New Editor for International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering

Prof. Hong Hao from Curtin University in Australia has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering.

International Journal of Sustainable Economy indexed by Scopus

We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Sustainable Economy has been accepted by and will be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database. The journal will be listed on Scopus's database in due course.

Special issue published: "Information Security and Privacy"

International Journal of Applied Cryptography 3(3) 2017

• A new public remote integrity checking scheme with user and data privacy
• IBE and function-private IBE under linear assumptions with shorter ciphertexts and private keys, and extensions
• Preventing fault attacks using fault randomisation with a case study on AES
• A new authenticated encryption technique for handling long ciphertexts in memory constrained devices
• Sponge-based CCA2 secure asymmetric encryption for arbitrary length message (extended version)
• CCA-secure revocable identity-based encryption schemes with decryption key exposure resistance

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems are now available here for free:

• An incremental hash-based optimistic concurrency control scenario for failure management in HDDBs - an application approach
• Delta extraction in a limited collaborative environment
• Theory of sketches for database mappings
• Software fault prediction using BP-based crisp artificial neural networks
• Factors of data infrastructure and resource support influencing the integration of business intelligence into enterprise resource planning systems

Special issue: "Innovations on Applied Nanotechnology and Nano-Materials"

International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials 6(3/4) 2016

• Kinetics study of the photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli
• Growth and survival of Lactobacillus casei in rice bran and banana peel medium
• Prediction and simulation on DNA strand displacement for the analysis of DNA nanotechnology

Additional papers

• Nano copper oxide can penetrate as nutrient in seeds and plants in an economical nano-biofertiliser application
• Structural and characterisation analysis of zinc-substituted hydroxyapatite with wet chemical precipitation method
• A facile route to prepare reflective counter electrode for enhanced dye-sensitised solar cell efficiency

Free sample articles newly available from Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal

The following sample articles from Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal are now available here for free:

• The growth of the tourism industry and its effect on resource consumption in Macao SAR, China
• EU's sustainable growth strategy: some implications on Romanian labour market
• The social equity of energy parameters: the Romanian case
• Traditional vs. green energy in Romania
• The green economy: EU vision for competitive and sustainable development
• The education level of the human resources in the context of the green economy
• Economic sustainability and possibilities of action for the states, in the case of monetary integration: some notes for reflection
• Environmental and technical evaluation of the use of alternative fuels through multi-criteria analysis model

International Journal of Technology Marketing indexed by Scopus

Inderscience Publishers are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Technology Marketing has been accepted by and will be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database. The journal will be listed on Scopus's database in due course.

Call for papers: "Machine Learning in Multi Modality Recognition System"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing.

The machine learning approach provides a useful tool when the amount of data is very large and a model is not available to explain the generation and relation of the data set. It provides a set of practical applications for solving problems and applying various techniques in automatic data extraction and setting. This technique fills the gap between theory and practice, providing a strong reference for academicians, researchers, and practitioners. Also it covers exploratory as well as predictive modelling, deep and supervised learning, image analysis etc., which form a fruitful branch of machine learning in their own right. This extends beyond the design of non-linear algorithms to encompass also their evaluation, a critical and often neglected area of research, yet a critical stage in practical applications.

This is an ideal platform for researchers to come up with innovative ideas and approaches in the area of machine learning using these applied soft computing strategies. This gains much importance since it directly impacts the real life problem.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference for Phoenixes on Emerging Current Trends in Engineering and Management (PECTEAM-2018), 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:

• Pattern analysis
• Pattern recognition
• Biometrics
• Performance evaluation of Recognition
• Deep Learning
• Optimization for deep learning
• Supervised learning
• Unsupervised learning
• Feature representation
• Content Based Image Retrieval
• Video surveillance
• Tumour Detection
• Neuroinformatics
• Health care System

Important Dates
Manuscripts due by: 20 May, 2018
Notification to authors: 1 August, 2018
Final versions due by: 20 October, 2018

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems are now available here for free:

• Performance evaluation and analysis of lightweight symmetric encryption algorithms for internet of things
• The property of agent's sacrifice: definition, measure, effect and applications
• Secure social multimedia content distribution based on social network analysis
• Design of multi-agent-based online auction in mobile environment
• A new method of applying the ETC technology to the underground parking lot in the supermarket
• The system of protecting eyes and saving energy based on Android
• Research on CDN network architecture design and safety protection for power grid
• A fractional variation estimation algorithm for smart road traffic control network
• Coalition utility allocation based on agent's outstanding characteristics
• Optimisation of motion cueing position based on adaptive chaos PSO algorithm
• A survey on machine learning techniques used for software quality prediction

International Journal of Business and Globalisation to publish expanded papers from National Conference on Indian Economic Transformation Through Revival of Manufacturing Sector and Start-Up Ecosystem

Extended versions of papers presented at the National Conference on Indian Economic Transformation Through Revival of Manufacturing Sector and Start-Up Ecosystem (20-21 September, 2017, Kalkaji, South Delhi, India) will be published by the International Journal of Business and Globalisation.

International Journal of Sustainable Aviation added to Emerging Sources Citations Index

Inderscience Publishers are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Sustainable Aviation has been accepted by and added to Clarivate Analytics' (formerly Thomson Reuters) Emerging Sources Citations Index. The journal is now included in the ESCI journals list.

Special issue published: "Knowledge Management in Innovation and Intelligence"

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence 6(1) 2017

• Representations of psychological function based on ontology for collaborative design of peer support services for diabetic patients
• Learning how to learn with knowledge building process through experiences in new employee training: a case study on learner-mentor interaction model
• Learning by redesigning programs: support system for understanding design policy in software design patterns

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions are now available here for free:

• A software approach for stack memory protection based on duplication and randomisation
• A four-phase methodology for protecting web applications using an effective real-time technique
• Geo-based content naming and forwarding mechanism for vehicular networking over CCN
• A quantum-inspired evolutionary clustering algorithm for the lifetime problem of wireless sensor network

Inderscience is media partner for Global Medicinal Chemistry & GPCR Leaders Summit 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Global Medicinal Chemistry & GPCR Leaders Summit (27-28 November 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• Int. J. of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design

More information on this event is available here.

Special issue published: "Advances in Computational Intelligence for Big Data"

International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 9(1) 2017

• Rotation-invariant method for texture matching using model-based histograms and GLCM
• An improved HBA metaheuristic
• A 0-1 bat algorithm for cellular network optimisation: a systematic study on mapping techniques

Additional papers

• Multi-objective design optimisation of four-bar mechanisms using a hybrid ICA-GA algorithm 
• Community detection using intelligent water drops optimisation algorithm

International Journal of Business Environment indexed by Scopus

We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Business Environment has been accepted by and will be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database. The journal will be listed on Scopus's database in due course.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments are now available here for free:

• Perceptions of social media as a learning tool: a comparison between arts and science students
• Strategic implication in social media marketing based on social factors associated with the private university's admission in Thailand
• M-learning in Nigerian higher education: an experimental study with Edmodo
• Between virtual and real: exploring hybrid interaction and communication in virtual worlds
• The Twitter academic: supporting learning communications in 140 characters or less

Call for papers: "Transformative technologies and the design of next generation supply networks"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Technology Management.

Networked organisations are increasingly adopting a ‘smarter networking’ philosophy in their design of more agile and customer-focused supply models. Changing consumer behaviours and the emergence of transformative process and digital technologies—industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, the Internet of Things—are driving a series of innovations, in terms of ‘products’ and business models, with major implications for the industrial enterprise, in their design of more ‘digitalised’ supply chains.

 

Studies involving such transformative technologies continue to capture the interest of academics, industrialists, and government policy makers as often yet untapped sources of significant ‘value’ creation. In recent years, research in this area has typically focused on product R&D technologies, coupled with their particular technology commercialisation challenges.

 

However, industrial systems are growing more complex, and are not readily described by a single viewpoint. It is now widely recognised that manufacturing value chains (including subsequent stages for design for manufacture, engineering, production operations ramp-up, route-to-market, in-use activities) are critical to transforming new technologies and ideas into innovative products and services.

 

Running through all of this was a common thread that emphasised the need to connect, network and collaborate across the supply chain, whether through enterprise-wide IT integration at one end of the spectrum or by targeting engagement with supply chain partners at the other. However, the design, set-up and operation of enabling supply networks, in the context of transformative technologies, are still poorly understood.

 

This special issue focuses on transformative technologies and next-generation supply networks, drawing on examples of process technology innovations and more customer-focused supply chains that are actively exploiting the potential of, for example, big data analytics and social media to innovate in terms of the design of new production or supply chain replenishment models (e.g. new routes to market) and/or novel business models.

 

Consistent with the mission of IJTM, submitted papers should contain a significant empirical contribution and enable communication between academics, industrialists, and policymakers to further knowledge and research, as well as theory and practice, in the field of transformative technologies and management. Original research and development papers, review papers, and qualitative/quantitative studies are welcome. The relevance of next generation supply networks and/or transformative technologies encompassing, for example, industrial systems transformation, digitalisation, industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, the Internet of Things should be explicit. Such contexts could include (but are not limited to):

• Understanding the dynamics of transformative technologies and subsequent engagement with complex industrial networks
• Insights on the interaction between various stages of the manufacturing value chain and digitally-enabled consumer-centric supply chains
• Collaborative supply chain models, crowdsourcing and the sharing economy
• Digital supply chain design, analysis and operation
• Visualisation of value showing potential value streams for network partners
• Industrial network development from the perspectives of different stakeholders
• Trends and generic stages of supply network evolution
• Effective management of resources through the implementation of supply chain strategies
• Development of frameworks and their application to support the configuration of next generation supply networks

 

Important Date

Manuscripts due by: 1 December, 2017

Special issue published: "Advances in Environmental Management"

Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 11(1) 2017

• Exploring perceptions on the importance of corporate social responsibility in industrial areas
• On the comparative financial and risk analysis of urban development projects: the case of Athens' Hellinikon airport
• A Green information technology governance framework for eco-environmental risk mitigation
• A computer algebra system approach in gene expression analysis

Additional papers

• Emerging approaches for industrial sustainability and feasible applications in India
• The diversity-logistics hypothesis: how animals and manufacturers stand to reduce inbound logistics and inventory costs through diversity
• Climatology in Mauritius 1983-2005: potential solar radiation modulation by Quasi-Biennial oscillation and El Niño-Southern oscillation

Research Picks – September 2017

Are smart phones educational?
Smart phones, tablets and other mobile information and communications devices are now almost ubiquitous in business, leisure, and even education in many parts of the world. Researchers in Greece suggest that we need a new perspective to help inform parents and educators as to how such devices can help children learn but also what might be the pitfalls. It is, for instance, difficult to assess the multitude of self-styled educational apps (software) without a major review of their pros and cons. With thousands of such apps in the online markets it is difficult for parents and educators to know which might be of genuine educational use for their children and students. With primary school aged children and even toddlers regularly using such gadgets, there is an urgent need for a holistic assessment.
Papadakis, S. and Kalogiannakis, M. (2017) ‘Mobile educational applications for children: what educators and parents need to know‘, Int. J. Mobile Learning and Organisation, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.256-277.

Degrees by value
Now that universities in England can charge students tuition fees, there is a pressing need to measure value of any given degree. UK researchers have now assessed a standard tool and applied it to a case study of degrees on offer at their own university. In grade point average (GPA) terms their principle finding is that less quantitative degrees – which might include marketing and international business – register a higher value added than the more quantitative degrees, such as economics and finance, on offer.
Dabir-Alai, P. and Oliveira, A. (2017) ‘Adding value by degree: a case study‘, Int. J. Education Economics and Development, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.78-84.

Digging for economic stability
The shockwaves of the 2008 global financial crisis are still resonating with ongoing poverty and austerity initiatives still commonplace, a resurgence in extremist political opinion, a growing financial gap between rich and poor, significant unemployment, and tense international relations, perhaps being the side effects of this ongoing problem. European researchers have carried out a global econometric study and suggest that agriculture is the buffer that protects nations when the world is in the midst of economic downturn. Indeed, the weight of agriculture within a national economy correlates well (across 151 countries studied) with national resilience and a lower variation in economic growth and unemployment during times of financial crisis, the team found.
Mare, C. and Dragos, C.M. (2017) ‘Agriculture – a possible lifesaver in times of crisis? A worldwide level econometric study‘, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.61-72.

Disruptive technology
Ever since early humans used twine to attach a hand axe a piece of wood and give it a handle, we have seen disruptive technologies. The printing press, the steam engine, even the ballpoint pen, all usurped earlier technology and caused varying degrees of shockwaves throughout society. Researchers from Brazil have focused on that latter invention the ballpoint pen to show how it disrupted the much older “fountain” pen technology and use this case study as a model of how innovation underpins technological disruption. The lessons learned from this case study could help inform our understanding of current innovation and disruptive technologies.
Ferasso, M., Pinheiro, I.A. and Schröeder, C.d.S. (2017) ‘Strategies of innovation in an ancient business: cases of the fountain pen industry‘, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.73-84.