Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion

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• Optimal power flow-based congestion management in restructured power systems
• Direct vector controlled six-phase asymmetrical induction motor with power balanced space vector PWM multilevel operation
• Alleviation of transient torsional torque stresses of turbine generator shaft segments using CBVLC supplementary controller
• PSO-based control optimisation of microgrid with D-FACTS
• Reliability evaluation of transmission expansion planning using heuristic methods

Special issue published: "New Trends in Computational Intelligence"

International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications 7(4) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the XII Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence.

• Stock market volatility prediction using possibilistic fuzzy modelling
• Evolutionary computation methods for the schedule optimisation of pipeline networks
• Modified firefly algorithm applied to image vector quantisation codebook design
• Resolution of one-dimensional bin packing problems using augmented neural networks and minimum bin slack
• Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence for the inference of gene regulatory networks
• An improved genetic algorithms-based seam carving method
• Clustering algorithm based on asymmetric similarity and paradigmatic features

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development

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• The strengths of EMAS as an environmental management system for European university campuses
• Social Electricity: a case study on users perceptions in using green ICT social applications
• Prospects and challenges of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
• Suitability of reclaimed asphalt pavement and recycled crushed brick as filter media in bioretention applications
• Managing the Sundarbans region: opportunities for mutual gain by India and Bangladesh
• Factors influencing corporate pro-environmental behaviour - a case study from the UK construction sector

Inderscience is media partner for Pre-Filled Syringes East Coast 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Pre-Filled Syringes East Coast (26-27 April 2017, Boston, USA).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Environment and Health
• Int. J. of Healthcare Technology and Management

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business and Systems Research

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• An AHP-based asset allocation model
• Store patronage and retail competition in emerging markets
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• A modified multi-objective particle swarm optimisation algorithm for healthcare facility planning

Call for papers: "Future Generation Wireless Networks"

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

The recent trend of wireless networks communication has triggered an urge for the innovation of new technology called 5G wireless networks that enhances future generation wireless networks. This 5G technology is proposed in order to improve the quality of wireless networks. This innovative technique mainly enhances the lifetime, increases transmission rate and reduces delays.

This wireless technique receives a lot of attention from designers, developers and researchers. Since they have lots of benefits it needs to address certain issues such as networking, device, protocol and interoperability. The main element in the 5G network is the IoT and body sensor communication which enhances the wireless personal networks. Hence a new scalable, low cost and robust techniques infrastructure should be created to support effectively the 5G network.

This special issue mainly solicits on the development of novel techniques for the enhancement of 5G networks and to solve the challenging problems associated with it. It fosters the evolution of wireless networks with certain ubiquitous characteristics.

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

• 5G networks for IoT
• 5G networks for sensors communication
• Network interoperability in 5G wireless networks
• Performance evaluation of wireless networks
• 5G networks based quality of service
• Efficient energy based design and protocols in 5G networks
• Management of resources in 5G networks
• Modulation and utilization of spectrum in 5G networks.
• E-health monitoring using 5G
• Wireless topologies and architectures for improvement of sustainability
• Secure protocols and architectures for wireless networks
• Social network security
• Power management mechanisms for wireless network
• Security and performance measure of wireless networks

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 2 May, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology

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• Shareworks - a ubiquitous online learning platform for project-based learning and networking
• An augmented reality tool to validate the assembly sequence of a discrete product
• Modelling tactual experience with product materials
• A methodology for virtual assessment of product ergonomics
• Motivating subjects to drive in haste using time pressure in a simulated environment
• Statistical foot-shape analysis for mass-customisation of footwear
• Natural interaction for online documentation in industrial maintenance
• Controlled direct 3D sketching with haptic and motion constraints
• Affordances for designing natural user interfaces for 3D modelling

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems

Extended versions of papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (4-6 April 2017, Irbid, Jordan) will be published by the following journals:

• Int. J. of Computational Science and Engineering
• Int. J. of Embedded Systems
• Int. J. of High Performance Computing and Networking

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Performance Management

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• Intellectual capital in Malaysian hotel industry: a case study of Malacca
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• The performance diamond: measuring public sector organisational performance
• Organisational performance as a function of creativity components and innovation capability: an Indian perspective
• Identification of performance measures in Indian automobile industry: a green supply chain management approach
• A new approach to design supply chain key performance indicator for actors and regulator: a case study in innovative product in Indonesia

Call for papers: "Sustainable Energy Technologies"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology.

Developing suitable energy conversion configurations/products to meet human needs at domestic, industrial and commercial levels is the current need for a sustainable development. Renewable energy has a greater role in the economic growth and sustainability of a nation. Sustainable technologies are essential to make use of renewable energy sources – solar, wind, biomass etc.

Renewable energy and sustainable technologies are needed for meeting the demands of increasing energy requirements. There are a lot of challenges to be addressed for efficient use of these technologies. This special issue provides an opportunity for research scholars, academicians and engineers from all over the world to share their latest research findings and developments in sustainable technologies.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Advanced Research in Green Energy Technologies (ICTARGET-2017), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

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

• Solar energy (thermal and PV)
• Hydrogen and fuel cells
• Wind energy
• Geothermal energy
• Ocean thermal energy
• Biomass energy
• Hybrid renewable energy technologies
• Green buildings

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 31 August, 2017

Special issue published: "Web Communities; the Sense of Genuine Connectedness"

International Journal of Web Based Communities 12(4) 2016

• The influences of participation and moderation on the development of a sense of virtual community
• Impression management via content-dependent 'liking' on social media
• The digital media phenomenon of YouTube beauty gurus: the case of Bubzbeauty
• Identifying communities and influential node in Facebook fan page - a case study of FJU 2013 ad camp
• How to analyse a semantic social network of learners in a social learning environment?
• Factors influencing the intention to share knowledge in citizen media with stimulus-organismic-response framework

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• Implicit and explicit loyalty: the role of satisfaction, trust and brand image in mobile telecommunication industry
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• Prioritising the dimensions of employee motivation using analytic hierarchy process
• Group affiliation, R&D and firm performance: empirical evidence from Indian manufacturing sector
• Does location choice affect foreign subsidiary success in India? An empirical study based on Porter's diamond model

Research Picks Extra – December 2016

The technology life cycle
Understanding how the science base relates to the technology life cycle is an important aspect of assessing university research and industrial applications and how each affects the other. Researchers in Japan have found that in the early stages of the technology life cycle one role of academic work is to broaden the technology scope, which then ultimately leads to a wide variety of technologies reaching the market, at least when it comes to solar cell technology. By contrast, in the latter stages of the technology life cycle where both product and process are important collaboration between academia and industry is of even more relevance to developing intellectual property and obtaining patents successfully.
Motohashi, K. and Tomozawa, T. (2016) ‘Differences in science based innovation by technology life cycles: the case of solar cell technology’, Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 72, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.5–18.

Auditing the cloud
As we increasingly rely on cloud-based storage, there is a growing need for security checks, privacy protection and auditing of those resources in a way that does not put some of the burden back on the user and so negate some of the benefits of cloud services. Researchers in China have now developed a framework for an authenticators generation centre (AGC) that is lightweight in terms of computing power needed for batch auditing and authentication. Moreover, because the authenticators operate on blinded cloud data the approach conserves data privacy. Tests have demonstrated that the system is secure, the team reports.
Shen, W., Yu, J., Hao, R. and Wang, X. (2016) ‘A public cloud storage auditing scheme for resource-constrained clients’, Int. J. High Performance Systems Architecture, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.121–130.

Quenching metals with ionic liquids
Ionic liquids have been seen as an environment friendly alternative to volatile organic solvents (VOCs) for many applications. Now, researchers in Germany have now used high-speed videography to help them investigate the heat transfer mechanisms involved in the quenching of metals using ionic liquids. The industrial processing of metals for engineering and other applications commonly involves heating and cooling processes to endow the final product with specific physical characteristics. The team points out that common quenching liquids have several drawbacks such as the formation of layers of vapour. The incredibly low volatility of ionic liquids means this problem the Leidenfrost effect, cannot arise. The team’s work shows that ionic liquids offer an alternative quenching media for metallic components.
Beck, M., Neise, C., Ahrenberg, M., Schick, C., Kragl, U. and Kessler, O. (2016) ‘Heat transfer mechanisms analysed by high speed video recording of metal quenching in ionic liquids and water’, Int. J. Microstructure and Materials Properties, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp.359–372.

SUVs and brain injury
More than one in five of the annual road traffic accidents involving a fatality around the world involve a vehicle hitting a pedestrian. The head and lower limbs are the most common collision points but it is well known that pedestrians hit by SUVs (sports utility vehicles) are more likely to suffer serious injury or death than those hit by a sedan-type car. A collaboration between scientists in the USA and Japan has investigated the effects of the various forces, translational and rotational accelerations, experience by a pedestrian hit by an SUV and the potential for traumatic brain injury. Their work points to the emerging option of a pre-crash brake assist activation system as being one approach to ameliorating the risk of a pedestrian sustaining a traumatic brain injury when there is a primary head strike in a typical, low-speed, wrap-around impact case.
Tamura, A., Koide, T. and Yang, K.H. (2016) ‘Effects of translational and rotational accelerations on traumatic brain injury in a sport utility vehicle-to-pedestrian crash’, Int. J. Vehicle Design, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp.208–229.

Bring Your Own Disaster

Bring your own device (BYOD) to work is common practice these days. Almost everyone has a smart or a tablet and in many office and other jobs, using the device makes workers more effective and more efficient in their work (games and personal social media aside, perhaps). A new study in the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies suggests, however, that most company IT security managers would prefer employees not to BYOD.

Khaled Zayed of the International School of Management in New York, USA and also Paris, France, reiterates the security and safety concerns that surround BYOD and has carried out a qualitative case study of information technology security managers to determine the industry perspective on BYOD.
“IT is critical in our modern world for doing business and communicating with others,” explains Zayed, “Businesses, governments, and individuals rely on internet-enabled technology to achieve this, using mobile devices, e-mails, and social media, and companies around the world conduct business using local and wide area networks and virtual private networks.” The social networking servers, process virtualization, and cloud computing present both opportunities for rapid innovation as well as risks to proprietary information, trade secrets and intellectual property, especially when those workers with access to sensitive data use their own devices.

There are security concerns for any networked data and system, viruses and other malware, phishing and hacking attacks, identity theft, data leaks, corporate espionage, denial of service attacks, and of course social engineering and confidence tricks. It has been said many times before that companies must establish strict policies to address the risks, as employees using IT at work and in particular in the context of BYOD are wholly unaware of the risks. If they are aware of the risks they are not necessarily aware of ways to mitigate those risks or how to address problems that arise if their or the company IT systems are compromised.


Zayed, K. (2016) ‘Information security awareness: managing web, mobile and endpoint security; overcoming the challenges of bring your own device’, Int. J. Teaching and Case Studies, Vol. 7, Nos. 3/4, pp.271-288.

Free sample articles newly available from Global Business and Economics Review

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• On the nature of the voting paradox as a basis of economic analysis
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• BRIC dynamic conditional correlations, portfolio diversification and rebalancing after the global financial crisis of 2008-2009
• Consumer innovativeness and opinion leadership: revisiting consumer characteristics in new product diffusion model
• Statistics education in GCC business schools

Special issue published: "Innovative Internet Marketing Trends and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture, Food and Environment"

International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing 7(4) 2016

• Lifestyles and internet: a new pathway for well-being sustainability
• The digital economy: new e-business strategies for food Italian system
• Determinants of customer satisfaction in healthcare industry: the case of the Hellenic Red Cross
• The impact of advertising fresh milk has on consumers' behaviour of the Thessaloniki City population
• Management strategies and marketing operations in Greek tele-companies

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• E-shopping momentum: a conceptual framework

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• Studies on inventory model for deteriorating items with Weibull replenishment and generalised Pareto decay having time dependent demand
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• Optimal replenishment policies of an EOQ model for non-instantaneous Weibull deteriorating items with ramp-type of demand under shortages
• A simulation- and genetic algorithm-based optimisation of closed-loop multi-echelon inventory system
• Approximated closed-form minimum-cost solutions to the (S − 1, S) policy with complete backordering

Call for papers: "Critique of Knowledge Management"

For a special issue of the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development.

Knowledge management has come to be seen as a key component in

• organisational learning (Koenig (2002) sees knowledge management as "organisational learning and knowledge creation viewed as the conversions between tacit and explicit knowledge", Bică, Constantinescu & Bică, 2015:158)
• innovation ("innovation is built on collective knowledge sharing activities of, particularly, tacit knowledge", Bică, Constantinescu & Bică, 2015:157; "By collaborating with environmental activity, R&D personnel generate knowledge, which is partially tacit", Junquera & del Brío, 2009:260; "the active use of employee's formal and tacit skills and competences in the process of improvement, innovation and change", Pot, Totterdill & Dhondt, 2016:26)
• concretising core competences and core capabilities
• and in obtaining competitive advantage on a global scale - perhaps especially for SMEs with limited financial resources. 

Knowledge management is of course not a unified block of theories, as Bică, Constantinescu & Bică (2015) have shown, but Nonaka (1991, 1994, 2005; Nonaka, Toyama & Konno (2000); Nonaka, Von Krogh & Voelpel (2006); Nonaka & Von Krogh (2009) and his socialisation, externalisation, combination, and internalisation model (SECI) is the undisputed paradigm leader.

When a paradigm has such dominance, it is time to question it. Exploiting a paradigm can be very productive, until it reaches a certain point – a point that’s hard to define and identify – when its limitations will become a hindrance to the progress of science (Kuhn, 1968).

This leads to the objective of this call for papers: to questions some of the fundamental assumptions of knowledge management.

One of the fundamental assumptions of the SECI model is that competitive advantage is the result of newly externalised tacit knowing (“Organisations nowadays are playing a critical role in mobilising tacit knowledge held by individuals and provide the forum for a ‘spiral of knowledge’ creation through socialisation, combination, externalisation and internalisation”, Bică, Constantinescu & Bică, 2015:160).

In contrast to Nonaka (1991) and e.g. Robinson, Lee & Edwards (2007:261): "various methods of eliciting tacit knowledge and expressing it into reader-friendly formats have been developed") Philipson (2016A), we discussed how problematic such transformation is. We also problematized the way such externalisation is done, based on an alternative psychology: Vygotsky's.

In another article, Philipson (2016B), we discussed what management can do when it is not possible to transform employees tacit knowing into structural capital. The article showed how the capabilities of key workers - their tacit knowing - were secured to the company by their empowerment.

In a third article, Philipson & Philipson (2016C), we found that trust is built on conditional trust and that the conditional trust of the social animal that the human is continues to be built based on social relationships, unless one party gets information to mistrust. Is this understanding of trust also valid for the environment in which tacit knowing can be externalised?

References:
Bică, G., Constantinescu, M. & Bică, E. (2015) Innovation and knowledge management in a knowledge-based economy, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 11(2/3), 156-171.
Gourlay, S. (2002). Tacit knowledge, tacit knowing or behaving?, 1-24. in the Proceedings of the OKLC, Athens.
Gourlay, S. & Nurse, A. (2005). Flaws in the “Engine” of Knowledge Creation, 293-315, in Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Management. Greenwich: Information Age Publishing
Gourlay, S. (2006). Conceptualizing Knowledge Creation: A Critique of Nonaka's Theory. Journal of Management Studies, 43(7), 1415-1436. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00637.x/p>
Hillgren, P.-A., Seravalli, A. & Emilson, A. (2011). Prototyping and infrastructuring in design for social innovation. CoDesign, 7(3-4), 169-183. http://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2011.630474
Henry, S.G. (2010) Polanyi’s tacit knowing and the relevance of epistemology to clinical medicine Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16, 292-297, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01387
Junquera, B & del Brío, J.A. (2009) Environmental concurrent engineering: a way
to competitive advantage? World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 5(3), 256-270.
 Kakabadsen, N.K., Kakabadse, A. & Kouzmin, A. (2003), Reviewing the knowledge management literature: towards a taxonomy, Journal of Knowledge Management, 7(4), 75-91. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13673270310492967
Kelley, T. (2001). Prototyping is the Shorthand of Design, Design Management Journal, 12(3), 35-42.
Kuhn, T.S. (1968) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
McAdam, R. & McCreedy, S. (1999), A critical review of knowledge management models, The Learning Organization, 6(3), 91-101. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09696479910270416
Neuweg, G.H. (2004) Tacit Knowing and Implicit Learning, in Fischer, M., Boreham, N. & Nyhan, B. (eds.), European Perspectives on Learning at Work: The Acquisition of Work Process Knowledge. Cedefop Reference Series Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications for the European Communities.
Nonaka, I. (1991). The knowledge-creating company. Harvard Business Review, 69(6), 96-104.
Nonaka, I. (1994). A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation. Organization Science, 5(1), 14-37.

Philipson, S. (2016A). A framework for entrepreneurial learning in higher education, 124-162, in the Proceedings from Lärarlärdom: Conference on higher education, Linnaeus University. http://doi.org/10.15626/lld.201507
Philipson, S. (2016B). Radical innovation of a business model. Competitiveness Review, 26(2), 132-146. http://doi.org/10.1108/CR-06-2015-0061
Philipson, S. & Philipson, J. (2016C). From Budapest to Berlin – the role of reputation in the market economy. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 28(2/3), 310-322.
Pot, F., Totterdill, P. & Dhondt, S. (2016) Workplace innovation: European policy and
theoretical foundation, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 12(1), 13-32
Polanyi, M. (1961) The Logic of Tacit Inference. Philosophy, 41(155), 1-18.
Polanyi, M. (1962) Tacit knowing: Its bearing on some problems of philosophy. Reviews of Modern Physics, 34(4), 601-616.
Polanyi, M. (1968) Logic and Psychology. American Psychologist, 23(1), 27-43.
Robinson, S.  Lee, E. & Edwards, J.S. (2007) Improving the use of Visual Interactive Simulation as a knowledge elicitation tool, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 3(3/4), 260-272.Van Der Lugt, R. (2005), How sketching can affect the idea generation process in design group meetings, Design Studies, 26(2), 101-122.
Wong, W.L.P. & Radcliffe, D.F. (2000), The Tacit Nature of Design Knowledge, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 12(4), 493-512. 

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

• Difficulties in transforming tacit knowing to explicit knowledge
• The role of communities of practice in the externalisation of tacit knowing
• The role of trust in externalising tacit knowing.
• Are there cultural differences in how tacit knowing is externalised?
• How to secure tacit knowing in vivo to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage
• The difficulty in geographically separated communities of practice, as in outsourcing

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 15 April, 2017

Notification to authors: 1 July, 2017

Final versions due: 1 September, 2017

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• Role of transitory communities of practice in business school collaborative knowledge-sharing projects: from the partner's perspective
• On the evolution of technological knowledge and the structural economic consequences derived from its assimilation
• Systems thinking in online travel agency of supplier relationship management
• Enhancing individual innovation in organisations: a review of the literature
• Effects of employee retention practices on perceived firm and innovation performance
• The impacts of entrepreneurship on export orientation and internationalisation: the moderating effects of family ownership and involvement

Inderscience is media partner for Superbugs & Superdrugs 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Superbugs & Superdrugs (20-21 March 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health
• Int. J. of Risk Assessment and Management

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Global Energy Issues

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• The optimal hedge for carbon market: an empirical analysis of EU ETS
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• Environmental impact assessment with CO2 control of construction project and its application in China
• An assessment of CO2 emissions: is China's tertiary industry environmentally friendly?
• Coordinated development of energy-saving and emission-reduction evolution systems in the Yangtze River delta
• Prospect of China's energy conservation and emission reduction during the remaining years of the 12th Five-Year Plan period
• A weighted Gini coefficient and Theil index-based approach for estimating the spatial disparity in energy efficiency in China

Call for papers: "Uncertain Structural Systems"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems.

Uncertainties arise in the analysis of the structures when one or more of the structural characteristics involved in the problem cannot be defined as deterministic quantities. This may be due to the excitation characteristics or to the material and/or geometric properties of the structures. The fundamental aims of the papers of this special issue are related to the definition of methods able to treat efficiently the analysis of these systems and to show how the uncertainties are transferred to the response characteristics.

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

• Stochastic mechanics
• Random vibration
• Non-probabilistic methods
• Perturbation methods
• Monte Carlo approaches
• Frequency domain analyses
• Stochastic earthquake and wind dynamics

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 2 October, 2017

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• Restructuring the agricultural supply chain
• Who will buy the automated external defibrillator in Japan?
• Organisational factors for effective knowledge sharing: an empirical study of Korean learning teams
• Customised component transaction with insufficient trust: case study of the LCD-panel industry
• Open network innovation in the age of complexity: case for small and medium enterprises
• Internationalisation strategy implemented through faculty exchange: strategic entrepreneurship in a 'new' UK university
• Market life-cycle and products strategies: an empirical investigation of Indian automotive market
• The replication process of a global localisation strategy: a case study of Korean firms

International Journal of Sustainable Aviation to publish expanded papers from International Symposium on Electric Aviation and Autonomous Systems 2017

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Symposium on Electric Aviation and Autonomous Systems (10-13 September 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine) will be published by the International Journal of Sustainable Aviation.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

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• Integrating SWOT analysis into the FMEA methodology to improve corrective action decision making
• Development of fuzzy individual x and moving range control chart
• Prioritisation and performance evaluation of employees at strategic human resource management process using fuzzy AHP and fuzzy TOPSIS methods
• Pattern analysis of phase wise occurrence, severity and detection of failures in real time embedded projects
• Why Indian manufacturing SMEs are still reluctant in adopting total quality management
• The performance improvement of water pump manufacturing system via multi-criteria decision-making and simulation (a case study: Iran Godakht Company)

Call for papers: "Applications of Soft Computing and Intelligent Control"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics.

In computer science, soft computing (SC) was inspired by the human mind as the role model. Soft computing deals with imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, robustness and low solution cost. The principal constituents of soft computing are fuzzy logic control (FLC), artificial neural networks (ANN), evolutionary computation (EC), machine learning (ML), and probabilistic reasoning (PR). Soft computing has applications in several fields of engineering as well as complex systems arising in biology and medicine.

In computer science, intelligent control (IC) was inspired by observable and imitable aspects of intelligent activity of human beings and nature. The essence of the intelligent control systems is to process and interpret data of various nature so that computational intelligence is strictly connected with the increase in available data as well as their capabilities of processing mutually supportive factors.

Intelligent control and computational intelligence have applications in many fields of engineering, data analysis, forecasting, biomedicine, image and sound processing, system identification, signal processing, multidimensional data visualisation, analysis of lexicographic data, diagnostic systems, expert systems, etc. Intelligent control systems are very useful when no mathematical model is available, a priori and intelligent control develops a system to be controlled. Important types of intelligent control are fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, ant colony optimisation, bee colony optimisation, particle swarm optimisation, support vector machines, etc.

This special issue focuses on the applications of soft computing and intelligent control and will feature high level research articles on the latest research applications of soft computing and intelligent control, especially on fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks and evolutionary optimisation techniques.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Control, Engineering and Information Technology (CEIT-2016), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

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

• Applications of intelligent control
• Ant colony optimisation
• Artificial neural networks
• Bayesian network
• Bee colony optimisation
• Cellular neural networks
• Chaos theory
• Computational Intelligence
• Evolutionary computation
• Fuzzy logic control
• Genetic algorithms
• Intelligent control
• Machine learning
• Metaheuristic and swarm intelligence
• Nature-inspired optimisation methods
• Neuro-fuzzy control
• Particle swarm optimisation
• Support vector machines

Important Dates
Manuscripts due by: 20 April, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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• Quality function deployment approach to measure supply chain performance: a case study on garments accessories industries
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• Reliability and availability analysis of the serial processes in skim milk powder system of a dairy plant: a case study
• A hybrid coding SA method for multi-item capacity-constrained production and delivery scheduling problem with arbitrary job volumes and customer inventory considerations
• A fuzzy multi-objective genetic algorithm for system reliability optimisation

Special issue published: "Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Drivers of Competitiveness and Growth"

International Journal of Work Innovation 2(1) 2017

• A behavioural game theory perspective on the collaboration between innovative and entrepreneurial firms
• Scaling impact from grassroots social innovation: a conceptual network-based model
• Learning and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector: building social entrepreneurial capabilities in young farmers
• Developing entrepreneurial leadership: the challenge for sustainable organisations
• Entrepreneurial capabilities and innovation in firms from late industrialising countries: a case study of a Mexican firm

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• Lay-out optimisation through an integrated approach based on material flow and operations mapping using a commercial software
• The role of time, communication, and cost management on project management success: an empirical study on sample of construction projects customers in Makkah City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• The impact of demographic profile on emotional intelligence among the faculty members performance in the educational institutions in Tamil Nadu, India - an empirical study
• Eco-innovation practices: a case study of green furniture manufacturers in Indonesia
• Simulation model for closed loop repairable parts inventory system with service level performance measures
• Strategic framework for managing forces of continuity and change in innovation and risk management in service sector: a study of service industry in India

International Journal of Sustainable Aviation to publish expanded papers from International Symposium on Sustainable Aviation 2017

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Mobile Communications

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

• Measuring the efficiency of standardisation policy using meta-frontier analysis: a case of mobile platform standardisation
• Elucidating the role of conformity in innovative smartphones
• Examining social influence factors affecting consumer continuous usage intention for mobile social networking applications
• Mobile media activity breadth and political engagement: an online resource perspective
• Exploring factors affecting the adoption of mobile office in business: an integration of TPB with perceived value

Call for papers: "Inventive Systems and Internet of Things"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications.

With the emanation of new hardware and software technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), the embedded system is reinforced to enter into a new epoch in history. This enhancement trends foremost in the consumer electronic goods. Hence the IoT solutions foster the vast new innovative opportunities for the embedded developers.

 

Embedded devices are becoming more effective with technology like wearable gadgets. Hence the embedded developers should establish a seamless connectivity with one another to enable IoT in embedded infrastructure. The main issue associated with this is the ability to manage and take control of all edge elements centrally with the aid of remote management and cloud-based data delivery and enhancement of edge devices. The main system associated with these embedded devices is real-time operating system (RTOS). The main challenges associated in the IoT enabled RTOS is scalability, security and safety.

 

This special issue solicits mainly on the innovation techniques for embedded developers and to enhance the scalable, reliable and connective characteristics of IoT enabled embedded infrastructure.

 

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

• IoT enabled systems
• Inventive systems for smart cities
• Embedded system design for IoT
• Embedded based network architecture
• IoT based information centric embedded edge devices
• IoT security for edge device elements and gateways
• IoT based design considerations for embedded devices
• IoT for automotive embedded systems
• Embedded devices framework in IoT ecosystem
• Embedded sensor networks
• Embedded based real-time computations and algorithms
• IoT enabled home sensors
• Imaging systems
• Built-in body networks for blood monitoring
• Embedded devices in internet of nanothings
• Architectures of IoT system that influence VLSI capabilities
• Wireless networks and IoT devices
• Systems for internet for everything

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 28 May, 2017

Notification to authors: 27 July, 2017

Final versions due: 18 December, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sensor Networks

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

• Robust FIR and IIR filter design for uncertain multirate systems under wireless network environment
• A distributed semantic filtering model based on approximate automata for heterogeneous multi-sensor networks
• Fault-tolerant multi-path routing protocol for WSN based on HEED
• Water quality monitoring using STORM 3 Data Loggers and a wireless sensor network
• Rest with eyes open: stochastic target coverage in wireless sensor networks with data fusion
• Upper bounds on lifetime of three-dimensional UWB sensor networks of multi-source, multi-destination
• Developing a WSN internet gateway for an African context

Special issue published: "Material Forming and Product Performance"

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 54(1/2/3) 2017

• Formability investigation using a new test design for hot stamping processes
• Quantitative study of the Bauschinger effect in high-strength low-strain-hardening materials for metal forming applications
• Novel processes and related technologies for micro metal forming
• Deformation characteristics of aluminium-copper composite preforms at different strain rates during cold forging
• Recent development of ring rolling theory and technique
• A study on process design of plate cold forging for machinability improvement of piston under drive brake
• Wear analysis of polyamide based on a statistical approach
• Effects of reheating temperature and time on microstructure and tensile properties of thixoformed in situ Sip/ZA27 composites
• Die-punch alignment and its effect on the thinning pattern in the square-shaped deep drawing of aluminium alloy
• Finite element analysis of effect of process parameters on electromagnetic free expansion of aluminium tube
• Deformation behaviour of high strength steel sheet 22MnB5 at elevated temperature and its FE simulation model verification
• A process for increasing plastic strain ratio of AA1050 Al alloy sheet
• The classification and a review of hot power spinning of difficult-to-deform metals
• Modelling of hot compressive deformation behaviour of 55 steel considering strain

Inderscience is media partner for Future Soldier Technology 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Future Soldier Technology (13-14 March 2017, London, United Kingdom).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
• Int. J. of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• Int. J. of Smart Grid and Green Communications
• Int. J. of Trust Management in Computing and Communications
• Int. J. of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems

More information on this event is available here.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Operational Research

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

• Reliability modelling of a parallel system with maximum operation and repair times
• Critical chain scheduling: a new approach for feeding buffer sizing
• An improved mathematical programming formulation and application of multi-attribute choice behaviour
• An integrated methodology of FTA and fuzzy AHP for risk assessment in green supply chain
• Analysis of MAP/G/1/N queue with two phases of service under single (multiple) vacation(s)
• An adaptive crossover genetic algorithm with simulated annealing for multi mode resource constrained project scheduling with discounted cash flows
• Bilevel linear programming with fuzzy random variables through absolute deviation minimisation

Call for papers: "Innovation and Public Sector Management: Taking part in the Agenda for Sustainable Development"

For a special issue of the Intermational Journal of Public Sector Performance Management.

Searching to facilitate creative processes, organisations recognise that the source of new ideas and information lies in the interaction between different functional departments, as well as in the cooperation with external actors. That is why increasingly, organisations from multiple sectors (i.e., government, business and civil society) are collaborating to tackle larger and more complex challenges beyond the organisation and sectorial boundaries. Examples of such challenges include the emergence of new industries and markets, financial crises and political conflicts, responses to socio-cultural change, the provision of health care and education, the prevention of crime and poverty, the shift to renewable energies, etc. Interactions between public, private and non-profit actors can happen in hybrid organisations, contractual partnerships and more informal exchange.

In cross-sector collaborations, the partners bring in heterogeneous resources which promise to be complementary in the design and implementation of innovative solutions to societal and economic problems. This particularly applies to intangible resources such as knowledge. However, before cross-sector collaborations can live up to their potential in exploiting existing and creating new knowledge, the involved actors have to bridge high cognitive distances. The government, business and civil society have their own logics and practices, and these profound differences may inhibit understanding and learning across sectoral boundaries. Moreover, although cross-sector collaborations build on shared overall goals, the partners may also pursue diverging interests and hidden goals.

We welcome theoretical and empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) papers and give no priority to a specific field of operation or kind of collaboration. However, a strong focus on the relational aspects of knowledge, learning and innovation will be appreciated. The management of knowledge, learning and innovation is a severe challenge within societal sectors but even more in cross-sector collaborations. This special issue will address questions related to this challenge.

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

• What are the main drivers of, and barriers to, knowledge sharing, learning and innovation in cross-sector/within-sector collaborations?
• How do structural characteristics of the collaboration (e.g. origin and experience of partners, network size, governance of the partnership, life-cycle stage) affect knowledge, learning and innovation?
• How do actors in cross-sector collaborations cope with divergent logics and arrive at shared mental models and joint decisions?
• What practices of knowledge governance and management (e.g. boundary spanners, communities of practice) facilitate learning and innovation in cross sector/within-sector collaborations?

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 30 November, 2017

Notification to authors: 31 April, 2018

Final versions due: 31 May, 2018

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Management Practice

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

• A study of factors for private label brands' success in food, grocery and apparels
• Entrepreneurial attitude orientation and employability: mediating role of entrepreneurial personality
• New paradigm of digital marketing in emerging markets: from social media to social customer relationship management
• A study of capital structure dynamics on the value of Indian firms using panel threshold regression model
• Functionality of turnover intention and management strategies for sales force: an empirical investigation
• Understanding Indian retail investors' stock investment behaviour: an empirical study

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Management in Education

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

• Adapting social enterprise to improve education quality: key findings at one Bangkok Metropolitan Administration school
• Teaching business ethics to Chinese undergraduate students: using the Hunt-Vitell experiential learning model
• Educational data mining towards knowledge engineering: a review state
• Examining the link among cross-cultural adaptation, academic satisfaction and word of mouth in the context of international postgraduate students in Malaysia
• Organisational level antecedents of learning organisations for Indian higher educational institutes: an exploratory study
• Individual and school-level determinants of teacher change beliefs: a study in Malaysian high performing secondary school

Special issue published: "Energy Efficient and Environment Friendly Technologies for the Future"

International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy 13(1/2) 2017

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Energy, Environment, Materials and Safety (ICEEMS’14).

• Modelling and simulation of passive feed direct methanol fuel cell
• Experimental study on hybrid solar system fitted with special heat exchanger and flat reflectors
• A dual source switched-capacitor converter with solar energy integration capability
• Optimisation of hybrid power system connected to single directional grid
• Implementation of a low cost, compact single stage power converter with reduced bus voltage stress
• A novel analytical approach for sizing and placement of DG in radial distribution system
• An investigation on the potential of mud as sustainable building material in the context of Kerala
• Springback analysis of L-sectioned bar of linear work-hardening materials under torsional loading
• Computational analysis of subsonic jets from round and bevelled nozzles
• Impact of coal mining on soil properties and their efficient eco-restoration
• Separation of pollutants from pulp mill wastewater by electrocoagulation
• COD and colour reduction of sugar industry effluent by electrochemical treatment

Call for papers: "Culture, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Practices in the MENA Region"

For a special issue of the MENA Journal of Cross-Cultural Management.

In management literature, for several years, we have been witnessing the development of logistics functions and organisations. These organisations are the outcome of culture. Today, logistics and supply chain management practices allow businesses to find and exploit sources of productivity and cost control and help create competitive advantages.

 

The internationalisation of logistics and supply chain practices implies the existence of cross-cultural differences in this sphere of management science due to the role of cultural values in this respect. The aim of this special issue is to provide a rationale for looking at logistics, supply chain management, and cultural diversity from a global “cross-cultural” perspective and proposes this view as a potential tool for sensitising logistics researchers to cross‐cultural concerns. We look for a variety of perspectives about how competitiveness and performance vary across cultures, companies, and countries.

 

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Business Research, Hammamet, Tunisia, April 29-30, 2017, but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

 

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

• How do logistics practices vary across cultures and countries?
• What is the role of culture in cost reduction in logistics and supply chain Management practices in the MENA region?
• What are the most effective logistics training methods of diagnostic and auditing for international organisations?
• What factors affect supply chain management internationally?
• How can the influence of national culture on logistics and supply chain management practices be measured?

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 31 May, 2017

Notification to authors: 31 August, 2017

Final versions due: 31 October, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management are now available here for free:

• Sustainable logistical operations: the case of McDonald's biodiesel in Brazil
• Assessing the environmental impact of logistics in online and offline B2C purchasing processes in the apparel industry
• A note on the joint economic lot size model with stochastic demand and variable lead time
• Learning platform for supply chain system optimisation
• Traffic disruptions: a dynamic heuristic approach
• A fuzzy-AHP multi-criteria decision-making model for procurement process

Inderscience is media partner for Defence Logistics Central and Eastern Europe 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Defence Logistics Central and Eastern Europe (7-8 March 2017, Prague, Czech Republic).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Aerospace System Science and Engineering
• Int. J. of Electronic Transport
• Int. J. of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• Int. J. of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience
• Int. J. of Security and Networks
• Int. J. of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing

More information on this event is available here.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital are now available here for free:

• Competition, intellectual capital efficiency and firms' performance outcome in India: a structural equation modelling
• Redefining, measuring and disclosure of faculty intellectual capital
• On the link between human capital, innovation and performance: evidence from a resource-based economy
• Relationship between human capital management and organisational performance: an empirical evidence from select Indian banks

New Editor for International Journal of Digital Enterprise Technology

Prof. Ali Selamat from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Malaysia has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Digital Enterprise Technology.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development are now available here for free:

• Economic theories of eco-innovations: a comparison between the neoclassical and evolutionary approaches
• The innovation inducement impact of environmental regulations on maritime transport: a literature review
• Management of the sustainable development of the Baikal natural territory in Russia
• Eco-innovation indicators for sustainable development: the role of the technology institutes
• Delivery vehicle fleet data collection, analysis and naturalistic driving cycles synthesis
• Consumer preferences in engaging in a sustainable lifestyle

International Journal of Embedded Systems to publish expanded papers from ICEDSA-2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (6-8 December 2016, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE will be published by the International Journal of Embedded Systems.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics are now available here for free:

• On the Durbin-Watson statistic based on a Z-test in large samples
• Revealing correlations between structure and innovation attitude in inter-organisational innovation networks
• Maximum likelihood estimation of covariance matrices with constraints on the efficient frontier
• Estimation comparison of the capacity utilisation at constant and non-constant returns to scale: the case of the Tunisian manufacturing sector
• Multiple local optima for seemingly unrelated regression models
• Sequential pairwise trading: convergence and welfare implications
• Viability prediction for retail business units using data mining techniques: a practical application in the Greek pharmaceutical sector

Call for papers: "Recent Trends in Computing and Engineering"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology.

Computer and Engineering is a science that has played a major role in the lives that we live in the 21st century. In today’s technology-driven world, Computer and Engineering are the cornerstone and driver of innovation of the devices that we utilise daily to improve our quality of life. Electrical, electronic and computer engineering is driven by growth and new engineering ideas. The latter driver, namely the new ideas, is actually elements of research in engineering. This special issue will deal with the general topic of long-term innovative for research in power, control, energy, high voltage applications, fuels, smart grids, power electronics, systems and applications, electrical machines, communication systems, signal processing, circuits and systems, computers and information technology.

 

The peer-reviewed articles will showcase potentially high impact research topics or directions. The objective is to identify topics that are likely to result in a noteworthy impact on electrical and computer industry in the next 25 to 50 years.

 

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

• Computer architecture
• Computational biology and bioinformatics
• Knowledge and data engineering
• Learning technologies
• Multimedia services and technologies
• Mobile computing
• Parallel/distributed computing and grid computing
• Pattern analysis and machine intelligence
• Software engineering
• Visualisation and computer graphics
• Power generation, transmission and distribution
• Signal processing, communication systems
• Renewable energy sources, smart grids technologies and applications
• And also papers related to innovation in engineering

 

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 1 March, 2017

Notification to authors: 1 May, 2017

Final versions due: 1 June, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy

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

• Academic landscape of hydropower: citation-analysis-based method and its application
• Management and technical economic analysis of a hybrid system (wind/diesel) in southern Algeria
• Modelling the causal linkages among residential electricity consumption, gross domestic product, price of electricity, price of electric appliances, population and foreign direct investment in Malaysia
• Patent-based technology forecasting: case of electric and hydrogen vehicle
• Detection and introduction of emerging technologies for green buildings in Thailand

Special issue published: "Recent Developments in Forecasting and Macroeconometrics"

International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics 7(1/2) 2017

• Hyper-parameterised dynamic regressions for nowcasting Spanish GDP growth in real time
• A daily indicator of economic growth for the euro area
• Nowcasting US inflation using a MIDAS augmented Phillips curve
• Forecasting euro area recessions by combining financial information
• The nature and propagation of shocks in the euro area: a comparative SVAR analysis
• An augmented Taylor rule for the Federal Reserve's response to asset prices
• Autocorrelation in an unobservable global trend: does it help to forecast market returns?
• The back side of banking in Russia: forecasting bank failures with negative capital

Call for papers: "Biosphere Management"

For a special issue of Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal.

Sustainability is rapidly gaining momentum in the international context. It is essential to explore the consequences of increasing greenhouse emissions and pollutants in air, soil and water, specifically suggesting the need to analyse the implications for the anthropogenic and non- anthropogenic resources function.

The increasing concerns regarding the environmental pollution derived from anthropogenic activities, such as the use of fossil fuels for power generation, has driven many interested parties to seek different alternatives. This special issue focuses on the examination of the methods integrating the environmental aspects in the planning and management approaches. The potential solutions could be found and are applied in improving the quality of the environment. We also aim to investigate the health of the biosphere.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 4th international Conference on Environmental Planning and Management (ICEPM), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

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

• Environmental impact assessment
• Land use planning
• Pollution and climate change
• Health, safety and environment (HSE)
• Environmental education
• Environmental economic, law and policy
• Environmental engineering
• Environmental design

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 17 July, 2017
Notification to authors: 17 November, 2017
Final versions due: 17 December, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Excellence

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

• Excellence in human and business communication: reflections from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita
• Identifying the best practices in green operations strategy of leading mobile phone producers
• Evaluating retail store image - an empirical study in India
• The use of the balanced scorecard in bank strategic management
• Horizon heterogeneity, institutional constraint and managerial myopia: a multi-frequency perspective on ELSS
• The mutual influence among quality awards and quality initiatives: preliminary investigation among Indian quality award winners

Inderscience is media partner for 8th Annual Air Mission Planning and Support 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for the 8th Annual Air Mission Planning and Support (5-6 April 2017, London, United Kingdom).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Aerospace System Science and Engineering
• Int. J. of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• Int. J. of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems
• Int. J. of Systems, Control and Communications
• Int. J. of Trust Management in Computing and Communications

More information on this event is available here.

Special issue published: "Middleware and Schemes for Secure Authentication and Access to Data Centres and Cloud Computing Platforms"

International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture 6(3) 2016

• A public cloud storage auditing scheme for resource-constrained clients
• Architecture of cloud platform for CAE simulation in supercomputing environment
• A secure access and associate deleting scheme for multi-replica in multi-cloud environment
• Round-optimal ID-based dynamic authenticated group key agreement
• Efficient expanded mixed finite element method for the quasilinear elliptic problems
• Discovering low-connectivity essential proteins based on protein-protein interaction network
• On flow isolation mechanism for different applications in NFV controller

Call for papers: "Role of Smart Devices in Teaching and Learning"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation.

Recently, the usage of smart devices such as the smart phone, tablets and PDAs is high due to the technological developments in all the area. Many people are using smart devices for communication, controlling of devices, data storage and retrieval, data processing, and data managing operations. Specifically, these smart devices are used by young people like graduate students and budding teachers for discussing technical ideas through social networks, email, online forums and file sharing with various mobile technologies. This facilitates the teaching and learning process, at anytime and anywhere. Through this special issue, the educational experts and researchers are invited to submit their innovative ideas and practices through original research article to pilot the digitised educational society in a right way.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the National Conference on Big Data Analytics and Mobile Technologies (NCBM 2017), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

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

• Innovative Mobile Learning systems
• Intelligent mentoring system
• Mobile games for education
• Mobile based simulation systems for education
• Collaborative learning tools
• Learning through mobile devices
• Wearable components for learning
• Mobile assessment tools
• Mobile supported tools for learning analytics
• Educational data mining
• Mobile supported tools for peer tutoring
• Learning via mobile- lab work
• Social networks for learning and knowledge sharing
• Mobile cloud for education

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 28 May, 2017
Notification to authors: 15 July, 2017
Final versions due: 31 September, 2017

Inderscience is media partner for 12th Annual Military Space Situational Awareness

Inderscience is a media partner for 12th Annual Military Space Situational Awareness (26-27 April 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Intelligent Defence Support Systems
• Int. J. of Machine Intelligence and Sensory Signal Processing
• Int. J. of Satellite Communications Policy and Management
• Int. J. of Security and Networks
• Int. J. of Sensor Networks
• Int. J. of Space Science and Engineering

More information on this event is available here.

Special issue published: "Global Logistics in Emerging Economies"

International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics 9(1) 2017

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2015 Global Supply Chain Management Conference.

• Disruption management for vehicle routing problem with time-window changes
• Container hub port competition and cooperation in Northeast Asia
• A two-stage scheduling method for global humanitarian logistics in large-scale disaster response
• Training and development needs of logistics and supply chain professionals in South Asia
• Critical factors that affect logistics performance: a comparison of China, Japan and Korea

Progress in Industrial Ecology to publish expanded papers from 4th International Conference on Environmental Planning and Management

Extended versions of papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Environmental Planning and Management (16-17 May 2017, Tehran, Iran) will be published by Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Materials and Product Technology

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

• A study on the role of wetting parameters on friction in injection moulding
• Influence of twin-screw configuration on the mechanical and morphological properties of polypropylene-clay composites
• Using a glass-fibre reinforced polymer composite in the production of sustainable water storage tanks
• Combination of laser welding with in-mould assembling into a single process
• Numerical simulation and experimental study on physical mechanism in multiple component moulding
• Realising a child's imagination through a child-led product design for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional product
• Applying flow simulations in the development process of injection moulded thermoplastic parts
• Thin wall injection-overmoulding of polyamide 6/polypropylene multilayer parts: influence of processing conditions on thermomechanical properties of the layer assembly
• Mechanical and dimensional characterisation of polypropylene injection moulded parts in epoxy resin/aluminium inserts for rapid tooling
• Influence of tool surface on wall sliding of polymer melts
• An analysis of Digital ABS as a rapid tooling material for polymer injection moulding

Special issue published: "Managing Emerging Technologies and Industries in East Asia"

International Journal of Technology Management 72(1/2/3) 2016

• Differences in science based innovation by technology life cycles: the case of solar cell technology
• Catch-up strategy of an emerging firm in an emerging country: analysing the case of Huawei vs. Ericsson with patent data
• Typical modes and characteristics of reverse innovation: a multiple cases study on five enterprises operated in China
• How can small firms benefit from open innovation? The case of new drug development in Taiwan
• A study on technological trajectory of light emitting diode in Taiwan by using patent data
• Roadmapping for industrial emergence and innovation gaps to catch-up: a patent-based analysis of OLED industry in China
• Establishing a CoPs-based innovation ecosystem to enhance competence - the case of CGN in China
• The effect of symbiosis strategy on opportunity creation: case study of new ventures in China
• Strategic transformation through innovation in emerging industry: a case study
• An assessment of innovation policy in Taiwan's electric vehicle industry
• The influential factors on the diffusion of smartwatches in Korea

Inderscience is media partner for 9th Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for 9th Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials (3-4 April 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
• Int. J. of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design
• Int. J. of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine
• Int. J. of Medical Engineering and Informatics

Call for papers: "Smart Converging Technology"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Convergence Computing.

Recent booming developments of web-based technologies and mobile applications has facilitated a dramatical growth of new techniques' implementations. Enabling a smart life has become a popular research topic with an urgent demand. Therefore, we will focus on different innovations and interdisciplinary research work in the area of smart converging technologies.

We will not only take stock of trends and developments in the globally competitive environment, but we will also provide future directions to young researchers and practitioners. This special issue would be of immense benefit to researchers, academicians, industry and participants from technical institutes, R & D organisations and students working in the field of smart converging technology.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (SmartTech-2017), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

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

• Bio-inspired optimisation
• Community information systems
• Digital photogrammetry
• Remote sensing, GIS and GPS
• Disaster management
• DNA computing/ neuro informatics
• Bio-informatics
• Forest genomics and informatics
• Green computing
• Healthcare informatics
• Hybrid evolutionary algorithms/ hybrid Intelligent systems
• Agricultural informatics and communication/ irrigation informatics

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 15 June, 2017
Notification to authors: 15 August, 2017
Final versions due: 15 October, 2017

Inderscience is media partner for Controlled Release Delivery 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Controlled Release Delivery (3-4 April 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Int. J. of Biotechnology
• Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design
• Int. J. of Nano and Biomaterials
• Int. J. of Nanoparticles
• Int. J. of Nanotechnology

More information on this event is available here.

Special issue published: "Advanced Computing in Intelligent Systems"

International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics 4(3/4) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision 2015 (ISCV2015).

• A multi-objective approach for micro grid energy management based on fuzzy multi-agent decision-making process
• Energy management in a hybrid PV/wind/battery system using a type-1 fuzzy logic computer algorithm 
• Intelligent multi-agent system for smart microgrid energy management
• Optimal intelligent control for a variable-speed wind turbine using general regression neural network and adaptive PSO algorithm
• An interval type-2 fuzzy logic PSS with the optimal H∞ tracking control for multi-machine power system
• New air traffic management approach based on expert system and using real-time scheduling algorithms
• A hybrid optimal weighting scheme and machine learning for rendering sentiments in tweets
• Object tracking in video via particle filter
• Beautification and efficiency improvement of 3D modelling with the help of geometric constraints

Inderscience is media partner for Essential Management Skills 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Essential Management Skills 2017 (22-24 March 2017, Coventry, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Business Performance Management
• Int. J. of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
• Int. J. of Markets and Business Systems
• Int. J. of Management and Decision Making
• Int. J. of Project Organisation and Management
• Int. J. of Productivity and Quality Management

Inderscience is media partner for VTMS 13: Vehicle Thermal Management Systems 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for VTMS 13: Vehicle Thermal Management Systems (17-18 May 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Automotive Technology and Management
• Int. J. of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
• Int. J. of Powertrains
• Int. J. of Vehicle Design
• Int. J. of Vehicle Performance
• Int. J. of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing

Research Picks – December 2016

Smart phone marketing around the world
Manufacturers of smart phones are constantly on the lookout for new trends in adoption of their products. One aspect on which they must focus is cultural differences, according to a study from Finland. The authors of this paper have looked at differences in smart phone uses across three major regions Uzbekistan, South Korea, and Turkey. They found that social influence was the strongest predictor of behavioural intention to use a smartphone among South Korean participants, this rings true given how other sociological research suggests that country has a highly collectivistic society. By contrast, people in Turkey are apparently more individualistic and this correlates with a lack of social influence on smart phone uptake. For Uzbekistan, internet penetration is still very low and in general only the rich can be adopters of advanced technology at the present time, so economics is the main influence on uptake rather than personal or collective choice.
Sanakulov, N. and Karjaluoto, H. (2017) ‘A cultural comparison study of smartphone adoption in Uzbekistan, South Korea and Turkey’, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.85-103.

Young escapists won’t tolerate in-app ads
Advertising embedded in smart phone apps is a common way the developers of those apps make money from users either in addition to any fee they charge to download the app in the first place or any in-app purchases for additional options. A new study from the US of young smart phone users suggests that they are more accepting of in-app advertising if the smart phone application in question helps them in some significant way or provides them with information they deem important, as opposed to offering games, entertainment, or various forms of escapism. Specifically young people enjoy music and video apps widely and find that such apps allow them to develop their personal identity. It is advertising in these apps that is least tolerated by users and such a revelation could help marketers and advertisers adapt their business models.
Logan, K. (2017) ‘Attitudes towards in-app advertising: a uses and gratifications perspective’, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.26-48.

Head for the clouds during a disaster
Computer scientists in Japan have developed a two-level security and communications system that would be resilient to power outages that might occur during and immediately after a natural or other disaster such as earthquake or terrorist attack. The first tier could sustain communications and information systems for the public without relying on commercial power suppliers by mirroring critical information on cloud servers elsewhere. The second tier takes control of personal computers at the power level so that they can be safely rebooted without damage to hard drives (and so data loss) at the first warning signs of a critical problem such as early tremors just before an imminent earthquake. Again the latter utilizes remote backup to mirror critical data. The system has already been put in place at Ibaraki University in response to the earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 2011 and could be implemented elsewhere.
Noguchi, H., Ohtaki, Y. and Kamada, M. (2016) ‘A university information system made robust against natural disasters by taking advantage of remotely distributed campuses‘, Int. J. Space-Based and Situated Computing, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.147-154.

Library navigation
You can quickly find the book you’re after even in the biggest library thanks to a navigation system being developed for smart phones by computer scientists in Japan. They explain that FeliCa cards (contactless RFID cards) act as indoor landmarks where the global positioning system (GPS) simply does not work and without the need for costly indoor markers such as beacons. The app allows the reader to quickly search the library catalogue, gives them a map showing the shelf position of the book, gets the reader’s location in the library and then displays a route through the shelves to the book they are after.
Li, X., Saitou, O., Zhou, E. and Kamada, M. (2016) ‘A low cost library navigation system by using Android devices and FeliCa cards‘, Int. J. Space-Based and Situated Computing, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.155-164.