- The use of blogs as organisational learning tools within project-based environments
- Sub-cultures as leverage for organisational learning and lean thinking
- From bureaucratic forms towards team-based knowledge work systems: implications for human resource management
- Seeking the robust core of organisational learning theory
- Organisational learning at the public-private sector interface
- Determining the impact of organisational culture on organisational learning
- The nature of a schematic description of a socially constructed organisational competency model (CCM)
- Technical note: Learning based product and service development
19 November 2009
Special issue: Organisational learning
International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise 1(2) 2009
18 November 2009
Call for papers: Challenging Research Issues in Logistics Management
A special issue of International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation
Companies today face numerous transportation challenges, including rising fuel costs, new regulatory mandates and global operations with higher levels of lead time variability. Customers have increasing demands for transportation performance, higher on-time delivery performance and reduced damage-in-transit. They expect transportation providers to be flexible and quickly adapt to order changes. Add to all of this an increased need for global freight visibility and control, and companies are scrambling to find the right solution to quickly address these challenges. Transportation and logistics management accomplishes this by supporting processes including carrier contract negotiations, transportation network modelling, shipment order handling, freight planning, order execution and monitoring, and freight financial settlement.
Logistics is the system of managing and regulating the movement of goods, services, information and other resources from supplier to final user. The main objective of logistics is to co-ordinate these activities in a way that meets customer requirements at minimum cost. It involves the integration of information, transportation, warehousing, inventory, material handling and packaging. The field of logistics has now come to be considered as an immensely complicated responsibility. It is a normal part of the progress in the study of any business discipline for research simultaneously to become more rigorous and more applicable to practitioners, hence the decision to publish a special issue devoted to the topic.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Manuscript submission: 20 January 2010
Notification of initial decision: 20 March 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 20 May 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 20 July 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 20 October 2010
Companies today face numerous transportation challenges, including rising fuel costs, new regulatory mandates and global operations with higher levels of lead time variability. Customers have increasing demands for transportation performance, higher on-time delivery performance and reduced damage-in-transit. They expect transportation providers to be flexible and quickly adapt to order changes. Add to all of this an increased need for global freight visibility and control, and companies are scrambling to find the right solution to quickly address these challenges. Transportation and logistics management accomplishes this by supporting processes including carrier contract negotiations, transportation network modelling, shipment order handling, freight planning, order execution and monitoring, and freight financial settlement.
Logistics is the system of managing and regulating the movement of goods, services, information and other resources from supplier to final user. The main objective of logistics is to co-ordinate these activities in a way that meets customer requirements at minimum cost. It involves the integration of information, transportation, warehousing, inventory, material handling and packaging. The field of logistics has now come to be considered as an immensely complicated responsibility. It is a normal part of the progress in the study of any business discipline for research simultaneously to become more rigorous and more applicable to practitioners, hence the decision to publish a special issue devoted to the topic.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Distribution and transport management
- Warehouse management and warehouse control systems
- Business and production logistics
- Third-party logistics (3PL), fourth-party logistics (4PL)
- Green/sustainable logistics
- Inventory Management
- Modelling and simulation of logistics and supply chain network
- Role of information technology in logistics (internet, RFID etc.)
- Supply chain performance management
- Reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain management
- Global logistics operations
- Buyer-supplier relationships in logistics
- Vehicle routing
- Research methodologies
- Case studies
Manuscript submission: 20 January 2010
Notification of initial decision: 20 March 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 20 May 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 20 July 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 20 October 2010
Call for papers: Application of Multivariate Techniques in Decision Making Models for Customer Service in Supply Chain
A special issue of International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management
Customer service is widely understood as an important profit generating mechanism for a successful organisation. In the early days, customer service was viewed as a vision behind corporate success. The visionary concept has evolved to be seen as a day-to-day process towards market success. A process view has taken center-stage and treats customer service as an outcome from wide-spectrum of activities. The approach also assumes customer service as a package of diverse service elements. The majority of practitioners and educationists believe that most of the service elements are unexplored. The passage of time has brought several important customer service elements to the light. A few service elements such as quality at source and on-time delivery are focused in academic and industry circles. The remaining service elements such as customer support, after-sales services, lead time, environmental concerns, condition of goods/services, quantity of goods/services, and value added services are left unscathed and overlooked despite their importance.
Recent studies underscore customer service from logistics perspective. Improving customer service is an ongoing focus of the logistics community. Logistics is understood as market winner in the industry. The term ‘logistics’ denote the systematic and planned movement of organisational resources to attain competitive advantage. Organisational resources include men, material and information that satisfy customers. Organisations mobilise these resources through a wide range of activities called processes. In essence, industry views customer service as processes to move organisational resources. Therefore, the logistics perspective culminates into a process-centric approach for customer service. This study is deeply rooted on process-driven approach for customer service in the premises of logistics. The ultimate aim of logistics is to create customer value and deliver good customer service through processes and systems.
Successful firms prove the value of long-term customer relationships and the importance of customer retention. Emulating successful firms, companies brace for customer retention methods to obviate the cost of customer acquisition. The philosophy that emphasises customer retention through relationship building is known as ‘customer relationship management’ ( CRM ). Value-added customer services ensure the organisational efforts towards building long-term customer relations. Latest CRM practices advocate post-purchase services to create customer value.
Emerging market trends visualise a strong requirement for improved customer service and support in developing markets. Industries offer customer support through a network of service centers.
This special issue intends to improve customer support performance and it is relevant to the above deliberations in following ways.
Finally, papers must have real value relevance, be primarily focused on real time implementation, and the target audience are researchers, managers, practitioners and consultants.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that have practical relevance, case studies, and focus on the following or other areas related to customer service support in manufacturing and service industries, but are not limited to:
Manuscript submission: 15 March 2010
Notification of initial decision: 15 May 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 15 June 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 15 July 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 15 August 2010
Customer service is widely understood as an important profit generating mechanism for a successful organisation. In the early days, customer service was viewed as a vision behind corporate success. The visionary concept has evolved to be seen as a day-to-day process towards market success. A process view has taken center-stage and treats customer service as an outcome from wide-spectrum of activities. The approach also assumes customer service as a package of diverse service elements. The majority of practitioners and educationists believe that most of the service elements are unexplored. The passage of time has brought several important customer service elements to the light. A few service elements such as quality at source and on-time delivery are focused in academic and industry circles. The remaining service elements such as customer support, after-sales services, lead time, environmental concerns, condition of goods/services, quantity of goods/services, and value added services are left unscathed and overlooked despite their importance.
Recent studies underscore customer service from logistics perspective. Improving customer service is an ongoing focus of the logistics community. Logistics is understood as market winner in the industry. The term ‘logistics’ denote the systematic and planned movement of organisational resources to attain competitive advantage. Organisational resources include men, material and information that satisfy customers. Organisations mobilise these resources through a wide range of activities called processes. In essence, industry views customer service as processes to move organisational resources. Therefore, the logistics perspective culminates into a process-centric approach for customer service. This study is deeply rooted on process-driven approach for customer service in the premises of logistics. The ultimate aim of logistics is to create customer value and deliver good customer service through processes and systems.
Successful firms prove the value of long-term customer relationships and the importance of customer retention. Emulating successful firms, companies brace for customer retention methods to obviate the cost of customer acquisition. The philosophy that emphasises customer retention through relationship building is known as ‘customer relationship management’ ( CRM ). Value-added customer services ensure the organisational efforts towards building long-term customer relations. Latest CRM practices advocate post-purchase services to create customer value.
Emerging market trends visualise a strong requirement for improved customer service and support in developing markets. Industries offer customer support through a network of service centers.
This special issue intends to improve customer support performance and it is relevant to the above deliberations in following ways.
- Identifying analytical models to improve the customer service and support process.
- Analytical modelling in the premises of market knowledge to improve the customer service and support process.
- Identifying country and industry-specific variables that impact customer service and support operations.
Finally, papers must have real value relevance, be primarily focused on real time implementation, and the target audience are researchers, managers, practitioners and consultants.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that have practical relevance, case studies, and focus on the following or other areas related to customer service support in manufacturing and service industries, but are not limited to:
- Customer service in manufacturing supply chain
- Customer service in services supply chain
- Multivariate techniques for customer service
- Multicriteria decision making models for customer service
- Analytical models for customer service and support
- Process of customer value creation
- Marketing and logistics elements of customer service
- Transaction and augmented product concept in customer service
- Information integration for customer service
- Service quality models focusing customer support
- Queuing models for customer service
- Stochastic models for customer service
- Mathematical models for customer service
- Simulation and optimiSation for customer service
- After-sale services models
Manuscript submission: 15 March 2010
Notification of initial decision: 15 May 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 15 June 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 15 July 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 15 August 2010
Special issue: RFID network technologies and innovative applications
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology 4(4) 2009
- Creating a RFID data integration framework for enterprise information systems
- RFID-based seamless multimedia services for smart homes
- An RFID prototype providing industrial security features in the manufacturing environment
- An RFID localisation system using Dynamic Range Adjustment Localisation
- An integrated surveillance system using RFID and vision-tracking technologies
Special issue: Computational Intelligence Part 2
International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(3) 2009
Further papers from the International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) held in Shanghai, China, 28 June - 2 July 2008.
(See also International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(2) 2009)
Further papers from the International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) held in Shanghai, China, 28 June - 2 July 2008.
(See also International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(2) 2009)
- A fast method for fuzzy neural network modelling and refinement
- A three-dimensional self-adaptive region fuzzy guidance law based on RBF neural networks
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation of electro-hydraulic pressure servo system
- Online variety recognition of auto rack girders based on combination of Fuzzy ART neural network with D-S evidence theory
- Developing an R&D projects portfolio selection decision system based on fuzzy logic
- Pareto optimisation of grillage system with multi-objectives
- Optimum design and local structural analysis of the power yacht based on micro-genetic algorithm
- Application of particle swarm optimisation based on immune evolutionary algorithm for optimal operation of cascade reservoirs
- Speech recognition system based on visual features and neural network for persons with speech-impairments
- Research on context-aware computing with uncertainty for proactive service
Special issue: International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) 2008
International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics 1(2) 2009
Papers from the International Conference of Applied Economics (ICOAE 2008), held in Kastoria, Greece, 15-17 May 2008.
Papers from the International Conference of Applied Economics (ICOAE 2008), held in Kastoria, Greece, 15-17 May 2008.
- Monopolisation of triopoly – revisited
- Optimal investment in immobile human capital in an economic and monetary union
- Business cycles in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries: an RBC approach
- A new macroeconometric approach to the NATREX model of the equilibrium real exchange rate
- A comparison of alternative parametric efficiency estimates using rank-sum test statistic
- A note on impact of new economic reforms on the elasticity of substitution in Indian industries: alternative measures
- Risk process estimation techniques used in the optimisation of financial resources of an insurance company
Special issue: Reform and opening 30 years: the development of China's economy and culture
International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management 2(2) 2009
- Development strategies of high-tech enterprises in response to the new economic reform in China
- Listen to the young employees
- A survey on Beijing's cultural creative industries
- Cultural and creative tourism: a case study of dance drama in Shanxi
- Analysis of the talent exodus in the Chinese online game labour market
13 November 2009
Special issue: Immersive virtual, mixed or augmented reality art
International Journal of Arts and Technology 2(4) 2009
- New media in situ: the re-socialisation of public space
- The agent takes the stage
- Intermediary zones: augmented space between real and digital
- WorldWideWalks: mapping the 'mixed realities' of physical and virtual space-time
- Neurophysiology-based art in immersive virtual reality
- On intuitive use, physicality and tangible user interfaces
11 November 2009
Special issue: Open forum on metadata registries
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 4(4) 2009
Papers from the annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries
Papers from the annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries
- Experiences with discovery metadata
- The Nordic Common Data Element repository for describing cancer data
- Terminological concept modelling and conceptual data modelling
- A net-centric metadata framework for service-oriented environments
- ISOcat: remodelling metadata for language resources
- Representing metadata constraints in Common Logic
- Evidence-based decisions for the wiki world
10 November 2009
Special issue: Machine learning in biomedicine and bioinformatics
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 3(4) 2009
Extended version of papers presented at a workshop on ‘Machine Learning in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics' at the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2007) held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 13-15 Dec. 2007.
Extended version of papers presented at a workshop on ‘Machine Learning in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics' at the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2007) held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 13-15 Dec. 2007.
- Biomarker identification by knowledge-driven multilevel ICA and motif analysis
- Logistic ensembles of Random Spherical Linear Oracles for microarray classification
- Gene identification and survival prediction with Lp Cox regression and novel similarity measure
- An analysis pipeline for the inference of protein-protein interaction networks
- A technique to search for functional similarities in protein-protein interaction networks
- Refinement of under-determined loops of Human Prion Protein by database-derived distance constraints
- PRTAD: A database for protein residue torsion angle distributions
Special issue: Services operations and management
International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics 4(4) 2009
Revised papers from the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics (IEEE/SOLI’2008) held in Beijing, China, 12–15 October 2008.
Revised papers from the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics (IEEE/SOLI’2008) held in Beijing, China, 12–15 October 2008.
- Pricing and order coordination of two-echelon supply chain under duopolistic retailer's competition
- Service analytics framework for web-delivered services
- The value of integrated logistics and finance services of third party logistics firms
- Optimal decision-making on product allocation for crossdocking and warehousing operations
- Research on the symbiotic relationship model of network shaped enterprises in the ecological logistics park
- User acceptance of internet banking: an extension of the UTAUT model with trust and quality constructs
9 November 2009
Special issue: Service oriented grid and pervasive technologies
International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 2(4) 2009
- Adoption of service-oriented architecture by information systems
- Reputation and policy-based three-tier grid architecture with genuine feedbacks
- Proposing a service-enabled semantic grid model
- A negotiation-based trust establishment service for CROWN grid
- A peer-to-peer IO buffering service based on RAM-grid
- A methodology for designing of intelligent services in ubiquitous communications
Special issue: Software issues in computational science and engineering
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 4(4) 2009
Papers from a workshop at held in Uppsala, Sweden, 15–16 August, 2007
Papers from a workshop at held in Uppsala, Sweden, 15–16 August, 2007
- Coordinate-free numerics: all your variation points for free?
- Unified framework for finite element assembly
- Software engineering meets scientific computing: group projects in CSE education
- Co-processor acceleration of an unmodified parallel solid mechanics code with FEASTGPU
- Dominik Goddeke, Hilmar Wobker, Robert Strzodka, Jamaludin Mohd-Yusof, Patrick Reconsidering algorithms for iterative solvers in the multicore era
- Efficient representation of computational meshes
- F2PY: a tool for connecting Fortran and Python programs
- Automatic parallelisation of staggered grid codes with expression templates
- Run-time automatic instantiation of algorithms using C++ templates
8 November 2009
Special issue: Delivering electronic government
International Journal of Electronic Governance 2 (2/3) 2009
- Electronic procurement: a case study of Malaysia's e-Perolehan (e-procurement) initiative
- Process evaluation of award of work contracts in a government department
- Does e-governance facilitate citizen empowerment in democracies? A critical discourse analysis
- Decision making of agrarian communities: exploring the impact of e-governance initiatives in India
- An e-governance framework for Vietnam
- Development of Knowledge Model for Administrative Procedures based on behavioural trait analysis: the case of Japan
- A typology of e-governance operational Information Systems tasks
- E-government and integrated service delivery in Canada: the Province of Nova Scotia as a case study
- Creating comparative advantage for Micro-Enterprises through e-governance
- Changing perspectives and pragmatics of good governance and e-governance in India: a shared vision of citizens
- Promoting electronic participation systems in the Balkans: the case of national press agencies
- The role of e-facilitation (ICTs) in economic development of the rural population
Call for papers: Recommender Systems to Support the Dynamics of Virtual Learning Communities
A special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities
Recommender systems are used in commercial sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix and others to recommend relevant products (or more generally, pieces of information such as books, music from movies, etc) to users according to their interest. It is a successful technique in the entertainment domains which is now being applied into e-learning. Recommenders are changing the way people interact with the web-based applications as they help others to find relevant products and complex information among the huge amount of products and unstructured information available in the web, providing a more personalised information access experience.
Traditionally, much of the published research on recommenders has focused on the algorithms that power the recommendation process. However, many research challenges remain, especially when it comes to applications in specific domains, the design of the interfaces and the social implications of recommenders. Research is still needed to analyse needs and expectations from the users to which recommendations are offered. In particular when recommenders are applied in domains other than the ones traditionally covered, a study of the user needs should be carried out.
This special issue aims to gather a collection of high quality contributions that reflect the support that can be provided by recommender systems in virtual learning communities (VLC). It focuses on the e-learning domain and the virtual learning communities that grow around it.
Users interact in web-based applications that provide social spaces such as learning management systems, and produce contributions with shared learning goals in mind. Moreover, mostly these communities use Web 2.0 services that can provide semantic information. This semantic information together with the contextual information provided by the community infrastructure can feed the recommender strategies. The virtual learning communities that emerge store contextual and semantic information from the contributions provided by the users when they participate in the services offered, such as discussions on forums, shared links, entries in blogs, ratings to learning objects, comments to contributions, etc. This information contributed to the virtual community could become relevant to their mates. These contributions increase continually and the community members are unable to process all of them. Recommenders can provide a valuable functionality to the members of virtual learning communities, recommending what pieces of information shared by the diversity of the members' contributions are the more interesting for each member (taking into account his/her profile).
Moreover, there is a need to take into account user-centred design methods in order to direct the technical design as well as the graphical user interface. In this sense, this special issue calls for papers in the community of researchers for recommender systems in the educational domain that analyse the needs and propose solutions from a user-centred point of view. Contributions are expected to answer some of the following questions (among others):
Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible
Submission of Title and Extended Abstract deadline: 28 February, 2010
Full paper submission deadline: 30 March, 2010
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 15 May, 2010
Second round of contributions: 13 June, 2010
Final version of paper: 15 September, 2010 (tentative)
Recommender systems are used in commercial sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix and others to recommend relevant products (or more generally, pieces of information such as books, music from movies, etc) to users according to their interest. It is a successful technique in the entertainment domains which is now being applied into e-learning. Recommenders are changing the way people interact with the web-based applications as they help others to find relevant products and complex information among the huge amount of products and unstructured information available in the web, providing a more personalised information access experience.
Traditionally, much of the published research on recommenders has focused on the algorithms that power the recommendation process. However, many research challenges remain, especially when it comes to applications in specific domains, the design of the interfaces and the social implications of recommenders. Research is still needed to analyse needs and expectations from the users to which recommendations are offered. In particular when recommenders are applied in domains other than the ones traditionally covered, a study of the user needs should be carried out.
This special issue aims to gather a collection of high quality contributions that reflect the support that can be provided by recommender systems in virtual learning communities (VLC). It focuses on the e-learning domain and the virtual learning communities that grow around it.
Users interact in web-based applications that provide social spaces such as learning management systems, and produce contributions with shared learning goals in mind. Moreover, mostly these communities use Web 2.0 services that can provide semantic information. This semantic information together with the contextual information provided by the community infrastructure can feed the recommender strategies. The virtual learning communities that emerge store contextual and semantic information from the contributions provided by the users when they participate in the services offered, such as discussions on forums, shared links, entries in blogs, ratings to learning objects, comments to contributions, etc. This information contributed to the virtual community could become relevant to their mates. These contributions increase continually and the community members are unable to process all of them. Recommenders can provide a valuable functionality to the members of virtual learning communities, recommending what pieces of information shared by the diversity of the members' contributions are the more interesting for each member (taking into account his/her profile).
Moreover, there is a need to take into account user-centred design methods in order to direct the technical design as well as the graphical user interface. In this sense, this special issue calls for papers in the community of researchers for recommender systems in the educational domain that analyse the needs and propose solutions from a user-centred point of view. Contributions are expected to answer some of the following questions (among others):
- How recommendations can impact on the participants in VLC?
- What type of activities within the VLC could be improved or made more productive with the usage of recommender systems?
- What types of situations in VLC are meaningful for providing recommendations?
- How can the utility of a recommender system be measured in a VLC?
- What types of recommendations are of special interest for the educational domain?
- How can users be modelled to facilitate the recommendations process in VLC?
- What is the most appropriate design for a tool to manage the recommendations?
- Recommender systems for educational domain
- Inclusive recommendations in virtual learning communities (i.e. take into account the diversity of the users, including the accessibility preferences)
- User-centred design methods
- User-centred evaluation
- User modelling to support recommender systems for educational domain
- Personalisation and user needs in educational domain
- Design of the user interface for recommenders in virtual learning communities
- Authoring/administration tools to manage/supervise the recommendations process
- Evaluating recommendation interfaces through user studies and other human-computer interaction approaches
- Recommenders to support social networking in virtual learning communities
- Case studies of recommenders in virtual learning communities
- Evaluation of recommender systems in educational scenarios
Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible
Submission of Title and Extended Abstract deadline: 28 February, 2010
Full paper submission deadline: 30 March, 2010
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 15 May, 2010
Second round of contributions: 13 June, 2010
Final version of paper: 15 September, 2010 (tentative)
Special issue: Advances in tribology in metal manufacturing
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering 3(5/6) 2009
- Effect of tool surface topography on interfacial deformation behaviour of metal microtubes in flaring test
- Tribological features of roll surface in cold metal rolling
- Friction and slab deformation behaviour during rough rolling
- Surface roughness characteristics of Ti6Al4V alloy in conventional lathe and mill machining
- Effect of cold reduction on surface roughness of low hot-rolled carbon steel in CSP
- Deformation of oxide scale and surface roughness transfer during hot rolling of stainless steel 304L
- Oxide scale behaviour and surface roughness under hot rolling conditions of Fe-Ni36 Invar alloy
- Numerical simulation of slab edging process by the Reproducing Kernel Particle Method considering friction effect
First issue: International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics
Investigating the application of recent mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques to empirical economics studies International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics adopts an international and multidisciplinary scope in the examination of recent quantitative methods and their problems in policy analysis.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
6 November 2009
Call for Papers: Water Wars in the 21st Century along International River Basins: Speculation or Reality?
A special issue of International Journal of Sustainable Society
This issue seeks to assess the current status of the water management in international river basins for a reality check of the potential of water wars and to encourage intellectual discussion, new methodologies and strategies to promote sustainable development and avert water related conflicts in the international river basins.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 10 May 2010
Communication of peer review to authors: 10 August 2010
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 15 October 2010
This issue seeks to assess the current status of the water management in international river basins for a reality check of the potential of water wars and to encourage intellectual discussion, new methodologies and strategies to promote sustainable development and avert water related conflicts in the international river basins.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:
- Integrated water resources management in international river basins
- Averting conflicts and promoting peace through international river basin management
- Water diplomacy
- International river basins under risk of mismanagement and conflicts
- Benefits and costs asssociated with integrated river basins management
- How international water policies shape international river basins management
- New strategies for international river basins management
- Institutional and legal issues related to international river basins management
- International water treaties
- Mechanisms for data and information sharing between riparian countries
- UN watercourses convention (1997) and other international water related declarations
- Influence of regional politics and non-water sectors in managing international river basins
- Strategic research agendas to positively influence international river basins management
- Best practices and lessons learned from international river basins management
- International water resources managment principles and guidelines
- Shared water-shared opportunities
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 10 May 2010
Communication of peer review to authors: 10 August 2010
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 15 October 2010
Call for papers: Advances in Wireless, Mobile and P2P based Internet Protocols, Applications and Architectures
A special issue of International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
Interconnection networks have just not facilitated sharing of information; they have reorganised our social existence. Over the last two decades we have witnessed a tremendous influx of new technology to facilitate Internet accessibility. These technologies are in essence emerging because of the advancement in newer paradigms that encompass WiFi, ad hoc networks, and P2P technologies. Today, the Internet no longer is confined to wired technologies. Therefore, we must understand the latest advances in these technologies to pave the way for newer Internet protocols, applications, and architectures.
The special issue will primarily encompass theoretical and practical solutions that advance the research in Internet protocols, applications, and architectures based on WiFi, mobile Ad Hoc, and P2P technologies.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Paper submission: 1 April, 2010
Initial notification: 15 May, 2010
Rebuttal submission: 1 July, 2010
Final notification: 1 August, 2010
Interconnection networks have just not facilitated sharing of information; they have reorganised our social existence. Over the last two decades we have witnessed a tremendous influx of new technology to facilitate Internet accessibility. These technologies are in essence emerging because of the advancement in newer paradigms that encompass WiFi, ad hoc networks, and P2P technologies. Today, the Internet no longer is confined to wired technologies. Therefore, we must understand the latest advances in these technologies to pave the way for newer Internet protocols, applications, and architectures.
The special issue will primarily encompass theoretical and practical solutions that advance the research in Internet protocols, applications, and architectures based on WiFi, mobile Ad Hoc, and P2P technologies.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- WiFi and mobile network protocols
- P2P protocol design
- Internet mobility and accessibility
- Mobility models
- Algorithms and theoretical advances in network protocol design
- Internet data management
- Internet data consistency and correctness
- Cross layer protocol design for efficient data accessibility and sharing
- Hybrid network design for reliable connectivity
- Mobile and P2P applications
- Emerging technologies
- Technology integration in cross platforms
Paper submission: 1 April, 2010
Initial notification: 15 May, 2010
Rebuttal submission: 1 July, 2010
Final notification: 1 August, 2010
Call for papers: Information Technology Risks: Benefits or Threats
A special issue of International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Modern business has undoubtedly benefited from the rapid development of Information Technology (IT) tools. On the other hand, IT risk has become one of the most significant threats posed to companies, with a common sense from senior risk managers that this represents a very high threat to business in today’s economy. Business exists to cope with risks, including IT risks. As time spans, management of existing IT systems that are being used by business requires constant and continuous check and review. Companies continuously seek methods and techniques to improve performance to achieve optimised efficiency and effectiveness of utilizing IT tools.
This special issue is intended to present the state-of-the-art work that demonstrates tools to manage IT risks and thus improve IT management in the e-society. Both theoretical and applied work is welcome.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:
Submission Deadline: June 10, 2010
First-Round Reviews: August 30, 2010
Camera-ready version: September 30, 2010
Modern business has undoubtedly benefited from the rapid development of Information Technology (IT) tools. On the other hand, IT risk has become one of the most significant threats posed to companies, with a common sense from senior risk managers that this represents a very high threat to business in today’s economy. Business exists to cope with risks, including IT risks. As time spans, management of existing IT systems that are being used by business requires constant and continuous check and review. Companies continuously seek methods and techniques to improve performance to achieve optimised efficiency and effectiveness of utilizing IT tools.
This special issue is intended to present the state-of-the-art work that demonstrates tools to manage IT risks and thus improve IT management in the e-society. Both theoretical and applied work is welcome.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:
- Enterprise risk management related to IT
- IT security
- Emerging advances in IT and its new applications
- Management of IT systems in financial risks
- IT and e-governance
- IT risk assessment
- Productivity uncertainty of adopting different IT tools
- IT and uncertainty and risks in the supply chain
- IT outsourcing assessment
- Other issues related to IT risks
Submission Deadline: June 10, 2010
First-Round Reviews: August 30, 2010
Camera-ready version: September 30, 2010
5 November 2009
Special issue: Agent-based modelling and decision making
International Journal of Critical Infrastructures 5(4) 2009
- Editorial: The operation and evolution of infrastructures: the role of agent-based modelling and decision making
- Tackling challenges in infrastructure operation and control: cross-sectoral learning for process and infrastructure engineers
- Agent-based decision support for failure-prone networked infrastructures
- Reciprocally altruistic agents for the mitigation of cascading failures in power grids
- A real-life test bed for multi-agent monitoring of road network performance
- Transition of energy infrastructures: modelling the Brazilian case
- Resilience and vulnerability in critical infrastructure systems – a physical analogy
Special issue: Value creation
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing 1(2) 2009
- Business ecosystem perspective on value co-creation in the Web 2.0 era: implications for entrepreneurial opportunities
- The building blocks of a relational capability – evidence from the banking industry
- Do direct or indirect relations between incumbent firms and corporate spin-offs affect the performance of spin-offs?
- Supporting value creation in SMEs through capacity building and innovation initiatives: the danger of provoking unsustainable rapid growth
- Firm-level entrepreneurship and performance for German Gazelles
- Supporting value creation by reducing cultural distance as a barrier to exporting
Special issue: Managing the quality of sport services and sport organisations
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 6(3) 2009
- Measuring customer service quality of English public sport facilities
- ADVENTUREQUAL: an extension of the SERVQUAL conceptual gap model in young people's outdoor adventure
- The mediating role of place attachment on the relationship between service quality and loyalty in the context of skiing
- Model of service quality in event sport tourism: development of a scale
- A decade of quality and performance management in Flemish organised sport
Special issue: OLAP intelligence: meaningfully coupling OLAP and data mining tools and algorithms
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining 4(3/4) 2009
- Mining significant change patterns in multidimensional spaces
- Mining convergent and divergent sequences in multidimensional data
- Reduced representations of Emerging Cubes for OLAP database mining
- Fragmenting very large XML data warehouses via K-means clustering algorithm
- Embedded indicators to facilitate the exploration of a data cube
- A novel visualisation and interaction technique for exploring multidimensional data
- ReliefMSS: a variation on a feature ranking ReliefF algorithm
- Exact and inexact methods for solving the problem of view selection for aggregate queries
2 November 2009
Call for papers: Risk Management and Related Standards – the Role of Standards in the Management of Business and Related Risks
A special issue of International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management
The IJBCRM goal is to provide an academic and professional forum to develop and disseminate research, practical methods, theories, and experiences in the advancing area of business continuity and risk management. This growing body of knowledge provides a vital lead within organisations in the process of systematic decisions to protect people, assets and operations and ensures the continuation of an organisation following disaster.
Risk standards are one means used by organizations to assure systematic decisions when managing risk. Standards are accepted specifications which define terms, concepts, methods, processes and practices. There is no shortage of standards, codes and guidelines in the area of risk management and the international community has developed many. One of the difficulties, however, is that this large body of information has grown in an uncoordinated manner. Some have argued this divergent growth of standards and guidelines in risk management has resulted in there being no universal approach and terminology that is recognized as the industry standard.
Several of the well known risk management standards include: the risk standard of AIRMIC/ALARM/IRM 2002, the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 4360:2004; the Enterprise Risk Management - Integrated Framework, COSO 2004 and the ISO/DIS 31000 International Standard or BSI British Standards - BS 31100:2008. Other standards exist such as the ISO/IEC Guide 73:2002 Risk Management — Vocabulary, the CSA Q 850:1997 Risk Management Guidelines for Decision Makers; the JIS Q 2001:2001 Guidelines for development and implementation of risk management system and the BS 25999-1:2006 Business continuity management Code of practice.
Such standards vary in scope, purpose, perceived benefits, guidelines, principles, frameworks, components, terminology, objective, implementation advice, risk processes, structural recommendations and in adoption, certification and compliance monitoring processes. Standards also vary regarding their primary reason for creation - the thinking behind them.
Adoption of and compliance with a standard requires the allocation of internal or external resources and represents an additional business cost. Standards too can be expensive to implement and to maintain. This may have an impact on the competitiveness of corporations. Companies seeking to implement risk standards must know whether benefits are really worth the costs involved. Whatever their nature, standards and technical regulations will have no effect unless they are properly implemented.
Aside from identifying and establishing the general worth of standards, we might question:
Whether risk specialists and practitioners think in ways that are consistent with the standards?
Are changes needed and if so, what changes are needed and why?
What are the objectives of a risk standard?
What have organizations learned whilst implementing these standards?
Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to clarify the role of risk management and related standards and to assess their impact. Bringing together such a body of knowledge through case studies, research and literature review on topics such as implementation and enterprise risk management, as well as a standards update, will enable practitioners to make immediate improvements to their risk management activities and to plan for the future. The special issue should enable a better understanding of the tools that are available to manage the risks, sharing best practice on how to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of standards. It will also help academics and researchers to ground future work.
Potential authors are invited to submit contributions which evaluate existing risk management standards, critically analyzing their role and contributing to our knowledge of why standards should or should not be adopted. Contributions will also further knowledge concerning the implementation issues of how, where and when such risk management standards might be applied. The goal is to prepare a reference issue that could be of immediate use to those interested in the management of risk and business continuity assurance and the implications of risk standards for business, whether they are academics, practitioners or researchers.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
1-2 page abstract due: 1 February 2010
Notification to authors: 1 March 2010
Submission of manuscripts due: 30 August 2010
Notification to authors: 15 October 2010
Final drafts of papers: 31 December 2010
The IJBCRM goal is to provide an academic and professional forum to develop and disseminate research, practical methods, theories, and experiences in the advancing area of business continuity and risk management. This growing body of knowledge provides a vital lead within organisations in the process of systematic decisions to protect people, assets and operations and ensures the continuation of an organisation following disaster.
Risk standards are one means used by organizations to assure systematic decisions when managing risk. Standards are accepted specifications which define terms, concepts, methods, processes and practices. There is no shortage of standards, codes and guidelines in the area of risk management and the international community has developed many. One of the difficulties, however, is that this large body of information has grown in an uncoordinated manner. Some have argued this divergent growth of standards and guidelines in risk management has resulted in there being no universal approach and terminology that is recognized as the industry standard.
Several of the well known risk management standards include: the risk standard of AIRMIC/ALARM/IRM 2002, the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 4360:2004; the Enterprise Risk Management - Integrated Framework, COSO 2004 and the ISO/DIS 31000 International Standard or BSI British Standards - BS 31100:2008. Other standards exist such as the ISO/IEC Guide 73:2002 Risk Management — Vocabulary, the CSA Q 850:1997 Risk Management Guidelines for Decision Makers; the JIS Q 2001:2001 Guidelines for development and implementation of risk management system and the BS 25999-1:2006 Business continuity management Code of practice.
Such standards vary in scope, purpose, perceived benefits, guidelines, principles, frameworks, components, terminology, objective, implementation advice, risk processes, structural recommendations and in adoption, certification and compliance monitoring processes. Standards also vary regarding their primary reason for creation - the thinking behind them.
Adoption of and compliance with a standard requires the allocation of internal or external resources and represents an additional business cost. Standards too can be expensive to implement and to maintain. This may have an impact on the competitiveness of corporations. Companies seeking to implement risk standards must know whether benefits are really worth the costs involved. Whatever their nature, standards and technical regulations will have no effect unless they are properly implemented.
Aside from identifying and establishing the general worth of standards, we might question:
Whether risk specialists and practitioners think in ways that are consistent with the standards?
Are changes needed and if so, what changes are needed and why?
What are the objectives of a risk standard?
What have organizations learned whilst implementing these standards?
Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to clarify the role of risk management and related standards and to assess their impact. Bringing together such a body of knowledge through case studies, research and literature review on topics such as implementation and enterprise risk management, as well as a standards update, will enable practitioners to make immediate improvements to their risk management activities and to plan for the future. The special issue should enable a better understanding of the tools that are available to manage the risks, sharing best practice on how to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of standards. It will also help academics and researchers to ground future work.
Potential authors are invited to submit contributions which evaluate existing risk management standards, critically analyzing their role and contributing to our knowledge of why standards should or should not be adopted. Contributions will also further knowledge concerning the implementation issues of how, where and when such risk management standards might be applied. The goal is to prepare a reference issue that could be of immediate use to those interested in the management of risk and business continuity assurance and the implications of risk standards for business, whether they are academics, practitioners or researchers.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Comparison of standards worldwide
- Critical evaluation of standards
- Role of standards in specific branches/industries, e.g. banking, telecomms, healthcare etc.
- Role of standards in specific functions, e.g. IT/IS risk, operations, project management etc.
- Frameworks for the management of risk
- Influence of laws and policy makers
- Economic performance and business benefits of organizations adopting risk standards
- Regulation and other drivers for adoption
- Standards and the regulatory environment
- Communicating risk standards
- Case studies on implementation and adoption of risk standards
1-2 page abstract due: 1 February 2010
Notification to authors: 1 March 2010
Submission of manuscripts due: 30 August 2010
Notification to authors: 15 October 2010
Final drafts of papers: 31 December 2010
Special issue: FACTS technology in power system studies
International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion 1(4) 2009
- A new method for locating TCSC for congestion management in deregulated electricity markets
- Comparative performance of BESS and SMES in distribution network to improve power quality
- PSO embedded online adaptive self-tuning UPFC shunt converter control
- Transmission line overload alleviation due to contingency based on DAG assisted PSO method
- Reactive and real power compensation with DSTATCOM and BESS for mitigation of flicker
- STATCOM based voltage-frequency regulation for SEIG driven by an uncontrolled speed turbine
28 October 2009
Call for papers: Complex Adaptive Systems in Business
A special issue of International Journal of Business and Systems Research
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) have been defined as systems that involve the interactions of numerous individual agents or elements that change and learn from experience and can show emergent and adaptive properties not exhibited by the individual agents. CAS has been used to identify the evolutionary processes of anthills, bird flocking, and the economy, along with numerous other types of dynamic systems. Organizational management studies have embraced the study of CAS as a means of explaining how firms adapt, learn, and evolve (Organization Science May/June 1999; Management Science, July 2007). Although organization scientists have studied complex organizations for many years, a developing set of conceptual and computational tools makes possible new approaches to modelling nonlinear interactions within and between organizations. Network dynamics, socio-economics, agent-based computational economics, and other multi-agent modelling approaches have allowed management researchers to expand into unexplored areas in business applications.
We welcome interdisciplinary discourses that serve to enhance our understanding of the business environments, recognizing that the marketplace which organizations operate are living dynamic systems that is not always predictable. Studies using system dynamics modelling, agent-based modelling or other dynamic methodologies are encouraged. Preference will be given to high quality papers that have a firm grounding in scientific and mathematical methods, instead of primarily application-based papers. Because a substantial gap continues to exist between theory and practice, theoretical papers that also include a real-world application are very useful. Of additional interest are papers developing benchmarks and metrics that will provide guidance for future research.
We encourage submission of high-quality papers that take a systems approach to perplexing business issues. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Full paper deadline: 1 May, 2010
Notification of acceptance and review results : 1 September, 2010
Revised submission deadline: 1 November, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 December, 2010
Camera-ready version deadline: 1 January, 2011
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) have been defined as systems that involve the interactions of numerous individual agents or elements that change and learn from experience and can show emergent and adaptive properties not exhibited by the individual agents. CAS has been used to identify the evolutionary processes of anthills, bird flocking, and the economy, along with numerous other types of dynamic systems. Organizational management studies have embraced the study of CAS as a means of explaining how firms adapt, learn, and evolve (Organization Science May/June 1999; Management Science, July 2007). Although organization scientists have studied complex organizations for many years, a developing set of conceptual and computational tools makes possible new approaches to modelling nonlinear interactions within and between organizations. Network dynamics, socio-economics, agent-based computational economics, and other multi-agent modelling approaches have allowed management researchers to expand into unexplored areas in business applications.
We welcome interdisciplinary discourses that serve to enhance our understanding of the business environments, recognizing that the marketplace which organizations operate are living dynamic systems that is not always predictable. Studies using system dynamics modelling, agent-based modelling or other dynamic methodologies are encouraged. Preference will be given to high quality papers that have a firm grounding in scientific and mathematical methods, instead of primarily application-based papers. Because a substantial gap continues to exist between theory and practice, theoretical papers that also include a real-world application are very useful. Of additional interest are papers developing benchmarks and metrics that will provide guidance for future research.
We encourage submission of high-quality papers that take a systems approach to perplexing business issues. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Knowledge transfer and learning in the organization
- Network studies from an organizational perspective, i.e. use in technology transfer, diffusion of innovations, wom impact, etc.
- Co-opetition and other cooperation strategies
- Innovation in the dynamic organization
- Global evolution of consumer markets
- Artificial economic societies
- Supply chain dynamics
- Manufacturing for green consumerism
- Role of social networks in the organization
- Networks in the organization (e.g., board of directors, cross-functional teams, etc.)
- Co-evolution of organization systems (e.g., product, manufacturing, supply chain)
- Adoption/diffusion of innovations, particularly across organizational boundaries
- Artificial markets
- Team effectiveness
- Information management
- Interactive strategy formation
- Decision making in the organization
- System efficieincies
- Cooperation within the organization and across boundaries
- Any multi-agent business issue will be considered
Full paper deadline: 1 May, 2010
Notification of acceptance and review results : 1 September, 2010
Revised submission deadline: 1 November, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 December, 2010
Camera-ready version deadline: 1 January, 2011
Call for papers: Planning, Scheduling and Optimisation in Manufacturing and Services Enterprise
A special issue of International Journal of Enterprise Network Management
Companies must constantly contend with rapidly changing business conditions. Mergers and acquisitions, accelerated new product introductions, changing customer bases, offshore manufacturing and fluctuating fuel costs are among the many challenges they face.
Globalisation trends have significantly increased the scale and complexity of the modern enterprise. The enterprise has been transformed into a global network consisting of multiple business units and functions. The enterprise is exposed to internal and external uncertainties. Examples of internal uncertainties include success prospects of research and development projects due to technological risks; production upsets such as batch failures and plant shutdowns. External uncertainties include pricing related uncertainties for raw materials and products, exchange rate fluctuations, market size and demand uncertainties due to competition and macro-economic factors.
Planning, scheduling and optimisation are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and services industries to resolve the business uncertainty. The planning, scheduling and optimisation functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done in order to manage the uncertainty.
Optimisation challenges in the enterprise begin to answer the question of how to bridge the gap from mathematical modelling and optimisation techniques to practical solutions of enterprise operations. Mathematically distinct from classical supply chain management, this burgeoning research area has proven to be useful and applicable to a wide variety of industries; for example, pharmaceutical, chemical, transportation, and shipping, to name but a few. There is a need for high quality research which may serve as a "one-stop shop" to learn about various industrial problems and logistics challenges, and solution techniques using recent advances in computational optimisation.
This special issue plans to cover areas in planning, scheduling and optimisation in manufacturing and services and systems development and implementation. It is intended for practitioners from industry who use techniques from a wide range of fields: mathematical programming, supply chain and logistics management, and process systems and operations engineering.
Other streams of interest will be practical applications in the form of quantitative and qualitative case studies based on planning, scheduling and optimisation. Finally, papers must also have real value relevance, be primarily focused on real time implementation and the target audience who are researchers, managers, practitioners and consultants.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that have practical relevance, case studies, and focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas related to planning, scheduling and optimisation in manufacturing and service industries:
Manuscript submission: 15 November 2009
Notification of initial decision: 30 December 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 1 February 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 15 March 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 15 April 2010
Companies must constantly contend with rapidly changing business conditions. Mergers and acquisitions, accelerated new product introductions, changing customer bases, offshore manufacturing and fluctuating fuel costs are among the many challenges they face.
Globalisation trends have significantly increased the scale and complexity of the modern enterprise. The enterprise has been transformed into a global network consisting of multiple business units and functions. The enterprise is exposed to internal and external uncertainties. Examples of internal uncertainties include success prospects of research and development projects due to technological risks; production upsets such as batch failures and plant shutdowns. External uncertainties include pricing related uncertainties for raw materials and products, exchange rate fluctuations, market size and demand uncertainties due to competition and macro-economic factors.
Planning, scheduling and optimisation are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and services industries to resolve the business uncertainty. The planning, scheduling and optimisation functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done in order to manage the uncertainty.
Optimisation challenges in the enterprise begin to answer the question of how to bridge the gap from mathematical modelling and optimisation techniques to practical solutions of enterprise operations. Mathematically distinct from classical supply chain management, this burgeoning research area has proven to be useful and applicable to a wide variety of industries; for example, pharmaceutical, chemical, transportation, and shipping, to name but a few. There is a need for high quality research which may serve as a "one-stop shop" to learn about various industrial problems and logistics challenges, and solution techniques using recent advances in computational optimisation.
This special issue plans to cover areas in planning, scheduling and optimisation in manufacturing and services and systems development and implementation. It is intended for practitioners from industry who use techniques from a wide range of fields: mathematical programming, supply chain and logistics management, and process systems and operations engineering.
Other streams of interest will be practical applications in the form of quantitative and qualitative case studies based on planning, scheduling and optimisation. Finally, papers must also have real value relevance, be primarily focused on real time implementation and the target audience who are researchers, managers, practitioners and consultants.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that have practical relevance, case studies, and focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas related to planning, scheduling and optimisation in manufacturing and service industries:
- Manufacturing models for planning and scheduling
- Service models for planning and scheduling
- Project planning and scheduling
- Machine scheduling and job shop scheduling
- Scheduling of flexible assembly systems
- Economic lot scheduling
- Planning, scheduling and optimisation in supply chains
- Interval scheduling, reservations, and timetabling
- Planning, scheduling and optimisation in sports and entertainment
- Planning, scheduling, optimisation, and timetabling in transportation
- Planning, scheduling and optimisation in healthcare
- workforce scheduling
- Systems design and implementation for planning and scheduling
- Advanced concepts in systems design for planning and scheduling
- Mathematical programming formulations for planning and scheduling
- Exact optimisation methods for planning and scheduling
- Heuristic methods for planning and scheduling
- Constraint programming methods for planning and scheduling
- Selected scheduling systems
- Modelling and managing uncertainty in process planning and scheduling
Manuscript submission: 15 November 2009
Notification of initial decision: 30 December 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 1 February 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 15 March 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 15 April 2010
Call for papers: Cyber Harassment Impacts on Corporations and Corporate Valuation
A special issue of International Journal of Management and Decision Making
The ability to spread information (and misinformation) over the Internet in blogs and social media websites and has become accompanied by the growing pattern of cyber harassment against corporations. In many cases, harassment may arise from the process of critical discourse or difference of opinion, but increasingly such harassment has a more malevolent motive. In this case that attack is deliberately contrived to harm or extort from the legitimate financial interests of companies, and may include as its weapons defamation, tort interference, or other illegality that can damage corporate valuation. Because these attacks take place over the Internet, recourse through civil litigation may be complicated and expensive, or made difficult in pursuing attackers from abroad or circuitous routes. This leaves the victim in a vulnerable position. As with other types of Internet attacks, the attacker relies on this vulnerability to exploit for personal gain.
The aims of this special issue are to examine the motives of those who harass corporations, to identify the means used by cyber harassment attackers, and peer into the decision making processes within corporations on how to address the attacks, such as whether to ignore (extinguish) them, make attempts to defend against them (punish), or try to placate the attacker (reward) to curry favour. The objectives of the special issue are to:
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Full paper deadline: 15 July, 2010
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 15 November, 2010
Final version of paper: 15 January, 2011
The ability to spread information (and misinformation) over the Internet in blogs and social media websites and has become accompanied by the growing pattern of cyber harassment against corporations. In many cases, harassment may arise from the process of critical discourse or difference of opinion, but increasingly such harassment has a more malevolent motive. In this case that attack is deliberately contrived to harm or extort from the legitimate financial interests of companies, and may include as its weapons defamation, tort interference, or other illegality that can damage corporate valuation. Because these attacks take place over the Internet, recourse through civil litigation may be complicated and expensive, or made difficult in pursuing attackers from abroad or circuitous routes. This leaves the victim in a vulnerable position. As with other types of Internet attacks, the attacker relies on this vulnerability to exploit for personal gain.
The aims of this special issue are to examine the motives of those who harass corporations, to identify the means used by cyber harassment attackers, and peer into the decision making processes within corporations on how to address the attacks, such as whether to ignore (extinguish) them, make attempts to defend against them (punish), or try to placate the attacker (reward) to curry favour. The objectives of the special issue are to:
- identify the range of motives for cyber harassment attacks,
- provide insights into how corporations perceive cyber harassment attacks,
- assess the financial impacts to corporations from these attacks, and
- determine the decision making processes used to combat them
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Development and validation of theory and models of cyber harassment, motives, factors and outcomes.
- Economic impacts on business from cyber harassment.
- Decision strategies and processes to respond to cyber harassment.
- Legal and legislative aspects related to cyber harassment.
- Effects of social media and other new technology on social or behavioural evolution in cyber harassment.
- Cyber harassment and implications for management and managerial decision processes.
Full paper deadline: 15 July, 2010
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 15 November, 2010
Final version of paper: 15 January, 2011
Special issue: Computational Intelligence Part 1
International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(2) 2009
Papers from the International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) held in Shanghai, China, 28 June - 2 July 2008
Papers from the International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) held in Shanghai, China, 28 June - 2 July 2008
- A modified neural network based predictive control for non-linear systems
- Robust non-linear feedback control for BTT missile with NN-based uncertainty estimation
- RBF neural network-based sliding mode control for a ballistic missile
- Decoupling control of bearingless permanent magnet-type synchronous motor using artificial neural networks-based inverse system method
- Control of fuzzy discrete event systems and its application to air conditioning system
- Exponential stability of cellular neural networks with time-varying delay
- Optimal linear combination of neural networks to model thermally induced error of machine tools
- Application of neural networks in modelling of the transmission hydraulic actuator
- Fuzzy SVM-based chronic fatigue syndrome evaluation embedded in intelligent garment
- Two-stage gene selection for support vector machine classification of microarray data
21 October 2009
Special issue: Advances in market entry mode theory development
International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 2(3/4) 2009
- 'Scatter-gun' or 'Follow-the-leader' behaviour: international strategies of the high-tech SMEs
- The empirical link between entry mode selection and barriers to internationalisation
- Foreign market entry mode choice of Australian firms
- Discretion and internationalisation: impact of environmental determinants of managerial discretion and host country experience on entry mode choice
- Internationalising into an unfriendly environment: designing a new framework for Western Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
- A comparison of market entry strategies adopted by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms from major and emerging software exporting nations
- Balancing intermediated relationships in emerging country markets
- Determinants of foreign market entry mode decision: an exploratory study of business organisations in Australia
Special issue: IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks 2009
International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems 1(2) 2009
- Performance analysis of an optimal resource allocation method for the water-filled channel of the OFDMA cellular network to support multimedia traffic
- Differential decorrelator: a new approach for designing CDMA linear detector
- ADIP: an improved authenticated dynamic IP configuration scheme for mobile ad hoc networks
- On the applications of the space time premise when exploiting location diversity of multiple antenna sites
- A real-time and energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
- Non-linearity effects and predistortion in optical OFDM wireless transmission using LEDs
- Multiuser channel estimation for closely spaced multipath CDMA signals using the unscented Kalman filter
Newly announced journal: International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management
To begin publication in 2010, International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management will cover operations management knowledge in areas including computer science, management, engineering, information technology, economics, marketing and operations research. In services, the journal will focus on supply chain management, human resource management, information technologies, finance and TQM, and how TQM is applied to the management of technologies and innovations in businesses.
18 October 2009
Special issue: The issues and challenges of e-banking application and development in developing and under-developed nations
International Journal of Electronic Finance 3(4) 2009
- Evaluating electronic banking systems in developing nations through Analytic Hierarchy Process model: a case study
- Exploring the security of e-banking systems: questions of theft, fraud, jurisdiction and the shifting sands of time
- A survey of e-banking performance in Thailand
- Data classification process for security and privacy based on a fuzzy logic classifier
- A data model for processing financial market and news data
17 October 2009
First issue: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
Pluralism is rapidly gaining currency among economists, with its key elements including respect for diversity and alternative views, toleration, willingness to learn, curiosity and friendliness – all necessary to enable students to forge solutions to today’s complex problems. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education will facilitate communication in the development of pluralism and its implementation into the classroom.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
15 October 2009
First issue: International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives
Addressing the advancement of contemporary research in the field of financial markets and derivatives International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives is an internationally competitive, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to serve as the primary outlet for theoretical and empirical research in all areas of international markets and derivatives.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue
First issue: International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management
With particular emphasis on decision making using a multidisciplinary approach International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management provides a professional and scholarly forum in the essential field of business continuity and risk management. Organisational resiliency through risk assessment, contingency planning, systems security, crisis and disaster management, and recovery planning, as well as public policy regarding infrastructure and security, are integrated in the journal’s coverage.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
First issue: International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing
The Rapid Response to Manufacturing (RRM) environment is developed through integrating technologies such as feature-based CAD modelling, knowledge-based engineering for integrated product and process design and rapid manufacturing concepts. International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing publishes research results and application descriptions that deals with the advancement of RRM, especially engineering design and rapid manufacturing in an integrated form.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
First issue: International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation
With a core interest in statistical modelling and optimisation for process improvement International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation provides an international forum for work describing the latest research and innovative applications of a broad coverage of applied experimental statistics and experimental design for understanding and enhancing processes or systems in the physical, chemical, engineering sciences, and cross-disciplinary problems, including quality, manufacturing, healthcare, human factors, pharmaceuticals, and service systems.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
First issue: International Journal of Education Economics and Development
Publishing papers that promote the advancement of education economics, encompassing all domains of costs and finance International Journal of Education Economics and Development contributes to the theory, practice and research in education economics applicable to primary, secondary, collegiate and higher education.There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
14 October 2009
Newly announced journal: International Journal of Business Competition and Growth
To begin publication in 2010, International Journal of Business Competition and Growth will aid practitioners in managing global competition in products and services through papers in the areas of competitiveness and business leadership research, highlighting systems thinking and business modelling issues. It will cover contemporary marketing practices with reference to the competitive strategies, core competencies, tactical approaches, behavioural dynamics of markets, decision metrics and sustainability of firms.
Newly announced journal: International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security
Beginning publication in 2010 International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security will integrate the disciplines of intelligent computing, information security, biometrics, multimedia processing, communication and their applications.
Call for papers: Computational Methods for Financial Engineering
A special issue of International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives
In recent years, computational methods and techniques have become an important tool for the support of financial decisions. New statistical procedures, mathematical models, numerical algorithms and heuristics are continuously developed and used by an increasing number of firms, traders and financial risk managers across various industries.
This special issue covers the rapidly growing and diversifying field of financial engineering; it is an attempt to explore and bring together practical, state-of-the-art applications of computational techniques in financial problems, including risk analysis, asset pricing and portfolio management. Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original, unpublished research in related scientific areas. All contributions should have an engineering, problem-solving approach detailing how mathematical and computational techniques can effectively overcome practical difficulties often encountered in real-life applications. In this way, this issue bridges the gap between theory and practice in financial engineering and will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 January, 2010
In recent years, computational methods and techniques have become an important tool for the support of financial decisions. New statistical procedures, mathematical models, numerical algorithms and heuristics are continuously developed and used by an increasing number of firms, traders and financial risk managers across various industries.
This special issue covers the rapidly growing and diversifying field of financial engineering; it is an attempt to explore and bring together practical, state-of-the-art applications of computational techniques in financial problems, including risk analysis, asset pricing and portfolio management. Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original, unpublished research in related scientific areas. All contributions should have an engineering, problem-solving approach detailing how mathematical and computational techniques can effectively overcome practical difficulties often encountered in real-life applications. In this way, this issue bridges the gap between theory and practice in financial engineering and will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Econometric and computational models for risk and correlation analysis
- Asset pricing and factor models
- Computational techniques for complex portfolio optimisation problems
- Derivatives valuation techniques
- Credit risk and credit rating
- Numerical and statistical approximation of stochastic differential equations with applications in finance
- Automated trading systems
- Statistical arbitrage
- Financial applications of computational intelligent (neural, fuzzy or evolutionary) methods
Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 January, 2010
Call for papers: Voluntary International Income Transfers: the Determinants and Impact of Development Aid and Migrant Remittances
A special issue of International Journal of Public Policy
Foreign aid and migrant remittances are voluntary provisions of funds to many developing countries. They provide a means of easing liquidity constraints on the recipient at both micro and macro levels. However, both aid and remittances are motivated not just by altruism, but also self-interest. They may also be classified as arrangements that are mutually beneficial to both the donor and the recipient. The magnitude of these international income transfers is significant, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars globally each year.
Studying the effects and determinants of these flows are important both on their own and together. Clearly, remittances and aid may interact on several fronts, all of which should be important to policy makers. For example, if remittances provide insurance against negative income shocks, then they may mitigate the impact of reductions in transfers of aid. Conjointly, if remittances fall as aid increases, then the beneficial impact of aid may not be as pronounced.
This special issue will publish papers discussing topics related to foreign aid, migrant remittances, and the possible interaction between the two.
[For additional information, please see the call for papers under “Notes” in the Winter (February) 2010 issue of Journal of Economic Perspectives.]
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Submission of papers by: 1 May, 2010
Editorial decision based on referees' reports by: 1 July, 2010
Final drafts of revised (or accepted) papers by: 1 September, 2010
Foreign aid and migrant remittances are voluntary provisions of funds to many developing countries. They provide a means of easing liquidity constraints on the recipient at both micro and macro levels. However, both aid and remittances are motivated not just by altruism, but also self-interest. They may also be classified as arrangements that are mutually beneficial to both the donor and the recipient. The magnitude of these international income transfers is significant, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars globally each year.
Studying the effects and determinants of these flows are important both on their own and together. Clearly, remittances and aid may interact on several fronts, all of which should be important to policy makers. For example, if remittances provide insurance against negative income shocks, then they may mitigate the impact of reductions in transfers of aid. Conjointly, if remittances fall as aid increases, then the beneficial impact of aid may not be as pronounced.
This special issue will publish papers discussing topics related to foreign aid, migrant remittances, and the possible interaction between the two.
[For additional information, please see the call for papers under “Notes” in the Winter (February) 2010 issue of Journal of Economic Perspectives.]
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Foreign aid flows to developing countries
- Migrant remittances to poor countries
- The issues of altruism, self interest, and mutually beneficial arrangements
- The determinants and efficacy of aid flows
- The determinants and impact of migrant remittances on the destination country
- Interaction between foreign aid and remittances, through the questions of substitution, complementarity, allocation, or development
- Public policy towards foreign assistance and remittances
Submission of papers by: 1 May, 2010
Editorial decision based on referees' reports by: 1 July, 2010
Final drafts of revised (or accepted) papers by: 1 September, 2010
Newly announced journal: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence
Beginning publication in 2010, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence will address the various theories and practical applications of future generation information technology (FGIT), which involves communications and convergence.
Special issue: Performance and the city in the ICT age
International Journal of Arts and Technology 2(3) 2009
- Mediaturgy: a conversation with Marianne Weems
- Strategies of subversion: the power of live performance within the walls of a Renaissance city
- Walking Los Angeles: from documentation to performance
- Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade as near-Utopia
- Human-computer-intuition? Exploring the cognitive basis for intuition in embodied interaction
Special issue: Issues and challenges in wireless communications and networks
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing 3(3) 2009
Papers from the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), held in Vienna, Austria, 18-20 April 2006
Papers from the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), held in Vienna, Austria, 18-20 April 2006
- Hierarchical, multi-spanning architecture for managed wireless networks
- An on-demand key establishment protocol for MANETs
- Prevention of management frame attacks on 802.11 WLANs
- ARM: anonymous routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
- AODV-based multipath routing protocol with preferential path selection probabilities
- Multi-agent-based clustering approach to wireless sensor networks
- Using buffer management in 3G radio bearers to enhance end-to-end TCP performance
- Multi-hop mesh networking for UWB WPANs with QoS support
- Performance modelling of IEEE 802.11 DCF using equilibrium point analysis
- Optimising server performance for location-aware client applications in mobile commerce: the repository manager's formula
Special issue: Stochastic systems and applications
International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(1) 2009
- Using proportional and different controller to control chaos in non-autonomous mechanical system
- Approach of context-aware computing with uncertainty for ubiquitous active service
- Adaptive sliding mode observer for non-linear stochastic systems with uncertainties
- Guaranteed cost control with accommodation of position and rate limits in the second-order actuators
- A brief summary on the control recovery of time-varying K-G systems
- Two-class M/G/1 queue under workload control
- The CVaR constrained stochastic programming ALM model for defined benefit pension funds
- Study on anti-synchronisation between spatiotemporal chaos system and temporal chaos system
- Disturbance detection using an improved hit-or-miss transform
- Stochastic system identification of unknown flexible cantilever beam under turbulent flow
- The modelling and road simulation test of a hydraulic engine mount
- Simulation research on braking performance of hydrodynamic torque converter and retarder based on automatic shifting rules
8 October 2009
Call for papers: Design and Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles
A special issue of International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems
Focused on autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) systems, this special issue aims to present a unique source with a theme of autonomy research associated with military commissions, homeland security and scientific explorations. The objective of the special issue is to promote emerging technologies, up-to-date achievements and pioneer techniques in the sector of design and control of intelligent robotic platforms with superior mobility and functionality.
Topics of interest including but not confined to the following technical areas:
Submission of full paper before: 15 February, 2010
Completion of first review (Notification of Acceptance): 15 June, 2010
Submission of revised paper: 15 August, 2010
Completion of final review: 15 September, 2010
Final paper due: 15 October, 2010
Focused on autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) systems, this special issue aims to present a unique source with a theme of autonomy research associated with military commissions, homeland security and scientific explorations. The objective of the special issue is to promote emerging technologies, up-to-date achievements and pioneer techniques in the sector of design and control of intelligent robotic platforms with superior mobility and functionality.
Topics of interest including but not confined to the following technical areas:
- Autonomous operating systems for mobile robotic platforms
- Sensor-based situation awareness and dynamic route planning algorithms
- Modelling and control of UGV systems in virtual environment
- Environmental impacts on the performance of UGV systems
- Modelling and simulation of UGV-terrain interactions
- Mobility and survivability of UGV over certain/uncertain terrains
- Dynamic analysis and performance evaluation of UGV systems
- Steering control and stability analysis of UGV systems
- UGV subsystems, including powertrain, chassis, mechatronics, etc.
- Dynamic communication/interaction between UGV subsystems
- UGV system state estimation and configuration optimization
- Tools/methodologies for integrating, testing and prototyping UGV systems
Submission of full paper before: 15 February, 2010
Completion of first review (Notification of Acceptance): 15 June, 2010
Submission of revised paper: 15 August, 2010
Completion of final review: 15 September, 2010
Final paper due: 15 October, 2010
Special issue: Strategic human resource management with European perspectives
European Journal of International Management 3(4) 2009
- Will you cite me? The emerging strategy of academic publishing
- Sustainability and human resource management: reasoning and applications on corporate websites
- What companies pay for: the strategic role of employee competencies
- Departmental status in light of a growing proportion of female staff: the case of human resource management
- Human capital and structural position in knowledge networks as determinants when classifying employee groups for strategic human resource management purposes
- Public sector human resource management reform across countries: from performance appraisal to performance steering?
7 October 2009
Call for papers: Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Informatics
Special issues of
International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design,
International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine
Advances in information technology techniques have facilitated, accelerated, and promoted the research on molecular biology and medicine in the past few decades. To discover more new knowledge in biomedical areas and to improve the quality of healthcare and medicine, the techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and high performance computing are extremely useful. This special issue aims to attract state-of-the-art solutions and novel attempts in the area of computational intelligence in biomedical informatics.
Please note that although this announcement is being sent to the research community at large, authors who have published papers in IIBM 2010 will have a higher priority. (IIBM 2010 is the International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine , to be held February, 15-18, 2010, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Cracow College Krakow, Poland.)
Papers will be published in either the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design or the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine.
Papers to be included in these special issues should be focused on computational intelligence in one or more of the following subjects (n.b. the list is indicative rather than exhaustive):
Submission: 1 June 2010
Notification: 25 July 2010
Camera ready papers: 20 August 2010
International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design,
International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine
Advances in information technology techniques have facilitated, accelerated, and promoted the research on molecular biology and medicine in the past few decades. To discover more new knowledge in biomedical areas and to improve the quality of healthcare and medicine, the techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and high performance computing are extremely useful. This special issue aims to attract state-of-the-art solutions and novel attempts in the area of computational intelligence in biomedical informatics.
Please note that although this announcement is being sent to the research community at large, authors who have published papers in IIBM 2010 will have a higher priority. (IIBM 2010 is the International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine , to be held February, 15-18, 2010, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Cracow College Krakow, Poland.)
Papers will be published in either the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design or the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine.
Papers to be included in these special issues should be focused on computational intelligence in one or more of the following subjects (n.b. the list is indicative rather than exhaustive):
- Gene expression analysis
- Gene identification and annotation
- Protein/RNA structure prediction
- RNAi and microRNA analysis
- Sequence and structural motifs
- Microarray analysis
- Modelling of biochemical pathways
- Drug design
- Genomics and proteomics
- Systems biology
- Medical signal/image processing
- Computer assisted surgery
- Medical/healthcare informatics
- Biomedical text mining and information extraction
Submission: 1 June 2010
Notification: 25 July 2010
Camera ready papers: 20 August 2010
Call for papers: Laws, Regulation and New Product Development – the Role of the Regulatory Framework for the Management of Technology and Innovation
A special issue of International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management
Innovations do not fall like manna from heaven but are generated by pioneering activities of human beings. These activities have to take place via interaction with all kind of institutions and the regulatory framework of their individual business environments. Traditional innovation theory embedded in growth theory or industrial economics often neglects the influence of the regulatory framework on innovations.
In the context of the growing importance of institutions like the World Bank or the European Union, the influence of laws and all kinds of regulation keeps on growing. Hence, regulation is often seen as a substantial barrier for innovative activities. But, especially in growing research fields like environmental innovation, empirical evidence has shown a strong positive influence of regulatory measures on encouraging innovative activities. The same can be expected for other regulated markets such as., for example, health services. And regulation may also be relevant in more traditional markets, e.g. due to the increasing role of consumer protection and policy. In particular, environmental protection encourages innovation as for instance car manufacturers must think about new ways of driving concepts in the light of permanently increasing energy costs, changing consumer perceptions and increasingly limited natural resources worldwide. Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to clarify the role of regulation in innovation processes and to assess its impacts.
Potential authors are invited to submit contributions analyzing the role of regulatory issues in the management of technology and innovation. The goal is to prepare a reference issue that could be of immediate use to those interested in the management of technology and innovation and its implications, whether they are academics, practitioners or researchers.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to
1-2 page abstract due: 15 January 2010
Notification to authors: 28 February 2010
Submission of manuscripts due: 15 July 2010
Notification to authors: 15 October 2010
Final drafts of papers: 31 December 2010
Innovations do not fall like manna from heaven but are generated by pioneering activities of human beings. These activities have to take place via interaction with all kind of institutions and the regulatory framework of their individual business environments. Traditional innovation theory embedded in growth theory or industrial economics often neglects the influence of the regulatory framework on innovations.
In the context of the growing importance of institutions like the World Bank or the European Union, the influence of laws and all kinds of regulation keeps on growing. Hence, regulation is often seen as a substantial barrier for innovative activities. But, especially in growing research fields like environmental innovation, empirical evidence has shown a strong positive influence of regulatory measures on encouraging innovative activities. The same can be expected for other regulated markets such as., for example, health services. And regulation may also be relevant in more traditional markets, e.g. due to the increasing role of consumer protection and policy. In particular, environmental protection encourages innovation as for instance car manufacturers must think about new ways of driving concepts in the light of permanently increasing energy costs, changing consumer perceptions and increasingly limited natural resources worldwide. Therefore, the aim of this special issue is to clarify the role of regulation in innovation processes and to assess its impacts.
Potential authors are invited to submit contributions analyzing the role of regulatory issues in the management of technology and innovation. The goal is to prepare a reference issue that could be of immediate use to those interested in the management of technology and innovation and its implications, whether they are academics, practitioners or researchers.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to
- Environmental innovations
- Institutions and innovation
- Role of regulation in specific branches, e.g. banking, telecom, etc.
- Conceptualization of regulatory-push/pull
- Frameworks for the management of regulatory influences
- Influence of laws on product development
- Business model generation and evaluation
- Innovation in the service sector
- Economic performance of innovative firms
- Technology screening and forecasting
- Regulation and innovation management in different cultures and in multinational enterprises
1-2 page abstract due: 15 January 2010
Notification to authors: 28 February 2010
Submission of manuscripts due: 15 July 2010
Notification to authors: 15 October 2010
Final drafts of papers: 31 December 2010
Special issue: Knowledge management in the project work context
International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies 3(3/4) 2009
- Intelligent participation: communicating knowledge in cross-functional project teams
- The social learning character of projects and project teams
- Knowledge sharing in different project work environments analysed by the holistic concept of man
- Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments
- Knowledge integration between the change program and the parent organisation
- Knowledge creation during cross-functional projects: lessons from a case study of a French bank
- Knowledge and experience sharing in projects-based building maintenance community of practice
- Knowledge integration in a multinational setting – a study of a transnational business project
- Knowledge management in projects: insights from two perspectives
- Integration in project business: mechanisms for knowledge integration
- A qualitative inquiry into organisational culture's moderating effect on knowledge management projects in the aerospace and defence industry
- Shared knowledge in project-based companies' value chain
Special issue:Stimulating personal development and knowledge sharing
International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning 19(4-6) 2009
Articles based on selected papers presented at the First TENCompetence Workshop ‘Stimulating personal development and knowledge sharing’, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 30–31 October 2008
Articles based on selected papers presented at the First TENCompetence Workshop ‘Stimulating personal development and knowledge sharing’, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 30–31 October 2008
- Social sharing in LearnWeb2.0
- A context-based methodology for integrating Web 2.0 services in learning scenarios
- Building a knowledge repository for life-long competence development
- The TENCompetence EPIQ's business demonstrator development
- Web-service architecture for tools supporting lifelong e-learning platforms
- Social support system in learning network for lifelong learners: a conceptual framework
- Learner reflexivity, technology and 'making our way through the world'
- Improving the unreliability of competence information: an argumentation to apply information fusion in learning networks
- Effect of adaptive learning style scenarios on learning achievements
5 October 2009
Call for papers: Global Financial Crisis and its Impact on Global Financial Regulation
A special issue of International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance
The deregulation of the financial markets that occurred in the 1980s altered the architecture of national financial markets and led to the development of a new global financial system. Central to this process was the enhanced importance of new financial instruments or, more correctly, the extensive use of financial instruments whose origins can be traced back to the 1920s. The deregulation of national banking systems and the development of new financial instruments including securitization produced a crisis in mortgage lending that has been labelled the sub-prime crisis or the credit crunch. This process has undermined the stability of national financial systems as banks have been increasingly unwilling to lend to one another. Heavily leveraged banks or banking systems have suffered and this has led to a situation in which national governments have had to intervene to underwrite private sector banking.
Papers that explore the financial crisis and its consequences are especially welcomed. Papers on all other aspects of research on services are also welcome. Papers can be conceptual, empirical or methodological. We welcome studies from social, geographical, business, economic, policy and management sciences, and particularly interdisciplinary approaches.
Potential papers are encouraged in areas which include but are not limited to:
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: 30 September 2010
The deregulation of the financial markets that occurred in the 1980s altered the architecture of national financial markets and led to the development of a new global financial system. Central to this process was the enhanced importance of new financial instruments or, more correctly, the extensive use of financial instruments whose origins can be traced back to the 1920s. The deregulation of national banking systems and the development of new financial instruments including securitization produced a crisis in mortgage lending that has been labelled the sub-prime crisis or the credit crunch. This process has undermined the stability of national financial systems as banks have been increasingly unwilling to lend to one another. Heavily leveraged banks or banking systems have suffered and this has led to a situation in which national governments have had to intervene to underwrite private sector banking.
Papers that explore the financial crisis and its consequences are especially welcomed. Papers on all other aspects of research on services are also welcome. Papers can be conceptual, empirical or methodological. We welcome studies from social, geographical, business, economic, policy and management sciences, and particularly interdisciplinary approaches.
Potential papers are encouraged in areas which include but are not limited to:
- The forms of direct public sector intervention in the private sector
- Policy responses to market failure on national and international level including Basel II
- Impacts of the financial crisis on Islamic banking sector
- The national or local consequences of the financial crisis
- Role of e-banking & commerce after financial crisis
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: 30 September 2010
Call for papers: Future of Emerging Markets and Islamic banking after the Global Financial Crisis
A special issue of International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies
After at least a decade of easy credit, the wheels came off the global finance system in the summer of 2007. The deregulation of national banking systems and the development of new financial instruments including securitization produced a crisis in mortgage lending that has been labelled the sub-prime crisis or the credit crunch. This process has undermined the stability of national financial systems as banks have been increasingly unwilling to lend to one another. Heavily leveraged banks or banking systems have suffered and this has led to a situation in which national governments have had to intervene to underwrite private sector banking Economies across the globe are starting to feel the effects of this ‘regime shift’ and the purpose of this Special Issue is to invite scholars from around the globe to explore the causes, implications, etc. of the credit crunch as well as discussing future trends in global banking, with particular emphasis on emerging markets and Islamic banking.
Potential papers are encouraged in areas which include but are not limited to:
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: 30 September 2010
After at least a decade of easy credit, the wheels came off the global finance system in the summer of 2007. The deregulation of national banking systems and the development of new financial instruments including securitization produced a crisis in mortgage lending that has been labelled the sub-prime crisis or the credit crunch. This process has undermined the stability of national financial systems as banks have been increasingly unwilling to lend to one another. Heavily leveraged banks or banking systems have suffered and this has led to a situation in which national governments have had to intervene to underwrite private sector banking Economies across the globe are starting to feel the effects of this ‘regime shift’ and the purpose of this Special Issue is to invite scholars from around the globe to explore the causes, implications, etc. of the credit crunch as well as discussing future trends in global banking, with particular emphasis on emerging markets and Islamic banking.
Potential papers are encouraged in areas which include but are not limited to:
- Integration and globalization of banking systems
- Consolidation and its consequences for banking and financial services
- Islamic banking
- Islamic financial market instruments and trade
- Policy responses to market failure on national and international level
- The national or local consequences of the financial crisis: do we need a new global system of banking regulation?
- Is sub prime a consequence of poor regulation and/or a lack of understanding?
- How should governments/central banks respond to a banking crisis?
- Increasing role of e-banking & commerce
- Efficiency and technological progress
- Financial innovation
- Financing decisions of banks
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: 30 September 2010
Call for papers: Health, Disease, Environment and Longevity
A special issue of International Journal of Society Systems Science
One of the great successes in human society over the last few decades has been the increased proportion of the elderly. People in many countries can now expect to live into their 70s or 80s, if not longer. Despite concerns over pensions and so on, this is to be celebrated.
However, threats to longevity still persist. These threats include such Malthusian checks as floods and famine, drought and persistence of traditional disease vectors. But these are now compounded by such neo-Malthusian risks as global warming/climate change, global pandemics such as SARS, HIV/ AIDS and H1N1, and over-consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
The aims of this special issue are to explore the linkages between health, disease, environment and longevity in order to identify patterns, processes and policies of relevance to human society.
Topics such as, but not limited to, the following are welcomed:
Receipt of papers: 31 May 2010
Peer review completed: 3 September 2010
Final drafts received: 26 November 2010
One of the great successes in human society over the last few decades has been the increased proportion of the elderly. People in many countries can now expect to live into their 70s or 80s, if not longer. Despite concerns over pensions and so on, this is to be celebrated.
However, threats to longevity still persist. These threats include such Malthusian checks as floods and famine, drought and persistence of traditional disease vectors. But these are now compounded by such neo-Malthusian risks as global warming/climate change, global pandemics such as SARS, HIV/ AIDS and H1N1, and over-consumption of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
The aims of this special issue are to explore the linkages between health, disease, environment and longevity in order to identify patterns, processes and policies of relevance to human society.
Topics such as, but not limited to, the following are welcomed:
- The persistence of Malthusian threats locally, nationally, globally
- The rise of neo-Malthusian threats, at different scales
- Linkages between factors of health, disease and longevity
- Health and disease modelling
- Policy development that might prove effective in meeting these and future threats
Receipt of papers: 31 May 2010
Peer review completed: 3 September 2010
Final drafts received: 26 November 2010
Special issue: Biopattern analysis using machine learning methods
International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms 1(3) 2009
Extended versions of papers from a special session on ‘Application of machine learning in constructing biopatterns and analysing bioprofiles' at the 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA '08) held in San Diego, California, USA, 11-13 December 2008.
Extended versions of papers from a special session on ‘Application of machine learning in constructing biopatterns and analysing bioprofiles' at the 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA '08) held in San Diego, California, USA, 11-13 December 2008.
- Cancer profiles by affinity propagation
- Distance metric learning and support vector machines for classification of mass spectrometry proteomics data
- Error bounds of decision templates and support vector machines in decision fusion
- Image classification of artificial fingerprints using Gabor wavelet filters, self-organising maps and Hermite/Laguerre neural networks
- Evaluation of missing data imputation in longitudinal cohort studies in breast cancer survival
- Survival analysis in cancer using a partial logistic neural network model with Bayesian regularisation framework: a validation study
Special issue: Modelling and simulation of systems security
International Journal of Information and Computer Security 3(2) 2009
- A testbed for power system security evaluation
- Weighted trust evaluation-based malicious node detection for wireless sensor networks
- Mitigating routing vulnerabilities in ad hoc networks using reputations
- Design and simulation on data-forwarding security in sensor networks
- Modelling and simulations for Identity-Based Privacy-Protected Access Control Filter (IPACF) capability to resist massive denial of service attacks
Special issue: Incorporating the affective loop into learning technologies
International Journal of Learning Technology 4(3/4) 2009
Papers from the Modelling and Scaffolding Affective Experiences to Impact Learning workshop held at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Los Angeles, USA, 9 July 2007.
Papers from the Modelling and Scaffolding Affective Experiences to Impact Learning workshop held at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Los Angeles, USA, 9 July 2007.
- Affect-aware tutors: recognising and responding to student affect
- Multimethod assessment of affective experience and expression during deep learning
- Supporting affective communication in the classroom with the Subtle Stone
- Modelling affect expression and recognition in an interactive learning environment
- The role of learner attributes and affect determining the impact of agent presence
1 October 2009
Call for papers: Interaction between Software Engineering Methods/Tools and Manufacturing Production Systems/Processes
A special issue of International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management
Management of product life cycles may be viewed as an achievement of industrialisation for a systematic approach to production systems. It provides at every level of enterprises a scientific methodology for work. The operational level work first focused on various CAD systems. Coordination was then addressed by (1) providing tools to share information about product and, (2) tools to assist project management. PLM should master a holistic view of manufacturing and production systems. PLM is applied to the extended enterprise which is a complex set of relationships between companies, services and human actors. The corresponding interactions are either contractual based or based on trust between actors. If some processes are modelled and orchestrated via process management systems, many interactions remain informal.
Software engineering followed a parallel and quite disconnected evolution. After the initial step where computation was a direct interaction with hardware, several abstraction levels were created to ease the control of software leading to increased complexity of such systems. From the functional decomposition of software through object oriented techniques, software engineering evolved towards new methods such as service oriented approaches and model driven engineering. Service oriented approaches organise the development of complex and large-scale software applications by definition of contractual and loosely coupled interfaces. Model driven engineering uses a strategy where software development is led by series of modelling steps; a step is viewed as a model transformation. An underlying process is then constructed.
Both PLM of manufactured product and software engineering develop strategies to organise the complexity of a production system. In one case, the final product is executable software while in the second case physical parts and systems must be produced and are the output of the last model transformation. Obviously a parallel may be defined between these two processes but in order to apply methods and tools from one domain into the other one, many important issues must be addressed. In this perspective, software engineering seems to be more formalised and structured than classical production systems. Therefore, many strategies try to model manufactured production systems to well-defined processes which must be led by an adequate information system. However, even if information systems are increasingly widely used to support product development and production management systems, it is time to study
By addressing both theoreticaland application problems, this special issue hopes to point out research challenges and future research directions. The main intent is to make practitioners aware of similarities between software engineering and other engineering domains specifically production and produce development systems and to promote a better understanding and collaboration between the two fields.
This issue addresses PLM from several viewpoints, such as, but not limited to, the following:
Important Dates
Full Paper Due: 15 December, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 15 February, 2010
Final Version of Paper Due: 15 Apri, 2010
Management of product life cycles may be viewed as an achievement of industrialisation for a systematic approach to production systems. It provides at every level of enterprises a scientific methodology for work. The operational level work first focused on various CAD systems. Coordination was then addressed by (1) providing tools to share information about product and, (2) tools to assist project management. PLM should master a holistic view of manufacturing and production systems. PLM is applied to the extended enterprise which is a complex set of relationships between companies, services and human actors. The corresponding interactions are either contractual based or based on trust between actors. If some processes are modelled and orchestrated via process management systems, many interactions remain informal.
Software engineering followed a parallel and quite disconnected evolution. After the initial step where computation was a direct interaction with hardware, several abstraction levels were created to ease the control of software leading to increased complexity of such systems. From the functional decomposition of software through object oriented techniques, software engineering evolved towards new methods such as service oriented approaches and model driven engineering. Service oriented approaches organise the development of complex and large-scale software applications by definition of contractual and loosely coupled interfaces. Model driven engineering uses a strategy where software development is led by series of modelling steps; a step is viewed as a model transformation. An underlying process is then constructed.
Both PLM of manufactured product and software engineering develop strategies to organise the complexity of a production system. In one case, the final product is executable software while in the second case physical parts and systems must be produced and are the output of the last model transformation. Obviously a parallel may be defined between these two processes but in order to apply methods and tools from one domain into the other one, many important issues must be addressed. In this perspective, software engineering seems to be more formalised and structured than classical production systems. Therefore, many strategies try to model manufactured production systems to well-defined processes which must be led by an adequate information system. However, even if information systems are increasingly widely used to support product development and production management systems, it is time to study
- the granularity of information systems required to manage complex manufacturing and production systems ,
- the cutting-edge where computer science does not improve the efficiency of the manufacturing systems and
- how the practice of manufacturing systems might influence the evolution of computer science technology.
- How can granularity of information systems dedicated to manufactured product development and production be improved?
- How to determine when computer science is no more an efficient support to manufacturing practices?
- How can the practice of development and production in production processes influence evolution of computer science technology?
By addressing both theoreticaland application problems, this special issue hopes to point out research challenges and future research directions. The main intent is to make practitioners aware of similarities between software engineering and other engineering domains specifically production and produce development systems and to promote a better understanding and collaboration between the two fields.
This issue addresses PLM from several viewpoints, such as, but not limited to, the following:
- Applications of SOA for PLM
- Applications of MDE for PLM,
- Ontologies, interoperability and its relevance to PLM
- Non-formal methods and practice that requires assistance
- Methods and tools to create computer support for PLM (KBE, etc).
- Models of relationships between strategic levels and operational levels.
- Models for the extended enterprise as a network of relationships between companies
- Modelling collaborative activities
- Software engineering requirements for the next generation PLM systems
Important Dates
Full Paper Due: 15 December, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 15 February, 2010
Final Version of Paper Due: 15 Apri, 2010
Special issue: Key concepts in sport management
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 6(2) 2009
- Institutional pressures, government funding and provincial sport organisations
- Power trip: sport and media
- Outside the fields of praise: women's rugby in Wales
- Comparative analysis of football efficiency among two small European countries: Portugal and Greece
- Market size and attendance in English Premier League football
- Research on voluntary sport organisations: established themes and emerging opportunities
Special issue: Business firms and the political environment
International Journal of Business Environment 2(4) 2009
- Mobilisation of issue networks: the case of fighting heart disease in Finland
- Political embeddedness of technological development – the IgY case
- Impact of international political units on small business firms' relationships – the case of EU and Swedish small firms
- Understanding legitimacy in the foreign market entry process
- Multinational enterprises and their linkage effects on local socio-economic environments in emerging markets
- Complexity and interdependency in firm's internationalisation: when the state becomes the partner
Special issue: Nanoparticles: a state-of-the-art in scientific research
International Journal of Nanoparticles 2(1-6) 2009
Further papers (over 60) from the International Conference on Nanotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges (ICON008) held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 17-19 June 2008
Other papers are published in
International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials 2(1-5) 2009
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing 4(1-4) 2009
Further papers (over 60) from the International Conference on Nanotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges (ICON008) held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 17-19 June 2008
Other papers are published in
International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials 2(1-5) 2009
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing 4(1-4) 2009
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