Free sample articles newly available from Int. Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation are now available here for free:

• Verilog HDL optimisation design and simulation for modified inversionless Berlerkamp-Massey algorithm and the multiplier over canonical field
• Utilising multiple mobile sinks to improve wireless sensor network lifetime
• Secure and energy-efficient data aggregation for wireless sensor networks
• Agent-based modelling to visualise trustworthiness: a socio-technical framework
• An analysis of security vulnerabilities of the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live mobile network
• Privacy disclosure risk: smartphone user guide

Call for papers: "Security and Privacy in Big Data"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence.

The proliferation of new technologies calls for innovative ideas to retrieve and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process within an acceptable period of time.

Since big data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting big data are therefore attracting the attention of more and more researchers and practitioners.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at IEEE TrustData 2015: International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data, 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:

• Trust
• Trust semantics, metrics and models for big data
• Trust management and evaluation for big data
• Trusted systems, software and applications for big data
• Trusted platform implementation technologies for big data
• Information quality/trustworthiness for big data
• Provenance of content for big data
• Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for big data
• Security
• Security models and architecture for big data
• Data mining security for big data
• Software and system security for big data
• Intrusion detection for gigabit networks
• Cryptography and big data
• Visualising large-scale security data
• Threat detection using big data analytics
• Human-computer interaction challenges for big data security
• Data protection, integrity standards and policies
• Security and legislative impacts for big data
• Managing user access for big data
• Secure quantum communications
• Privacy
• Privacy in big data applications and services
• Privacy in big data end-point input validation and filtering
• Privacy in big data integration and transformation
• Privacy in parallel and distributed computation
• Privacy in big data storage management
• Privacy in big data access control mechanisms
• Privacy in big data mining and analytics
• Privacy in big data sharing and visualisation
• Big data privacy policies and standards

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 15 November, 2015
Notification to authors: 1 April, 2016
Final versions due: 1 June, 2016

Free sample articles newly available from Int. Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials

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

• Surface integrity predictions and optimisation of machining conditions in the turning of AISI H13 tool steel
• Characterisation of surface martensite-austenite transformation during finish turning of an AISI S15500 stainless steel
• Correlation between tool flank wear, force signals and surface integrity when turning bars of Inconel 718 in finishing conditions
• Analytical and numerical study of the separation line between chip and work-piece during cutting processes
• Service life of glass workpieces: influence of the grinding parameters on the surface roughness and the fracture strength
• Mechanical properties and corrosion behaviour of low carbon martensitic stainless steel after machining
• Development of an in-house cutting forces simulation for fir tree broaching process
• Advanced programming of machine tools: interests of an open CNC controller within a STEP-NC environment

Inderscience is media partner for Shale Gas Environmental Summit

Inderscience is a media partner for the Shale Gas Environmental Summit (26-27 October 2015, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

• International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy
• International Journal of Global Energy Issues
• International Journal of Global Environmental Issues
• International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology

Further information is available here.

Free sample articles newly available from Int. Journal of Information and Computer Security

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Information and Computer Security are now available here for free:

• Exposing WPA2 security protocol vulnerabilities 
• Context and semantics for detection of cyber attacks 
• Genetic algorithms based data hiding scheme for digital images with LSBMR 
• Extracting the system call identifier from within VFS: a kernel stack parsing-based approach 
• Low power high throughput reconfigurable stream cipher hardware VLSI architectures

Call for papers: "Energy Harvesting and Management for Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing.

The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of sensors and smart things/objects that are connected to the internet any time and anywhere. Acting as a perception layer of IoT, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play an important role by detecting events and collecting surrounding context and environment information. Since sensors are battery powered, replacing the batteries in each smart object/thing/sensor is very difficult to implement.

For the sustainability of network operations, energy harvesting and energy management technologies have recently gained much attention. Energy management is the most important technology for prolonging the network lifetime of WSNs. The design of efficient energy management involves several aspects, including physical, MAC and network elements as well as application aspects.

Energy harvesting is a novel and promising solution that sees each node equipped with a harvesting module. Recent research efforts in energy harvesting can be classified into two categories: energy scavenging and energy transferring. In energy scavenging technologies, the sensor can be recharged from the ambient environment, including electromagnetic waves, thermal energy and wind energy. In energy transferring technologies, the mobile node can play the role of charger which is able to wirelessly transfer energy to those sensors located within its recharging range.

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

• Routing and MAC protocols under energy harvesting constraints for WSNs and IoT
• Energy management in topology control, routing and MAC mechanisms for WSNs and IoT
• Detection and tracking mechanisms in energy harvesting or energy management
• Barrier, area and target coverage techniques under energy harvesting or energy management
• Energy cooperation and relaying in wireless networks
• Energy harvesting scheduling management for WSNs and IoT
• Monitoring, data collection and management mechanisms in energy harvesting and management for WSNs and IoT
• Energy harvesting and management mechanisms for mobile WSNs and IoT
• QoS-aware algorithms with energy harvesting and management for WSNs and IoT
• Sleep scheduling and low-power technologies for WSNs and IoT
• Future trends, challenges expectations and applications for energy harvesting and management of WSNs and IoT

Important Dates

Paper submission: 31 March, 2016
Decision notification: 30 June, 2016
Revised paper submission: 15 September, 2016
Final paper submission: 15 November, 2016

Call for papers: "Business Practice and Economic Decisions in a Post-Great Recession World"

For a special issue of the Global Business and Economics Review.

The objective of this special issue is to publish papers that deal with business practice and economic decisions following the recent Great Recession. How do firms deal with productivity issues subject to abundant low-wage labour (primarily due to incoming immigration and outsourcing) and automation? How do developed and developing nations deal with austerity constraints and the need to provide security and employ, educate, collect tax revenue and – above all – combat severe socio-economic disturbances?

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented during the 2015 Business & Economics Society International Conference, 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:

• Productivity and low-cost labour
• Productivity and outsourcing
• Productivity, automation and higher education
• Incentives for growth and the role of genuine governmental support
• Entrepreneurship, new products, services and markets
• Impact of online approaches to marketing
• Austerity and its impact on developed and developing nations
• Deflation, money supply management and financial development
• New empirical approaches as applied to firm performance and whole economies

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 15 October, 2015
Notification to authors: 30 November, 2015
Final versions due: 30 December, 2015

Free sample articles newly available from Int. Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies are now available here for free:

• Striking down austerity measures: the crisis jurisprudence of the Tribunal Constitucional de Portugal and the Italian Corte Costituzionale
• Tribunal Constitucional de España rules on same-sex marriage
• Workers' rights and employment contracts in a developing country context: the case of Turkey
• Normative structure for criminalising corruption - the South Asian experience
• The combined approach of Articles 2 (1) and 28 (1) of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 as a source of international law of non-discrimination
• Towards ensuring fundamental education right in Nigeria
• Non-access to water as human right violation? International protection and the application of the non-refoulement principle under the human rights legal instruments
• Privacy laws in East Asia: the role of the private sector
• Global financial economy and human rights protection in the age of the economic crisis: an argument about Greece

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from Business & Economic Society International January 2016 Conference

Extended versions of papers presented at the Business & Economic Society International January 2016 Conference (6-8 January 2016, Queenstown, New Zealand) will be published by the following journals:

• Global Business and Economics Review
• International Journal of Economics and Business Research
• International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research
• Interdisciplinary Environmental Review

Call for papers for inaugural issue of International Journal of Export Marketing

The newly announced International Journal of Export Marketing has announced a call for papers for its inaugural issue.

The journal offers an international, peer-reviewed outlet for export marketing, which is an increasingly important research topic mainly because exporting largely deals with marketing-related issues (foreign market selection, marketing strategy adaptation, export-overseas distributor relations) and its multifaceted character makes it possible to enrich the field with insights from different theoretical and practical perspectives. Exporting is also the most common way for smaller-size firms to enter international markets, since, compared to other foreign direct-entry modes, it involves fewer resources/costs and lower risks.

Free sample articles newly available from Int. Journal of Critical Accounting

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

• Transforming or re-branding: whither management accounting? 
• Bourdieusian capital of Nigerian bank financial condition 
• Toward a conceptual framework of leaders' impression management strategies during the process of financial crisis: the story of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act 
• Elements of theory on state control applied to accounting: the French case

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from Business & Economic Society International July 2015 Conference

Extended versions of papers presented at the Business & Economic Society International July 2015 Conference (6-9 July 2015, Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal) will be published by the following journals:

• Global Business and Economics Review
• Int. J. of Economics and Business Research
• Int. J. of Behavioural and Healthcare Research
• Interdisciplinary Environmental Review

Special issue published: "Network Management and Monitoring"

International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing 5(2) 2015

Includes extended versions of papers presented at the International Workshop on Network Management and Monitoring (NetMM) 2013.

• Graphical modelling approach for monitoring and management of telecommunication networks
• Formally testing the protocol performances
• An effective attack detection approach in wireless mesh networks
• Model driven development of user-centred context aware services
• A study on network security monitoring for the hybrid classification-based intrusion prevention systems

Call for papers: "Advances in Technology and Management in a Global World"

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

The business world is advancing swiftly and continuously as a result of technological innovation. This special issue aims to disseminate information pertaining to the most recent trends, concerns and practical challenges encountered in the field of business and management and the solutions adopted. It seeks papers exploring upcoming new age business practices and the changes technology has brought about in the way organisations function, and attempts to serve as a platform for information exchange on contemporary interests and concerns.

The special issue will have diverse coverage across several fields related to management and technology, thus creating an interdisciplinary environment for academic and pragmatic debates.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Management and Technology in a Global World 2015, 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:

• New technologies and business
• Managing distributed projects
• Managing information security
• Virtual communities and collaboration
• Next-generation technologies
• Internet for everything
• Enterprise systems and business
• Big data analytics
• Enterprise 3.0 applications
• New business models
• Managing global enterprises
• Human-computer interaction
• New age marketing
• Social media and mobile marketing
• Advances in B2B, B2C and C2C environments
• Digital marketing and customer relationship management
• Brands and consumer behaviour
• Green marketing
• Advances in operations management
• Service operations management
• Made in India - flexible manufacturing
• ICT and innovations in operations
• Sustainable supply chain management
• Advances in quality management
• Human resource management in today’s organisations
• Employability skills and talent management
• Contemporary leadership issues in organisations
• Analytics in human resource management
• Technology for training and development
• Digital learning and organisations
• Advances in Financial Management
• Market volatility and financial innovation
• Financial econometrics
• Technology in banking and insurance
• Investment management and high-frequency finance
• Financial inclusion

Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submission (via email): 1 July, 2015
Notification of abstract acceptance: 20 July, 2015
Submission of full paper (online): 15 September, 2015
Notification of revision requirements: 15 November, 2015
Deadline for acceptance of revised paper: 15 January, 2016

Security on the move

The internet has become almost ubiquitous in the developed world and beyond with the advent of the smart phone and tablet computer. As such, staying secure and keeping information private has become an issue of utmost importance way beyond the traditional computer desktop. Writing in the International Journal of Information and Computer Security, computer scientists from the Ulster University, UK, have surveyed the security mechanisms that are now in place and their shortcomings.

Kevin Curran, Vivian Maynes and Declan Harkin reveal the whys and wherefores of encryption, authentication, remote wipe capabilities, lost phone hotlines, firewalls and anti-virus software. They also discuss the notion of a false sense of security that the implementation of such tools can bring and the loopholes that exist in the likes of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other wireless connectivity protocols.

The team points out that while many people are vaguely aware of privacy and security concerns many do not take the time to ensure that the information on their phones – their photos, bank details, account logins and such – are secure. They report that a survey by Information Week revealed that only half of smart phone users have their phones set to auto-lock with a PIN or password. Moreover, very few encrypt their emails making the details travelling to and fro across the mobile networks and Wi-Fi vulnerable to snoopers looking for backdoors into your financial accounts and other sensitive logins. It also leaves user vulnerable to being spied upon by government agencies.

“No one mobile OS is inherently more secure than another. They each have strengths and quite often the more popular one can be more secure but due to popularity, that is where most hacker attacks are aimed,” the team says. Users of Android, Apple or Microsoft smart phone operating systems are all vulnerable to hacking and snooping, some more so than others, but also depending on the third-party applications, or apps, one installs on the device.

The team suggests that primarily the onus is on the service providers. “The wireless network operators need to take responsibility for providing a secure, efficient mechanism of communication,” the team asserts. Secondly, “The mobile devices themselves need to incorporate system-level security to ensure they are not susceptible to attacks in both network and virus format.”


Curran, K., Maynes, V. and Harkin, D. (2015) ‘Mobile device security’, Int. J. Information and Computer Security, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.1–13.

Security on the move is a post from: David Bradley's Science Spot
via Science Spot » Inderscience http://ift.tt/1EPMbZ5

Call for papers: "Recent Advancement in Tyre Modelling, Parameterisation and Validation"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Vehicle Performance.

Over the years, virtual prototyping of vehicles and critical vehicle sub-components such as tyres has increasingly been used to assist in reducing time to market by shortening the design cycle time, support developmental projects at different stages and meet stringent product performance requirements. In particular, validated virtual tyre models of various levels of complexities and fidelities have been used in designing new tyres and evaluating vehicle performance using simulation results.

Tyres are complex entities that also provide modelling and simulation challenges. Their composite structures are known to be different from traditional metallic structures, while their behaviour such as large deformation and rolling contact which present geometrical non-linearity and contact discontinuities poses complex numerical challenges. Predictive virtual tyre models have been routinely used mostly as a virtual test bench by tyre developers and researchers investigating the performance of different tyre build for normal operating conditions. Such tyre models are used to analyse various Tyre applications such as generating forces and moments, tyre profile and footprint studies, burst pressure investigation, stress/strain analysis, heat generation, temperature distribution, etc. Knowledge gained from such stand-alone tyre models would undoubtedly help in the development of simpler but accurate tyre models for vehicle behaviour evaluations.

This special issue features new discoveries and advances in the field of tyre development, tyre material characterisation, parameter identification, sensitivity study, FEA Tyre modelling and simulation of heavy truck tyres for model parameterisation used for road loads prediction. It brings together vehicle and tyre experts in academia and industry worldwide to explore current issues regarding tyre modelling, material characterisation required in computational vehicle behaviour evaluations, etc.

This issue provides a platform intended to foster emerging ideas regarding development of advanced tyre modelling strategy for tyre design and vehicle performance evaluation.

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

• Tyre/vehicle system: stability, crashworthiness evaluation
• Tyre parameter identification and sensitivity analysis
• Heat generation in rolling tyres: tyre temperature distribution
• FEA modelling and simulation of heavy truck tyres
• Tyre test development: tyre testing
• Tyre failure characterisation
• Tyre-road interaction : tyre-ground friction and tread contact stress
• Tyre performance evaluation: dry/wet handling and traction, endurance, wear resistance, tyre noise, rolling resistance, hydroplaning, weight reduction, and tyre pattern optimisation, etc.
• Tyre materials: material characterisation, constitutive models, rubber, tyre reinforcements, etc.
• Smart tyre development for intelligent transportation systems

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 May, 2016

Free sample articles newly available from Int. Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance

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

• The effects of public debt on capital formation in India: evidence from structural VAR analysis
• Financial liberalisation, financial development and productivity growth: an overview
• Yield curve changes effect on Euro area bond indexes: a partial durations approach
• Interaction among stock prices and monetary variables in Pakistan
• Analysing monetary policy's transmission mechanisms through effective and expected interest rates: an application of MS-models, Bayesian VAR and cointegration approaches for Brazil

Call for papers: "Recent Advances in Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing Technologies"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing.

The increasing number of organisations and institutions that undertake additive manufacturing (AM) R&D, workforce development and educational practices indicates that the technology is establishing itself as credible within the manufacturing domain. Areas of focus are broad, encompassing design and fabrication to modelling, simulation, engineering, architecture, construction, art, biomedicine, dentistry, defence, genetics, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, forensics, and photonics. It is clear that AM is transforming many aspects of product development from design and fabrication to quality assurance and beta-testing. Through the years, R&D and higher education institutions worldwide have played a crucial role in all aspects of AM education and in furthering research activities.

The objective of this special issue is to report the latest technological advancements in AM R&D and workforce development efforts.

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

• Printing processes
• Development of emerging materials
• Design rules and structural innovations
• Post processing opportunities
• Software development and implementation
• Market trends and business sustainability
• Large scale metal printing
• Maker/hacker movement and future trends
• Business models and initiatives
• Workforce and curriculum development
• Cutting-edge applications in electronics, military, construction, clothing, medicine, bio-printing, education, sports, architecture, aerospace, food science, dentistry, home improvement, jewellery, orthopaedics, and prototyping

Important Dates

Submission of Manuscripts: 1 October, 2015

Special issue published: "Technologies for a Sustainable Future"

International Journal of Environment and Waste Management 15(3) 2015

• Ammonia removal from landfill leachate by struvite precipitation/coated silica sand filtration
• Biomass-electrochemical integrated system for distillery wastewater treatment with electricity generation using anaerobic mixed consortium in microbial fuel cells
• Research instrument design for performance measures of green manufacturing practices in India - a pilot study
• Tertiary treatment of abattoir wastewater in a horizontal subsurface flow-constructed wetland under tropical conditions

Additional paper

• How to design and manage WEEE systems: a multi-level analysis

Free sample articles newly available from Int. 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:

• A combined graph theory and analytic hierarchy process approach for multicriteria evaluation of hydrogen energy systems
• Net-zero energy: a case study on renewable energy and policy issues at Richardsville Elementary School, Kentucky
• Natural ventilation performance of ancient wind catchers, an experimental and analytical study - case studies: one-sided, two-sided and four-sided wind catchers
• A high power factor and low crest factor Cuk converter for lighting systems
• A sociotechnical systems model for smart-grid adoption in mid-sized urban environments