 International Journal of Collaborative Engineering (IJCE)
ISSN (Online): 1745-0047 - ISSN (Print): 1745-0039
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IJCE promotes and fosters scholarly discussion on the emerging subject of collaborative decision making in the engineering discipline. Collaborative engineering studies the interactive process of engineering collaboration, whereby multiple interested stakeholders resolve conflicts, bargain for individual or collective advantages, agree upon courses of action, and/or attempt to craft joint outcomes which serve their mutual interests.
The IJCE emphasis is on the implications that collaborative consensus-building activities have on both the efficiency of technical teams and the quality of their results. This perspective acknowledges the complexity of collaborative engineering as an interface between decision and negotiation processes as well as in the assimilation of social and technical aspects of engineering activities operating in parallel over different time-space and discipline scales.
 Objectives
The objectives of IJCE are to establish an effective channel of communication between academic and research institutions, industry communities, government agencies and persons concerned with the complex nature of collaborative engineering in design and manufacturing of technical systems. It also aims to promote and coordinate interdisciplinary research and development in the promising paradigm of Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation (ECN) as a new scientific foundation for collaborative engineering.
The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers, and to meet the needs of global collaboration, which has become ubiquitous due to modern communication and information technologies. IJCE promotes fundamental pedagogical and technological changes in the current way of thinking, and accelerates the paradigm shifts in engineering research, education and application. Readership
IJCE provides a vehicle to help engineering academics, researchers, educators, practitioners and decision makers working in the fields of design, manufacturing, product development, system engineering, technology management and training to disseminate information and to learn from each other’s work. Social science professionals, who are interested in socio-technical interaction, management scholars, behavioural researchers, and decision scientists in the fields of team organisation and decision making, will also find IJCE relevant. Contents
IJCE publishes original papers, review articles, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important research and development topics relate to collaborative engineering will occasionally be published. Subject Coverage
Topics of interest to IJCE include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborative decision making and decision analysis in engineering
- Distributive and integrative negotiation techniques for engineering
- Engineering as collaborative negotiation
- Collaboration science and technology
- Collaborative and concurrent life-cycle engineering
- Socio-technical framework for system engineering
- Joint decision making and social choices in engineering
- Activity theory for engineering modelling
- Construction of social reality in engineering
- Conflict detection, management and resolution
- Technical team work, intelligent agent and virtual teaming technologies
- Case studies and industrial application of collaborative engineering
Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may
only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has
been completely re-written).
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of
Papers web-page.
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author
Guidelines) to Prof. Stephen C-Y Lu
Please include in your submission the title of the Journal
Editors and Members of the Editorial Board
Editor in Chief Prof. Stephen C.-Y. Lu
David Packard Chair in Manufacturing Engineering, and Director, Product Development Engineering Program
Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
430-M, Olin Hall of Engineering, 3650 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90089-1453
USA
sclu@usc.edu
Associate Editors Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh
RWTH Aachen
Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL)
Herwart-Opitz-Haus, Steinbachstraße 53 B
D-52074 Aachen
GERMANY Prof. Mitchell M. Tseng
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
HONG KONG (CHINA) Prof. Robert G. Wilhelm
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte NC 28223
USA Regional Editor Asia Prof. Fumihiko Kimura
Hosei University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Kajino-cho 3-7-2, Koganei
Tokyo, 184-8584
JAPAN Regional Editor Europe Prof. Paul G. Maropoulos
University of Bath
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bath, BA2 7AY
UK Regional Editor North and South America Prof. Waguih H. ElMaraghy
Director, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre
University of Windsor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
CANADA
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