| 1. | European J. of International Management (EJIM)
Special Issue on: "Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)"
The last few decades have witnessed an ever-increasing number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that stands in sharp contrast to their high failure rate (King, Dalton, Daily, and Covin, 2004). For example, a recent M&A study by Deloitte (2007) reveals that, despite the financial market crisis, Western and Eastern Europe attract attention of both strategic and financial investors. Over the past ...more |
| Special Issue on: "European Perspectives on Talent Management"
Since the late 1990s, the concept of talent management has gained increasing currency among practitioners and academics alike. Practitioner reports clearly indicate that talent management occupies a significant amount of senior managerial time and additionally that it is something which organisations find quite challenging. For example, a study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group in 2007 i...more |
| 2. | International Journal of Aerodynamics (IJAD)
Special Issue on: "Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles"
Compared to the “old” aerothermodynamics of space vehicles developed mainly during the fifties and the sixties, there have been considerable advances made in this field over the last few decades. These advances have been achieved by spectacular progress in computer science, development of numerical methods and new measurement techniques. This scientific progress has inevitably led to the reduct...more |
| 3. | International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS)
Special Issue on: "New Combinatorial Optimisation Models for Decision Making"
Combinatorial optimisation problems are known for their high level of complexity. Problems such as, but not limited to, the travelling salesman problem, the multiple knapsack problem, or the generalised assignment problem, have attracted the interest of many researchers for many years. A plethora of different solution approaches have been used in order to find the solution to such hard optimisa...more |
| 4. | International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS)
Special Issue on: "Applied Project Management Systems"
Rich Karlgaard, Forbes editor, during the The Forbes Leadership Networks Forum that took place at Palo Alto, California, 2 October, 2008, noted: "...The practice of project management will be the activity that makes or breaks many global companies in this economic environment..."
So, as organizations continue to face tough challenges in this globalized and turbulent economic en...more |
| Special Issue on: "Systems Thinking in Inter-Organizational Collaboration"
Management studies have long investigated the evolution of collaboration as it occurs within organizational boundaries. However, the widespread deployment of e-business strategic thinking, e-services and Internet-related technologies has enabled new options for collaborating and sharing ideas, activities and projects among organizations that may be scattered in different geographies and cultura...more |
| 5. | International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM)
Special Issue on: "Inter-Firm Networks, Governance and Innovation in the Automotive Industry"
The automotive industry is one of the most studied industries, which holds especially true for research on innovations, inter-firm networks and governance mechanisms within these networks. However, recently, major changes have occurred, triggered partly by the current financial crisis.
Questions raised include:
- Which organisational innovations have taken place in the au...more
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| 6. | International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)
Special Issue on: "Toward Merging Multimedia and Mobility Services"
Services computing has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of service computing and poses fascinating problems regarding distributed resource management, ranging from information sharing to cooperative computing. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of integration of multimedia and mobility services (MMS), includi...more |
| 7. | International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance (IJBAF)
Special Issue on: "The Behavioural Factors Affecting Firms' Life-Cycle Financing and Listing Decisions"
A firm needs to make financing and listing decisions throughout its life-cycle, from its start-up stage (when it may take, for example, venture capital financing, angel financing, or bank finance), through its initial public offering (where the decision may be to list on its own stock market, to cross-list, or even to list on the alternative investment market: AIM). Finally, a firm may take a d...more |
| Special Issue on: "Heterogeneity in Financial Markets"
This special issue is concerned with the impact of heterogeneity in beliefs on financial markets. A particular field of behavioural economics, heterogeneous agent models (HAMs), has recently been gaining more recognition in other areas particularly finance and financial markets, which is the focus here. HAMs do not assume full irrationality of investors, but assume that agents are boundedly rat...more |
| 8. | International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM)
Special Issue on: "Digital Signature and Biometrics in Theory and Practice"
The topics suggested by this special issue concern the concepts, surveys, state-of-the-art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and practical case studies. In particular, we solicit works that answer the following questions:
- Is it possible to increase the strength of biometrics using digital signatures and related techniques? Why and how?
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| 9. | International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets (IJBEM)
Special Issue on: "Management Theory and Practices in China"
China’s unprecedented growth and the opportunities are evident. As China’s economic reform and open door policy are entering the fourth decade, its economy is claimed to have shifted from a central-planned to a primarily market-based one. As a result of the shift, it is time to examine the development and status of prevailing management theory and practices (MTP) in China.
Further, th...more |
| 10. | International Journal of Business and Globalisation (IJBG)
Special Issue on: "Exploring Careers of Skilled Immigrants in the Middle-East"
The management research on international mobility remains focused on immigrants in the ‘West’ such as in Europe and U.S.A (Al Ariss and Özbilgin, 2010; Inal, Özbilgin and Karataş-Ӧzkan, 2009). Nevertheless, career of skilled immigrants in the Middle-East is under-researched in the management studies (Healy and Özbilgin, 2003). Accordingly, we know little on the career barriers and a...more |
| 11. | International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR)
Special issue on: "Complex Adaptive Systems in Business"
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) have been defined as systems that involve the interactions of numerous individual agents or elements that change and learn from experience and can show emergent and adaptive properties not exhibited by the individual agents. CAS has been used to identify the evolutionary processes of anthills, bird flocking, and the economy, along with numerous other types of dyna...more |
| 12. | International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management (IJBCRM)
Special issue on: "Risk Management and Related Standards – the Role of Standards in the Management of Business and Related Risks"
The IJBCRM goal is to provide an academic and professional forum to develop and disseminate research, practical methods, theories, and experiences in the advancing area of business continuity and risk management. This growing body of knowledge provides a vital lead within organisations in the process of systematic decisions to protect people, assets and operations and ensures the continuation ...more |
| Special issue on: "Sustainability, Risk and Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century"
Sustainability is a central theme in decision making for organizations pursuing long term strategies. This focus is necessary to ensure the resiliency of the environment in which business continuity is not jeopardized and economic security is not placed in peril. Nevertheless, careful analysis is necessary to ensure that implemented approaches do not have unintended consequences which are hazar...more |
| 13. | International Journal of Business Environment (IJBE)
Special Edition on: "Organisational Identity and the Business Environment"
The topic of this special issue is the interaction of organisations’ identities and the business environment.
Traditionally, the business environment relevant to an organisation has been formally identified substantially based on its mission and competitive strategy. With today’s fast changing business context, the domains in which organisations function often transform causing compe...more |
| 14. | International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIR)
Special Issue on: "Sustainability and Business Research"
Sustainability is one of the key issues confronting society today, as seen by the increasing attention paid to it by governments, media, academics and industry.
Sustainability and sustainable development are defined by the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations as: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future gener...more |
| 15. | International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)
Special Issue on: "Personalisation of Multimedia-based Destination Management Systems"
Nowadays, the widespread adoption of multimedia computing, the deployment of destination management systems (DMS) and the growing availability of ontology-based portals in the tourism industry have converged to gradually increase the range and complexity of multimedia content delivery services for tourist purposes. Basic multimedia applications for tourism are already available, and more comple...more |
| Special Issue on: "Optimisation Issues in Energy Efficient Distributed Systems"
Minimisation of energy consumption has become a central issue in designing distributed systems that range from wireless ad hoc networks to data centers. Because battery technologies have not yet matched advances in hardware and software technologies, saving energy in battery-operated devices is very important for mobile/wireless networks. Similarly, minimising energy consumption in high perform...more |
| Special Issue on: "Recent Advances in P2P Systems: Trust, Reputation and Security"
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems that cooperate to exchange data. A P2P network offers a scalable and fault-tolerant means of locating nodes anywhere on a network without maintaining a huge amount of routing state. This permits for a variety of applications beyond simple file sharing. Millions of users now participate in these systems and the use...more |
| 16. | International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (IJCBDD)
Special Issue on: "Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Informatics"
Advances of Computing and Information Science technology techniques have facilitated, accelerated, and promoted the research on molecular biology and medicine in the past few decades. To discover more new knowledge in biomedical areas and to improve the quality of healthcare and medicine, the techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and high perform...more |
| 17. | International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT)
Special Issue on: "Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing"
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, "computing" has become the third approach of science research. Scientific computing is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and numerical solution techniques and using computers to analyse and solve scientific, social scientific and engineering problems. In practical use, it is typically the application...more |
| Special Issue on: "Computer Applications in Intelligent Natural Language Processing"
We are interested in whatever helps, will help eventually, or might help computers to meaningfully process language data. This special issue promotes the exchange of opinions between experts working in different areas of the growing field of computational linguistics and intelligent text processing. Its main purpose is to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and ...more |
| 18. | International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (IJCSM)
Special Issue on: "Ill-Posed and Inverse Problems"
The objective of this special issue is to describe recent results in the area of ill-posed and inverse problems. The results should be of interest to wide audience, because ill-posed and inverse problems arise in many areas of science and engineering.
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| 19. | International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (IJDATS)
Special Issue on: "User Modelling through Real Sense Media for Adaptive and Personalized Systems"
Adaptive and personalized systems capture the users’ intentions and model them so as to adapt themselves according to the user or group of users for collaboration between users and systems and recommendations. User modelling is highly necessary in various applications such natural language understanding, dialogue systems, computer-based educational systems, online learning environments, compute...more |
| 20. | International Journal of Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations (IJDSDE)
Special Issue on: "Dynamic Equations on Time Scales and Applications"
This special issue aims to summarize and disseminate the recent progress in the rapidly developing field of dynamic equations on time scales. Particular attention will be focused on the existence of positive solutions, oscillation and nonoscillation, and boundary value problems for dynamic equations, difference equations, $q$-difference equations, and for general time scales, with an emphasis o...more |
| Special Issue on: "Degenerate and Singular Parabolic and Elliptic Equations"
This special issue is intended to survey the recent progress in analyses and applications of nonlinear degenerate and singular equations and systems of elliptic, parabolic, and mixed parabolic-hyperbolic types. Particular attention will be paid to the mathematical and numerical analysis of models arising in the study of reaction-diffusion-convection processes....more |
| 21. | International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (IJEPEE)
Special Issue on: "Future of Emerging Markets and Islamic banking after the Global Financial Crisis"
After at least a decade of easy credit, the wheels came off the global finance system in the summer of 2007. The deregulation of national banking systems and the development of new financial instruments including securitization produced a crisis in mortgage lending that has been labelled the sub-prime crisis or the credit crunch. This process has undermined the stability of national financial s...more |
| 22. | International Journal of Economics and Business Research (IJEBR)
Special Issue on: "Intra-industry Trade, Theory and Empirics"
In the past, many country-specific and industry-specific empirical studies attempted to identify the determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT). Today, it is generally accepted that vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT) can be explained by traditional theories. Fragmentation theory suggests that, as cost for services decline around the world, the multiple stages involved in goods’ production tak...more |
| Special Issue on: "Brazil, Russia, India, China & Co: Myths and Realities about the Emerging Countries"
The special issue aims at providing a thorough analysis of economic and geopolitical impacts related to the rise of the new emerging countries. In the context of the recent financial crisis, oil scarcity and environmental challenges, this analysis is more than needed. For this issue, we encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on emerging countries, regional integrations involv...more |
| 23. | International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB)
Special Issue on: "The Impact of New Forms of Information Technology on Managerial Decision Making"
The current economic crisis is seen by many as yet another proof of the inadequacy of managerial decision support systems. In spite of three decades of academic and applied research on decision support systems, many organizations still question whether IT can improve managerial effectiveness. Have social media, any more than the enterprise technologies that have preceded them, fundamentally imp...more |
| 24. | International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG)
Special Issue on: "Methodologies, Technologies and Tools Enabling e-Government"
In the context of innovation in public administrations that is taking place in many countries, information and communication technologies play a significant role. This special issue focuses on ICT-based methodologies, technologies and tools enabling e-Government.
Methodologies play an increasingly important role in the management and definition of e-Government initiatives. Technologie...more |
| 25. | International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics (IJEME)
Special Issue on: "Recent Advances in Complex and Large-Scale Project Analysis and Evaluation"
Complex and large-scale projects present a number of characteristics that make their analysis and evaluation a difficult and often unsuccessful task:
- they are inherently risky because of long planning horizons and complex interfaces;
- the technology they implement is often non-standard;
- decision-making and planning are often multi-actor processes w...more
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| 26. | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB)
Special Issue on: "International Entrepreneurship and SME Internationalisation"
Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a key determinant of firm, regional, and national economic performance. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent 99% of the 23 million enterprises in the EU (Nyman et al., 2006) and provide approximately 75 million jobs, therefore understanding of the key determinants of their success is essential. Successful entrepreneurship focuses on identifyin...more |
| 27. | International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management (IJETM)
Special Issue on: "Environmental Risks and Sustainable Technology Development and Construction"
Today’s economic development is highly correlated to environmental risk issues. Environmental risk of pollution can take various forms. Seeking the best way for sustainable construction can help mange environment risks caused by pollution such as that of air, water, soil and the food we eat because this contributes to sustainable development of an eco-economic system and the quality of peoples’...more |
| 28. | International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (IJFIPM)
Special Issue on: "Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Informatics"
Advances of Computing and Information Science technology techniques have facilitated, accelerated, and promoted the research on molecular biology and medicine in the past few decades. To discover more new knowledge in biomedical areas and to improve the quality of healthcare and medicine, the techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and high perform...more |
| 29. | International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS)
Special Issue on: "Dynamics in Digital Human Modelling and Simulation"
Digital human modelling and simulation has been a booming research topic for the past decade. Biomechanics and ergonomics researchers are using digital human models to analyse and design various activities in industry, military, and clinical research. Efficient static and dynamic analysis of human motion is the key element in developing a high-fidelity human model. The human body is a highly re...more |
| 30. | International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management (IJHRDM)
Special Issue on: "The Role of Expatriates, Inpatriates and Cross-functional Global Teams in Transition Economies"
During the last 20 years the transition countries have experienced different degrees of decentralization, deregulation, and market-oriented transformation. They have also changed the characteristics of the labour market from an exclusively formal and public one to one that is extremely polarized, with pre-transition formal employment in the state sector coexisting with an often highly informal ...more |
| 31. | International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM)
Special Issue on: "Information Technology Risks: Benefits or Threats?"
Modern business has undoubtedly benefited from the rapid development of Information Technology (IT) tools. On the other hand, IT risk has become one of the most significant threats posed to companies, with a common sense from senior risk managers that this represents a very high threat to business in today’s economy. Business exists to cope with risks, including IT risks. As time spans, managem...more |
| 32. | International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD)
Special issue on: "Commercialisation Processes and Open Innovation"
Since innovation has become an increasingly important source of competitive advantage and business investment in R&D and innovation has risen, innovative firms have become increasingly dependent on external sources of knowledge rather than in-house research. Intensified competition, need for rapid market entry/time to market (shorter product life cycles) and need for an access to additional com...more |
| 33. | International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (IJICA)
Special Issue on: "New Trends on Intelligent Systems Design"
Intelligent systems design is a promising research field of modern artificial intelligence. Its goal is to deal with natural and artificial systems, and develop new and advanced theories and technologies. Recently, intelligent systems design has becoming popular due to their capabilities in handling many real world complex problems.The objective of this special issue is to bring research...more |
| 34. | International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI)
Special Issue on: "Data Mining Over Large Software and Courseware Repositories"
Software repositories such as source code, source control systems, personnel communication archives, clients communication archives, defect tracking logs, etc., are important sources for managing software projects. Similarly, online courseware repositories are exponentially increasing with the introduction of low cost recording and delivery devices. Software and courseware practitioners invaria...more |
| 35. | International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS)
Special issue on: "Recent Advances on Intelligent Information Systems"
Intelligent information processing is a forefront interdisciplinary research topic in computer science. It is a comprehensive application-oriented discipline. Its goal is to deal with massive and complex information, and develop new and advanced theories and technologies. In recent years, it has increasingly been combined with artificial intelligence technologies to allow computer systems to mo...more |
| 36. | International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising (IJIMA)
Special Issue on: "Social Media for Marketing and Advertising"
The advent of social media including hugely popular micro blogging services such as twitter, and online social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn, has had a profound impact on the world of marketing and advertising. Professionals are struggling to make sense of the business case for social media, the impact that viral user-generated content has on wider consumer perceptions, and how to proa...more |
| 37. | International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Wireless, Mobile and P2P based Internet Protocols, Applications and Architectures"
Interconnection networks have just not facilitated sharing of information; they have reorganised our social existence. Over the last two decades we have witnessed a tremendous influx of new technology to facilitate Internet accessibility. These technologies are in essence emerging because of the advancement in newer paradigms that encompass WiFi, ad hoc networks, and P2P technologies. Today, t...more |
| Special Issue on: "Multimedia Applications for Cloud Computing"
With the rapid advances in information technologies, future generation networks will face challenges in providing highly reliable and high-quality performance. Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift from existing IT infrastructures to using the services of software applications, computing and storage over wide-area distribution networks. This trend is being empowered by drastic performance...more |
| 38. | International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development (IJKBD)
Special Issue on: "Convergence of Technology, Nature and Space in Ubiquitous Cities"
Recent studies on ubiquitous, pervasive and augmented cities break a new ground in focusing on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their convergence on shaping urban space, service and human behaviour over time. Although the concept of 'Future City' has been introduced by many sci-fi movies such as Matrix, Minority Report, Island, and so on, quantitative account...more |
| 39. | International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation (IJLEG)
Special Issue on: "Models for Operational and Business Excellence"
Excellence pervades every aspect of business and industrial activity and it is often envisaged as an essential ingredient of organisational success. Firms – be it a for-profit or non-profit organisation or be it a multinational corporation or a small enterprise – have been imbibing concepts, adopting tools and implementing best practices germane to different facets of excellence. Successful co...more |
| 40. | International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials (IJMMM)
Special Issue on: "Developments in the Machinability of Titanium and its Alloys"
Titanium and its alloys are an important group of engineering materials due to their excellent combination of strength and fracture toughness as well as low density and excellent corrosion resistance. These materials have received special attention recently due to their wide range of applications in aerospace, aircraft, automotive, chemical and biomedical industries. However, these expansive ma...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Machining Process Metrology"
Machining process metrology has long been studied for not only process performance improvement, but also for process understanding. These process characteristics include forces, temperatures, strain and strain rates, tool wear and part quality, etc. With machining simulations and applications further modernised, accurate assessments of such process characteristics are essential for model valida...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Modelling and Optimisation of Machining Processes"
Machining is one of the most important and widely used manufacturing processes in engineering industries. Today's machining processes are caught between the growing need for quality, high process safety, minimal machining costs, and short machining times. In order to meet these demands, machining process setting parameters have to be chosen in the best possible way. For such optimisation, it is...more |
| 41. | International Journal of Management and Decision Making (IJMDM)
Special issue on "Cyber Harassment Impacts on Corporations and Corporate Valuation"
The ability to spread information (and misinformation) over the Internet in blogs and social media websites and has become accompanied by the growing pattern of cyber harassment against corporations. In many cases, harassment may arise from the process of critical discourse or difference of opinion, but increasingly such harassment has a more malevolent motive. In this case that attack is delib...more |
| 42. | International Journal of Management in Education (IJMIE)
Special Issue on: "Virtual University"
The Virtual University is a new way to organise academic work, including research and studies. The Virtual University has, at the same time, pedagogical, social, managerial and technological aspects. This way it is an interesting area for research in a wide range of scientific disciplines. Therefore, this special issue will be a timely issue for institutions and practitioners who are interes...more |
| 43. | International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (IJMATEI)
Special Issue on: "Materials and Design for Renewable Energy"
It is common define renewable energy as “energy generated from natural resources – such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat – which are renewable”. This form of non-conventional energy includes all natural energy sources that minimise environmental impacts relative to conventional hydrocarbon resources. This special issue emphases research and development in materials, ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Recycling of Materials and Industrial Waste"
Recycling is the word used to describe processing used materials into new products in order to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, energy usage pollution, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. This special issue will highlight research and development on recent advances in this area.
The issue invites submission of high qual...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Modelling and Optimization of Materials and Manufacturing Processes"
An ever increasing variety of materials is available today, with each having its own characteristics, applications, advantages, and limitations. Many issues, such as better utilization of raw materials and energy, integration of design and manufacturing activities requiring the invention of suitable new manufacturing processes and techniques, still need to be dealt with. Today's manufacturing p...more |
| 44. | International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research (IJMOR)
Special Issue on: "Solving Large-scale Linear Programs"
With the ever-increasing degree of globalisation of business enterprises, the field of Operations Research (OR) has been continuously presented with new challenges over the past few decades. The increasing scarcity of resources combined with market requirements for high-quality customisation and, at the same time, low-costs are making the need to optimise products and processes by looking at th...more |
| Special Issue on: "Risk Management in Supply Chains"
Risks in supply chains refer to the uncertainties associated with the events that affect one or more members of a supply chain that, usually, negatively affect the chain’s performance. The recent trends such as offshore manufacturing, lean sourcing and global outsourcing has considerably increased the risk exposure of firms and their supply chains. Risk management in supply chains is a crucial ...more |
| 45. | International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems (IJMMS)
Special Issue on: "Manufacturing for Alternative Energies"
Alternative energy is a term used for an energy source that is an alternative to using fossil fuels. This form of non-conventional energy derived from non-fossil fuels includes all energy sources that minimise environmental impacts relative to conventional hydrocarbon resources. This special issue highlights research and development into recent advances in materials, manufacturing processes and...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Robotics and Biomechatronics"
Biomechatronics is an applied interdisciplinary field encompassing biology, neurosciences, mechanics, mechanical elements, electronics and robotics. This special issue will cover state-of-the-art technologies that enable sensory and motor interaction between biological-human and artificial-mechatronic systems. It invites the submission of high quality research articles related to advances in ro...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Multi-Axis Machining and Machine Tool Control"
Multi-axis machining is an umbrella term that covers several different machining concepts. The traditional "multi-axis" unit is a three-axis milling machine with two additional rotational axes, located either in the spindle head or on the machine table. Nowadays, however, any configurable combination of linear and rotational axes can be employed. Broader multi-axis concept includes robots and h...more |
| Special Issue on: "Micro and Nanotechnologies for Medical Devices"
The current trends in the design and manufacturing of medical devices are supported by significant advances in micro and nanotechnologies. This special issue will cover the state-of-the-art in machines and manufacturing processes that incorporate micro and nanotechnologies with applications in medical devices. It invites the submission of high quality and original research articles related to...more |
| Special Issue on: "Lasers in Manufacturing"
Laser material processing represents a large number of processes which are growing rapidly in different industrial applications. There are some processes that have been developed since 1980s and actually represent highly consolidated processes, such as cutting, welding or marking, that are being applied on different materials. On the other hand, other processes are still at a pre-industrial sta...more |
| 46. | International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC)
Special Issue on: "New Advances on Swarm Intelligence"
This special issue will focus on new advances on swarm intelligence including the theory and applications. Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals that coordinate their activities using decentralized control and self-organization. In particular, the discipline focuses on the collective behaviours that result from the local...more |
| 47. | International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance (IJMEF)
Special Issue on: "Global Financial Crisis and its Impact on Global Financial Regulation"
The deregulation of the financial markets that occurred in the 1980s altered the architecture of national financial markets and led to the development of a new global financial system. Central to this process was the enhanced importance of new financial instruments or, more correctly, the extensive use of financial instruments whose origins can be traced back to the 1920s. The deregulation of n...more |
| 48. | International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making (IJMCDM)
Special Issue on: "Multicriteria Decision Making for Energy and Environmental Policy and Planning"
Climate change and sustainable development (SD) are listed at the top of the agenda for most politicians and decision makers. In addition to this, as believed by most energy experts and analysts, the measurement of policy options’ sustainability will be able to provide an empirically solid foundation for energy and environmental policy analysis.
In this context, coherent and transpare...more |
| 49. | International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security (IJMIS)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Multimedia Information and Communication Security"
Major advances have taken place over the last few years in the development of multimedia integrated systems as it refers but is not limited to text, image, video, audio, graphics, animation, etc. Major emphasis has been placed on how to realise intelligent multimedia computing and communication for a more effective use of existing resources as the underlying technology has been advancing. The m...more |
| Special Issue on: "Challenges in Scalable Context Aware Multimedia Computing"
Recent advances in computing, networking, and ICT devices such as laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants (PDA), cellular phones and iPhones have resulted in the development of intelligent context aware multimedia applications. The context aware technologies such as pervasive and ubiquitous computing are creating a revolution in multimedia applications which has a significant impact across ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications"
In the past few years, multimedia signal processing and communication over networks has become the driving technology of many novel multimedia applications, such as IPTV, VoIP, video surveillance, online games, digital learning, etc. It is anticipated that multimedia signal processing and communications will continue to play an important role in the future Internet and to stimulate the creation...more |
| 50. | International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials (IJNBM)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Biomaterials for Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications"
The development of biomaterials has been ongoing for several decades now and is a multidisciplinary field which involves medicine, pharmaceutics, biology, tissue engineering, material science and chemistry. Biomaterials have been used in a wide variety of medical and pharmaceutical applications such as dental implant, contact lenses, heart valves, bone implant and drug delivery.
The d...more |
| Special Issue on: "Recent Advances in the Prediction and Characterisation of Biomaterials: Their Properties and Applications"
New developments of advanced biomaterials such as composite materials or cellular structures require the accurate prediction and characterisation of their properties. Only if the performance of a new material of structure can be accurately predicted and guaranteed, can an application be suggested or recommended. To this end, modelling, numerical simulation and experimental characterisation play...more |
| 51. | International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO)
Special Edition on: "Virtual Project Management: Collaboration and Leadership"
There is in both literature and practice common agreement about the increasing importance of collaboration and leadership in virtual project management teams. Generally, virtual project management means virtual teams (geographically dispersed teams) as a group of individuals who work across time, space and organisational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology.more |
| 52. | International Journal of Ocean Systems Management (IJOSM)
Special Issue on: "Challenges and Prospects with the advent of the MLC 2006"
The theme of this special issue is concerned with The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006), the so-called ‘super ILO Convention’, a 'one stop shop' Convention that consolidates and updates more than 65 international labour standards related to seafarers adopted over the last 80 years. It is estimated that the rules will apply to more than 1.2 million seafarers in at least 69,000 vessels. MLC c...more |
| 53. | International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education (IJPEE)
Call for Proposals on: "Contending Perspectives as Pluralism: What Have Our Students Learned?"
The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education invites proposals (title and abstract only) for short papers (maximum 6000 words) that explore the complex chemistry of using a contending perspectives approach to pursue pluralist goals in economics education.
Papers resulting from proposals for this symposium will be peer reviewed and, if accepted, published as pa...more |
| 54. | International Journal of Power Electronics (IJPELEC)
Special Issue on: "Power Electronics in Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicle Applications"
Power electronics have become an integral part of electric/hybrid electric vehicle applications. With the advent of technologies, automotive users started using power electronics in electric/hybrid electric vehicle applications. This special issue will focus on state-of-the-art research and development as well as future trends in the modelling, simulation, analysis design, control, and optimis...more |
| 55. | International Journal of Public Policy (IJPP)
Special Issue on: "Voluntary International Income Transfers: the Determinants and Impact of Development Aid and Migrant Remittances"
Foreign aid and migrant remittances are voluntary provisions of funds to many developing countries. They provide a means of easing liquidity constraints on the recipient at both micro and macro levels. However, both aid and remittances are motivated not just by altruism, but also self-interest. They may also be classified as arrangements that are mutually beneficial to both the donor and the re...more |
| 56. | International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management (IJPSPM)
Special Issue on: "Public Sector Accounting, IPSAS and Performance Management - Reforming for the Best?"
An increasing number of developed, developing or emergent countries are adopting International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) developed by the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB). According to IPSASB, 71 countries so far have adopted or are planning to implement IPSASs or to develop accounting standards inspired by them. The implementation, however, is no...more |
| 57. | International Journal of Revenue Management (IJRM)
Special Issue on: "Revenue Management in Transportation Services"
Revenue and yield management are strongly identified with the dynamic pricing of fares for commercial air travel and the discounting of tariffs by freight carriers to attract and retain business. This special issue, while recognizing recent innovation in these traditional areas, will emphasize applied research on other topics important to the generation of revenue from transportation services....more |
| Special Issue on: "Risk Control in Revenue Management: Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Perspectives"
Besides the normal uncertainties, unusual events like the current global financial crisis, and even natural disasters and terrorist attacks, can cause significant disruption in operations and cause losses. Risk and uncertainties make revenue management more difficult than before as they have to consider new challenges of demand uncertainty, supply instability and information asymmetry. It has ...more |
| 58. | International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management (IJRAM)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Risk Assessment for Contaminated Environments"
Risk assessment is of critical importance to environmental planners and researchers for sound decision making regarding the management of environmental pollution. In recent years, numerous research efforts and advances have been made in the field of environmental risk assessment. Such advances are important for guiding accurate evaluation and effective mitigation of environmental risks, which a...more |
| 59. | International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET)
Special Issue on: "Technologies, Architectures and Applications for Green Wireless Sensor Networks"
Recently, due to the limited natural resources, the concept “green” has been widely used in solutions to solve problems of global energy shortage, abnormal weather and environmental pollution. In the meantime, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have also been regarded as one of the feasible solutions to sense or monitor if our planet is back to “green” after certain green technologies have been em...more |
| 60. | International Journal of Services Technology and Management (IJSTM)
Special Issue on: "Measuring the Impact of Service Innovations"
In most developed economies, services account for the majority of both employment and output. The development of service innovations is not only a challenge for the service enterprises and public organisations, but they are also considered as important triggers for the extension of service business in manufacturing firms. The ongoing trend from the production of goods towards that of services h...more |
| 61. | International Journal of Services, Economics and Management (IJSEM)
Special Issue on: "Management Control Systems and Service Operations"
The special issue addresses the complex issues of management control systems in service operations. Despite growing dominance of service sectors in most economies, there has been limited research to systematically examine the design and use of management control systems in service organisations. Modern management systems such as the balanced scorecard place emphasis on administrative and person...more |
| 62. | International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS)
Special Issue on: "Health, Disease, Environment and Longevity"
One of the great successes in human society over the last few decades has been the increased proportion of the elderly. People in many countries can now expect to live into their 70s or 80s, if not longer. Despite concerns over pensions and so on, this is to be celebrated.
However, threats to longevity still persist. These threats include such Malthusian checks as floods and famine,...more |
| Special Issue on: "Urbanization and Environmental Issues in East Asia"
Environmental pollution during rapid economic development is reaching worrying proportions in China and other East Asian areas, where urbanization is progressing along with industrialization. Urban growth takes place at regional level and is advanced by domestic social and economic development policies, while land use and transportation system changes occur in a highly dynamic system that invol...more |
| 63. | International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering (IJSURFSE)
Special issue on: "Developments in Tribology of Composite Materials"
Recently, the use of composite materials has increased in various areas of science and technology due to their special properties, with applications in biomedical, aircraft, automotive, defence and aerospace, as well other advanced industries. Tribology is defined as “the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion” and embraces the study of friction, wear and lubrication....more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Biotribology"
It is usual to define biotribology as “the tribological phenomena occurring in either the human body or in animals”. Therefore it is possible consider tribological processes that may occur after implantation of an artificial device in the human body and the tribological processes naturally occurring in or on the tissues and organs of animals. Animals, including humans, possess a wide variety of...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Nanoindentation and Nanotribology"
Efforts to miniaturise optical, electrical and mechanical components have been ongoing for several decades. Development of processing technologies for semiconductors, actuators, microprocessors, sensors, mechatronics, etc. has revolutionised technologies for MEMS, smart structures, micro pumps, micro engines, micro biomedical devices etc. These devices have the ability to sense, detect, compute...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Thermal Analysis of Rubbing Contacts"
Conversion of frictional work into thermal energy, frictional heating, is frequently encountered in the sliding of complying solids. Depending on rubbing conditions (dry, lubricated, normal load, sliding speed, and thermal properties of the rubbing components), the released heat can cause significant rise in the temperatures of the sliding interface. Contact temperatures influence sliding beh...more |
| 64. | International Journal of Sustainable Society (IJSSOC)
Special Issue on: "Water Wars in 21st Century along International River Basins: Speculation or Reality?"
This issue seeks to assess the current status of the water management in international river basins for a reality check of the potential of water wars and to encourage intellectual discussion, new methodologies and strategies to promote sustainable development and avert water related conflicts in the international river basins....more |
| 65. | International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship (IJTE)
Special Issue on: "Challenges of Triple Helix nexus in managing science parks and the role of innovation centers in fostering high-tech start-ups"
Science parks and innovation centers are currently seen as development models for the growth of high-tech start-ups based on the partnerships between universities, research institutions and industries. Many governments have placed increasing emphasis on program initiatives to support small high-tech firms. However, science parks and innovation centers in many countries are not quite successfu...more |
| 66. | International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management (IJTPM)
Special Issue on: "Laws, Regulation and New Product Development – the Role of the Regulatory Framework for the Management of Technology and Innovation"
Innovations do not fall like manna from heaven but are generated by pioneering activities of human beings. These activities have to take place via interaction with all kind of institutions and the regulatory framework of their individual business environments. Traditional innovation theory embedded in growth theory or industrial economics often neglects the influence of the regulatory framework...more |
| 67. | International Journal of Tourism Anthropology (IJTA)
Special Issue on: "Cultural Diversity, Tourism and Development"
This special issue invites submissions that focus on cultural diversity, tourism and development. Cultural diversity is a driving force of development, not only in respect of economic growth, but also as a means of leading a more fulfilling tourism experience. However, while the promotion of cultural diversity has the potential to bring economic and social benefits, it can also significantly im...more |
| 68. | International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP)
Special Issue on: "The Economics of Tourism; Prospects and Policy Implications"
This issue will explore the consequences for tourism of current world events ranging from the current global financial crises through to ageing and climate change. Our interest is in short, medium and long run analytical solutions to these and other important issues from the economic perspective....more |
| 69. | International Journal of Trade and Global Markets (IJTGM)
Special issue on: "FDI Determinants in Southeast Europe and Prospects Towards EU Membership in the Western Balkans and Turkey"
This special issue tackles central concerns such as FDI, multinationals and globalisation in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The aim here is to inform and encourage debate internationally between academics and practising professionals in all aspects of investment and business related matters in the region....more |
| 70. | International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems (IJVAS)
Special Issue on: "Design and Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles"
Focused on autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) systems, this special issue aims to present a unique source with a theme of autonomy research associated with military commissions, homeland security and scientific explorations. The objective of the special issue is to promote emerging technologies, up-to-date achievements and pioneer techniques in the sector of design and control of intellig...more |
| 71. | International Journal of Vehicle Design (IJVD)
Special Issue on: "Enabling Technologies for Sustainable Vehicle Electrification: Control, Optimisation and Diagnostics"
Electrification of vehicle systems has received increasing attention from governments, industry, and public around the world due to the growing concerns on global warming, fossil fuel shortage, as well as passenger vehicle safety. With much smaller carbon footprints and significantly improved fuel economy, electric vehicles (EV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ...more |
| 72. | International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC)
Special Issue on: "Recommender Systems to Support the Dynamics of Virtual Learning Communities"
Recommender systems are used in commercial sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix and others to recommend relevant products (or more generally, pieces of information such as books, music from movies, etc) to users according to their interest. It is a successful technique in the entertainment domains which is now being applied into e-learning. Recommenders are changing the way people interact with...more |
| Special Issue on: "Cultural Heritage and Tourism: Trends and Innovative Strategies for Learning and Management"
IJWBC aims at bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and what new initiatives mean. The main scope of the special issue is to focus on the changes and the impact of the technology in the heritage sites, museums and cultural tourism. Many of the contexts and challenges faced by heritage institutions are the result of rapid changes at the nexus of society and technolo...more |
| 73. | International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion (IJWOE)
Special Issue on: "Emotion, Embodiment, Research"
This Special Issue follows from the recently completed ESRC Seminar Series on Emotion and Embodiment in Research, which explored issues around the methodological importance of taking a view of the researcher as an emotional and embodied being. We also considered the personal risks involved in carrying out research, the ethical dilemmas for researchers, their managers and funders, as well as the...more |
| 74. | Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER)
Special Issue on: "Climate Change"
A history of the evolution of carbon trading schemes and current practice in Europe helps put in perspective the current hesitancy of political parties in advanced nations to decide upon carbon reduction targets, pricing mechanisms, permit allocation techniques and public investment. Within the debate, there has been no in-depth discussion of viable alternatives, neither has there been a focus ...more |
| Special issue on: "Sustainability and China: Challenges and Opportunities for the Middle Kingdom and the World"
The People's Republic of China occupies a little more than six percent of the Earth's land surface, but is home to nearly twenty percent of its human population. According to an analysis undertaken by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China surpassed the United States as the world's largest CO2 emitter in 2006, although its per capita emissions remain far below those of the West....more |
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