12 December 2007
Newly announced journal: International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics
Engineers perform many management activities in modern companies. However in bridging the gap between engineering and management engineering management differs from ordinary management as the engineering managers differ since they possess both the ability to apply engineering principles and the skills for organising and directing people and projects. International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics - to begin publication in 2008 - is a refereed and authoritative journal aimed at bridging the latest advances in the engineering management and engineering economics areas with a multidisciplinary perspective.
9 December 2007
Special issue: RFID - technologies, applications and trends
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology 2(3/4) 2007
- RFID and smart spaces
- RFID-based user profiling of fashion preferences: blueprint for a smart wardrobe
- Supporting document management by using RFID technology
- Managing RFID data in supply chains
- RFID and supply chain performance: adoption issues in the retail supply chain
- If objects could talk: a novel resource discovery approach for pervasive environments
- Multi-tag RFID systems
- The Design and Development of an RFID-enabled asset tracking system for challenging environments
- Performance testing: evaluating an RFID library inventory reader
- Fault-tolerant routing through the 'Umbrella' protocol
- Optimal routing for SIP-based session set up over IMS in mobile environment
Special issue: Outward investment from the BRICS-countries
International Journal of Technology and Globalisation 4(1) 2008
- Emerging multinationals: outward FDI from the BRICS countries
- Explaining the competitiveness of Multinational Companies from developing economies: a critical review of the academic literature
- Capability development and the geographic destination of outbound FDI by developing country firms
- A Latin American global player goes to Asia: Embraer in China
- The evolution of Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment: changing trends and patterns
- The internationalisation of Chinese enterprises: the analysis of the UK case
Special issue: Human aspects of information technology development
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management 8(1) 2008
- Mentality patterns: recurring turns of mind as first-class concerns in software projects
- Managing radical software engineering: leverage order and chaos
- Expanding the knowing capability of software developers through knowledge collaboration
- The need for trust relationships to enable successful virtual team collaboration in software outsourcing
- The impact of national culture on software engineering practices
- The influence of managerial experience and style on software development process
Special issue: Emergency and risk zoning around nuclear power plants
International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 8(1/2) 2008
Papers from the EC/JRC-OECD Seminar on Emergency and Risk Zoning around Nuclear Power Plants, held in Petten, The Netherlands, 26-27 April 2005.
Papers from the EC/JRC-OECD Seminar on Emergency and Risk Zoning around Nuclear Power Plants, held in Petten, The Netherlands, 26-27 April 2005.
- Risk zoning and risk decision making
- International requirements for the establishment of emergency zones
- IAEA activities related to on-site management and off-site emergency preparedness involving external events including those of malevolent origin
- Technical basis for off-site emergency planning in France
- Emergency zoning and PSA applications in Finland
- Emergency zoning around nuclear power plants in Slovakia
- Reference scenarios and emergency zoning for nuclear facilities in The Netherlands
- Risk-informed emergency planning requirements for Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
- Determination and justification of the reference scenarios and associated source terms for emergency planning in Switzerland
- Risk zoning in relation to risk of external events (application to IRIS design)
- IRIS safety-by-design™ and its implication to lessen emergency planning requirements
- Accident consequence assessment and its implications for emergency planning of the pilot commercial HTR plant in China
- mplementation of the results of the uncertainty analysis of the COSYMA package for zoning purposes
- Urbanisation control around industrial Seveso sites: the French context
- Summary: Main conclusions and recommendations from the JRC/OECD seminar on emergency and risk zoning around nuclear power plants (26–27 April 2005, Petten, The Netherlands)
- Campylobacter source attribution by exposure assessment
First issue: International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management
The first issue of International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management has just been published.
With a clear international and interdisciplinary approach, the journal covers Chinese culture, business, management and related topics. It presents timely and in-depth analyses on these topics, offering the reader a wealth of valuable material on theories and practices which underpin successful business in China.
A free download of the papers from this first issue is available.
With a clear international and interdisciplinary approach, the journal covers Chinese culture, business, management and related topics. It presents timely and in-depth analyses on these topics, offering the reader a wealth of valuable material on theories and practices which underpin successful business in China.
A free download of the papers from this first issue is available.
7 December 2007
Call for papers: Renewable Energy Systems and Management
Call for papers: Renewable Energy Systems and Management
A special issue of International Journal of Agile Systems and Management
Over the past decade, the climate change and problems of global warming have increasingly attracted public concerns. In order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, studies on how to make good use of renewable energy have been actively carried out at both the national and international levels. In Europe, the Renewable Energy industry has been developing rapidly. Since 1997, the EU has been working towards a renewable energy supply equivalent to 12% of the total EU's energy consumption by 2010. The UK’s Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) will require 5% of all UK retail fuel to come from a renewable source by 2010. The benefits would be a reduction of around 1,000,000 MT of carbon per year. The rapid increase in the requirements of renewable energy opens the way to engineers and researchers to explore and exploit flexible and advanced renewable energy technologies and decision-making approaches in the planning, design and operation stages.
This Special Issue will focus on a broad spectrum of all relevant issues and provide a holistic examination of the current status and future trends in Renewable Energy Systems and Management. It aims to bring together the work of leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Paper due: 30 June, 2008
Acceptance notification: 31 July, 2008
Final paper version due: 29 August, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Agile Systems and Management
Over the past decade, the climate change and problems of global warming have increasingly attracted public concerns. In order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, studies on how to make good use of renewable energy have been actively carried out at both the national and international levels. In Europe, the Renewable Energy industry has been developing rapidly. Since 1997, the EU has been working towards a renewable energy supply equivalent to 12% of the total EU's energy consumption by 2010. The UK’s Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) will require 5% of all UK retail fuel to come from a renewable source by 2010. The benefits would be a reduction of around 1,000,000 MT of carbon per year. The rapid increase in the requirements of renewable energy opens the way to engineers and researchers to explore and exploit flexible and advanced renewable energy technologies and decision-making approaches in the planning, design and operation stages.
This Special Issue will focus on a broad spectrum of all relevant issues and provide a holistic examination of the current status and future trends in Renewable Energy Systems and Management. It aims to bring together the work of leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
- Current issues in the renewable energy industry
- Renewable energy demand response and management
- Renewable energy economics
- Renewable energy regulations
- Role of governmental regulation
- Renewable energy policies
- Renewable energy market deregulation
- Renewable energy pricing
- Renewable energy retail markets
- Renewable energy investment coordination
- Renewable generation
- Renewable energy risk analysis
- Renewable energy policy act
- Renewable energy security assessment
- Distribution and agile power systems
- Fault diagnosis
Paper due: 30 June, 2008
Acceptance notification: 31 July, 2008
Final paper version due: 29 August, 2008
Call for papers: Dynamic Virtual Communities in the Information Society: Technologies, Methodologies, and Tools
Call for papers: Dynamic Virtual Communities in the Information Society: Technologies, Methodologies, and Tools
A special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities
With the current proliferation of communication media, the presence of global and virtual organisations, teleworking and dynamic teams trends, the progress in pervasive/ubiquitous computing as well as in wearable computing, virtual communities (VCs) are supposed to play an increased role in social organisations and will probably change profoundly the way people cooperate. Moreover, the emergence of the information society depends on the way in which information is exchanged between collaborating groups.
This special issue intends to focus on the technologies, methodologies, and tools that are used or needed in VCs as driving components in the information society.
The special issue includes - but is not limited to - the following topics:
Deadline for Summary Submission: 15 January, 2008
Deadline for paper submission: 29 February, 2008
Notification to authors: 15 April, 2008
Deadline for camera ready papers: 15 May, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities
With the current proliferation of communication media, the presence of global and virtual organisations, teleworking and dynamic teams trends, the progress in pervasive/ubiquitous computing as well as in wearable computing, virtual communities (VCs) are supposed to play an increased role in social organisations and will probably change profoundly the way people cooperate. Moreover, the emergence of the information society depends on the way in which information is exchanged between collaborating groups.
This special issue intends to focus on the technologies, methodologies, and tools that are used or needed in VCs as driving components in the information society.
The special issue includes - but is not limited to - the following topics:
- Social context and impact on society
- Technologies for VCs
- Methodologies and modeling for VCs
- Tools for VCs
- VCs and mobility
- VCs' business models
- Usability and user interfaces
- Trust, security and legal aspects of VCs
- Awareness and context
- Knowledge and information management within VCs
- VC management
Deadline for Summary Submission: 15 January, 2008
Deadline for paper submission: 29 February, 2008
Notification to authors: 15 April, 2008
Deadline for camera ready papers: 15 May, 2008
Call for papers: Advances in Computer Aided Design and Digital Entertainment
Call for papers: Advances in Computer Aided Design and Digital Entertainment
A special issue of International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
With the rapid development of computer and network technologies in recent years, research and applications in computer-aided design (CAD), computer animation, digital entertainment and digital art has been receiving increasing attention from researchers across the world. Continual, pioneered research is essential to further promote the development of those areas to benefit their applications in various fields.
The aim of this special issue of the IJCAT is to provide the state-of-the-art in CAD, digital entertainment and other related fields to present the latest research and applications including advanced development tools.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, topics that address:
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 1 August 2008
Notification of peer review to authors: 1 October 2008
Deadline for submitting revised manuscripts: 1 November 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
With the rapid development of computer and network technologies in recent years, research and applications in computer-aided design (CAD), computer animation, digital entertainment and digital art has been receiving increasing attention from researchers across the world. Continual, pioneered research is essential to further promote the development of those areas to benefit their applications in various fields.
The aim of this special issue of the IJCAT is to provide the state-of-the-art in CAD, digital entertainment and other related fields to present the latest research and applications including advanced development tools.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, topics that address:
- Intelligent CAD
- Human-computer interaction
- Artificial intelligence
- Digital art
- Computer graphics
- Computer animation
- Motion capture animation
- Digital content management
- Online games
- Multimedia technology
- E-home
- Visualisation technology
- Computer vision
- Facial expression tracking and recognition
- Pattern recognition
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 1 August 2008
Notification of peer review to authors: 1 October 2008
Deadline for submitting revised manuscripts: 1 November 2008
Call for papers: Barriers to Innovation in Home Country: Can Internationalisation of R&D Mitigate their Effects
Call for papers: Barriers to Innovation in Home Country: Can Internationalisation of R&D Mitigate their Effects
A special issue of International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management
Technological advancements, especially in information and communication technologies (ICT) have enhanced greatly the competition already spurred by the globalisation of world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalisation brings about. Innovative ideas and products are becoming increasingly important to counter the price-oriented competition on home turf and abroad from low-cost producers acting globally and leveraging production facilities in emerging economies. The innovation capacity of many firms is however hampered by a number of barriers to innovation, e.g. resource constraints. They hinder the firm’s capacity to invent and successfully commercialise new products, services or processes.
Global innovation activities are therefore thought to be necessary to gain, retain, and further strengthen the competitive position in that they may provide access to cost-effective, highly qualified resources or help tap an attractive market. The incentive to go for global innovation is also enhanced by given socio-demographic factors in the industrialised economies, e.g. shortage of skilled labor due to aging population and lack of student interest in natural sciences.
It may partially explain the increasing share of R&D funds spent and patents generated abroad by globally operating firms. For instance, in 2002, subsidiaries of US firms spent over 21 billion USD for R&D efforts abroad, mainly in the European Union (EU) countries and Japan, but also increasingly in India and China. On the same lines German firms spent nearly 11 billion euros for R&D efforts abroad in 2003. In turn, subsidiaries of foreign-owned firms spent 12.4 billion euros the same year in Germany. This trend is however not limited to industrialised economies. An increasing number of firms from India and China are reported to be setting up R&D centers abroad in industrialised countries such as USA and Germany (primarily knowledge- and infrastructure seeking) or to other emerging economies like India, China or in Eastern Europe (cost drivers, access to market).
This special issue intends to bring together academicians, practitioners, and policy makers to investigate and exchange novel ideas and circulate knowledge covering the broad area of “global innovation”, its connection to barriers to innovation in the home environment and the related policy implications. Experts and professionals from academia, industry, government and the public sector are invited to submit papers on their recent research and professional experience on the subject. Interdisciplinary research is specifically encouraged.
Papers dealing with (but not limited to) any of the following themes are appropriate for consideration:
Submission of papers: 1 March, 2008
Feedback to authors: 1 June, 2008
Final paper due: 1 July, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management
Technological advancements, especially in information and communication technologies (ICT) have enhanced greatly the competition already spurred by the globalisation of world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalisation brings about. Innovative ideas and products are becoming increasingly important to counter the price-oriented competition on home turf and abroad from low-cost producers acting globally and leveraging production facilities in emerging economies. The innovation capacity of many firms is however hampered by a number of barriers to innovation, e.g. resource constraints. They hinder the firm’s capacity to invent and successfully commercialise new products, services or processes.
Global innovation activities are therefore thought to be necessary to gain, retain, and further strengthen the competitive position in that they may provide access to cost-effective, highly qualified resources or help tap an attractive market. The incentive to go for global innovation is also enhanced by given socio-demographic factors in the industrialised economies, e.g. shortage of skilled labor due to aging population and lack of student interest in natural sciences.
It may partially explain the increasing share of R&D funds spent and patents generated abroad by globally operating firms. For instance, in 2002, subsidiaries of US firms spent over 21 billion USD for R&D efforts abroad, mainly in the European Union (EU) countries and Japan, but also increasingly in India and China. On the same lines German firms spent nearly 11 billion euros for R&D efforts abroad in 2003. In turn, subsidiaries of foreign-owned firms spent 12.4 billion euros the same year in Germany. This trend is however not limited to industrialised economies. An increasing number of firms from India and China are reported to be setting up R&D centers abroad in industrialised countries such as USA and Germany (primarily knowledge- and infrastructure seeking) or to other emerging economies like India, China or in Eastern Europe (cost drivers, access to market).
This special issue intends to bring together academicians, practitioners, and policy makers to investigate and exchange novel ideas and circulate knowledge covering the broad area of “global innovation”, its connection to barriers to innovation in the home environment and the related policy implications. Experts and professionals from academia, industry, government and the public sector are invited to submit papers on their recent research and professional experience on the subject. Interdisciplinary research is specifically encouraged.
Papers dealing with (but not limited to) any of the following themes are appropriate for consideration:
- Barriers to innovation, e.g. country-, sector- or size specific barriers
- Globalisation of innovation (the complete innovation value chain)
- Trends in internationalisation of R&D
- Between industrialised countries
- From industrialised to emerging countries
- From emerging countries to industrialised countries
- Between emerging countries
- Forms of international (offshore) R&D
- Joint ventures and cooperation
- Captive centers
- Contract R&D by specialised third-party outsourcers
- Advantages and challenges of international R&D operations
- Market, knowledge and cost factors
- Organisational and other managerial challenges
- Ground realities in international R&D operations
- Firm Behavior in meeting dual challenges of innovation barriers and globalisation
- Structure and strategy for R&D in global corporations
- International R&D and the dynamics of firms and sectors
- Drivers of international corporate R&D investments
- New and emerging issues in (international) corporate R&D
- Policy implications for dealing with barriers to innovation
- Strengthening of sectoral, regional and national innovation systems
- Implications for FDI policies in industrialised and emerging countries
- Implications for institutional infrastructure especially in emerging countries
- Policy measures for SMEs support programmes etc.
Submission of papers: 1 March, 2008
Feedback to authors: 1 June, 2008
Final paper due: 1 July, 2008
Call for papers: Advances in Medical Micro and Nanomanufacturing and its Applications
Call for papers: Advances in Medical Micro and Nanomanufacturing and its Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials
The advent of manufacturing techniques that enable fabrication at the micrometer-scale and below provides unique opportunity for medical device applications. Miniaturisation enables enhanced sensitivity, accuracy, and reduced analysis time in diagnostic applications, higher precision, efficacy, and minimised invasiveness in therapeutic applications, and provides the potential for lower costs and broader access to healthcare. However, before this promise can be fully realised numerous issues must be addressed, one of which is the further improvement of medical device micro/nano manufacturing with regard to robustness, versatility, reliability, reproducibility, and scalability.
The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for discussion of state-of-the-art research on the fundamental and practical aspects of developments in micro/nano manufacturing of medical devices with dimensions (or critical feature sizes) ranging from tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers. Papers are sought to address theoretical and applied research issues related to the development and application of advanced micro/nano manufacturing techniques for use in medical devices.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, topics that address:
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 30 November 2008
Communication of peer reviews to authors: 31 March 2009
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 31 May 2009
A special issue of International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials
The advent of manufacturing techniques that enable fabrication at the micrometer-scale and below provides unique opportunity for medical device applications. Miniaturisation enables enhanced sensitivity, accuracy, and reduced analysis time in diagnostic applications, higher precision, efficacy, and minimised invasiveness in therapeutic applications, and provides the potential for lower costs and broader access to healthcare. However, before this promise can be fully realised numerous issues must be addressed, one of which is the further improvement of medical device micro/nano manufacturing with regard to robustness, versatility, reliability, reproducibility, and scalability.
The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for discussion of state-of-the-art research on the fundamental and practical aspects of developments in micro/nano manufacturing of medical devices with dimensions (or critical feature sizes) ranging from tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers. Papers are sought to address theoretical and applied research issues related to the development and application of advanced micro/nano manufacturing techniques for use in medical devices.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, topics that address:
- Advances in micro/nano manufacturing for medical applications
- Unique challenges associated with manufacturing, handling, and deployment of micro/nanoscale medical devices
- Integration of micro/nano manufacturing techniques with traditional manufacturing for realisation of multi-scale manufacturing
- Characterisation of micro/nano manufacturing and its effect on biocompatibility/ biofunctionality
- Demonstration of novel biomedical device concepts enabled by micro/nano manufacturing
- Modelling and simulation of micro/nano manufacturing techniques
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 30 November 2008
Communication of peer reviews to authors: 31 March 2009
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 31 May 2009
Call for papers: Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence
Call for papers: Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence
A special issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) seeks to create a society based on unobtrusive, often invisible interactions amongst people and computer-based services in a global computing environment. Services in AmI will be ubiquitous in that there will be no specific bearer or provider but, instead, they will be associated with a variety of objects and devices in the environment, which will not bear any resemblance to computers. People will interact with these services through intelligent and intuitive interfaces embedded in these objects and devices, which in turn will be sensitive to what people need.
In this special issue, we aim to present the application and development of artificial societies for AmI, establish a body of knowledge and a theoretical umbrella for this, and use the resulting research to relate to existing work on areas such as the semantic web, cognitive and social agents, and ambient and ubiquitous technologies. We also hope to present current research in the area of agent societies for AmI, where human activities are supported by social organisations of agents, computing devices, or both, and assess the outcomes of such research. Our intention is to complement existing ubiquitous computing efforts that focus more on distributed systems and less on complex systems construed as artificial agent societies. This special issue therefore aspires to amalgamate ongoing research in distributed systems and complex multi-agent systems with the aim of strengthening the synergy between the two fields.
We encourage the submission of innovative and mature results in specifying, developing and deploying artificial societies for ambient intelligence. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Paper submission: 30 September, 2008
Acceptance notification: 1 December, 2008
Camera ready papers due: 30 January, 2009
A special issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) seeks to create a society based on unobtrusive, often invisible interactions amongst people and computer-based services in a global computing environment. Services in AmI will be ubiquitous in that there will be no specific bearer or provider but, instead, they will be associated with a variety of objects and devices in the environment, which will not bear any resemblance to computers. People will interact with these services through intelligent and intuitive interfaces embedded in these objects and devices, which in turn will be sensitive to what people need.
In this special issue, we aim to present the application and development of artificial societies for AmI, establish a body of knowledge and a theoretical umbrella for this, and use the resulting research to relate to existing work on areas such as the semantic web, cognitive and social agents, and ambient and ubiquitous technologies. We also hope to present current research in the area of agent societies for AmI, where human activities are supported by social organisations of agents, computing devices, or both, and assess the outcomes of such research. Our intention is to complement existing ubiquitous computing efforts that focus more on distributed systems and less on complex systems construed as artificial agent societies. This special issue therefore aspires to amalgamate ongoing research in distributed systems and complex multi-agent systems with the aim of strengthening the synergy between the two fields.
We encourage the submission of innovative and mature results in specifying, developing and deploying artificial societies for ambient intelligence. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Social architectures
- Agent interaction
- Reasoning and knowledge representation
- Reactivity and proactivity
- Learning and adaptivity
- Decision making
- Social emergence
- Normative reasoning and regulations
- Security, trust and privacy
- Interaction design and interfaces
- Mobility
- Applications
Paper submission: 30 September, 2008
Acceptance notification: 1 December, 2008
Camera ready papers due: 30 January, 2009
Call for papers: Service Oriented Grid and Pervasive Technologies
Call for papers: Service Oriented Grid and Pervasive Technologies
A special issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Grid and pervasive computing (GPC) has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that includes ubiquitous, grid, and pervasive computing to provide intelligence, insight, and vision for emerging world of intelligent environment, products, services and human interaction.
This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of GPC, including the topics of service computing, grid and pervasive computing, business models, and novel applications associated with this new paradigm. The published papers are expected to focus on application services and present high quality results to solve various problems in smart space.
Areas of interest for this special issue include the following topics:
Submission due date: 1 March, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 May, 2008
Submission of final revised paper: 30 June 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Grid and pervasive computing (GPC) has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that includes ubiquitous, grid, and pervasive computing to provide intelligence, insight, and vision for emerging world of intelligent environment, products, services and human interaction.
This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of GPC, including the topics of service computing, grid and pervasive computing, business models, and novel applications associated with this new paradigm. The published papers are expected to focus on application services and present high quality results to solve various problems in smart space.
Areas of interest for this special issue include the following topics:
- Service-oriented computing
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Mobile/wireless computing, communications, systems and services
- Embedded computing with applications
- Low power, energy-aware computing
- Smart devices, spaces and objects
- Location-dependent/personalized applications
- Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
- Middleware services and agent technologies
- Intelligent devices and environments
- Context and location awareness, context based and implicit computing
- User interfaces and interaction models
- Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
- Resource management in pervasive platforms
- Security and privacy issues
- Education and training
Submission due date: 1 March, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 30 May, 2008
Submission of final revised paper: 30 June 2008
Call for papers: Algorithmic Game Theory
Call for papers: Algorithmic Game Theory
A special issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Game-theory offers a formal mechanism for studying complex interactions between multiple rational participants. The emergence of the internet as a dominant communication platform has brought to the surface many interesting game theoretic problems that arise from the interplay of the entities that manage and use the internet. Algorithm and network designers, in general, are interested in analysing outcomes of these interactions. This has resulted in the formation of the new research area of algorithmic game theory which brings together two important scientific fields: economics and computer science.
Algorithmic game theory also covers problems that arise outside the internet. In this new research area, games are studied from the perspective of algorithmic issues which, for example, include the design of algorithms that compute equilibria, measurement of equilibria quality, and generally the design of new games that can be analysed with algorithmic techniques.
In this special issue, we invite the submission of papers in the broad area of algorithmic game theory. The objective is to publish a selection of high quality papers which span different areas in this research field.
Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
Paper submission: 1 March, 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2008
Camera ready papers due: 22 May, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Game-theory offers a formal mechanism for studying complex interactions between multiple rational participants. The emergence of the internet as a dominant communication platform has brought to the surface many interesting game theoretic problems that arise from the interplay of the entities that manage and use the internet. Algorithm and network designers, in general, are interested in analysing outcomes of these interactions. This has resulted in the formation of the new research area of algorithmic game theory which brings together two important scientific fields: economics and computer science.
Algorithmic game theory also covers problems that arise outside the internet. In this new research area, games are studied from the perspective of algorithmic issues which, for example, include the design of algorithms that compute equilibria, measurement of equilibria quality, and generally the design of new games that can be analysed with algorithmic techniques.
In this special issue, we invite the submission of papers in the broad area of algorithmic game theory. The objective is to publish a selection of high quality papers which span different areas in this research field.
Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
- Games in communication networks
- Routing games
- Power games
- Potential games
- Network pricing
- Mechanism design
- Network formation
- Pricing and auctions
- Coalition games
- Different equilibria concepts: Nash, Cooperative, Stackelberg, Wardrop equilibria
- Multi-stage and repeated games
- Zero-sum games
- Games of imperfect or asymmetric information
- Learning games
Paper submission: 1 March, 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2008
Camera ready papers due: 22 May, 2008
Call for papers: Environmental and Industrial Waste Management Using Membrane Separation and Bioremediation
Call for papers: Environmental and Industrial Waste Management Using Membrane Separation and Bioremediation
A special issue of International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
Compared to equilibrium governed separation processes, i.e., adsorption, absorption, etc., rate governed membrane based separation processes are gaining importance for treatment of various industrial effluent/process streams. It has been estimated that the current worldwide membrane/equipment market is 1.6 billion dollars annually. New applications in wastewater treatment from various industrial sources as well as treatment of drinking water using membrane based separation processes have to be developed and commercialised to achieve a cleaner technology. Bioremediation has come to play an increasingly important role in waste management.
Bioremediation can take care of both organic and inorganic pollutants. Although the application of bioremedial measures to environmental problems has become readily acceptable, there remains uncertainty among practitioners regarding how the microscopic system fits into practical applications. The stochastic nature of the living systems further enhances the uncertainty level. The exchange of challenging technical experiences of researchers in this field can only fill this gap.
Original research paper or reviews are invited in the following and related areas on waste management as applied to:
Deadline for paper submission: 31 March 2008
First turn of papers review: 31 May 2008
Second turn of papers review: 31 July 2008
Final papers submission: 31 August 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
Compared to equilibrium governed separation processes, i.e., adsorption, absorption, etc., rate governed membrane based separation processes are gaining importance for treatment of various industrial effluent/process streams. It has been estimated that the current worldwide membrane/equipment market is 1.6 billion dollars annually. New applications in wastewater treatment from various industrial sources as well as treatment of drinking water using membrane based separation processes have to be developed and commercialised to achieve a cleaner technology. Bioremediation has come to play an increasingly important role in waste management.
Bioremediation can take care of both organic and inorganic pollutants. Although the application of bioremedial measures to environmental problems has become readily acceptable, there remains uncertainty among practitioners regarding how the microscopic system fits into practical applications. The stochastic nature of the living systems further enhances the uncertainty level. The exchange of challenging technical experiences of researchers in this field can only fill this gap.
Original research paper or reviews are invited in the following and related areas on waste management as applied to:
- Textile industry
- Pulp and paper industry
- Sugar processing industry
- Tanneries
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Other industries
- Environmental sources, such as arsenic and other harmful organic and inorganic sources from drinking and surface water
Deadline for paper submission: 31 March 2008
First turn of papers review: 31 May 2008
Second turn of papers review: 31 July 2008
Final papers submission: 31 August 2008
Special issue: Complex network and infrastructure protection
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures 4(1/2) 2008
Papers from the International Workshop on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection (CNIP06) held in Rome, Italy on 28–29 March 2006.
Papers from the International Workshop on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection (CNIP06) held in Rome, Italy on 28–29 March 2006.
- Security, trust, and QoS in next-generation control and communication for large power systems
- Dynamic recovery of critical infrastructures: real-time temporal coordination
- The security of power systems and the role of information and communication technologies: lessons from the recent blackouts
- Modelling of cascading effects and efficient response to disaster spreading in complex networks
- Modelling interdependent infrastructures using interacting dynamical models
- Security assessment in complex networks exposed to terrorist hazard: a simulation approach
- Agents controlling the electric power infrastructure
- Simulation of heterogeneous and interdependent critical infrastructures
- Effects of intentional threats to power substation control systems
- Quantitative Vulnerability Assessment of Critical Infrastructures: watching for hidden faults
- Understanding threats: a prerequisite to enhance survivability of computing systems
- A systematic procedure for analysing network systems
- The HoneyTank: a scalable approach to collect malicious internet traffic
- Predicting target selection by terrorists: a network analysis of the 2005 London underground attacks
Special issue: Trends in architectures, models and infrastructures to generate and handle semantics in peer-to-peer and hypermedia systems
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology 4(1) 2008
Papers from the workshop: ‘International Workshop on Architectures, Models and Infrastructures to Generate Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Hypermedia Systems’ organised in conjunction with the 17th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia in Odense, Denmark, 22-25 August 2006 .
Papers from the workshop: ‘International Workshop on Architectures, Models and Infrastructures to Generate Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Hypermedia Systems’ organised in conjunction with the 17th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia in Odense, Denmark, 22-25 August 2006 .
- Incorporating computational semantics into emergent hypermedia structures
- A schema-based P2P network to enable publish-subscribe for multimedia content in open hypermedia systems
- Ontology-supported indexing in P2P networks of digital libraries
- XFIS: an XML filtering system based on string representation and matching
- NBDT: an efficient P2P indexing scheme for web service discovery
- Web service workflow selection using system and network QoS constraints
Special issue: Logistics in the Asia Region
International Journal of Integrated Supply Management 4(1) 2008
Papers from the International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS) held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1–3 May 2006.
Papers from the International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS) held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1–3 May 2006.
- Logistics outlook: an Asian perspective
- Best practices in distribution and retail networks: the case of Indonesia and France
- A feasibility study on establishing distribution centres for One Tambon One Product (OTOP) project in Songkhla Province
- Quality management practices in logistics services in Thailand
- The business performance of convenience stores installing POS systems: an empirical study of 7-Eleven
- A basic research on rationalisation strategy in Japan
- Distribution of small packages in metropolitan area by motorcycle courier services
- Assessment of global logistics strategies for Third Party Logistics
- The IBM advanced planning system for managing next generation demand-supply networks
Special issue: Reference models for forming organisational or collaborative pedagogical best practices
International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning 18(1) 2008
- Problem-Based Learning in web environments: how do students learn? Evidences from the 'Virtual eBMS' system
- The Project Method e-course: the use of tools towards the evolution of the Greek teachers' online community
- Concept mapping instrumental support for problem solving
- LOCO-Analyst: semantic web technologies in learning content usage analysis
- Towards a learning path specification
- Smart indicators to support the learning interaction cycle
- A reference model for mobile social software for learning
- Improving learning design practices through strategic integrated evaluation
Special issue: Researching the environment: papers from the 10th Environmental Research Event
International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 7(4) 2007
The 10th Environmental Research Event (ERE) - the largest conference of Australia’s post-graduate environmental students - was held in Sydney, Australia, 10 - 13 December 2006.
The 10th Environmental Research Event (ERE) - the largest conference of Australia’s post-graduate environmental students - was held in Sydney, Australia, 10 - 13 December 2006.
- Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia
- Recreational impacts on the environment as an impetus to updating recreational regulations in the Washington State
- Major paradigm shifts in NRM in Australia
- Application of a three-dimensional hyperbolic location system to the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) depredation issue
- From wisdom to information: 350 years of ecosystem management
- Too dry and too cold for mould germination in New Zealand dwellings?
- Power from closing the Red Sea: economic and ecological costs and benefits following the isolation of the Red Sea
Special issue: Emerging management and technology approaches
International Journal of Value Chain Management 2(1) 2008
- E-government maturity at Spanish local levels
- The impacts of non-functional requirements in web system projects
- Assessing strategic, tactical and operational alignment factors for SMEs: alignment across the organisation's value chain
- A structurational analysis of CRM systems' cultural aspects: a comparative case study
- An investigation into the effects of computer-integrated manufacturing systems on the productivity of SMEs in Pakistan
- Empirical evaluation of public e-procurement platforms in France
- Performance evaluation study of an indoor IEEE 802.11g
- Key success factors of mobile technology implementation within firms
- Towards a successful implementation of network QoS strategy in IT business infrastructure
5 December 2007
Special issue: Leveraging management and decision making by information technology
International Journal of Management and Decision Making 9(1) 2008
- Discovering decision heuristics in collaborative planning
- Strategic management of new products development at technological conglomerate network using expert support systems
- Profiling EC internet presence: implications for e-commerce practice and research
- Deploying and evaluating multiattribute product recommendation in e-markets
- Assessing extracted knowledge from classifier neural networks: an exploratory empirical study
- Application of multicriteria decision making for selection of robotic system using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
Special issue: Moral responsibility and sustainable development
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development 2(1) 2007
- Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral disengagement
- Micro-foundations of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis: an empirical analysis
- Averting catastrophic climate change: confronting wealth
- The moral responsibility of consumers as citizens
- Ulf Schrader
- Sustainable economic organisation: simply a matter of reconceptualisation or a need for a new ethics?
- Moral responsibility and the business and sustainable development assemblage: a Jonasian ethics for the technological age
3 December 2007
First issue: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance
The first issue of International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance has just been published.
The journal addresses the advancement of contemporary research in the field of international monetary economics and finance. It is an internationally competitive, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to serve as the primary outlet for theoretical and empirical research in all areas of international monetary economics and finance. It seeks to publish thought-provoking, policy relevant analysis.
A free download of the papers from this first issue is available.
The journal addresses the advancement of contemporary research in the field of international monetary economics and finance. It is an internationally competitive, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to serve as the primary outlet for theoretical and empirical research in all areas of international monetary economics and finance. It seeks to publish thought-provoking, policy relevant analysis.
A free download of the papers from this first issue is available.
Special issue: Power-aware computing systems
International Journal of Embedded Systems 3(1/2) 2007
Papers from a seminar at the International Conference and Research Centre for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, April 2005.
Papers from a seminar at the International Conference and Research Centre for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, April 2005.
- Power-aware computing systems
- Inter-program optimisations for disk energy reduction
- A new way of estimating compute-boundedness and its application to dynamic voltage scaling
- An evaluation infrastructure for power and energy optimisations
- Exploring temperature-aware design in low-power MPSoCs
- Design of power-aware FPGA fabrics
- Power management in external memory using PA-CDRAM
- Energy-aware compilation and hardware design for VLIW embedded systems
- Algorithms for low power hardware synthesis from Concurrent Action Oriented Specifications (CAOS)
- Horizontal and vertical HW/SW co-design flows for power aware smart card designs
Special issue: Trust in virtual teams
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations 5(1) 2008
- A dynamic perspective of trust in virtual teams: the role of task, technology and time
- Combining bases of trust development in virtual teams
- Development of trust in electronic mentoring relationships
- Sociological factors affecting trust development in virtual communities
- An investigation of the role of trust in virtual project management success
- Flows, bridges and brokers: exploring the development of trust relations in a distributed work group
- The role of social capital in virtual teams and organisations: corporate value creation
Special issue: Responsiveness in design and manufacturing
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering 3(1) 2008
Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing (ICRM2005) held in Guangzhou, China, 12–14 September 2005.
Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing (ICRM2005) held in Guangzhou, China, 12–14 September 2005.
- R&D task programming of electromechanical product in networked manufacturing environment
- A study on a general rapid prototyping software based on distributed technology
- An affordable Reverse Engineering framework for innovative rapid product development
- An intelligent technology watch function for the high technology enterprise
- Managing the effects of variability in drum-buffer-rope systems
- Study on modelling obstacles-avoidance behaviour of virtual driver based on multilayer fuzzy neural network
- Developing strategies fostering product development using multicriteria analysis
Special issue: Advanced enterprise and information systems for enabling supply chain operations in the innovative age. Part II
International Journal of Enterprise Network Management 2(1) 2008
(Part I was published in International Journal of Enterprise Network Management 1(4) 2007)
(Part I was published in International Journal of Enterprise Network Management 1(4) 2007)
- A strategic reference model for new product development
- Development of a national electronic product code network for the tracking of fast moving consumer goods
- Impacts of sharing information of demand patterns on supply chain performance
- Is the RFID technology ready to integrate supply chain activities?
- Real-time process mining system for supply chain network: OLAP-based fuzzy approach
Special issue: Interface between manufacturing and other fields
International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 13(1) 2008
- Manufacturing planning and control technology versus operational performance: an empirical study of MRP and JIT in China
- Modelling information sharing to improve just-in-time purchasing vendor evaluation
- The cross-functional coordination between operations, marketing, purchasing and engineering and the impact on performance
- Coordinating pricing and inventory decisions under reference price effects
- AI-based project risk management process for a kind of manufacturing alliance
Special issue: Branding and reputation in sports marketing
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 3(1/2) 2008
- Leveraging the Olympic brand through the reconciliation of corporate and consumers' brand perceptions
- Assessing the use of the brand personality scale in team sport
- Exploring the role of brand trust in the relationship between brand associations and brand loyalty in sport and fitness
- Extending the understanding of professional team brand equity to the global marketplace
- Assessing the impact of NCAA scandals: an exploratory analysis
- A collegiate athletic brand transformation: rebranding a Native American brand identity
- Celebrity athletes and athletic clothing design: branding female tennis players
- Dangerous liaisons: how can sports brands capitalise on the Hip Hop movement
Special issue: Use of information technology in supply chain management
International Journal of Information Technology and Management 7(1) 2008
- Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment: demand planning in supply chain management
- Life after a dot-com bubble
- Assessing post-adoption utilisation of an information technology within a supply chain management context
- Empirical testing of forecast update procedure for seasonal products
- Consumer reactions to potential intrusiveness and benefits of RFID
- E-fulfilling the e-supply chain of digital print
Special issue: Flexibility, learning and innovation
International Journal of Technology Management 41(1/2) 2008
- Synthesising the paradox of organisational routine flexibility and stability: a processual view
- Technology management routines that matter to technology managers
- Transaction costs and organisational learning in strategic outsourcing relationships
- Relationship learning and dyadic knowledge creation in international subcontracting relationships: the supplier's perspective
- Learning mechanisms in a technology based organisational change programme: an exploratory study between Chinese and Norwegian corporations
- Managing knowledge for new product performance in the high technology industry
- Flexibility in innovation through external learning: exploring two models for enhanced industry–university collaboration
- Organisational learning dynamics in the software publishing industry
- Knowledge creation as a dynamic capability: implications for innovation management and organisational design
- Impact of manager's social power on R&D employees' knowledge-sharing behaviour
- Resources, absorptive capacity, and technology sourcing
- Balancing flexibility and control: international technology and market development in Australian biotechnology firms
- Entrepreneurial orientation, strategic flexibilities and indigenous firm innovation in transitional China
Special issue: Current development in surface engineering and technologies
International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 31(1) 2008
Selected papers from the International Conference on Surface Finishing Technology and Surface Engineering (ICSFT 2006) held in Dalian, China, 24 to 27 September 2006.
Selected papers from the International Conference on Surface Finishing Technology and Surface Engineering (ICSFT 2006) held in Dalian, China, 24 to 27 September 2006.
- Abrasive liquid jet as a flexible polishing tool
- Use of actively cooled and activated coolant for surface quality improvement in ductile material grinding
- Magnetorheological fluids modelling: without the no-slip boundary condition
- Precision wafer thinning and its surface conditioning technique
- Disfigurement formation and control in drilling carbon fibre reinforced composites
- Effects of kinematic forms on material removal rate and non-uniformity in chemical mechanical planarisation
- Mechanism of burr formation in slot milling Al-alloy
- On the control and optimisation of abrasive distribution pattern on grinding tool surfaces
- Particle strengthening of the surface of copper electrode for electrical discharge machining
- A study of laser surface modification for GCr15 steel
- In-suit integrated measurement of profile precision of large gears based on rack-shaped-edge probe
- Machinability of glass by abrasive waterjet
- Parametric study of micro machining with instantaneous tiny-grinding wheel based on the magnetorheological effect of abrasive slurry
Call for papers: Application of Metaheuristics in the Optimisation and Performance Measurement of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chains
Call for papers: Application of Metaheuristics in the Optimisation and Performance Measurement of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chains
A special issue of International Journal of Business Performance Management
Over the last few years, real-world optimisation problems have become increasingly complex, forcing the development of solution procedures whose efficiency is measured by their ability to find acceptable solutions within a reasonable amount of computer time. Metaheuristic optimisation stands out as a promising approach to deal with this difficult class of problems. Evolutionary algorithms have become one of the most prominent class of metaheuristics for tackling optimisation problems. However, other methodologies, such as scatter search, tabu search, ant colonies, simulated annealing and GRASP are gaining momentum. Application of metaheuristics in optimisation and performance measurement of operations, logistics and supply chain management leads to the competitive advantage and cost savings to industry and society.
Various firms have recently realised the potential of SCM in day-to-day operations management. However, they often lack the insight for the development of effective optimised performance measures which are needed to achieve a fully integrated SCM, due to lack of a balanced approach and lack of clear distinction between metrics at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to provide academic and practitioners with a collection of innovative research and development in optimisation and performance measurement models of operations, logistics and supply chain management.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that are conceptual, case studies, or empirically-based; and focus on the following or other areas related to Operations, Logistics and Supply chain, but are not limited to:
Manuscript submission: 30 April 2008
Notification of initial decision: 30 June 2008
Notification of final acceptance: 15 August 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Business Performance Management
Over the last few years, real-world optimisation problems have become increasingly complex, forcing the development of solution procedures whose efficiency is measured by their ability to find acceptable solutions within a reasonable amount of computer time. Metaheuristic optimisation stands out as a promising approach to deal with this difficult class of problems. Evolutionary algorithms have become one of the most prominent class of metaheuristics for tackling optimisation problems. However, other methodologies, such as scatter search, tabu search, ant colonies, simulated annealing and GRASP are gaining momentum. Application of metaheuristics in optimisation and performance measurement of operations, logistics and supply chain management leads to the competitive advantage and cost savings to industry and society.
Various firms have recently realised the potential of SCM in day-to-day operations management. However, they often lack the insight for the development of effective optimised performance measures which are needed to achieve a fully integrated SCM, due to lack of a balanced approach and lack of clear distinction between metrics at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to provide academic and practitioners with a collection of innovative research and development in optimisation and performance measurement models of operations, logistics and supply chain management.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that are conceptual, case studies, or empirically-based; and focus on the following or other areas related to Operations, Logistics and Supply chain, but are not limited to:
- Performance measurement using BSC and DEA
- Productivity, efficiency and performance benchmarking using nonparmetric OR approaches (e.g. data envelopement analysis)
- Productivity, efficiency and performance benchmarking using statistical approaches (e.g. stochastic frontier analysis)
- Supply chain network modelling
- Performance measurement using metaheuristics
- Inventory control in supply chain management
- Reverse supply chain
- Artificial intelligence techniques in logistics and supply chain management
- Risk evaluation in supply chains
- General optimisation models and methodologies for operations, logistics and supply chain management
- Risk mitigation strategies in supply chains
- Operations planning, scheduling and control
- Performance measurement and productivity
- Environmental issues in operations
- Performance benchmarking
- Multiobjective optimisation in logistics and supply chains
- Operations and business process management
- Closed-loop supply chains
- Global operations management
- Inventory management and coordination
- Logistics service performance
- Fuzzy logic and neural networks in supply chain
- Game theory and goal programming in supply chain
Manuscript submission: 30 April 2008
Notification of initial decision: 30 June 2008
Notification of final acceptance: 15 August 2008
28 November 2007
Special issue: Innovation in energy systems
International Journal of Global Energy Issues 28(2/3) 2007
- Sustainable nuclear energy: some reasons for optimism
- CO2 emissions mitigation policies and their effects on the Thailand energy system
- Potential of crop residue in India as a source of energy
- Recovering energy from biogas emission: the case of Mariana Mantovana landfill (Italy)
- Hydrogen production technology for powering civil and industrial systems: a review
- Physical properties of wood pellets from a novel pelletising process
- Advanced processes for low rank coal drying and dewatering in high efficient power plants
- Separation of CO2 during combustion of coal in a pressurised fluidised bed
- Comparative study of steam injection effects on operation of gas turbine cycles
- Visible light-operated glucose-O2 biofuel cell
- Catalysis of atomic hydrogen to new hydrides as a new power source
- Modelling oil degradation in electric transformer oil under typical loads
27 November 2007
Call for papers: Regional Economic Development Dynamics: Focus on Regional/Sectoral Innovation Systems
Call for papers: Regional Economic Development Dynamics: Focus on Regional/Sectoral Innovation Systems
A special issue of International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
Deep and broad economic integration in Europe and especially within the European Union has been taking place mostly on an intra- and cross-regional basis transcending national frontiers and identities and being driven by affinities, complementarities and synergies at the regional level.
The presence, role and impact of this phenomenon as a driver of regional economic development and especially in the form of small and medium enterprise formation and growth is the motivation for this Special Issue. In particular, the focus is on profiling, analysing, benchmarking, and modelling in socio-technical terms, ways and means that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and drive economic development in regions such as the Balkan and Baltic regions within the EU, as well as other parts of the world. Our focus is on deriving insights from comparing and contrasting similarities and differences and critical success and failure factors within and across the regions under study.
The targeted audience for this Special Issue includes policy makers as well as academic researchers and practitioners of technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the regions of focus as well as the EU and the world as a whole as the inter-regional and cross-regional integration, development and convergence phenomenon is replicated around the earth.
In this context, this issue will promote the identification and articulation of insights that could inform both public sector policies and private sector practices to render them more effective and efficient. A series of recommendations for policy makers and practitioners would ideally emerge from this comparative, conceptual and empirical research contributing to the growing literature on the role of knowledge on technology, innovation and entrepreneurship and in particular with regards to the role of knowledge creation, diffusion and use in local, national, regional, and global innovation networks and knowledge clusters that form the underpinnings of the knowledge economy and society.
The intent is to encompass and integrate diverse theoretical perspectives, including, regional development economics and sociology of innovation, as well as regional science, and, technology, innovation and knowledge management research as follows:
Deadline for Submissions: 31 May, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
Deep and broad economic integration in Europe and especially within the European Union has been taking place mostly on an intra- and cross-regional basis transcending national frontiers and identities and being driven by affinities, complementarities and synergies at the regional level.
The presence, role and impact of this phenomenon as a driver of regional economic development and especially in the form of small and medium enterprise formation and growth is the motivation for this Special Issue. In particular, the focus is on profiling, analysing, benchmarking, and modelling in socio-technical terms, ways and means that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and drive economic development in regions such as the Balkan and Baltic regions within the EU, as well as other parts of the world. Our focus is on deriving insights from comparing and contrasting similarities and differences and critical success and failure factors within and across the regions under study.
The targeted audience for this Special Issue includes policy makers as well as academic researchers and practitioners of technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the regions of focus as well as the EU and the world as a whole as the inter-regional and cross-regional integration, development and convergence phenomenon is replicated around the earth.
In this context, this issue will promote the identification and articulation of insights that could inform both public sector policies and private sector practices to render them more effective and efficient. A series of recommendations for policy makers and practitioners would ideally emerge from this comparative, conceptual and empirical research contributing to the growing literature on the role of knowledge on technology, innovation and entrepreneurship and in particular with regards to the role of knowledge creation, diffusion and use in local, national, regional, and global innovation networks and knowledge clusters that form the underpinnings of the knowledge economy and society.
The intent is to encompass and integrate diverse theoretical perspectives, including, regional development economics and sociology of innovation, as well as regional science, and, technology, innovation and knowledge management research as follows:
- Select industries of focus would be biotechnology, advanced materials and ICT (as well as cross-disciplinary, emerging threads such as nano/bio-technology, MEMS, bio-informatics, etc) and in each region and/or country therein, innovation networks and knowledge clusters based on such industries would be identified and studied.
- This is not to exclude low and medium technology sectors and regional innovation networks. For instance, innovation practices, clusters and networks in areas and sectors such as construction, services, maritime and marine technologies, cleaner forms of energy production, eco-innovation, etc.
- Public-private partnerships for research and technology development, transfer, deployment and commercialisation would also be studied in this context, and, in particular, their relationships and roles in catalysing and accelerating the formation and growth of networks, clusters and individual new ventures.
- Top-down policies and bottom-up initiatives would be documented and reviewed to identify what works and what does not, how and why in each region, country and industry.
Deadline for Submissions: 31 May, 2008
Call for papers: Financial Services Industry: Emerging Challenges and Prospects
Call for papers: Financial Services Industry: Emerging Challenges and Prospects
A special issue of International Journal of Financial Services Management
Over the last few decades there has been a series of substantial changes in the Financial Services industry. Recent advances in policy-making, regulatory framework, information and communication technology and risk management practices, all combined with the explosive growth in the volume of cross border capital flows, have led to an increasing demand for effective, efficient and prudent deployment of economic capital. The objective of this special issue is to bring together current theoretical and empirical research on the issues highlighted above and investigate their implications with regards to the Financial Services industry.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1-2 Page Abstract: 31 May 2008
Submission of Manuscripts: 31 August 2008
Notification to Authors: 30 October 2008
Final Versions Due: 15 January 2009
A special issue of International Journal of Financial Services Management
Over the last few decades there has been a series of substantial changes in the Financial Services industry. Recent advances in policy-making, regulatory framework, information and communication technology and risk management practices, all combined with the explosive growth in the volume of cross border capital flows, have led to an increasing demand for effective, efficient and prudent deployment of economic capital. The objective of this special issue is to bring together current theoretical and empirical research on the issues highlighted above and investigate their implications with regards to the Financial Services industry.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Risk management and incentives
- Efficiency
- Bank safety and banking supervision
- Regulatory framework
- Corporate ownership
- Control and corporate governance
- Mergers and acquisitions activities
- The availability of credit
- Risk management and insurance
- Macroeconomic fluctuations
- Systemic risk
- Competitive effects across banks and countries
- Market discipline
- Liquidity management
- Developed and/or/vs. developing areas
1-2 Page Abstract: 31 May 2008
Submission of Manuscripts: 31 August 2008
Notification to Authors: 30 October 2008
Final Versions Due: 15 January 2009
Special issue: Mobile virtual communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities 3(4) 2007
- The portable community: envisioning and examining mobile social connectedness
- Mobile virtual communities research: a synthesis of current trends and a look at future perspectives
- Exploring mobile information systems for chronically ill adolescent patients
- DIY i-TV producers: emerging nomadic communities
- A novel collaboration model for mobile virtual communities
- WebRogue: rendezvous in a web place
- Tech ties: making online connections in social networks
26 November 2007
Call for papers: Transforming Basic Research in Biomedical Sciences into Commercial Applications: The Role of Universities in Industrialised Countries
Call for papers: Transforming Basic Research in Biomedical Sciences into Commercial Applications: The Role of Universities in Industrialised Countries
A special issue of International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
Industrialised countries are trying to counter the threat from low-cost manufacturing countries by building on their comparative advantage in high-technology sectors. Industrial policy initiatives in Europe, Japan, and North America attempt to stimulate innovation and productivity, and the health sector is especially prominent in this process in areas including biotech, genetics, microelectronics, and biophysics (see Di Tommaso and Schweitzer, 2005)*.
Among other policies, governments have encouraged universities to participate in the process of commercialisation of basic research, either through patenting inventions (e.g. the Bayh-Dole Act of the United States) or participating directly in spin-off ventures. These spin-offs combine university-based researchers with entrepreneurs and sources of capital. Some of these high-tech industrial clusters have become household words, such as America’s Silicon Valley and Route 128, but the movement is far more diffused than that. Different countries have approached the issue of encouraging commercialisation of biomedical science differently, no doubt in response to different institutions and entrepreneurial climate. Currently there is no unified description of what policies work in particular settings, and which do not. This leaves both government and academic leaders in a quandary as they attempt to construct the best policies for their institutions.
The objective of this Special Issue is to promote a better understanding of the process by which basic research in the health sciences is translated into commercial ventures involving universities. We will illustrate the many factors that must be present in a successful program to encourage commercial development of basic research. These factors include incentives for university researchers, sources of capital, linkages between people with skills in basic research and those with skills in entrepreneurship. To do this, we envision creating a multinational network of scholars working in areas of industrial policy, health sciences research, and university development. We hope to bring together information from Europe, North America (especially the US and Canada), and Asia (especially China and Japan).
* Di Tommaso MR and Schweitzer SO (eds), Health Policy and High-Tech Industrial Development: Learning from Innovation in the Health Industry, Cheltenham England: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
Submission deadline: 1 October, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
Industrialised countries are trying to counter the threat from low-cost manufacturing countries by building on their comparative advantage in high-technology sectors. Industrial policy initiatives in Europe, Japan, and North America attempt to stimulate innovation and productivity, and the health sector is especially prominent in this process in areas including biotech, genetics, microelectronics, and biophysics (see Di Tommaso and Schweitzer, 2005)*.
Among other policies, governments have encouraged universities to participate in the process of commercialisation of basic research, either through patenting inventions (e.g. the Bayh-Dole Act of the United States) or participating directly in spin-off ventures. These spin-offs combine university-based researchers with entrepreneurs and sources of capital. Some of these high-tech industrial clusters have become household words, such as America’s Silicon Valley and Route 128, but the movement is far more diffused than that. Different countries have approached the issue of encouraging commercialisation of biomedical science differently, no doubt in response to different institutions and entrepreneurial climate. Currently there is no unified description of what policies work in particular settings, and which do not. This leaves both government and academic leaders in a quandary as they attempt to construct the best policies for their institutions.
The objective of this Special Issue is to promote a better understanding of the process by which basic research in the health sciences is translated into commercial ventures involving universities. We will illustrate the many factors that must be present in a successful program to encourage commercial development of basic research. These factors include incentives for university researchers, sources of capital, linkages between people with skills in basic research and those with skills in entrepreneurship. To do this, we envision creating a multinational network of scholars working in areas of industrial policy, health sciences research, and university development. We hope to bring together information from Europe, North America (especially the US and Canada), and Asia (especially China and Japan).
* Di Tommaso MR and Schweitzer SO (eds), Health Policy and High-Tech Industrial Development: Learning from Innovation in the Health Industry, Cheltenham England: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Incentives and climate toward commercialisation in universities
- Types of industry/university collaboration
- Government and university policies toward spin-off ventures
- Capital formation
- Direct foreign investment
- Venture capital
- Government support
- Private capital
- Government policies toward high-tech clusters - the role of industrial policy
- Important success stories - and lessons to be learned
- Useful stories of failures - and lessons to be learned
- Choosing the right industrial policy for the scientific and political setting
Submission deadline: 1 October, 2008
25 November 2007
Special issue: Agile organisations and supply chains: performance and strategy
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 2(4) 2007
- A new analytical framework of agile supply chain strategies
- Industry patterns of agility: a study of the role of Information Systems and Information Technology as an antecedent of strategic agility within European organisations
- Supply chain knowledge work: should we restructure the workforce for improved agility?
- mpact of innovative procurement on agility within the construction industry
- Do not lean too far – evidence from the first decade
- Need for real time Business Intelligence
Call for papers: Knowledge Management in the Project Work Context
Call for papers: Knowledge Management in the Project Work Context
A special issue of International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies
In many companies, knowledge management within and between projects is becoming a prerequisite to sustain a competitive advantage. This is especially the case in project-based firms. Many authors argue that without managing knowledge in projects, knowledge assets can be lost when the projects are completed. However, in many companies - and projects in general - activities such as knowledge acquisition and sharing are often very complex tasks. Therefore, this special issue is dedicated to deal with knowledge management in the project work context.
There is a growing need in companies and in the projects within them to move beyond solving problems at hand towards continuously improving knowledge and skills in the face of changing conditions and situations. However, while in functionally-based companies, departments act as knowledge silos, the pure project-based firms lack the organisational mechanisms for the knowledge acquired in one project to be transferred and used by other projects. Project-based firms, faced with the need to engage in sustained knowledge sharing practices, find themselves without the means to collaborate in the most efficient way.
Therefore reinforcing knowledge sharing is a vital part of the success of these companies. However, achieving this is often difficult, as many projects are interdisciplinary and face the problem of integrating cross-functional contributions and perspectives. Consequently, sharing knowledge across professional and organisational boundaries is vital for creating a situation and a circumstance in which effective project implementation can proceed. The basis of knowledge sharing lies in the promise to increase provision of better knowledge for project management.
Published research on knowledge management often focuses on large corporations, and it is by no means clear that what works for them is a good approach in a project work context. Therefore, this special issue calls for papers dealing with all aspects of knowledge management that are the most relevant in project practices. The suggestions to be dealt with in this issue are not intended to be prescriptive. They are simply intended to help people involved in project work understand how the theoretical principles translate into practicalities, to stimulate thought, and to provide a starting point for experiment and for developing systems which suit individual needs. All in all, this special issue welcomes both conceptual and empirical papers addressing knowledge management in varied project management environments.
We are interested in papers covering, but not limited to, the following areas:
150 word abstract by : 1 June, 2008
[Please indicate subject: 'Call for papers – Abstract'. All abstracts must be submitted as Microsoft documents, Times New Roman 12, single space. They must contain on the first page a title, authors’ names, postal addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and keywords.]
Notification of acceptance: 1 September, 2008
Full paper due : 1 December, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 March, 2009
Final version of the paper: 1 April, 2009
Due Date : 15 July 2007
A special issue of International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies
In many companies, knowledge management within and between projects is becoming a prerequisite to sustain a competitive advantage. This is especially the case in project-based firms. Many authors argue that without managing knowledge in projects, knowledge assets can be lost when the projects are completed. However, in many companies - and projects in general - activities such as knowledge acquisition and sharing are often very complex tasks. Therefore, this special issue is dedicated to deal with knowledge management in the project work context.
There is a growing need in companies and in the projects within them to move beyond solving problems at hand towards continuously improving knowledge and skills in the face of changing conditions and situations. However, while in functionally-based companies, departments act as knowledge silos, the pure project-based firms lack the organisational mechanisms for the knowledge acquired in one project to be transferred and used by other projects. Project-based firms, faced with the need to engage in sustained knowledge sharing practices, find themselves without the means to collaborate in the most efficient way.
Therefore reinforcing knowledge sharing is a vital part of the success of these companies. However, achieving this is often difficult, as many projects are interdisciplinary and face the problem of integrating cross-functional contributions and perspectives. Consequently, sharing knowledge across professional and organisational boundaries is vital for creating a situation and a circumstance in which effective project implementation can proceed. The basis of knowledge sharing lies in the promise to increase provision of better knowledge for project management.
Published research on knowledge management often focuses on large corporations, and it is by no means clear that what works for them is a good approach in a project work context. Therefore, this special issue calls for papers dealing with all aspects of knowledge management that are the most relevant in project practices. The suggestions to be dealt with in this issue are not intended to be prescriptive. They are simply intended to help people involved in project work understand how the theoretical principles translate into practicalities, to stimulate thought, and to provide a starting point for experiment and for developing systems which suit individual needs. All in all, this special issue welcomes both conceptual and empirical papers addressing knowledge management in varied project management environments.
We are interested in papers covering, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Knowledge management as a part of project management
- Different knowledge related project work environments
- How individual team members' learning translates into project teams' and companies' learning
- Knowledge sharing within and between projects
- Facilitating organisational learning within a project-based company
- Organisational memory in a project work context
- Community of practice perspective in a project work context
- HRM strategies for promoting knowledge sharing within project-based companies
- Proximity as a factor affecting knowledge sharing in a project work context
- Boundary brokering between professional domains
- Management of trusting relationships in a project work context
- Project culture as a factor affecting knowledge management in a project work context
- Epistemological considerations in a project work context
150 word abstract by : 1 June, 2008
[Please indicate subject: 'Call for papers – Abstract'. All abstracts must be submitted as Microsoft documents, Times New Roman 12, single space. They must contain on the first page a title, authors’ names, postal addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and keywords.]
Notification of acceptance: 1 September, 2008
Full paper due : 1 December, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 March, 2009
Final version of the paper: 1 April, 2009
Due Date : 15 July 2007
23 November 2007
Call for papers: Intelligent Clusters, Communities and Cities: Enhancing Innovation with Embedded Systems and Virtual Environments
Call for papers: Intelligent Clusters, Communities and Cities: Enhancing Innovation with Embedded Systems and Virtual Environments
A special issue of International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
Intelligent clusters, communities and cities belong to a new orientation of urban and regional planning targeting on the creation of environments that improve the cognitive and learning skills of the population, and the research and innovation capabilities of the organisations located into a city.
An intelligent city is a territory in which the local system of innovation is enhanced by embedded systems, digital spaces, and IT tools. Digital interactions, devices, and information systems sustain a series of the urban functions related to knowledge creation, transfer, application, and dissemination. The city gains innovation capability, which is then translated into increased competitiveness, better environment, more jobs and wealth.
Out of the meeting of innovation and digital space, the two fundamental dimensions of intelligent clusters and cities are defined:
With respect to these dimensions, two planning paradigms have also appeared in the making of intelligent cities: cybercities vs. intelligent communities. Their major difference is on the weightings they attach to the two aforementioned components of intelligent cities (innovation system/collaborative digital spaces). Cybercities consider that the main challenge for intelligent cities lies in the level of the digital networking, human-machine communication, sensors, intelligent agents, and other technologies for automation in information collection, processing, and dissemination embedded into the city infrastructures. Intelligent communities, on the other hand, consider intelligent cities to be a combination of human innovativeness, collective intelligence, and digital interaction; and the challenges of their making are at the integration of innovation capabilities, institutional cooperation for innovation, and digital spaces facilitating this cooperation.
Within this framework of development and planning trends, this special issue will offer an opportunity for international researchers to present original work on various subjects related to the social, institutional, and technological aspects of ICT assisted innovation systems.
Papers should address research questions in the field, including but not limited to the following topics:
Manuscript due: 30 April 2008
Acceptance notification: 30 June 2008
Final manuscript due: 30 September 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
Intelligent clusters, communities and cities belong to a new orientation of urban and regional planning targeting on the creation of environments that improve the cognitive and learning skills of the population, and the research and innovation capabilities of the organisations located into a city.
An intelligent city is a territory in which the local system of innovation is enhanced by embedded systems, digital spaces, and IT tools. Digital interactions, devices, and information systems sustain a series of the urban functions related to knowledge creation, transfer, application, and dissemination. The city gains innovation capability, which is then translated into increased competitiveness, better environment, more jobs and wealth.
Out of the meeting of innovation and digital space, the two fundamental dimensions of intelligent clusters and cities are defined:
- On the one hand, the system of innovation (local, regional, sectoral, global) within which a mix of skills and learning institutions takes place, driving the development of new products and technologies in the organisations located into the respective territory (companies, R&D centers, intermediaries, incubators, etc.), and
- On the other hand, the digital reconstruction of the city based on collaborative digital spaces of knowledge management, innovation, and e-governance. These applications facilitate communication, data storage and retrieval, knowledge transfer, cooperative product development, and product promotion, enhancing localised innovation capabilities and opening windows to global markets and transactions.
With respect to these dimensions, two planning paradigms have also appeared in the making of intelligent cities: cybercities vs. intelligent communities. Their major difference is on the weightings they attach to the two aforementioned components of intelligent cities (innovation system/collaborative digital spaces). Cybercities consider that the main challenge for intelligent cities lies in the level of the digital networking, human-machine communication, sensors, intelligent agents, and other technologies for automation in information collection, processing, and dissemination embedded into the city infrastructures. Intelligent communities, on the other hand, consider intelligent cities to be a combination of human innovativeness, collective intelligence, and digital interaction; and the challenges of their making are at the integration of innovation capabilities, institutional cooperation for innovation, and digital spaces facilitating this cooperation.
Within this framework of development and planning trends, this special issue will offer an opportunity for international researchers to present original work on various subjects related to the social, institutional, and technological aspects of ICT assisted innovation systems.
Papers should address research questions in the field, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Review papers on the state-of-the-art in intelligent cities research
- Case studies on communities, clusters and cities having designated as intelligent
- Strategies for intelligent cities creation
- Social and institutional aspects of intelligent territories, including studies and research on intellectual capital and creative cities
- Analysis of territorial systems of innovation functioning on physical, institutional, and virtual spaces
- Analysis of metrics and measurement systems of intelligent cities
- Architectures, components, information systems, and services for intelligent cities
- Collaborative digital spaces linked to urban development, urban functions and life
- Web-based intelligence, innovation, and technology transfer
- Web applications at the local and city levels on e-learning, e-business, and e-government
- Digital platforms and applications facilitating the design and development of intelligent cities
Manuscript due: 30 April 2008
Acceptance notification: 30 June 2008
Final manuscript due: 30 September 2008
20 November 2007
Special issue: Trombay Symposium on Desalination and Water Reuse: TSDWR 2007
International Journal of Nuclear Desalination 2(4) 2007
- The potential for desalination in India
- Floating nuclear power plants
- Climate change: a critical challenge for the water sector
- Seawater desalination utilising waste heat by low-temperature evaporation
- Mechanical vapour compression desalination plant at Trombay
- Solar desalination
- Alternative energy sources for seawater desalination
- Experimental studies on a desalination plant using ocean temperature difference
- Spray flash evaporator for low-temperature saline water desalination application
19 November 2007
Special issue: e-Business and manufacturing performance: impacts and relationships
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 2(3) 2007
- Modelling e-business processes: a component-based simulation approach
- The sequential effects of e-business activity on business performance: a study of manufacturing organisations
- Impacts of Radio Frequency Identification technology on logistics performance in agile supply chain
- Radio Frequency Identification: an enabler of agile supply chain decision-making
- Using electronic Customer Relationship Management to improve manufacturing processes
16 November 2007
Call for papers: Developing Themes in Mobile Learning
Call for papers: Developing Themes in Mobile Learning
A special issue of International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
Rapid developments in mobile communication services provide new technical and customer (educators and learners) opportunities to experience novel learning activities. For instance, third generation (3G) handsets allow users of 3G services to view video content, including live streaming. Mobile TV phones have recently found great success in some gadget-loving countries (e.g., Korea and Japan), an opportunity, it seems, for the deployment of multimedia-based learning environments on mobile phones. Current mobile technologies hold out the promise of unlimited access to educational resources, amalgamating currently separated learning activities into one with an integrated technical platform. However, the editors personally believe that these promises are far away from being fulfilled in practice, which leads us to think that current m-learning experiences available thus far seem neither usable nor useful, nor markedly different from the traditional learning activities.
We believe that simply being driven by technical initiatives, with a narrow focus on the quality of mobile technologies themselves, does not capture the potential variety and emergent aspects of mobile learning activities. Practitioners as well as researchers should instead embrace the notion of learning experiences, for a better understanding of the important values that mobile learning can provide. Although this ‘experience’ or ‘learning theme’ has been widely used, there are still few available empirical, exploratory or large-scale success cases.
The objective of this special issue is to collect a series of original, high quality, empirical papers on various aspects of new learning experiences with mobile devices. We encourage submissions of both quantitative and qualitative research addressing or critically examining the link between aspects of interactive mobile learning services, use situations and resulting experiences.
This special issue aims at presenting a selection of papers addressing the topics indicated above, but is not limited to them. Work on the following topics is also equally welcome.
Full paper deadline: 30 April, 2008
Notification of acceptance and Review results: 30 June, 2008
Revised submission deadline: 15 August, 2008
Camera-ready version deadline: 1 October, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
Rapid developments in mobile communication services provide new technical and customer (educators and learners) opportunities to experience novel learning activities. For instance, third generation (3G) handsets allow users of 3G services to view video content, including live streaming. Mobile TV phones have recently found great success in some gadget-loving countries (e.g., Korea and Japan), an opportunity, it seems, for the deployment of multimedia-based learning environments on mobile phones. Current mobile technologies hold out the promise of unlimited access to educational resources, amalgamating currently separated learning activities into one with an integrated technical platform. However, the editors personally believe that these promises are far away from being fulfilled in practice, which leads us to think that current m-learning experiences available thus far seem neither usable nor useful, nor markedly different from the traditional learning activities.
We believe that simply being driven by technical initiatives, with a narrow focus on the quality of mobile technologies themselves, does not capture the potential variety and emergent aspects of mobile learning activities. Practitioners as well as researchers should instead embrace the notion of learning experiences, for a better understanding of the important values that mobile learning can provide. Although this ‘experience’ or ‘learning theme’ has been widely used, there are still few available empirical, exploratory or large-scale success cases.
The objective of this special issue is to collect a series of original, high quality, empirical papers on various aspects of new learning experiences with mobile devices. We encourage submissions of both quantitative and qualitative research addressing or critically examining the link between aspects of interactive mobile learning services, use situations and resulting experiences.
This special issue aims at presenting a selection of papers addressing the topics indicated above, but is not limited to them. Work on the following topics is also equally welcome.
- Experiences on new mobile learning activities and themes
- Empirical studies of mobile learning implementation or deployment
- Enriched themes of mobile learning experiences
- Transformation of traditional learning experiences into mobile learning
- Learner needs beyond classroom learning activities; social, collaborative, challenge and so forth.
- Effects of m-learning applications on traditional learning environments: blended with e-learning systems
Full paper deadline: 30 April, 2008
Notification of acceptance and Review results: 30 June, 2008
Revised submission deadline: 15 August, 2008
Camera-ready version deadline: 1 October, 2008
Special issue: Rapid product development, tooling and agile manufacturing
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 2(2) 2007
- Trends in agility for rapid product development and manufacturing – a review
- A case study of flexible tooling solutions for a small healthcare company
- Chip form strategy for tool wear prediction solution
- White layer formation and tool wear in high speed milling of 57HRc tool steel using coated and uncoated tools
- Development of a tool life prediction model for plaster machining
- Six Sigma approach for build-time estimation of Selective Laser Sintering
- Critical notes and considerations on the use of ISO 286-1 for CAD modelling and rapid product development
- Integrating Computational Fluid Dynamic and prototyping technologies in the investigation of multi-element profiles for a high-lift variable pitch vertical-axis tidal power generator
15 November 2007
Call for papers: Mobility: Adding Flexibility to Web-based Communities
Call for papers: Mobility: Adding Flexibility to Web-based Communities
A special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities
The development of more mobile and more flexible learning communities is being supported by developments in hardware (e.g., smart phones, smaller more powerful notebook computers and a variety of wireless communication options) and software (e.g., the rise of the semantic web tools). Increasingly, communities are being characterised by:
Important Date
Deadline for paper submission: 15 March, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities
The development of more mobile and more flexible learning communities is being supported by developments in hardware (e.g., smart phones, smaller more powerful notebook computers and a variety of wireless communication options) and software (e.g., the rise of the semantic web tools). Increasingly, communities are being characterised by:
- diversity of access to content and modes of communication
- more opportunities to store, share and disseminate information, and
- convergence of wired and wireless technologies that support more diverse community interactions.
- To what extent are mobile technologies impacting upon communities of educational practice?
- Can mobile technologies simultaneously support flexibility and improved learning outcomes?
- Who are the best users and creators of content in a mobile environment: the instructor or the student?
- What is the contribution of the student experience of mobile learning to the current institutional models for curriculum design and implementation?
- What impact are web 2.0 technologies having on improving and/or changing community engagement and interaction?
- Are there specific cultural issues in the use of mobile devices for web-based communities?
- How are web-based communities evolving to support greater flexibility of engagement and interaction?
- How is the integration of wired and wireless environments impacting on, or supporting, web-based communities?
Important Date
Deadline for paper submission: 15 March, 2008
Call for papers: Particulate Air Pollution in Urban Environments
Call for papers: Particulate Air Pollution in Urban Environments
A special issue of International Journal of Environment and Pollution
Particulates represent a major threat to human and environmental health of all air pollutants, especially in urban areas. There is still much to learn about sources and quantities of particulate emissions, in particular those emitted by gross emitters such as domestic heating, industry and transportation. Monitoring particulates continues to be fraught with problems, including the metrics that are used, such as particle number, mass and surface area. Particle size distribution (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) is also an issue, particularly with regard to expected health impacts.
New monitoring methods are being developed, including fixed monitors, mobile samplers, remote sensing and satellite techniques. There is also uncertainty over possible detrimental health effects of particulates of natural (e.g. sea salt, pollen, soil) versus anthropogenic (e.g. milk powder, bulk storage, coal, cement, fertilisers, mining) origin, and there is a lack of knowledge of the effects of secondary particulates in contributing to both measured concentrations and their health impact. The purpose of this special issue is to publish the latest results of research into any aspect of particulate air pollution in urban environments.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
Deadline for manuscript submission: 31 March, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Environment and Pollution
Particulates represent a major threat to human and environmental health of all air pollutants, especially in urban areas. There is still much to learn about sources and quantities of particulate emissions, in particular those emitted by gross emitters such as domestic heating, industry and transportation. Monitoring particulates continues to be fraught with problems, including the metrics that are used, such as particle number, mass and surface area. Particle size distribution (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) is also an issue, particularly with regard to expected health impacts.
New monitoring methods are being developed, including fixed monitors, mobile samplers, remote sensing and satellite techniques. There is also uncertainty over possible detrimental health effects of particulates of natural (e.g. sea salt, pollen, soil) versus anthropogenic (e.g. milk powder, bulk storage, coal, cement, fertilisers, mining) origin, and there is a lack of knowledge of the effects of secondary particulates in contributing to both measured concentrations and their health impact. The purpose of this special issue is to publish the latest results of research into any aspect of particulate air pollution in urban environments.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Source characteristics of particulate air pollution
- Monitoring methods for particulate air pollution
- Exposure assessment and health effects
- Toxicology of particulate air pollution
- Health effects of particulates of natural versus anthropogenic origin
- Secondary particulates
- Dispersion modelling of particulate air pollution
- Chemical modelling of particulate air pollution
Deadline for manuscript submission: 31 March, 2008
Special issue: Network protocols and applications
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 5(1/2) 2007
Papers from IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking (AINA-2005), held in Tamkang University, Taiwan, 28 to 30 March 2005.
Papers from IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking (AINA-2005), held in Tamkang University, Taiwan, 28 to 30 March 2005.
- Adaptive multi-level explicit congestion notification
- Zone-based congestion detection and control using routing method on the internet
- CCReSD: concept-based categorisation of Hidden Web databases
- A proposal of multi-agent system development framework for cooperative problem solving and its experimental evaluation
- Modified user-dependent perfect-scheduling multiple access protocol for WLAN
- Secure broadcast for inter vehicle communications
- Scalable multimedia streaming model in heterogeneous networks
- Concurrency control based on role concept
- A dual pyramid watermarking for JPEG-2000
- A unified multiple-level cache for high performance storage systems
- Error recovery mechanism for grid-based workflow within SLA context
12 November 2007
Special issue: Building reliable networked applications. Part II
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 3(2) 2007
Further papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS) held on 28–30 March, 2005 at the University of Aizu, Japan.
(Other papers were published in International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2(5/6) 2006)
Further papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS) held on 28–30 March, 2005 at the University of Aizu, Japan.
(Other papers were published in International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2(5/6) 2006)
- Networked database builder and data-mining engine for electronic journal papers
- Development of a data mining application for huge scale earth environmental data archives
- Automation systems for generating web-based mathematical learning and presentation materials
- Exploring website log data with coordinated dimension hierarchies and network pivots
- GridFS: highly scalable I/O solution for clusters and computational grids
- Predictive business operations management
- Computational interface for web-based access to dynamic contents
- Integration of virtual reality and database systems for cultural heritage dissemination
- From MultiMedia to UniversalMedia
- The multimedia semantic web
- Storing and retrieving multimedia web notes
- A searching method based on problem description and algorithmic features
11 November 2007
Call for papers: Grinding Wheel Technology
Call for papers: Grinding Wheel Technology
A special issue of International Journal of Abrasive Technology
In the past ten years, advances have been made in the development of grinding wheels for removing difficult-to-machine materials used in the aerospace, automotive, electronic, semiconductor processing, and tooling industries. Recent developments in grinding wheel technology in recent years include the development of laser dressable grinding wheels, high efficiency deep grinding wheels, creep feed grinding wheels for grinding automotive materials, very high speed grinding wheels, micro and nanogrinding wheels and tools, high porosity grinding wheels, coated grinding wheels, abrasive grain engineering, controlled stress grinding wheels and adaptive grinding wheels.
Therefore, the goal of this special issue is to publish the current state-of-the-art in grinding wheel technology and to provide a forum for developing the future requirements of grinding wheels and tools.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, topics that address:
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 31 May, 2008
Communication of peer review to authors: 31 August 2008
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 30 November 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Abrasive Technology
In the past ten years, advances have been made in the development of grinding wheels for removing difficult-to-machine materials used in the aerospace, automotive, electronic, semiconductor processing, and tooling industries. Recent developments in grinding wheel technology in recent years include the development of laser dressable grinding wheels, high efficiency deep grinding wheels, creep feed grinding wheels for grinding automotive materials, very high speed grinding wheels, micro and nanogrinding wheels and tools, high porosity grinding wheels, coated grinding wheels, abrasive grain engineering, controlled stress grinding wheels and adaptive grinding wheels.
Therefore, the goal of this special issue is to publish the current state-of-the-art in grinding wheel technology and to provide a forum for developing the future requirements of grinding wheels and tools.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, topics that address:
- Fundamental research and developments on grinding wheels and their materials
- Applied research and developments on grinding wheels
- Applications of fundamental and applied research on grinding wheels in the aerospace, automotive, electronic, micro and nanoengineering, and tooling industries
- Emerging fields of micro and nanogrinding wheels and tools
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 31 May, 2008
Communication of peer review to authors: 31 August 2008
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 30 November 2008
Special issue: Virtual prototyping
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology 30(3) 2007
Papers presented during the Second International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping, held on 28 September to 1 October 2005 at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal.
Papers presented during the Second International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping, held on 28 September to 1 October 2005 at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal.
- Object contours in virtual conceptual sketches – modelling of perception
- A 6-DOF haptic interface and its applications in CAD
- Virtual customisation of product physical properties: a case of real time product stiffness customisation
- Virtual and rapid prototyping for rapid die-casting development
- Orbit model from scanning data with anthropometric parameters
- Innovative design approaches for tooling performance improvement in the packaging industry
- A multi-platform, multi-language environment for process modelling, simulation and optimisation
- Collaborative design and manufacturing process planning in tooling industry
Special issue: Computer-aided innovation
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology 30(1/2) 2007
- Fostering innovation in practice through TRIZ-based CAI tools
- Formal innovation criteria
- Development of an empirical-based categorisation scheme for CAI software
- Fan-shape optimisation using CFD and genetic algorithms for increasing the efficiency of electric motors
- Automatic shape and topology variations in 3D CAD environments for genetic optimisation
- Generative design supported by evolutionary computing approach
- A design language for generic space-frame structure design
- A framework for OTSM–TRIZ-based computer support to be used in complex problem management
- A model for problem representation at various generic levels to assist inventive design
- A substance-field ontology to support the TRIZ thinking approach
- Parameter network as a means for driving problem solving process
- Development of an auto-painting technology for dental burs
- Computer simulation of a 3D free-form surface normal machining by 4SPS + RPS and 5SPS/UPU parallel machine tools
Special issue: Social networking and knowledge flows in organisations
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations 4(4) 2007
* Keynote paper: Enhancing organisational metacognition – flow visualisation to make the knowledge network explicit
* The development, distribution and maintenance of trust in distributed work groups: a social network approach
* The application of social network analysis to identify trust-based networks in construction
* Networks on the ground: rural development in Kenya
* The impact of board interlocks on the diffusion of enterprise resource planning systems
* Network awareness: social network search, innovation and productivity in organisations
* A social network perspective on virtual organisations: social structure as enabler and barrier
* CAS-based social network analysis for collaborative management in the green supply chain network system
* Innovation team networks: the centrality of innovativeness and efficiency
* Keynote paper: Enhancing organisational metacognition – flow visualisation to make the knowledge network explicit
* The development, distribution and maintenance of trust in distributed work groups: a social network approach
* The application of social network analysis to identify trust-based networks in construction
* Networks on the ground: rural development in Kenya
* The impact of board interlocks on the diffusion of enterprise resource planning systems
* Network awareness: social network search, innovation and productivity in organisations
* A social network perspective on virtual organisations: social structure as enabler and barrier
* CAS-based social network analysis for collaborative management in the green supply chain network system
* Innovation team networks: the centrality of innovativeness and efficiency
9 November 2007
Call for papers: Behavioural Accounting
Call for papers: Behavioural Accounting
A special issue of International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance
Behavioural accounting is concerned with testing the effects of human psychological behaviour on strategic planning, budgeting, control, financial reporting, and decision-making in organisations. For example, a budget (and hence control and performance evaluation systems) has behavioural implications on everyone in an organisation: those who participate in preparing it, those who use it to assist in the decision-making process, and those who are evaluated using the budget. In addition, the quality of corporate financial reporting, particularly the quality of publicly reported earnings numbers, is influenced by the behaviour of managers who intentionally try to manipulate earnings for their own benefits, and in order to influences investors’ psychological behaviours, which can also be affected by analysts’ self-interests. Auditor’s independence can also be weakened by auditors’ self-interests and over-confidence, and so as managers.
The aim of this special issue is to publish high quality, innovative theoretical and empirical papers that promote the understanding of behavioural corporate accounting, in order to provide a platform for future research agenda.
The issue welcomes theoretical or empirical papers that explore managers, auditors, and regulators regarding corporate earnings quality. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Papers should be submitted by: 31 December, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance
Behavioural accounting is concerned with testing the effects of human psychological behaviour on strategic planning, budgeting, control, financial reporting, and decision-making in organisations. For example, a budget (and hence control and performance evaluation systems) has behavioural implications on everyone in an organisation: those who participate in preparing it, those who use it to assist in the decision-making process, and those who are evaluated using the budget. In addition, the quality of corporate financial reporting, particularly the quality of publicly reported earnings numbers, is influenced by the behaviour of managers who intentionally try to manipulate earnings for their own benefits, and in order to influences investors’ psychological behaviours, which can also be affected by analysts’ self-interests. Auditor’s independence can also be weakened by auditors’ self-interests and over-confidence, and so as managers.
The aim of this special issue is to publish high quality, innovative theoretical and empirical papers that promote the understanding of behavioural corporate accounting, in order to provide a platform for future research agenda.
The issue welcomes theoretical or empirical papers that explore managers, auditors, and regulators regarding corporate earnings quality. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- The effects of human behaviour and psychology on the quality of corporate financial reporting
- The effects of human behaviour and psychology on internal decision-making, internal control, performance evaluation, customer satisfaction, total quality management, and companies' performance
- The effects of human behaviour and psychology on investment decision-making
- The behaviour implications of budget
- The behavioural implications of activity-based costing
- Audit quality and over-confidence
- Internal control system and earnings quality
- Restructuring costs and earnings quality
- Corporate governance and earnings quality
- Merger and acquisition and earnings quality
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act and earnings management
- The effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the decision of managers to cross-list in the US
- Analysts' earnings forecasts and earnings management/quality
- Audit quality/auditor's independence and earnings management
- The effect of IFRS introduction on earnings management of EU companies
- The market reaction to the introduction of IFRS in Europe
- International cross-listing and corporate disclosure
- The quality of the internet corporate reporting, and investors' reaction to it
Papers should be submitted by: 31 December, 2008
Call for papers: Achieving Excellence through Quality and Productivity Improvement
Call for papers: Achieving Excellence through Quality and Productivity Improvement
A special issue of International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
In a fiercely competitive market situation in a globalised economy, organisations, irrespective of their types and product profiles, should stay competitive and improve their market positions continuously. Efforts to improve quality are crucial in attaining these goals. Through improved process control and efficient resource utilisation, an organisation may be able to minimise its cost of production and services significantly. As quality improves, the competitive position of an organisation improves with better customer satisfaction, increased profitability, and all aspects of organisational performance, such as innovation, productivity, effectiveness and quality of work life.
Over the years, a number of tools, techniques, approaches, and methodologies have been proposed and applied by researchers and practitioners in all types of organisations in order to address the quality and productivity issues. With organisations becoming complex, applications of all these tools and approaches may require a constant effort to upgrade them, in content and structure, to address the current industrial problems related to quality and productivity with primary objective of enhanced organisational performance.
In this special issue, research papers will be included in the areas of design and development of appropriate approaches for organisational performance measurement and improvement, as well as specific cases highlighting their application at different levels of organisation and industry sector.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Manuscript submission: 29 February, 2008
Notification of editorial decision: 31 May, 2008
Submission of final manuscript: 15 August, 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
In a fiercely competitive market situation in a globalised economy, organisations, irrespective of their types and product profiles, should stay competitive and improve their market positions continuously. Efforts to improve quality are crucial in attaining these goals. Through improved process control and efficient resource utilisation, an organisation may be able to minimise its cost of production and services significantly. As quality improves, the competitive position of an organisation improves with better customer satisfaction, increased profitability, and all aspects of organisational performance, such as innovation, productivity, effectiveness and quality of work life.
Over the years, a number of tools, techniques, approaches, and methodologies have been proposed and applied by researchers and practitioners in all types of organisations in order to address the quality and productivity issues. With organisations becoming complex, applications of all these tools and approaches may require a constant effort to upgrade them, in content and structure, to address the current industrial problems related to quality and productivity with primary objective of enhanced organisational performance.
In this special issue, research papers will be included in the areas of design and development of appropriate approaches for organisational performance measurement and improvement, as well as specific cases highlighting their application at different levels of organisation and industry sector.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Design and implementation of cellular manufacturing
- Lean and JIT applications in production and service
- Quality engineering/Taguchi methods in productivity improvement
- Reliability estimation and prediction
- Advances in process control and optimisation
- Performance improvement through flexible manufacturing systems
- TQM issues and applications
- Quality control and improvement in the service industry
- Human productivity improvement
- Risk assessment and safety issues in organisations
- Industry-wide survey/cases
Manuscript submission: 29 February, 2008
Notification of editorial decision: 31 May, 2008
Submission of final manuscript: 15 August, 2008
8 November 2007
Special issue: Ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry and food safety
International Journal of Environment and Pollution 31(1/2) 2007
* The 'whole-effluent' toxicity approach
* Daphnia magna wastewater toxicity assays: an interlaboratory study
* Degradation of abamectin and doramectin in sheep faeces under different experimental conditions
* A 25-year long monitoring of lead content in the blood of cows from a stationary polluted area
* Nucleoplasmatic index in meristematic cells of maize (Zea mays L.) as a tool in environmental bioindication
* Morphologic and morphometric analysis of adrenal gland cortex of sheep grazing on pastures with the ground of electrofilter ash
* Detection of Clostridium botulinum type C in an aquatic area a year after an outbreak of botulism in waterfowl using conventional and molecular methods
* Detection of Bacillus anthracis spores in postal and environmental samples in cases of suspected bioterrorism
* Efficacy and benefits of prevention of coccidiosis in broilers by vaccination in comparison to anticoccidial drug program
* Detection of antibodies against Borrelia afzelii spirochete in stallions from Kocevje region
* Use of qualitative constraints in modelling of the Lake Glumso
* Adsorption of copper (II) ions to peanut hulls and Pinus brutia sawdust
* A case of enzyme immunoassay validation for the determination of clenbuterol residues in bovine urine
* Residues of organophosphorus pesticides in different food commodities in Slovenia, 1997–1998
* Residues of certain veterinary drugs in raw milk in Slovenia in the 2000–2002 period
* Use of quick diagnostic methods in milking
* Evaluation of the hazardous waste landfill cap system design and clay layer thickness criteria of the Turkish Regulation on the Control of Hazardous Waste (RCHW) using the Hydrological Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model
* Pollution reduction from flares by swirl vanes in a cross-flow
* Use of hybrid reactor in treating cellulose wastewater
* Heavy metal levels in tap water in Batina Region, Oman
* Evaluation of the optimum efficiency of fire tubes boilers
* The 'whole-effluent' toxicity approach
* Daphnia magna wastewater toxicity assays: an interlaboratory study
* Degradation of abamectin and doramectin in sheep faeces under different experimental conditions
* A 25-year long monitoring of lead content in the blood of cows from a stationary polluted area
* Nucleoplasmatic index in meristematic cells of maize (Zea mays L.) as a tool in environmental bioindication
* Morphologic and morphometric analysis of adrenal gland cortex of sheep grazing on pastures with the ground of electrofilter ash
* Detection of Clostridium botulinum type C in an aquatic area a year after an outbreak of botulism in waterfowl using conventional and molecular methods
* Detection of Bacillus anthracis spores in postal and environmental samples in cases of suspected bioterrorism
* Efficacy and benefits of prevention of coccidiosis in broilers by vaccination in comparison to anticoccidial drug program
* Detection of antibodies against Borrelia afzelii spirochete in stallions from Kocevje region
* Use of qualitative constraints in modelling of the Lake Glumso
* Adsorption of copper (II) ions to peanut hulls and Pinus brutia sawdust
* A case of enzyme immunoassay validation for the determination of clenbuterol residues in bovine urine
* Residues of organophosphorus pesticides in different food commodities in Slovenia, 1997–1998
* Residues of certain veterinary drugs in raw milk in Slovenia in the 2000–2002 period
* Use of quick diagnostic methods in milking
* Evaluation of the hazardous waste landfill cap system design and clay layer thickness criteria of the Turkish Regulation on the Control of Hazardous Waste (RCHW) using the Hydrological Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model
* Pollution reduction from flares by swirl vanes in a cross-flow
* Use of hybrid reactor in treating cellulose wastewater
* Heavy metal levels in tap water in Batina Region, Oman
* Evaluation of the optimum efficiency of fire tubes boilers
7 November 2007
Call for papers: Recent Advances in Machining Science and Technology
Call for papers: Recent Advances in Machining Science and Technology
A special issue of International Journal of Materials and Product Technology
Today, machining is one of the most important manufacturing processes. Parts manufactured by other processes often require further operations before the product is ready for application. Machining processes can be applied to work metallic and non-metallic materials such as polymers, wood, ceramics, composites and special materials.
M. E. Merchant has written: “Today in industrialized countries, the cost of machining amounts to more than 15% of the value of all manufactured products in those countries”. For this reason, machining as part of manufacturing science and technology is very important for modern manufacturing industries.
This special issue invites the submission of high quality research papers related to experimental and computational topics on machining (turning, milling, drilling, grinding, high speed machining, advanced machining processes, etc).
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:
Deadline for submission: 30 June 2008
A special issue of International Journal of Materials and Product Technology
Today, machining is one of the most important manufacturing processes. Parts manufactured by other processes often require further operations before the product is ready for application. Machining processes can be applied to work metallic and non-metallic materials such as polymers, wood, ceramics, composites and special materials.
M. E. Merchant has written: “Today in industrialized countries, the cost of machining amounts to more than 15% of the value of all manufactured products in those countries”. For this reason, machining as part of manufacturing science and technology is very important for modern manufacturing industries.
This special issue invites the submission of high quality research papers related to experimental and computational topics on machining (turning, milling, drilling, grinding, high speed machining, advanced machining processes, etc).
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:
- FEM machining simulation
- Micromachining/precision machining
- High speed machining (HSM)
- Computer aided manufacturing (CAM)
- Ecological machining (MQL - minimal quantity lubrication)
- Machining of hard materials
- Machining of metal matrix composites (MMCs)
- Drilling polymeric matrix composites (PMCs)
- Machining of wood and MDF
- Brasses and copper alloy turning
Deadline for submission: 30 June 2008
International Journal of Nanotechnology increases issues for 2008
International Journal of Nanotechnology has announced an increase in issues to 12 in 2008. This highly successful journal, included in Science Citation Index and elsewhere, will continue its coverage of nanotechnology in various countries by including within these issues papers about nanotechnology in Australia, France and Canada. Previous issues have covered Spain, Ukraine, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia and Brazil.
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