Special issue: Nanotechnology in Scotland

International Journal of Nanotechnology 9(1/2) 2012

• Optical in situ characterisation of carbon nanotube growth
• High pressure studies of metal organic framework materials
• Growth and characterisation of titanium sulphide nanostructures by surface-assisted vapour transport methods; from trisulphide ribbons to disulphide nanosheets
• Colloidal syntheses of FePt nanoparticles
• Ten years of electron microscopy of nanomaterials in St. Andrews
• Gold nano-particles supported on hematite and magnetite as highly selective catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro-aromatics
• Ethanol photoreaction to hydrogen over Au/TiO2 catalysts. Investigating the synergistic effect of nanoparticles
• The photoreaction of TiO2 and Au/TiO2 single crystal and powder with organic adsorbates

Special issue: Sport marketing and emerging technology

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 10(3/4) 2011

• 'It's incredible – trust me': exploring the role of celebrity athletes as marketers in online social networks
• Set the agenda like Beckham: a professional sports league's use of YouTube to disseminate messages to its users
• Opportunity or obstacle? A preliminary study of professional sport organisations in the age of social media
• Agenda-setting and La Copa Mundial: marketing through agenda-setting on soccer blogs during the 2010 World Cup
• Beyond touchdowns, homeruns, and three-pointers: an examination of fantasy sport participation motivation
• Understanding website useability: an eye-tracking study of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games website
• New media and technology use in corporate sport sponsorship: performing activational leverage from an exchange perspective
• A content analysis of sponsor representation across professional sport websites: extension of attribute typology

First issue: International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering

Providing a forum for researchers in the field of computational algorithms, intelligent information systems, computer applications and other related areas of science and engineering, International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering focuses on the state-of-the-art of aspects of theoretical analysis and practical application with emphasis on computational methods and systems engineering.

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

Special issue: Context-awareness and self-managing systems

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 5(1) 2012

Papers from  the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS2009) held in Nara, Japan, 11 May 2009.

    •    Building an intelligent sensing system: a case study
    •    Anthropomorphic awareness of partner robot to user's situation based on gaze and speech detection
    •    Dynamic scheduling-based inpatient nursing support: applicability evaluation by laboratory experiments
    •    The context aware workflow execution framework

Additional Papers

    •    Improving antijamming characteristics of spread spectrum communication systems
    •    Wireless network simulators relevance compared to a real testbed in outdoor and indoor environments

Special issue: Discrete-event simulation in production management

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling 6(3) 2011

Papers from the 12th and 13th IFAC Symposiums ‘Information Control Problems in Manufacturing’ (INCOM'06 and INCOM'09) held in Saint-Etienne, France, 17-19 May 2006 and Moscow, Russia, 3-5 June 2009.

• Proactive production activity control by online simulation
• An emulation-based execution control system evaluation tool: application to a furniture manufacturing group
• A simulation-based equipment environment for flexible manufacturing systems
• Feasibility evaluation of multi-site scheduling by distributed simulation of workshops
• Risk analysis for cooperation policies benefits in reducing the bullwhip effect in a telecom supply chain
• Manufacturing network simulation using a data-driven model
• A genetic algorithm with tournament selection for optimising inspection allocation in multiproduct multistage production systems

Special issue: Knowledge flows, learning and development in an international context

European Journal of International Management 6(1) 2012

• Editorial: Knowledge flows, learning and development in an international context
• Cross-cultural training for Dutch expatriates going to India
• Inpatriation in a globalising MNC: knowledge exchange and translation of corporate culture
• The e-mentoring of expatriates: mapping existing research domains and new opportunities
• Expatriate categorisation and evaluation: an empirical investigation in Poland and India
• The relationship between transformational leadership and innovative behaviour in a healthcare context: a team learning versus a cohesion perspective
• Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs)

Special issue: Research and advances in vehicle body engineering

International Journal of Vehicle Design 57(2/3) 2011

• A new approach to improve the vehicle ride comfort by electroencephalogram data
• Lightweight design of vehicle front-end structure: contributions of multiple surrogates
• Optimisation-based approach for determining driver seat adjustment range for vehicles
• Development of a ride comfort evaluation method with a laboratory testing system
• Multi-disciplinary optimisation for front auto body based on multiple optimisation methods
• Three-phase optimisation design of an electric car body at conceptual design stage
• Structure and transformation of the Italian car styling supply chain
• Automotive body inspection uncertainty associated with computational processes
• Rapid structural property evaluation system for car body advanced design
• Development and validation of a finite element model of a dummy for design of pedestrian-friendly vehicles
• The influence of wheel-housing shape on vehicle aerodynamic performance
• Optimal mounting design for cab vibration isolation

Newly announced title: International Journal of Swarm Intelligence

Beginning publication in 2013,  International Journal of Swarm Intelligence will report research, new developments and applications in the multidisciplinary field of swarm intelligence.

Special issue: Simulation-based optimisation techniques

International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation 3(1/2) 2012

• GATE: a genetic algorithm designed for expensive cost functions
• Simulation-driven sequential metamodels for fuzzy reliability-based optimisation tasks
• Design of a matrix hydraulic turbine using a metamodel-assisted evolutionary algorithm with PCA-driven evolution operators
• Variable-fidelity simulation-driven design optimisation of microwave structures
• Metamodelling approach using radial basis functions, stochastic search algorithm and CFD – application to blade cascade design

Special issue: Cultural heritage and tourism: trends and innovative strategies for learning and management

International Journal of Web Based Communities 8(1) 2012

• E-heritage and e-museums: technological resources for tourism planning
• Facebook, heritage and tourism reorientation. The cases of Tenerife and Fuerteventura (Canary Isles, Spain)
• Tripadvisor rates Einstein: using the social web to unpack the public meanings of a cultural heritage site
• Mobile devices: a tool for tourism and learning at archaeological sites
• Cultural events, cultural heritage, tourism and new media
• Project Mus.Cat: a CMS open-source application
• User generated content in destination marketing organisations' websites
• Crossing the borders in language learning through the use of web-conferencing as an e-learning tool

Special issue: Precision micro- and nano-metrology for nanomanufacturing

International Journal of Nanomanufacturing 8(1/2) 2012

• Nanometrology at PTB in support of process control of nanoscale features in semiconductor manufacturing
• Improvement of free-spectral-range measurement for Fabry-Perot cavity using phase modulation technique
• GPU-accelerated white-light scanning interferometer for large-area, high-speed surface profile measurements
• In-situ scanning white light interferometry employing dual-sensing configuration and active fringe-locking strategy
• Development of nanoparticle sizing system integrated with optical microscopy using fluorescence polarisation
• The system and the mechatronics of a pagoda type micro-CMM
• Fabrication of micro-ball styluses for scanning-type surface form metrology
• Establishment of a measuring station on a diamond turning machine for in-process cutting edge inspection of single point diamond micro-tools
• Nanomanufacturing of radial grating patterns by nanoimprint with a silicon mould for rotational angle measurement of micro gears
• A study of characterisation of surface generation in ultra-precision polishing using power spectrum analysis Probe type micro magnetic manipulator utilising localised magnetic field with closed-loop magnetic path

Special issue: Water wars in 21st century along international rivers basins: speculation or reality?

International Journal of Sustainable Society 4(1/2) 2012

• Navigating cooperation beyond the absence of conflict: mapping determinants for the effectiveness of river basin organisations
• Rising to the challenge of water security: international (water) law in need of refinement
• Hydropolitics is what societies make of it (or why we need a constructivist approach to the geopolitics of water)
• Global climate change and challenges for international river agreements
• The Jordan River basin: at the crossroads between conflict and cooperation
• Water sector in Central Asia: slow transformation and potential for cooperation
• From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches
• Hydropower ambitions of South Asian nations and China: Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers basins
• Ganges basin: an example of social conflicts regarding water resources especially in developing countries
• Three lenses on water war, peace and hegemonic struggle on the Nile

Additional Paper

• A DEA model for efficiency evaluation with undesirable output: an application of paper mills along Huai River

Special issue: Advances in RFID Technology (Part 2)

International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications 4(1) 2012

• Vulnerability analysis of lightweight secure search protocols for low-cost RFID systems
• A rules based RFID-enabled supply chain process monitoring system
• Approaches to fast sequential inventory and path following in RFID-enriched environments
• Thin film HF RFID tag deposited on paper by thermal evaporation
• Cell phone-based mobile RFID: models, mechanisms and its security

Call for Papers: Advances in Robotics and Mechatronics

A special issue of International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems

This special issue aims to bring researchers together about the latest advances in the field of intelligent and autonomous robotics and mechatronics. These robots are able to adapt to different tasks, learn, interact, autonomously navigate and adapt their behaviours in various environments using intelligent mechanisms, sensors and artificial perception, vision systems, sensor integration techniques, mapping and localisation. The special issue enables researchers in the field of robotics and mechatronics to present new results and contribute to the latest developments on the theory, technologies, methodologies, sensors, bio-inspiration approaches, embedded systems, algorithms and applications of robotics, mechatronics, control and smart systems.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Intelligent mechatronics systems
• Sensors and artificial perception for robotics
• Vision systems and sensor integration techniques
• Bio-inspiration approaches in robotics
• Embedded systems and algorithms
• Control and smart systems.

Important Date
Submission of a full paper: 15 April, 2012

Call for Papers: Green Technology and Digital Enterprise for Sustainability

A special issue of International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems

This Special Issue on aims to bring together work from academia, research scholars, scientists, engineers, technologists, business entrepreneurs, practitioners, managers and policymakers responsible for delivering green technology (IS & IT) and digital enterprises for sustainability in order to achieve competitive advantage and cost savings in modern organisations in both industrial and business sectors. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory and practice of recent trends in computing, innovation, communication and information technologies, green technology, digital enterprise, corporate sustainability, e-waste disposal and globalisation.

Extended versions of papers that are accepted for the 4th International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing, Communication & Information Technologies (ObCom - 2011) will be considered, in addition to other submissions.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Information systems development
• E-healthcare
• Forensic informatics
• Healthcare records management
• Biomedical applications
• Forensic finance
• Bioinformatics
• Biometric security
• Data centres and energy efficiency
• Enterprise business applications
• Human-machine cooperation
• Consumer electronics
• Digital automotives
• Corporate social responsibilities
• IT and corporate governance
• Sustainability and entrepreneurship
• Carbon footprints
• Facilities management
• Healthcare informatics
• Ecosystems
• Financial engineering
• Informatics finance
• Environmental issues
• Energy and sustainability
• E-agriculture and technology transfer
• Social engineering
• Ergonomics and benchmarking
• Climate change
• Renewable energy

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 15 February, 2012
First-round notification: 10 April, 2012
Submission of revised paper: 15 June, 2012
Final acceptance notification: 15 July, 2012
Final manuscript due: 15 July, 2012

Special issue: Population and sustainable development

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 11(3/4) 2011

• Long-run projections of environmental impact in the OECD: the importance of uncertainty and age structure
• Demographic delusion and urban violence: a challenge to youth development in Nigeria
• Water security and sustainability in urban India
• Regional development in neo-liberal era: a missed opportunity for sustainable development
• Colombian refugees in Ecuador: sampling schemes, migratory patterns and consequences for migrants
• Relationship between environmental volunteers' demographic characteristics and their green purchase behaviour: evidence from Penang (Malaysia)
• Analysing the impact of demographic development on sustainability via infrastructure networks

Special issue: Applications of ultra wideband technology in healthcare

International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems  2(2) 2011

• UWB systems for body area networks
• IEEE 802.15.4a UWB receivers in medical applications
• On the UWB medical radars working principles
• Physics-based propagation characterisations of UWB signals for the urine detection in human bladder
• Application of IEEE 802.15.6 IR-UWB physical layer for medical BAN
• Experimental study in breath detection and human target ranging in the presence of obstacles using ultra-wideband signals

Special issue: Image and data compression applications

International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering 4(4) 2011

• Image compression using Least Probable Coefficients Approximation technique
• An improved low complexity Near Lossless Image Compression
• Efficient Distributed Video Coding based on principle of syndrome coding
• Image denoising based on adaptive fusion of curvelet transform and Total Variation
• Analysis of radiographical weld flaws using image-processing approach
• Curvature driven diffusion coupled with shock for image enhancement/reconstruction
• Effect of noise on speech compression in Run Length Encoding scheme

Special issue: Business excellence through sustained competitive advantage in a global market

International Journal of Business Excellence 5(1/2) 2012

• Private-public partnerships: corporate responsibility strategy in food retail
• Manufacturing platform of strategic innovation in global semiconductor industry
• Essentials of D-phase to secure the competitive advantage through Six Sigma
• The relationship between web quality and user satisfaction: the moderating effects of security and content
• Determinants of banks' total factor productivity: the post-Asian financial crisis experience of the Philippines
• Implications of an internet startup entering in a market with low level of technological adoption: case study
• Corporate social responsibility: are firms in Nigeria actually giving back or giving away?
• Organic growth a taxonomic perspective

Additional papers

• A simulation-based study for managing hospital emergency department's capacity in extreme events
• Financial controls and firms' performance in the manufacturing sector in Nigeria

Special issue: Interdisciplinary research in entrepreneurship in Europe

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 15(1) 2012

Papers from the 9th Annual Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) held in Munich, Germany 16-18 February 2011.

• Beyond high tech: the pivotal role of technology in start-up business model design
• Internationalisation in new ventures what role do team dynamics play?
• The spin-along approach: ambidextrous corporate venturing management
• How to manage networks? The role of network attributes and incentives in network governance
• Succession in family firms: how to improve family satisfaction and family harmony
• The effects of social capital on the performance of newly founded businesses in Slovenia
• Regulatory changes and market reactions the European renewable energy market