30 August 2012
Media partner for CPO Exchange 2013
Inderscience, through International Journal of Procurement Management, is a media partner for CPO Exchange 2013 in Munich, 27-29 January 2013.
Special issue: Public accounting, IPSAS and performance management - reforming for the best?
International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management 2(1) 2012
- IPSAS and government accounting reform in Mexico
- The perspectives of IPSASs introduction in Croatian public sector
- Reforming central government accounting in diverse contexts: a three-country comparison
- IPSAS adoption by the World Food Programme: an application of the contingency model to intergovernmental organisations
- The materiality of consolidated financial reporting - an alternative approach to IPSASB
- International public sector accounting standards board aims to enhance international accountability through reporting service performance information
Special issue: Information reuse and integration
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining 7(1/2) 2012
Includes papers from the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI’2011) held in Las Vegas, USA, 3-5 August 2011.
Includes papers from the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI’2011) held in Las Vegas, USA, 3-5 August 2011.
- Robust framework for recommending restructuring of websites by analysing web usage and web structure data
- Learning from socio-economic characteristics of IP geo-locations for cybercrime prediction
- Correlation maximisation-based discretisation for supervised classification
- Constrained co-clustering with non-negative matrix factorisation
- Measuring stability of feature ranking techniques: a noise-based approach
- Evaluation of the importance of data pre-processing order when combining feature selection and data sampling
Special issue: The future of the Euro: is the Euroland an optimum currency area?
International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 5(2) 2012
- Repairing the original sin of the European Monetary Union
- Reassessment of the OCA criteria in the Euro area: the case of Greece
- POptimal stabilisation policy in a monetary union: implications of the Mankiw-Weinzierl model
- Implicit Taylor reaction functions for Euro area countries
- The effect of inter-country competition on interest rate pass-through in the European Union
- Stock market, economic growth and EU accession: evidence from three CEECs
- Egypt-EU commodity trade and the J-Curve
- Convergence and clustering of Tier 1 capital in the European banking sector: a non-linear factor approach
28 August 2012
Call for papers: Developing Online Services in Asia
A special issue of International Journal of Services, Economics and Management
Developing online services is now stated as a priority in many service sectors of the global economy, both public sector and private (or increasingly a hybrid of both). For example, in the UK, Martha Lane Fox, the UK Digital Champion, published the report, Directgov 2010 and Beyond: Revolution Not Evolution , calling for a step change in the pace of change for digital service development. The call for greater momentum for change received widespread support but also signals that change in Western internet service (e-government) developments may have stalled to an evolutionary pace.
The vision is for online services to be the default solution for people needing services, making it easier for users to access the information and outcomes they want. However, delivering this vision in any context is a complex undertaking involving the configuration of social and technical elements on development trajectories in which outcomes can be difficult to determine.
Moving to the Asian context, strong economic growth, affluence and the need for information suggest that the Internet should be rapidly developing in Asia. In the last decade, for example, China was reported to have become the largest internet and the biggest mobile phone market in the world, with 59.1 million internet users and 200 million mobile phone users (Wong et al., 2004).
This special issue aims to share knowledge of Internet service developments in Asia. We are especially interested in covering online service developments in Asia in a broad range of sectors by providing an international forum for researchers and industry contributors to share their experience and knowledge through multidisciplinary perspectives. We welcome contributions from research in all methodologies and service sectors including, but not restricted to, government, education, media, tourism, cultural industries and banking. Studies can be focused at any level of development from micro to macro research (individual, organisational, sectoral or national contexts).
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Manuscript due: 31 December, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 March, 2013
Revised paper due: 1 May, 2013
Final notification: 1 June, 2013
Submission of final revised paper: 1 July, 2013
Developing online services is now stated as a priority in many service sectors of the global economy, both public sector and private (or increasingly a hybrid of both). For example, in the UK, Martha Lane Fox, the UK Digital Champion, published the report, Directgov 2010 and Beyond: Revolution Not Evolution , calling for a step change in the pace of change for digital service development. The call for greater momentum for change received widespread support but also signals that change in Western internet service (e-government) developments may have stalled to an evolutionary pace.
The vision is for online services to be the default solution for people needing services, making it easier for users to access the information and outcomes they want. However, delivering this vision in any context is a complex undertaking involving the configuration of social and technical elements on development trajectories in which outcomes can be difficult to determine.
Moving to the Asian context, strong economic growth, affluence and the need for information suggest that the Internet should be rapidly developing in Asia. In the last decade, for example, China was reported to have become the largest internet and the biggest mobile phone market in the world, with 59.1 million internet users and 200 million mobile phone users (Wong et al., 2004).
This special issue aims to share knowledge of Internet service developments in Asia. We are especially interested in covering online service developments in Asia in a broad range of sectors by providing an international forum for researchers and industry contributors to share their experience and knowledge through multidisciplinary perspectives. We welcome contributions from research in all methodologies and service sectors including, but not restricted to, government, education, media, tourism, cultural industries and banking. Studies can be focused at any level of development from micro to macro research (individual, organisational, sectoral or national contexts).
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Service digital transformations (moving a service online)
- Online service innovations and strategies
- Online service design methodologies and patterns
- Online service sustainability and quality
- Technology adoption studies
- User studies (expectations, satisfaction, usability, etc.)
- Macro/Sectoral policy analysis
Manuscript due: 31 December, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 March, 2013
Revised paper due: 1 May, 2013
Final notification: 1 June, 2013
Submission of final revised paper: 1 July, 2013
Call for papers: Fuzzy Soft Set-based Decision Making
A special issue of International Journal of Machine Intelligence and Sensory Signal Processing
Over the past twelve years, research and development in soft set theory has made great progress. Many successful applications have been reported in journals and at conferences.
The theory of soft set was proposed by D. Molodtsov in 1999 as a new way for managing uncertain data [1]. Soft sets are called (binary, basic, elementary) neighborhood systems. A standard soft set may be redefined as the classification of objects in two distinct classes, thus confirming that soft sets can deal with a Boolean-valued information system. Molodtsov pointed out that one of the main advantages of soft set theory is that it is free from the inadequacy of parameterisation tools, unlike the theories of fuzzy set, probability and interval mathematics.
At present, work on soft set theory is progressing rapidly and many important results have been achieved, especially the use of soft sets in dimensionality reduction and decision making. Research on fuzzy soft sets has also received much attention thanks to their introduction by Maji et al. [2].As a combination (marriage) of fuzzy and soft set theories, fuzzy soft set theory is a more general soft set model which makes descriptions of the objective world more general, realistic, practical and accurate in some cases of decision making.
The purpose of this special issue is to bring together soft setters to demonstrate challenging research issues and exchange state-of-the-art research and development in decision making fields.
The issue intends to publish revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the Special Session on Soft Set-based Decision Making (SDM'13) in conjunction with the 1st International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Engineering 2013 (ISCDE’13), to take place 26-28 August, 2013), with a special focus on soft set and fuzzy soft set-based decision making. SDM'12 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of soft set theory from around the world to discuss their studies.
Additionally, we strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit papers for this call.
References
[1] Molodtsov, D. Soft set theory_First results. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 7 (4/5), 1999, 19 - 31.
[2] Maji, P.K., Biswas, R., and Roy, A.R. Fuzzy soft sets. Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, 9 (3), 2001, 589–602.
Authors are invited to submit articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Paper submission deadline: 1 October, 2013
First review notification: 30 December, 2013
Paper re-submission for conditionally accepted paper: 30 January, 2014
Notification of final acceptance: 15 March, 2014
Final paper and copyright submission: 30 April, 2014
Over the past twelve years, research and development in soft set theory has made great progress. Many successful applications have been reported in journals and at conferences.
The theory of soft set was proposed by D. Molodtsov in 1999 as a new way for managing uncertain data [1]. Soft sets are called (binary, basic, elementary) neighborhood systems. A standard soft set may be redefined as the classification of objects in two distinct classes, thus confirming that soft sets can deal with a Boolean-valued information system. Molodtsov pointed out that one of the main advantages of soft set theory is that it is free from the inadequacy of parameterisation tools, unlike the theories of fuzzy set, probability and interval mathematics.
At present, work on soft set theory is progressing rapidly and many important results have been achieved, especially the use of soft sets in dimensionality reduction and decision making. Research on fuzzy soft sets has also received much attention thanks to their introduction by Maji et al. [2].As a combination (marriage) of fuzzy and soft set theories, fuzzy soft set theory is a more general soft set model which makes descriptions of the objective world more general, realistic, practical and accurate in some cases of decision making.
The purpose of this special issue is to bring together soft setters to demonstrate challenging research issues and exchange state-of-the-art research and development in decision making fields.
The issue intends to publish revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the Special Session on Soft Set-based Decision Making (SDM'13) in conjunction with the 1st International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Engineering 2013 (ISCDE’13), to take place 26-28 August, 2013), with a special focus on soft set and fuzzy soft set-based decision making. SDM'12 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of soft set theory from around the world to discuss their studies.
Additionally, we strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit papers for this call.
References
[1] Molodtsov, D. Soft set theory_First results. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 7 (4/5), 1999, 19 - 31.
[2] Maji, P.K., Biswas, R., and Roy, A.R. Fuzzy soft sets. Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, 9 (3), 2001, 589–602.
Authors are invited to submit articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Fuzzy soft set-based decision making
- Intuitionistic fuzzy soft set-based decision making
- Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft set-based decision making
- Fuzzy Soft set-based knowledge discovery in databases.
- Fuzzy soft set-based forecasting
- Fuzzy soft set-based data analysis in the fields of economy, engineering, medical decision making, etc.
Paper submission deadline: 1 October, 2013
First review notification: 30 December, 2013
Paper re-submission for conditionally accepted paper: 30 January, 2014
Notification of final acceptance: 15 March, 2014
Final paper and copyright submission: 30 April, 2014
Special issue: The impact of the development of the knowledge economy (or knowledge economies) in the North on economies in the South
International Journal of Public Policy 8(4-6) 2012
- Internationalisation of higher education in Africa: introducing credit accumulation and transfer system
- Intellectual flexibility, innovative partnerships and collaborations in the African university of the 21st century: policy challenges and way forward
- Institutions and the sources of innovation: the determinants and effects of international R&D collaboration
- Global best practices, national innovation systems, and tertiary education: a critique of the World Bank's Accelerating Catch-up (2009)
- Migration of health workers and health of international migrants: framework for bridging some knowledge disjoints between brain drain and brawn drain
- Changing higher education landscapes - implications for South Africa
- The expenditure-GDP nexus: evidence from a panel of SAARC 7-countries
- The paradox and non-paradox of power for groups
- How diverse is the World Heritage list?
- Undetected diabetes in Colombia
Special issue: Fuels and combustion in engines
International Journal of Vehicle Design 59(2/3) 2012
Papers from the Fuels and Combustion in Engines Conference (FCE-09) held in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 March -1 April 2009.
Other papers are in International Journal of Alternative Propulsion 2(2) 2012
Papers from the Fuels and Combustion in Engines Conference (FCE-09) held in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 March -1 April 2009.
Other papers are in International Journal of Alternative Propulsion 2(2) 2012
- Gasoline partially premixed combustion: high efficiency, low NOx and low soot by using an advanced combustion strategy and a compression ignition engine
- Dynamic characterisation of a vehicle magnetorheological shock absorber
- Effects of the injection parameters and compression ratio on the emissions of a heavy-duty diesel engine
- Effects of nanoparticle additive in the water-diesel emulsion fuel on the performance, emission and combustion characteristics of a diesel engine
- A comparative study of Al2O3 coated LHR engine characteristic using rice bran and mahua methyl ester as a fuel
- Application of Taguchi's methods to investigate factors affecting emissions of a diesel engine running with tobacco oil seed methyl ester
- Catalytic reduction of NOx on vanadium exchanged natural zeolite using microwave irradiation
- Performance of a homogeneous charge compression ignition engine fuelled with gasoline
- Assessment of the fuel magnetisation capacity to improve fuel economy and enhance performance in a four-stroke SI engine
25 August 2012
Call for papers: Interface between Marketing and Operation Management
A special issue of International Journal of Management and Decision Making
Under today’s competitive business environment characterised by intense competition, increasing globalisation and established customer reference, a firm’s success in marketplace is not only dependent on a firm’s operation, but also reliant on the coordinated action of the whole supply chain. Competition has shifted to battles between entire supply chains rather than battles between individual firms, and inter-firm co-ordination has become a necessity. Typically, a famous brand could be brought down suddenly due to an accident from its upper supply partner.
While marketing has been developing and refining its approach and contribution to supply chain management, so too has operations management. The importance of better managing the interface between marketing and operations has been well understood by both academics and practitioners for a long time. Conflicts arise naturally between these functions since marketing wants to increase product diversity while manufacturing wants to reduce it through longer and more stable production runs of a narrower product line (Shapiro, 1977).
The coordination between marketing and operations has emerged as an important area of research in recent years. To facilitate and advocate the market-operation related research with a supply chain perspective, this special issue focuses on the interface between marketing and operation management. We invite academic researchers and practitioners to contribute original research articles in the issues pertinent to managing different aspects of this interface. We are interested in the articles that stem from actual real-world operations/production/marketing issues and decisions faced by managers. Conceptual, modelling, empirical, meta-analysis review papers related to the interface would be appropriate for this special issue.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Submission deadline: 30 June, 2013 (extended)
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 31 August, 2013
Final version of paper: 15 December, 2013
Under today’s competitive business environment characterised by intense competition, increasing globalisation and established customer reference, a firm’s success in marketplace is not only dependent on a firm’s operation, but also reliant on the coordinated action of the whole supply chain. Competition has shifted to battles between entire supply chains rather than battles between individual firms, and inter-firm co-ordination has become a necessity. Typically, a famous brand could be brought down suddenly due to an accident from its upper supply partner.
While marketing has been developing and refining its approach and contribution to supply chain management, so too has operations management. The importance of better managing the interface between marketing and operations has been well understood by both academics and practitioners for a long time. Conflicts arise naturally between these functions since marketing wants to increase product diversity while manufacturing wants to reduce it through longer and more stable production runs of a narrower product line (Shapiro, 1977).
The coordination between marketing and operations has emerged as an important area of research in recent years. To facilitate and advocate the market-operation related research with a supply chain perspective, this special issue focuses on the interface between marketing and operation management. We invite academic researchers and practitioners to contribute original research articles in the issues pertinent to managing different aspects of this interface. We are interested in the articles that stem from actual real-world operations/production/marketing issues and decisions faced by managers. Conceptual, modelling, empirical, meta-analysis review papers related to the interface would be appropriate for this special issue.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- The effects of price, advertising/promotion and product decisions on demand and their combined effects on demand management and capacity planning decisions
- Coordination of operations management and marketing
- Supply chain issues and their interaction under different market segments
- Analytical and empirical comparisons of different market mechanisms
- Kinds of organisational design structures that promote better marketing/operations co-ordination
- New product and service design methodologies
Submission deadline: 30 June, 2013 (extended)
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 31 August, 2013
Final version of paper: 15 December, 2013
Call for papers: Cooperation of Self-Interested Agents and Collective Learning in Social Networks
A special issue of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
The manipulation of self-interested collective agents can significantly affect the global optimisation goal of the designed algorithms. However, it requires provably optimal solutions to the NP hard (non–polynomial) optimisation problem and thus cannot be applied to large problems. Therefore, one interesting open question is how to achieve the desired social properties with approximation algorithms such as local search optimisation algorithms. A promising direction is to use computational complexity to prevent manipulations from bounded-rational agents.
However, most results in the literature rely on the worst-case complexity, which is not applicable in practice because many NP-hard problems are easy in the average case. For example, social blog analysis and collective learning can easily be incorporated with natural swarm learning. This could be a sound implementation of business modelling, to investigate adaptive questionnaire-based collective responses for a particular product segment and thus to infer choice models of individual groups.
To summarise, this special issue will be dedicated in developing new hybrid intelligence-based local search algorithms that achieve both efficiency and socially-desired behavior, and applying these techniques to emerging applications of combinatorial optimisation. Papers from a wide range research, from theoretical investigations to practical applications, are welcome.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
Submission deadline: 15 March, 2013 (extended)
The manipulation of self-interested collective agents can significantly affect the global optimisation goal of the designed algorithms. However, it requires provably optimal solutions to the NP hard (non–polynomial) optimisation problem and thus cannot be applied to large problems. Therefore, one interesting open question is how to achieve the desired social properties with approximation algorithms such as local search optimisation algorithms. A promising direction is to use computational complexity to prevent manipulations from bounded-rational agents.
However, most results in the literature rely on the worst-case complexity, which is not applicable in practice because many NP-hard problems are easy in the average case. For example, social blog analysis and collective learning can easily be incorporated with natural swarm learning. This could be a sound implementation of business modelling, to investigate adaptive questionnaire-based collective responses for a particular product segment and thus to infer choice models of individual groups.
To summarise, this special issue will be dedicated in developing new hybrid intelligence-based local search algorithms that achieve both efficiency and socially-desired behavior, and applying these techniques to emerging applications of combinatorial optimisation. Papers from a wide range research, from theoretical investigations to practical applications, are welcome.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Software testing
- Fundamentals and theories of social computing
- Social network analysis and application
- Community identification; expert finding
- Recommender systems; collaborative filtering; social recommendation
- Question and answering analysis; opinion mining
- Weblogs, microblogs, wikis, forums, newsgroups, community media sites analysis
- Human-computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualisation
- Web 2.0 and semantic web
- Crowdsourcing in social computing
- Social behaviour modelling
- Information diffusion and viral marketing in social networks
- Social system design and architectures
Submission deadline: 15 March, 2013 (extended)
Call for papers: Recent Advances in Metaheuristics and Swarm Intelligence for Software Testing, Quality and Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
This special issue deals with soft computing and systems testing. Software testing is the process of validation and verification of the software product. It will contribute to the delivery of reliable and quality oriented software products, more satisfied users, lower maintenance costs and more accurate and reliable results. Conversely, ineffective testing will lead to the opposite results. Hence, software testing is a necessary and important activity in the software development process.
The importance of testing can be understood by the fact that it has been estimated that around 35% of the elapsed time and over 50% of total costs are expending in testing programs”. To optimise resources in the area of software testing, quality and reliability, researchers are using search-based software engineering, consisting of the application of artificial intelligence search techniques. The search techniques use include ant colony optimisation, cuckoo search, intelligent water drops, bat algorithm, genetic algorithm, tabu search, bee colony, fuzzy logic, data mining, etc. These techniques are being used in the various processes of the software testing, quality and reliability such as test sequence generation, testing automation, quantification of quality, checking reliability of the system etc..
The issue highlights theory, empirical work and practical applications to real-world scenarios using artificial intelligence search techniques. It aims to capture the theoretical foundations, infrastructure, enabling technologies and emerging applications in the use of artificial intelligence.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, applications of artificial intelligence to the following software testing areas:
Submission deadline: 31 January, 2013
Notification of status and acceptance of paper: 15 March, 2013
Final version of paper: 31 March, 2013
This special issue deals with soft computing and systems testing. Software testing is the process of validation and verification of the software product. It will contribute to the delivery of reliable and quality oriented software products, more satisfied users, lower maintenance costs and more accurate and reliable results. Conversely, ineffective testing will lead to the opposite results. Hence, software testing is a necessary and important activity in the software development process.
The importance of testing can be understood by the fact that it has been estimated that around 35% of the elapsed time and over 50% of total costs are expending in testing programs”. To optimise resources in the area of software testing, quality and reliability, researchers are using search-based software engineering, consisting of the application of artificial intelligence search techniques. The search techniques use include ant colony optimisation, cuckoo search, intelligent water drops, bat algorithm, genetic algorithm, tabu search, bee colony, fuzzy logic, data mining, etc. These techniques are being used in the various processes of the software testing, quality and reliability such as test sequence generation, testing automation, quantification of quality, checking reliability of the system etc..
The issue highlights theory, empirical work and practical applications to real-world scenarios using artificial intelligence search techniques. It aims to capture the theoretical foundations, infrastructure, enabling technologies and emerging applications in the use of artificial intelligence.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, applications of artificial intelligence to the following software testing areas:
- Software testing
- Object-oriented software testing
- Agent-oriented software testing
- Software testing effort
- Software testing method
- Regular expression
- Mathematical modelling
- Software testing process modelling
- Software quality assurance
- Software reliability
- Capability maturity models
- Quantification of software quality and reliability models
- Software testing complexity
- Validation and verification
- Metaheuristics
- UML-based testing
- Test case prioritisation
- Test component prioritisation
- Graph theory
- Control theory
- Advanced topics
- Software cost management
Submission deadline: 31 January, 2013
Notification of status and acceptance of paper: 15 March, 2013
Final version of paper: 31 March, 2013
Special issue: Advances in engineering management
International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics 3(1/2) 2012
Papers from the Second International Conference on Engineering Systems Management & Applications (ICESMA 2010), held in Sharjah, UAE, 30 March to 1 April 2010.
Papers from the Second International Conference on Engineering Systems Management & Applications (ICESMA 2010), held in Sharjah, UAE, 30 March to 1 April 2010.
- Dynamic process modelling of patients' no-show rates and overbooking strategies in healthcare clinics
- Flexible job-shop scheduling problem by genetic algorithm and learning by partial injection of sequences
- Load-dependent production planning for an assemble-to-order system
- Between military spending and economic development
- Contribution for crossover and mutation for degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem (d-MSTP)
- A contribution to the modelling and the resolution of a multi-objective dial a ride problem
- Factors affecting cost and schedule in Qatar's residential compounds projects
- Recycling construction materials in a developing country: four case studies
- Optimising project performance: the triangular trade-off optimisation approach
Special issue: Entrepreneurial finance
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing 4(3) 2012
- Quality signals in early-stage venture capital markets
- Financial covenants and their restrictiveness in European LBOs - an assessment in the aftermath of the financial crisis
- Valuation of entrepreneurial businesses
- Financial valuation of start-up businesses with and without venture capital
- The role of investors for early-stage companies
- Micro enterprises and microfinance for business women in rural areas of South Africa - a case study of Ga-Rankuwa at the interface between first and third world
- Franchising - a key to success in times of financial and economic crises?!
19 August 2012
Special issue: Emotion and aesthetics: organizational space, embodiment and materiality
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion 5(1) 2012
Papers from the Emotion and Aesthetics: Organisational Space, Embodiment and Materiality stream at the 6th Gender, Work and Organisation Conference held in Keele, Staffordshire, UK, 21-23 June 2010.
Papers from the Emotion and Aesthetics: Organisational Space, Embodiment and Materiality stream at the 6th Gender, Work and Organisation Conference held in Keele, Staffordshire, UK, 21-23 June 2010.
- Open spaces, closed boundaries: transparent workspaces as clerical female ghettos
- Naming bodies at work: considering the gendered and emotional dimensions of nicknaming
- Emotional labour in transcending the feeling rules of the Kesarwani community
- Behind smiles and pleasantness: working in the interactive service sector in Portugal
- Great expectations: gender, looks and lookism at work
- Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies: embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies
17 August 2012
Special issue: Machining: challenges, issues and trends
International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials 12(1/2) 2012
Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE-2010) held in Jalandhar, India, 3-5 December 2010.
Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE-2010) held in Jalandhar, India, 3-5 December 2010.
- Cutting forces measurements during discontinuous machining process
- Multiple performance characteristics optimisation in drilling of glass fibre reinforced polyester composite at different weightage of performance by Grey relational analysis
- Modelling for surface roughness in cylindrical grinding
- Optimisation of tool wear during hard turning of AISI-H11 steel using TiN coated CBN-L tool
- Process parameters optimisation of CNC drilling operation using genetic algorithm
- Experimental study on hard turning of hardened medium carbon steel with carbide insert under high-pressure coolant condition
- Design of experiments to optimise automatic polishing on five-axis machine tool
- Surface integrity a key issue in hard turning - a review
Improving productivity by using innovative metal cutting solutions with an emphasis on green machining - The effect of machining parameters on surface roughness and material removal rate with cryogenic treated wire in WEDM
- Tool vibration prediction and optimisation in face milling of Al 7075 and St 52 by using neural networks and genetic algorithm
- Prediction and comparison of surface roughness in CNC-turning process by machine vision system using ANN-BP and ANFIS and ANN-DEA models
- Machining of austenitic stainless steels - a review
Special issue: Emerging issues in international business
Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development 6(2) 2012
- Developing consumer brand relationships built to last: brand stress, catastrophic events and negative social network campaigns
- Implementing strategic renewal by collective organisational learning
- The moderating role of firms' structure during the implementation stage of technology transfer in Malaysia
- Socially responsible foreign direct investment: a challenge to TNCs in emerging markets
- Corporate social responsibility reporting: a survey of listed Sri Lankan companies
- The impact of government policies on the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises: the case of Vietnam
16 August 2012
Media partner for The 9th International Multidisciplinary Modeling & Simulation Multiconference
Inderscience is a media partner for the 9th International Multidisciplinary Modeling & Simulation Multiconference to be held in Vienna, 19-21 September 2012.
Selected papers will be published in
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling
Selected papers will be published in
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling
Call for papers: Economic Diplomacy and Emerging Economies
A special issue of International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy
The world is going through a demanding period of development. Looking back not too far into the past, it could be said that it all began with the end of Cold War and the boost of globalisation at the beginning of the 1990s. It seemed as if everything was on the up and that there were no limits to growth. Many used to say that “the sky is the limit", especially brokers. As a result, only a few people noticed the economic downturn at the beginning of the millennium in 2001, when we recorded gross world product (GWP) growth of "only" 1.6% (in 2000, GWP growth was almost 4.3%)
Economic downturns and recessions are actually nothing special, since they come around almost every 10 years. If we look at the statistics, it is clear that there have been recessions in the mid-1970s, at the beginning of the 1980s, at the beginning of the 1990s and around 2000, so the same was bound to happen around 2010. We can say that we have had a crisis almost every 10 years. It is just that economic memories are often short, which is one reason, perhaps, why financial crises and bubbles tend to recur with such frequency.
Despite these facts, the majority of companies, citizens, countries and even regional organisations such as the EU were unprepared for the new global crisis that began in 2008. The difference with the current crisis was its magnitude and level of synchronisation: this was not just a regional event, as was the case with the Asian financial downturn of the late 1990s, but rather a crisis that was global in nature – at least at the outset. The numbers were striking. According to the IMF, the global economy contracted by 2.3% in 2009 – an unprecedented fall in the post-war era. In the OECD area, the economy contracted by 4.7% between the first quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009. A plunge in global trade was another sign of the seriousness of the crisis. According to WTO data, the volume of global trade in goods and services fell by 12% in 2009.
Moving to 2012, it could be said that it appears as if the crisis is far from over in some countries, since they are still struggling with high unemployment, a lack of available credit and poor economic growth. This is particularly the case for the eurozone (especially Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Cyprus). It seems as if the domino effect is continuing as a result of a lack of information on potential troubles in Italy and some other members of the eurozone. On the other hand, good or even extraordinary growth can be witnessed in some parts of the word (emerging economies), with no signs of trouble whatsoever. Some say, “If you are not there, you have lost the path"
We have recently had the opportunity to examine numerous meetings of state officials, even heads of state travelling between developed and emerging economies accompanied by large and powerful business delegations, discussing business partnerships and cooperation. It was probably the first time in modern history that world leaders had been involved in global business decisions on such a scale (discussing which banks will/should be helped, which country/company would receive additional loans, bailouts, etc.). Economic issues also featured high on the agenda in multilateral institutions
As economic power shifts from one part of the world (developed) to the other (emerging), we are interested in observing the role played by economic diplomacy in this phenomenon. This topic is the focus of this special issue.
Theoretical, research, case study and also ‘more practical’ papers are welcome. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Submission of one page abstracts by email (max. 500 words): 15 September, 2012
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1 October, 2012
Submission (online) of full papers following acceptance of abstracts: 1 February, 2013
Notification of acceptance, refusal or revision of full papers: 1 March, 2013
Submission of accepted and revisited final papers: 1 April, 2013
The world is going through a demanding period of development. Looking back not too far into the past, it could be said that it all began with the end of Cold War and the boost of globalisation at the beginning of the 1990s. It seemed as if everything was on the up and that there were no limits to growth. Many used to say that “the sky is the limit", especially brokers. As a result, only a few people noticed the economic downturn at the beginning of the millennium in 2001, when we recorded gross world product (GWP) growth of "only" 1.6% (in 2000, GWP growth was almost 4.3%)
Economic downturns and recessions are actually nothing special, since they come around almost every 10 years. If we look at the statistics, it is clear that there have been recessions in the mid-1970s, at the beginning of the 1980s, at the beginning of the 1990s and around 2000, so the same was bound to happen around 2010. We can say that we have had a crisis almost every 10 years. It is just that economic memories are often short, which is one reason, perhaps, why financial crises and bubbles tend to recur with such frequency.
Despite these facts, the majority of companies, citizens, countries and even regional organisations such as the EU were unprepared for the new global crisis that began in 2008. The difference with the current crisis was its magnitude and level of synchronisation: this was not just a regional event, as was the case with the Asian financial downturn of the late 1990s, but rather a crisis that was global in nature – at least at the outset. The numbers were striking. According to the IMF, the global economy contracted by 2.3% in 2009 – an unprecedented fall in the post-war era. In the OECD area, the economy contracted by 4.7% between the first quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009. A plunge in global trade was another sign of the seriousness of the crisis. According to WTO data, the volume of global trade in goods and services fell by 12% in 2009.
Moving to 2012, it could be said that it appears as if the crisis is far from over in some countries, since they are still struggling with high unemployment, a lack of available credit and poor economic growth. This is particularly the case for the eurozone (especially Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Cyprus). It seems as if the domino effect is continuing as a result of a lack of information on potential troubles in Italy and some other members of the eurozone. On the other hand, good or even extraordinary growth can be witnessed in some parts of the word (emerging economies), with no signs of trouble whatsoever. Some say, “If you are not there, you have lost the path"
We have recently had the opportunity to examine numerous meetings of state officials, even heads of state travelling between developed and emerging economies accompanied by large and powerful business delegations, discussing business partnerships and cooperation. It was probably the first time in modern history that world leaders had been involved in global business decisions on such a scale (discussing which banks will/should be helped, which country/company would receive additional loans, bailouts, etc.). Economic issues also featured high on the agenda in multilateral institutions
As economic power shifts from one part of the world (developed) to the other (emerging), we are interested in observing the role played by economic diplomacy in this phenomenon. This topic is the focus of this special issue.
Theoretical, research, case study and also ‘more practical’ papers are welcome. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- The role of economic diplomacy in international and multilateral organisations from the view of emerging economies
- Diplomacy and credit rating agencies
- Economic diplomacy from the perspective of emerging economies
- Economic diplomacy and the role of heads of state
- Bipolar world (parts of the world with economic growth and the ones in recession) and the role of economic diplomacy in this frame
- Export support activities of emerging economies
- Emerging economies and FDIs
- Development diplomacy
Submission of one page abstracts by email (max. 500 words): 15 September, 2012
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1 October, 2012
Submission (online) of full papers following acceptance of abstracts: 1 February, 2013
Notification of acceptance, refusal or revision of full papers: 1 March, 2013
Submission of accepted and revisited final papers: 1 April, 2013
Special issue: Global economy and the service sectors
International Journal of Services Technology and Management 17(2-4) 2012
- Trade in services: East Asian and Latin American experiences
- Strategy, structure, and channel for global leaders of industrial service: a flow chart analysis of the expanded value network
- International trade in services: a geo-economic evolution profile analysis
- Services liberalisation in the regions of Russia under WTO accession: regional household and poverty effects
- The role of services in rural income: the case of Vietnam
- Services trade and growth
- Economic analysis of transportation directly reduced iron (DRI) through ship
14 August 2012
Newly announced title: International Journal of Qualitative Research in Services
Beginning publication in 2013, International Journal of Qualitative Research in Services will explore the nature and characteristics of services, which now accounts for some 80-90% of the economies of the developed world and is also the fastest-growing sector. The journal will disseminate high-quality, peer-reviewed research, providing an avenue for methodological innovations and insights in qualitative research specifically applied to services.
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