare) are only just starting to employ the full potential of state-of-the-art scientific advances in risk analysis and analytics.

This special issue aims at presenting a set of selected articles which describe, mostly in case study style, how risk analysis and analytics methods and techniques have been successfully applied in realistic scenarios. In this regard, submitted articles should describe in detail how risk analysis and analytics methods and techniques were selected and adapted to the particular problem at hand, what challenges needed to be addressed, and how the application of these methods and techniques has contributed to advancements in the engineering, finance or healthcare fields.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

• Risk analysis
• Analytics
• Applications in engineering
• Applications in economics and finance
• Applications in healthcare
• Case studies

Important Dates

Article submission deadline: 15 February, 2016

Special section published: "The Issues and Challenges of e-Banking Application and Development in Sub-Saharan"

International Journal of Electronic Finance 8(2/3/4) 2015

• Customer relationship management and customer retention: evidence from a bank in Ghana
• A SWOT analysis of mobile electronic banking: the Zimbabwe case
• Internet banking deployment in a sub-Saharan African country: a socio-technical perspective

Inderscience is media partner for European Shale Gas and Oil Summit 2015

Inderscience is a media partner for the European Shale Gas and Oil Summit (15-16 October 2015, Manchester, UK).

The journals involved is the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology.

Call for papers: "Recent Advances in Bio-inspired Metaheuristics and their Engineering Applications"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Metaheuristics.

Optimisation problems can be found in every area of science and technology. Real-world optimisation problems are typically constrained, multi-modal, multi-objective and have mixed discrete-continuous decision variables.

From an optimisation perspective, solving such complex optimisation problems is very formidable and demanding. Among different strategies, metaheuristics are the most commonly used techniques for solving real-world optimisation problems, and they generally lead to satisfactory outcomes. Most metaheuristic optimisation algorithms take inspiration from natural phenomena.

A large amount of research effort is being put into developing advanced efficient metaheuristic optimisation algorithms for solving optimisation problems. This special issue mainly aims to cover novel metaheuristic optimisation algorithms and their applications to real-world problems.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Novel bio-inspired metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Engineering applications of bio-inspired metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Constraint handling strategies in bio-inspired metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Handling multimodal problems with metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Parameter selection in bio-inspired metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Hybrids of metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Performance of metaheuristic optimisation algorithms in uncertain environments
• Comparison of the performance of metaheuristics in engineering optimisation problems
• Reviews on metaheuristic optimisation algorithms
• Swarm intelligence-based optimisation versus evolutionary-based optimisation

Important Dates

Full paper submission due: 7 April, 2016

Special issue published: "Improving Healthcare Outcomes Through Health Informatics"

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 15(1) 2015

• Level of EHR adoption and quality and cost of care - evidence from vascular conditions and procedures 
• Advanced electronic health record use and quality of asthma care in hospitals that care for children 
• Health information technology adoption: effects on patient safety and quality of care 
• What will cloud computing bring to healthcare? - Overview of cloud applications in healthcare
• Web GIS as a useful tool for the health and social service sector

Additional paper

• Empowering patients through healthcare technology and information? The challenge of becoming a Patient 2.0

Research Picks Extra -July 2015

Geotagging photos

New information and communications technology and in particular the advent of Web 2.0 and the smart phone during the last decade or so has led to vast numbers of digital artefacts online. Many of these digital entities are uncategorised, randomly annotated and lack any kind of useful tagging. Researchers in India hope to remedy this situation for at least one class of digital artefacts – photographs – by developing a computer algorithm that can exploit metadata that might be present in an image, such as geographical positioning, or geotagging, to associate photographs with a specific event. They have demonstrated a preliminary proof of principle for photos of sports events and political protests. The work could lead to a novel approach to classifying vast repositories of photos, such as those uploaded to Flickr, Google Photos, Facebook and other services by their users in their millions every year.

Sheba, S., Ramadoss, B. and Balasundaram, S.R. (2015) ‘Geo distance-based event detection in social media’, Int. J. Computational Intelligence Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.87–101.

 

Glass ceilings

While the feminist movement and equal rights legislation have pushed back the boundaries for many women in many walks of life there remain glass ceilings in the workplace yet to be smashed. Researchers in Lithuania have surveyed female entrepreneurs and found that many hope for a balance between personal life and career. However, stereotypes, negative attitudes, gender roles, patriarchal attitudes, discrimination and social perception still lead to problems for many women. Their findings suggest that women’s careers are influenced by psychological and social factors, which are the most difficult to predict.

Adamoniene, R. and Marengolcaite, E. (2015) ‘Women’s career development directions and possibilities’, Int. J. Business and Emerging Markets, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp.237–250.

 

Stakeholders in the New World

It might be said that the discovery of the Americas marked a division between the mediaeval and the modern world as it radically reinvented the Eurocentric conception of the globe. Now, researchers in Spain have used this geopolitical pivot point as the archetypal historical example of stakeholder management and applied the putative lessons that might be learned from its study in this context to the business world.

Montero, G., Lopez-Paredes, A., Pajares, J. and Onieva, L. (2015) ‘Brief analysis of the discovery of America as a success case for the project stakeholder management’, Int. J. Engineering Management and Economics, Vol. 5, Nos. 1/2, pp.104–113.

 

Luxury…

With the idea of luxury goods inevitably comes the counterfeit item that fills the market for those who cannot afford the genuine article and dupes the unwary who can. German researchers have investigated the demand for luxury goods and their counterfeit counterparts in Germany and South Korea. There is they say an obvious trade-off between the genuine and the fake but the European and the Asian socio-economic context provides useful insight into how people shop in those two regions. The team found from their small-scale study that South Koreans and Germans alike enjoy the idea of owning luxury goods and in both countries those who can afford them will buy the genuine article. In contrast, people surveyed in South Korea will only buy a counterfeit item if it is exceedingly difficult to discern it from the genuine item whereas German respondents showed greater risk averseness when offered a counterfeit, imagining (perhaps correctly) that its functionality and quality might be sub-standard and so not be a tenable choice. The study adds useful data to international studies aimed at stifling the black-market for counterfeit goods.

Hennigs, N., Wiedmann, K-P., Klarmann, C., Behrens, S., Jung, J. and Hwang, C.S. (2015) ‘When the original is beyond reach: consumer perception and demand for counterfeit luxury goods in Germany and South Korea’, Luxury Research J., Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.58–75. Free full text paper.

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Special issue published: "Software Architecture, Evaluation and Testing for Emerging Paradigms"

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology 51(4) 2015

• Runtime testing approach of structural adaptations for dynamic and distributed systems
• Enhancing applications with cloud services by means of aspects
• A comparative evaluation of state-of-the-art load and stress testing approaches
• An approach based on extending the RUP for dealing with anticipated changes in ontogenetic software systems
• A high-level Petri net based model for web services composition and verification
• A novel verification model for web services manoeuvring using hybrid automata
• Favourable test sequence generation in state-based testing using bat algorithm
• Enhancing Fuzzy Topsis for web service selection
• Hybrid regression testing technique: based on requirement priorities, fault and modification history
• Software change impact analysis: an approach to differentiate type of change to minimise regression test selection

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Nanomanufacturing

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing are now available here for free:

• Electrochemically assisted PCD tool surface conditioning technique for silicon micromachining
• Development of electric rust preventive machining method system - safe water using for machining fluid: complete removal of bacteria (Legionella pneumophila) and assay
• Performance of micro PCD drills in drilling into SiC and effects of ultrasonic vibration
• Spin coupling damp decay of force cantilever microscopy design based on Grover's algorithm magnetic resonance quantum computing
• Barium titanate-based X8R ceramics with high dielectric constant by adding Zn-B-Si-O nanocomposites
• Fabrication of novel ZnO nanotroughs and their reaction temperature-dependent photoluminescence properties
• Magnetic Fe3O4-GO nanocomposites as highly efficient Fenton-like catalyst for the degradation of dyes
• Preparation and characterisation of magnetic mesoporous silica with a large pore size
• Preparation and performance of mesoporous TiO2 films supported on magnesium alloy
• Phosphotungstic acid supported on chitosan/SiO2 composite for photocatalytic degradation of tetraazo dye direct fast black G
• Evolution of properties and microstructure of Al and Si incorporated Al2O3-C material with nano-SiO2 powder addition
• Improving hydration resistance of aluminium powders by using Al2O3 sol-gel method
• A novel electrodes collocation for asymmetric electrochemical capacitor
• Enhancing the performance of organic-inorganic hybrid light-emitting diodes by inserting a conjugated polyelectrolyte interlayer
• Comparison investigation of several hydrogen peroxide biosensor based on the direct electrochemistry of horseradish peroxidase immobilised on self-assembled monolayers
• Microwave-assisted synthesis of size-controlled silver nanoparticles using polyvinyl pyrrolidone as a reducing agent
• UV-curable cationic hybrid adhesives with TiO2 nanostructure
• The structural stabilities and electronic properties of orthorhombic and rhombohedral LaGaO3: a first-principles study
• Modelling spectral absorptance of patterned wafers

Call for papers: "Transit Migration: Renewing the Focus on a Global Phenomenon"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.

With concerns over protection at sea at an all-time high and an increasing number of irregular arrivals into Europe and other parts of the world, less focus is being devoted to the nearby regions that migrants and refugees depart from to reach places such as Italy, Australia, etc. Thousands of asylum seekers and refugees live in limbo in countries such as Libya, Indonesia and Turkey, and the notion that they will simply wait until protection is available is being proven wrong by the record levels of irregular arrivals into, for example, Europe. Migrants are also taking advantage of the smuggling services offered in transit countries to either obfuscate regular migration channels or access their only available pathway.

 

This special issue will offer both contextual and analytical responses to transit migration, and will explore whether this phenomenon that is imagined as being temporary often turns out to be a semi-permanent phase that may, in the case of labour, involve integration into the host country. It may therefore give rise to assumptions that, in transit migration, a whole new group of non-citizen labourers is being “created” – a group that is based on institutionalised exploitation as it lacks the rights enjoyed by citizens.

 

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Transit migration and migrants
• Transit countries, transit space
• Concepts, policy and discourse
• Risk and violence
• Any other suitable topics

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 1 October, 2015