Special issue: Towards systems in support of reminiscence work

International Journal of Computers in Healthcare 1(2) 2010

Includes papers from First International Workshop on Reminiscence Systems, held on 5 September 2009 at HCI-2009 in Cambridge, UK.

• Towards the therapeutic use of information and communication technology in reminiscence work for people with dementia: a systematic review
• Remote assistance for people with dementia at home using reminiscence systems and a schedule prompter
• Drawn from memory: reminiscing, narrative and the visual image
• Building digital life stories for memory support
• Stimulating people with dementia to reminisce using personal and generic photographs
  

Call for papers: Young Researcher Special Issue on: Ground-breaking Ideas in Technology Enhanced Learning

A special issue of International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

IJTEL is interested in supporting young researchers and graduate student members of the TEL community. We want to encourage a debate on innovative ideas, visions, and the future of TEL research, driven by young researchers in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area.

This Young Researcher special issue is designed for all junior researchers (post-graduate students, PhD students, post-docs) working in research related to technology-enhanced learning in both academia and industry. The purpose of this special issue is manifold:

• to provide opportunities for cross-fertilization of knowledge and ideas among young researchers;
• to allow young researchers to present their ground breaking fresh ideas, visions and research work;
• to promote an international collaboration and exchange of ideas between young researchers; and
• to discuss the future of TEL research by identifying trends and hot topics in the area.

Authors are especially encouraged to submit a 'visionary' article, i.e. one that describes fresh ideas, motivations, impacts and efficiencies or ideal outcomes of research and argues why they are important.

Young researchers are invited to submit articles with new innovative perspectives within the scope of:

• Grand challenges in TEL
• Emerging technologies and practices
• Future scenarios
• New policies and well-motivated requests for policy change
• Position papers
• Well-argued visions
• Gap reports that identify new research frontiers
• Roadmaps

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Key issues in TEL: effective learning strategies, models and methodologies
• Deployment of ICTs in educational practice
• Web 2.0 and TEL
• Semantic web and TEL
• TEL and knowledge management
• Adaptive and personalized hypermedia for TEL
• Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies for TEL
• Intelligent tutoring systems and automated feedback
• TEL practices in different educational/learning contexts
• Policies for the promotion of TEL in education
• Serious games and 3D virtual environments
• Connecting learners through TEL
• Orchestrating TEL

Contributions from the following backgrounds are invited: Education, Psychology, Computer Science, Engineering, Sociology, Cognitive Science, as well as related disciplines.

Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 December, 2010
Author notification for abstract: 05 January, 2011
Submission deadline for full paper: 28 February, 2011
Authors notification for full paper: 01 April, 2011
Final papers submission: 01 May, 2011

Call for papers: Knowledge Management in Software Development Process

A special issue of International Journal of Business Information Systems

Software development is a complex activity which requires application of innovative ideas without compromising the reliability and quality in the end products. It requires better tools and techniques to be employed. Recent growth in knowledge management notion has also been seen as highly instrumental in improving organizational performance. In order to achieve the goal of efficient production of software and effective development processes, numerous KM approaches and standardization efforts have been suggested. However, a majority of the organizations are finding it difficult to adopt the guidelines and approaches, as there are numerous inherent issues.

The aims of this special issue are to:

• invite and publish high quality original research contributions on the specialized theme of KM applications relating to software development processes
• examine the impact of KM on software development processes
• investigate the inherent issues and limitations with respect to KM strategies and
• disseminate the elements of good practices suggested and employed by researchers and practitioners in this field

The special issue invites research contributions, including case studies, on all aspects of knowledge management (KM) methodologies related to software development processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Strategies to promote KM in the software industry
• Empirical studies of adopting KM methodologies in software houses
• Lessons learned (success and failure cases)
• KM approaches for requirements elicitation
• Best practices in relation to KM in software development processes
• KM applications in system design
• Testing methodologies and novel KM paradigms
• Software standards in relation to KM
• KM for web services and SOA
• KM with respect to cloud computing environment
• Metrics to evaluate KM applications and strategies
• Workflow systems and KM methodologies
• Tools and technologies for effective KM
• KM and global software engineering
• Issues and barriers to effective KM implementation
• Case studies relating to KM in software development processes

Important Dates
Extended Deadline for papers submission: 31 May, 2011
Notification of review results: 30 September, 2011
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 31 December, 2011

Call for papers: Curriculum Design and Pedagogical Issues in Computing Education

A special issue of International Journal of Education Economics and Development

Computing education is a challenging field due to high innovation levels resulting in a huge volume of literature with a relatively short lifecycle. Consequently, the computing faculty requires continuous involvement in research activities and syllabi updating. Furthermore, computing education requires extensive hands-on training sessions to enhance the skills of students in order to be successful in global job markets. Thus in the computing domain, traditional teaching methods are not optimal.

Advances in information and communication technologies have resulted in new forms of learning that require innovative pedagogical methodologies, curriculum and evaluation strategies. In this special issue, we focus on new approaches to pedagogy, curriculum design and evaluation strategies in relation to computing education.

The special issue invites the contributions with a special focus on computing discipline. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Best practices for computing teaching
• Experience reports and case studies of teaching and learning computer science
• Technology support in classroom environment for computing courses
• Curriculum design for virtual computing courses
• Computer based evaluation mechanisms in computing education
• E Learning and computing education
• Distance/virtual learning and implication for computing education
• Role of multimedia learning system environments in computing education
• Web 2.0 and computing education
• Professional development of computing faculty
• Computing education and digital divide

Important Dates
Deadline for papers submission: 31 March, 2011
Result notification: 30 April, 2011
Camera-ready paper submission: 31 May, 2011

Call for papers: Optimization and Learning: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

A special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems

This special issue is designed to collect a range of high quality research papers in one of the topics of optimization and learning, from the theory to applications, and from sequential to parallel algorithms. Contributions to the solution of real-life problems are particularly appreciated.

Topics of particular interest may include, but are not limited to:

* Recent developments from different optimization fields such as

• nonconvex programming
• global optimization
• D.C. (difference of convex functions) programming, etc.

* Methodological investigations and new algorithms related to

• classification
• clustering
• pattern recognition
• machine learning and support vector machines
• statistical learning and kernel methods

* Application of advanced methods in specific domains such as

• transport logistics
• bioinformatics
• biomedicine
• image processing
• finance
• text and web mining, etc.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 31 January, 2011

Special issue: Risk management on energy and environmental conservation in CEE countries

International Journal of Global Energy Issues 34(1-4) 2010

• European Academy of Management activities on energy and environment risk management in Central and Eastern Europe
• International management and risk assessment
• Risks in development of enterprises – Silesian exporters in the times of the growing world economic crisis
• Estimation of the energy security level and definition of the criteria for damage forecasts
• Energy efficiency policies and measures in Hungary
• The future of power generation in Estonia
• Risk-reducing problems of the Latvian gas supply
• Challenges and options for development of the Lithuanian energy sector
• Implications of the principles of sustainable development for the environmental and energy policies of new EU member states
• Risk management issues in the Romanian energy sector
• Risk assessment in the Slovak energy sector
• Risk and uncertainty assessment in the development of strategy for forming the potential of dispatchable generation in the national power system of Ukraine
• Risk management on energy and environmental conservation in CEE countries

Special issue: Radio Frequency Identification applications and networks security

International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2(3/4) 2010

Papers from the 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) held in London, England, 9-12 November 2009.

• Lightweight mutual authentication protocol for securing RFID applications
• A survey on RFID security and provably secure grouping-proof protocols
• Evidential structures and metrics for network forensics
• Security architecture and methodology for authorisation of mobile agents
• Characterising the robustness of complex networks
• CryptoNET: a model of generic security provider
• On the security issues of NFC enabled mobile phones
• Secure unicast and multicast over satellite DVB using chaotic generators
• Framework for secure wireless health monitoring and remote access system

First issue: International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems

Covering the transition role of innovation systems for the community, International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems has an emphasis on the implications that policy choices have on both the welfare of humans through the technology, and on the catch-up process in transition countries. This perspective acknowledges the complexity of the innovation system as an interface between technology and socio-economic processes operating in parallel over different space-time scales, as well as the reflexive characteristic of human systems.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.

Special issue: Microbial immobilisation technology for wastewater treatment

International Journal of Environment and Waste Management 7(1/2) 2011

• Influence of the nature of hydrodynamic constraints on aerobic biofilms
• Dispersive transport in porous media with biofilms: local mass equilibrium in simple unit cells
• Rapid cultivation of aerobic granular sludge for Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification in Sequencing Batch Airlift Reactor
• Size-dependent microbial substrate uptake kinetics for aerobic granules
• A review on the essential role of substrate on aerobic granulation
• Acrylic wastewater treatment using SBR technology with aerobic granules
• Post-treatment of anaerobically pre-treated molasses wastewater in an aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactor
• Application of nitrifying granules to improvement of nitrification activity in activated sludge process
• Effective dispersion in channelled biofilms
  

Additional papers

• Assessment of physico-chemical behaviour and geotechnical management of pharmaceutical effluent laden clay soils
• Aral Sea partial restoration. I. A Caspian water importation macroproject
• Aral Sea partial restoration. II. Simulation of time-dependent processes
• Acid dye removal from industrial wastewater by adsorption on treated sewage sludge
• Alkaline hydrothermal conversion of agricultural waste Bagasse Fly Ash into zeolite: utilisation in dye removal from aqueous solution
  

Special issue: The wholeness of intellectual capital

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital 8(1) 2011

Papers from the International Congress on Intellectual Capital: The future of business navigation held in Haarlem, Netherlands, May 2007.

• Rewinding history: paradoxes, evanescence and hubris in learning/knowledge explorations
• Enabling innovation in knowledge worker teams
• Intangible benefits of mobile business services
• How to measure and manage the risk of losing key employees?
• Strategic approach to intellectual capital development in regions
• Measuring the impact of communities of practice: a conceptual model

Additional Paper

• Action research as a knowledge generating change methodology

Special issue: Energy-efficient communications for high-performance distributed systems

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems 6(1) 2011

• Implications of energy efficient Ethernet for hubs and switches
• UETS/EFR World Wide Net: a new network paradigm, simple, secure, highly scalable and energy-efficient
• Modelling of staged routing for reduced carbon footprints of large server clusters
• Throughput optimisation of inter- and intra-domain autonomous systems traffic engineering
  

Regular papers

• sSCADA: securing SCADA infrastructure communications
• An adaptive MST-based topology connectivity control algorithm for wireless ad-hoc networks
• Job division in service oriented computing based on time aspect

Special issue: Recent advances in sensor integration

International Journal of Sensor Networks 9(1) 2011

• Development of a shoe-mounted assistive user interface for navigation
• User-centric data gathering multi-channel system for IPv6-enabled wireless sensor networks
• Towards clock skew based services in wireless sensor networks
• Sensor integration for perinatology research
• Real-time quality of service with delay guarantee in sensor networks

Call for papers: Integration of Emotional and Technological Values in the Design of Pleasurable Products and Systems

A special issue of International Journal of Product Development

Designing pleasurable products, interfaces, systems and services constitutes an effective aim of industrial companies for fulfilling their customer needs and obtaining new markets. Paradoxically, the rationalization of the means and resources for design and manufacture leads to a relative standardization of products, and a renewal of the immaterial values (emotional and symbolic expectations) can be observed, linked to the product. Designing products for even more demanding and fickle users becomes an important challenge for the industrial companies: the feelings aroused by the appearance of products, by their functions and by the interactions induced by the products’ use are the linchpin of their success but are difficult to predict.

Research works on designing pleasurable products and interfaces focus on original and creative ways to design for emotion and pleasure, and promote the design research which emphases on learning by doing. This special issue seeks papers with specific approaches regarding the engineering, integration, mastering and management of emotional, aesthetic, environmental and technological values and assets in the preliminary stages of the product development processes, especially in the design of pleasurable products, focusing on technological and human-world interaction.

Contributions may be based on theoretical as well as practical approaches dedicated to management of the perceived quality of the products, interfaces, systems and services.

Papers that address, but are not limited, to the following topics are welcome:

• New theory and approach for product and system design
• Industrial design
• Emotion engineering
• Aesthetic design
• Sustainable engineering
• Integrated design
• Design for X: emotion, aesthetic, environment, etc.
• Requirement and value engineering
• Product synthesis
• Perceived quality
• User interface design
• User-centric engineering
• Human-machine interaction
• Technology assessment and management
• Innovative technology integration

Important Dates
Full papers due for review: 1 February, 2011
Notification of acceptance to authors: 1 May, 2011
Revised manuscript submission: 1 July, 2011
Final decision: 1 September, 2011
Final manuscript: 1 October, 2011

Special issue: Vermicuture technology for environmental management and resource development

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 10(3/4) 2010

• Use of earthworms (Eisenia fetida) and vermicompost in the processing and safe management of hazardous solid and liquid wastes with high metal contents
• Coupling vermiremediation with phytoremediation technology to enhance the efficiency of reclamation of polluted marine sediments
• Use of vermiculture technology for waste management and environmental remediation in Argentina
• Improved performance of red worms (Eisenia andrei) in compost of cattle manure rinsed with water
• Earthworms – the environmental engineers: review of vermiculture technologies for environmental management and resource development
• Potential of Eisenia fetida for vermicomposting of garden trimmings spiked with cow dung
• Vermicomposting influences phosphorus microbiology leading to phosphorus enrichment in end product
• Management of organic wastes by earthworms: dual benefit for environment and society
• Dynamics of nutrients and microflora during vermicomposting of mango leaf litter (Mangifera indica) using Perionyx ceylanensis
• Earthworms helping economy, improving ecology and protecting health
• Vermiculture for sustainable horticulture agronomic impact studies of earthworms, cow dung compost and vermicompost vis-a-vis chemical fertilisers on growth and yield of lady's finger (Abelmoschus esculentus)
• Vermicompost production and its use for crop production in the Philippines
• Vermicomposting of flyash: a potential hazardous waste converted into nutritive compost by earthworm (Eudrilus eugeniae)
• FORUM: Similarity between the processes of sediment transport and human life cycle
• FORUM: Balancing basics and applications in teaching environmental and water resources engineering
• FORUM: Waste management is a people game

Special issue: Service quality management and developing and newly industrialised nations

International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 3(1) 2011

• Investigating the link between service quality, value, satisfaction and behavioural intentions in a public sector bank in India
• The influence of TQM practices on supply chain collaboration: a proposed model for the service industry
• Relationship between service gap and perception for mapping of quality attributes into four service quality factors
• The impact of TQM practices on learning organisation and customer orientation: a survey of small service organisations in Malaysia
• TQM and service quality: a survey of commercial banking industry in Malaysia
• Introducing iterative model into quality management with focus on emerging markets
• Challenges facing higher education as a service industry in a developing country
• Student perceptions of service quality in the school of accounting: a case analysis of a private university in Malaysia

Special issue: Creating value in leisure and tourism

International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marketing 2(1) 2011

• Researching the implementation of motivation practices in human resources in hotels: an experience from a Greek resort
• Determinants of Indian customers' preference for online travel services
• Destination image: an overview and summary of selected research (1974–2008)
• Loyalty and occasion of consumption: an empirical analysis
• Maintaining urban greenery in developing countries for tourism and recreation: a benefit-cost analysis
• Attributes of street markets as leisure destinations in growing cities

Special issue: Open source intelligence and web mining

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations 8(1/2) 2011

Includes extended and enhanced versions of papers from the International Symposium on Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining (OSINT-WM 2008) held in July 2008 in London in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV 2008).

• The complexity of terrorist networks
• Supporting reasoning and communication for intelligence officers
• Stalker: overcoming linguistic barriers in open source intelligence
• Harvesting covert networks: a case study of the iMiner database
• A fuzzy prediction model for calling communities
• Context-based citation retrieval
• Mining ontological knowledge using Nyaya framework
• Comparative evaluation of ontology-based Automatic Reference Tracking (ART)
• Discovering cancer biomarkers: from DNA to communities of genes

Special issue: Processing, microstructure and properties of micro and nanomaterials

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 40(1/2) 2011

• Preparation, thermal stability and permeability behaviour of Z-type hexagonal ferrites for multilayer inductors
• Numerical simulation, formation of microstructure and mechanical properties of nanocopper prepared by severe plastic deformation
• Characterisation of microstructure and mechanical properties of cermets at micro- and nanoscales
• Phase evolution, microstructure characteristics and properties of Cr3C2-Ni cermets prepared by reactive sintering
• Microstructural aspects of abrasive wear of composite powder materials and coatings
• Elastic and plastic properties of ultrafine-grained magnesium
• Fatigue mechanics of carbide composites

Special issue: IT adoption, implementation, use and evaluation in healthcare

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 12(1) 2011

Papers from the 2010 Hawaii Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) minitrack on IT Adoption, Implementation, Use and Evaluation in Healthcare.

• Are public and private health insurance companies going Web 2.0? A complete inventory count in Germany
• Deploying e-health service innovations – an early stage business model engineering and regulatory validation approach
• Taxonomy for multi-perspective assessment of the value of health information systems
• Patient perceptions of electronic medical records: physician satisfaction, portability, security and quality of care
• Back to the future of IT adoption and evaluation in healthcare

Special issue: Nanopharmaceuticals

International Journal of Nanotechnology 8(1/2) 2011

• Nanoparticulate systems for oral drug delivery to the colon
• Multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles for orthopedic and biofilm infections
• Poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers as potential siRNA delivery nanocarrier: from structure to function
• The role of nanotechnology in diabetes treatment: current and future perspectives
• Nanobiotechnology approaches for targeted delivery of pharmaceutics and cosmetics ingredients
• Nanopharmaceuticals I: nanocarrier systems in drug delivery
• Nanopharmaceuticals II: application of nanoparticles and nanocarrier systems in pharmaceutics and nanomedicine
• Enhanced tumour-imaging efficacy of 5-aminolevulinic acid complexed with iron oxide nanoparticles