| 1. | European J. of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management (EJCCM)
Special Issue on: "Management of Culture and Cultural Change in Healthcare Organisations"
Organisational culture plays a vital role in influencing the performance of healthcare organisations. Various actions and symbols define and reinforce the cultural beliefs and values that are associated with organisational performance.
The cultures of highly effective organisations tend to promote employee emotional well-being, morale, productivity and commitment. Conversely, the cu...more |
| 2. | European J. of International Management (EJIM)
Thematic Issue: "Electronic Human Resource Management in an International Context"
Electronic human resource management (e-HRM) is an umbrella term covering all possible mechanisms and interactions between human resource management (HRM) and information technologies (IT), aiming at creating value within and across organisations for targeted employees and management. As a research field, e-HRM is maturing as scholars have worked hard to understand the phenomenon of e-HRM and ...more |
| Thematic Issue: "Global Leadership"
The construct of global leadership was born out of the need for corporations in the 1990s to adopt global strategies, expand internationally, and compete in the global marketplace ( Black, Morrison & Gregersen, 1999; Mendenhall, 2008; Osland et al., 2006). Corporations realised that their managerial cadres were not prepared for operation in a global business environment and that people with glo...more |
| 3. | International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
Special Issue on: "Pervasive Computing: New Advances and Challenges"
Pervasive computing has been investigated for many years with various research outcomes delivered and published. However, with the emerging evolution of computing infrastructures such as cloud computing and social computing, new challenges require innovative solutions such as pervasive computational intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology and cyber-physica...more |
| Special Issue on: "Underwater Sensor Networks: Technology and Theory"
An Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) is an emerging network paradigm which consists of a number of underwater sensor nodes and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) that are deployed to perform collaborative monitoring and resource exploration tasks over a given area.
The applications of UWSNs have huge potential for monitoring the health of river and marine environments. Although th...more |
| Special Issue on: "User Interfaces and Interaction Models in Context-based Computing"
In recent years, advances in technology have enabled the development of mobile systems and applications that are increasingly present in our daily life. Non-invasive, pervasive and ubiquitous installations are sought today to respond to many application domains with human users at the centre.The evolution of these technologies is expanding the coverage of mobile applications, systems and...more |
| Special Issue on: "Internet of Things: Standards, Technology and Applications"
It is predicted that 50 to 100 billion things will be connected by 2020, and we are therefore now at the heart of a paradigm shift and witnessing the metamorphosis that everyday things are going through, from things that learned-to-do to things that are learning-to-think to things that will learn-to-perceive. Internet of Things (IoT) technology is at the heart of this metamorphosis, and is rapi...more |
| Special Issue on: "Localisation, Positioning and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks"
In wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments, wireless sensor nodes should be strategically placed in order to maximise the sensed area while minimising the number of nodes to be placed in the field.
Moreover, wireless radio coverage distances should be taken into account in order to cover large areas. Wireless sensors may be located quite far from each other, allowing lower deploymen...more |
| 4. | International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting"
This special issue is focused recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of multimedia, computer graphics and broadcasting. It is intended for academics, practitioners, scientists and engineers who are involved in multimedia system research, design and application as well as those involved in computer graphics and broadcasting.
The issue will ...more |
| 5. | International Journal of Advanced Operations Management (IJAOM)
Special Issue on: "Human Factors and Ergonomics in Organisational Design and Management"
Twenty-five years ago a group of ergonomics scientists predicted the future of their profession and the professional response required for anticipated conditions. One of the major conclusions was that organisational design and management factors would become increasingly important.
Historically, human factors have been concerned with the design of controls, displays and workspace ar...more |
| 6. | International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS)
Special Issue on: "Supply Chain Risk Management"
Today, rapid technological developments, organisational changes, increasing competition and demand for efficiency have all brought risk variability. Today’s supply chains are exposed to numerous risks, including supply interruption, volatility of demand and natural disasters. For better performance of supply chains, there is a need for supply chain risk management (SCRM).
In past deca...more |
| 7. | International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM)
Special Issue on: "New Competences in Tomorrow´s Automotive Management"
Competence-based strategic management (CSM), as developed for example in strategic competence-based management (strategisches kompetenz-management, or SKM) and international competence-based management (ICBM) research groups, presents a major challenge for automotive companies.
The transition to electric mobility has already begun and demands new competences in tomorrow´s automotive m...more |
| Special Issue on: "SMEs in New Automotive Supply Chains"
During the last twenty years, automotive supply chains have seen a deep transformation, one element of which is the strong development of first-tier suppliers, sometimes referred to as mega-suppliers. But what of small and middle enterprises (SMEs)? The aim of this special issue is to identify the role of SMEs in the new organisation of automotive supply chains and, with a more prospective view...more |
| 8. | International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance (IJBAF)
Special Issue on: "Religions and Finance"
This special issue seeks to explore issues of finance from the perspectives of religions around the world. The central question is: what are the economic, behavioural and cultural relationships between religion and finance? We welcome contributions relating to all religions.
For example, scholars and practitioners are becoming increasingly interested in Islamic finance, as viewed thr...more |
| 9. | International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets (IJBEM)
Special Issue on: "Emerging Markets and Sustainability"
Geo-political contexts and business opportunities are shaping EU, BRICS, IBSA, ASEAN and other economic groups in the global market. As a result, consumption-based markets are dominating the business rules, and sizable resourceful markets are potentially going to be the next locations of business capitals and business centres. In this context, global organisations are forced to shift their ope...more |
| Special Issue on: "As ASEAN nears 50, what have we learned?"
Since ASEAN’s formation in August 1967, ASEAN nations have committed to free trade, resulting in collective regional economic growth. This economic integration and its continuance is vital for enhancing competitiveness, reduction of poverty, job creation, attracting international investment, and sustainable business growth. ASEAN nations have broadened their cooperation beyond economic ties to ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid: Key Challenges and the Way Ahead"
According to experts, BOP markets consist of around 3 billion people with less than $2 income per day. BOP markets thus consist of individuals (consumers or producers) who merely survive at subsistence levels, and form a dominant proportion of the populace in emerging markets including South Asia, BRIC nations and sub-Saharan Africa.
Such markets are believed to be ecologically, econ...more |
| 10. | International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management (IJBCRM)
Special issue on: "Risk Management for System Security"
This special issue will explore recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of risk management for system security, and also covers risk management for business and critical infrastructures to mitigate cyber attacks and terrorism attempted through hacking.
It is intended for academics, practitioners, scientists and engineers who are involved in ...more |
| 11. | International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management (IJCCM)
Special Issue on: "Religion, Spirituality, and Business in the Emerging Market Economy of China"
Religion is a crucial part of culture and the importance of its role in the business world cannot be overstated. For example, the Judeo-Christian worldview is the foundation of the American cultural and economic systems. In his famous essay “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” Max Weber, a German sociologist and political economist, identified the Christian Protestant ethic as...more |
| 12. | International Journal of Collaborative Engineering (IJCE)
Special Issue on: "Effective Engineering Teams: Teaching, Facilitating and Learning"
The scale and complexity of engineering problems has grown considerably in recent decades, and now, more so than ever, systems are engineered in collaborative teams. In addition, discipline and domain knowledge are not sufficient to ensure effective collaboration across a diverse team, especially considering the numerous dimensions of diversity (engineers and non-engineers; multi- and inter-di...more |
| 13. | International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise (IJCENT)
Themed Issue on: "Transportation and Evacuation Planning"
For most human beings, facing threats is inevitable. While in some cases a threat can be treated or eliminated, the safest course of action in facing threats is often to evacuate the danger zone. Evacuation of the danger zone can vary in scale from individual movement to hundreds of thousands of people evacuating urban cities. Urban evacuation can be viewed as the process in which evacuees are ...more |
| 14. | International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)
Special Issue on: "Green Technology and Digital Enterprise for Sustainability"
This Special Issue on aims to bring together work from academia, research scholars, scientists, engineers, technologists, business entrepreneurs, practitioners, managers and policymakers responsible for delivering green technology (IS & IT) and digital enterprises for sustainability in order to achieve competitive advantage and cost savings in modern organisations in both industrial and busines...more |
| 15. | International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE)
Special Issue on: "Novel Architectures and Accelerators for High Performance Computing"
High performance computing is a field of study that focuses on parallel and distributed system architectures, programming languages and models and scientific applications. In the past decade a number of architectures, such as cluster, grid, cloud computing platform, embedded and multi-core systems, have been developed to accelerate many computation-intensive and data-intensive problems.
...more |
| Special Issue on: "Future Trends in Security Issues in Internet and Web Applications"
Web applications have gone through a very rapid growth in the recent years and their adoption is moving faster than that was anticipated few years ago. Today, billions of transactions are done online with the aid of different Web applications. Goods and products are advertised through the Internet, prices go up and down based on online bidding, products are sold and bought online, news and info...more |
| 16. | International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT)
Special Issue on: "Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications"
This special issue introduces state-of-the-art innovative and advanced tools and techniques for developing and maintaining large-scale software systems. Recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of software engineering and its application will be discussed, providing developers with a guide for choosing which tools and methodologies would be most approp...more |
| 17. | International Journal of Convergence Computing (IJCONVC)
Special Issue on: "Biomedical Signal and Image Processing"
Biomedical signal and image processing is an active area of research where disciplines such as engineering, computer science, physics, biology and medicine inter-disciplinarily synchronise in order to improve healthcare.
This particular area deals with the generation, reconstruction, pre-processing, improvement, analysis, quantification, visualisation and management of all kind of me...more |
| 18. | International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy (IJDIPE)
Special Issue on: "Commercial Diplomacy and International Business"
Governments have a major interest in supporting business abroad as it may lead to domestic job creation, tax revenue increase and a stable economy (Naray, 2010). As a consequence, a change in the current practice of diplomacy towards more commercial activities can be observed (Kostecki & Naray, 2007). According to Lee and Hudson (2004: 343), “commercial activities of diplomatic services have b...more |
| 19. | International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB)
Special Issue on: "Business Strategies and Innovation Models for Interactive Digital Media Enterprises"
The development of interactive digital technologies affects significant portions of the economy, but IDM enterprises face managerial challenges which are in many ways different from firms in “non-IDM” industries. For instance, the markets for digital goods and services are characterized by
- lower-cost, higher-velocity transactions, reproduction and distribution of digital pro...more
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| 20. | International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management (IJECRM)
Special Issue on: "eCRM and the Hospitality Industry"
We are pleased to announce a special issue focused on electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) systems used in the hospitality industry. eCRM systems have been used by many businesses to support both strategic decision making and daily operations. Traditionally, the role of eCRM has been to engage customers in a mutually beneficial relationship. But increasingly, eCRM is becoming a ma...more |
| 21. | International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG)
Special Issue on: "Security and Privacy of E-Government Applications and Services"
Securing critical infrastructure has emerged in recent years not only as a result of the threat of cyber war, but also due to real attacks that targeted, for example, Estonia, Russia, Georgia and other countries, and even malware outbreaks such as Stuxnet and Duku. Nonetheless, the focus of the security community in terms of protecting nation-critical assets is traditionally placed mainly on th...more |
| 22. | International Journal of Electronic Transport (IJET)
Special Issue on: "Computer-aided Ergonomics in the Manufacturing and Service Industries"
Computer-aided ergonomics is an interdisciplinary field of work that involves the use of computers to solve complex problems regarding the human body’s interaction with its environment. Ergonomics traditionally involves many disciplines including biomechanics, anthropometry, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, kinesiology, health sciences and physiology.Due to the highly inte...more |
| 23. | International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation (IJESMS)
Special Issue on: "Advancements in Circuits, Control, Communication, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, Systems, Signals and Simulation"
This special issue will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the areas of circuits, control, communication, electricity, electronics, energy, systems, signals and simulation.
The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at CES3 (8-10 December 2011, Jeju Island, Korea; see more |
| 24. | International Journal of Enterprise Network Management (IJENM)
Special Issue on: "Advancements in the Modelling and Optimisation of Complex Problems"
Modelling and optimisation is an important area in intelligent computing, and is an active research field. Revitalisation of earlier methods due to the availability of high performance computing and novel optimisation methodologies, as well as continuing demands for solving complex problems, fierce competition and cutting edge profit margins in manufacturing and business sectors are the primar...more |
| 25. | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM)
Special Issue on: "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management in Emerging Economies"
Emerging economies are those low-income, high growth nations principally reliant on economic liberalisation for their growth. This economic shift is such that today emerging economies and their firms are largely driving the world’s economic recovery. A prediction by many scholars is that by 2050 these nations will dominate the world economy.
Despite the growing importance of emerging ec...more |
| Special Issue on: "Inspired by Silicon Valley: a Cheap Copy or a Masterpiece?"
Ever since the success of Silicon Valley , especially with the growth of high-technology culture, other countries and regions have been trying to replicate its experience and to create dynamic entrepreneurial and innovative areas. Some of these attempts were successful, some of them not so much. It is therefore important to examine the factors crucial for the creation of successful technology d...more |
| Special Issue on: "Technology Strategy in Family Business"
Technology can be defined as a particular form of knowledge applied to the development and commercialisation of new products, services and processes. Technology strategy encompasses the long-term decisions that define how a firm builds, nurtures and exploits technology to sustain economic value creation.
These strategic decisions concern, for example, the timing with which a new techn...more |
| Special Issue on: "Young and Innovative Entrepreneurship"
In many countries young people are receiving stimulus in order to explore and consider entrepreneurial careers. Models proposed by media, formal action in education for entrepreneurship, and global initiatives such as Global Entrepreneurship Week are promoting the idea that young, innovative entrepreneurs can contribute to economic growth and to the social improvement of local areas and nations...more |
| 26. | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB)
Special Issue on: "Innovative Policies on Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth"
Achieving stable and sustainable economic growth is one of the main goals of local communities and national governments. Entrepreneurship has been recognised by researchers and scholars as a relevant catalyst of economic development and growth. Entrepreneurial societies are not only a consequence of economic freedom and private initiative; government programmes and public policies can also be c...more |
| 27. | International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM)
Special Issue on: "Technologies for a Sustainable Future"
Modernisation, lifestyle changes and industrial development have been taking their toll on the environment. Not only is there rapid consumption of natural resources, but there is also an increase in types and amounts of pollutants being discharged into the environment.
This inevitably strains our planet and threatens our existence. Technologies that effectively deal with the problem o...more |
| 28. | International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (IJFIP)
Special Issue on: "Conceptual and Methodological Dimensions of Plausibility"
Representations of the future play a vital role in the framing of scientific uncertainty, as metrics in policy measures, as animated cultural symbols, and as rationales for economic activity. Investigating the conceptual and methodological dimensions of plausibly is a means to better understand the meaning and significance of the ways individuals and communities know, explore, assess, and shape...more |
| 29. | International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business (IJGSB)
Special Issue on: "Strategic Cooperation Management"
“Strategic Cooperation Management” is an interface between economic research, management research and other related areas of socio-economic research. This topic is getting more and more important for successful enterprises, and its main research question is how different kinds of the inter-organisational collaboration are organised and which factors support companies in their cooperation to ach...more |
| 30. | International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management (IJHTM)
Special Issue on: "User-centred Health Informatics"
Modern healthcare systems are becoming increasingly complex and technology-dependent, with emerging trends incorporating advances in ubiquitous computing, intelligent systems, mobile technologies, knowledge engineering, data mining and enterprise information systems design in order to provide required levels of services.
In addition to that, healthcare systems need to address usabilit...more |
| 31. | International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN)
Special Issue on: "Architectures and Algorithms for Irregular Applications"
Many data-intensive scientific applications are irregular by nature. They may present irregular data structures, control flow or communication. Irregular applications pertain both to well-established and emerging fields, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD), bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, social network analysis and security. These applications typically use pointer-based data structu...more |
| 32. | International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics (IJHFE)
Special Issue on: "Ergonomics and Occupational Safety in Organisations"
In this special issue we invite research, review and conceptual papers covering different topics related to human factors and ergonomics, which may be included under the “umbrella” of the following subjects: safety management, ergonomics and physical environments, chemical and biological agents, and fire safety.
Original contributions including conceptual, empirical and case studies, ...more |
| 33. | International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS)
Special Issue on: "Digital Human Modelling for Vehicle Design and Manufacturing"
Digital human modelling (DHM) has today matured from research into industrial application. In the automotive domain, DHM has become a commonly used tool in virtual prototyping and human-centred product design. While this generation of DHM supports the ergonomic evaluation of new vehicle design during early design stages of the product, by modelling anthropometry, posture, motion or predicting ...more |
| 34. | International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE)
Special Issue on: "Advanced Methodologies of Production in Manufacturing Supply Chains"
Production systems contain principally the machinery which is used to transform materials into the desired forms, with the requisite properties induced into them for obtaining specific performance parameters. Advanced methodologies in aspects of line material handling, scheduling, just-in-time and lean manufacturing, packaging and logistics are supported by database management systems, online t...more |
| 35. | International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT)
Special Issue on: "Role of ICT in Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning"
ICT is a general tool in all fields of work and professions today. Consequently, ICT and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) professional education are integrated at all levels.
In the use of ICT in and for education in general, UNESCO stresses several points. Firstly, ICT is only part of a continuum of technologies, starting with chalk and books, all of which can ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture"
Cloud computing is a new paradigm in the area of computing with a pool of virtualised computer resources and is driven by economics of scale. A cloud supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models and allows workloads to recover from many unavoidable hardware/software failures. The idea of cloud computing is to move desktop computing to a service-oriented platform using...more |
| 36. | International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education (IJIOME)
Special Issue on: "PhD Education in Information and Operations Management and Related Areas"
The literature on education in the field of information and operations management focuses mostly on undergraduate education and only a little on master’s degrees. There is limited research published on educating students at PhD level.
This special issue is oriented towards the education and supervision of PhD students. Its goal is to increase our understanding of the PhD education pro...more |
| 37. | International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Data Mining and Its Applications"
The field of data mining has seen a rapid explosion in recent years because of new applications in social and communication networking, software engineering, healthcare and computational biology.
This special issue aims to bring together a diversity of international researchers, experts and practitioners who are currently working in the area of data mining. It is envisaged that it wi...more |
| Special Issue on: "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Crisis Response and Management"
Social emergent crises are events that occur abruptly and usually lead to serious consequences, both economically and mentally, to individuals, groups, communities, or to the whole society. Typical categories of emergent crises include natural disasters, accidental disasters, public health incidents and social safety incidents. In recent years, large and small unexpected crises have happened on...more |
| 38. | International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD)
Special Issue on: "Innovation for Regeneration"
Innovation is widely acknowledged to be one of the key drivers for both business and economic growth. During recessions and periods of economic difficulty, the search for opportunities to innovate becomes a priority for business leaders across industry sectors, in order to help ensure firm survival, stimulate firm rejuvenation where required and appropriate, and if possible to secure continued...more |
| 39. | International Journal of Instrumentation Technology (IJIT)
Special Issue on: "Sliding Mode Control and Estimation"
Sliding mode control (SMC) is a class of variable structure control consisting of a discontinuous control law and a decision rule called switching function. This control technique has several features that have attracted the attention of researchers and engineers from academia and industry around the world.
The main characteristics of SMC are (1) reduced-order dynamics when the syste...more |
| 40. | International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI)
Special Issue on: "New Results of Using Ubiquitous Technologies in Design, Research and Social Contexts"
This special issue focuses on the development and application of advanced and emerging technologies, methods, and tools of ubiquitous computing in social context. Ubiquitous computing is considered to be the third wave of computer technology and applications and at the same time a dawning era of computing in which individuals are surrounded by and benefit from multiple networked, spontaneously ...more |
| 41. | International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (IJKMS)
Special Issue on: "Innovation Capabilities – What Are They?"
Capability-based theories have recently received increased attention within the area of innovation management as a way of understanding how organizations change and develop. In general terms, organizational capabilities signify what an organization is (or is not) able to do. Innovation capabilities or the organizational capability to innovate is of huge interest among practitioners that need to...more |
| 42. | International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation (IJLEG)
Special Issue on: "Innovation in Product and Process Development"
There is a growing need expressed by many developing countries for the capacity to discover, develop and produce innovative products and processes. There is also a desire felt by many countries to better access and utilise indigenous knowledge for innovative products and processes.
These needs have been recognised most recently in a report by the Commission for Intellectual Property a...more |
| Special Issue on: "Modelling of Integrated Production Systems"
Increasing expectations of present day customers regarding the quality and variety of produced goods are becoming more and more critical on the market. With fast-changing tendencies in the market, the lifecycle of a product is constantly getting shorter, and the attention of manufacturers is slowly turning to competition and exploration of new markets in which to sell goods.
All of t...more |
| 43. | International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems (IJMMS)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Robotics and Mechatronics"
This special issue aims to bring researchers together about the latest advances in the field of intelligent and autonomous robotics and mechatronics. These robots are able to adapt to different tasks, learn, interact, autonomously navigate and adapt their behaviours in various environments using intelligent mechanisms, sensors and artificial perception, vision systems, sensor integration techni...more |
| 44. | International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Metadata and Semantics for Learning Infrastructures"
A growing body of learning infrastructures and aggregators is making digital learning resources available to any user searching for educational content on various topics, through federations of learning repositories. The fundamental reasons behind this trend include growing educational demands in all countries, the limited capacity of face-to-face education, the effort and cost involved in buil...more |
| 45. | International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making (IJMCDM)
Special Issue on: "Multicriteria Decision Aid Applications for Social and Educational Services"
Muliticriteria decision aid analysis (MCDA) has been widely and efficiently exploited in a considerable number of real world applications covering many different fields such as financial management, human resource management, marketing, production, engineering, education and so on.
Since 1970, the four theoretical trends of MCDA (value systems’ approaches, outranking relations metho...more |
| 46. | International Journal of Powertrains (IJPT)
Special issue on: "Model-based Control in Automotive Powertrains"
Since electronic control was introduced to vehicular engines in the 1970s for substantial emissions reduction, modern cars are increasingly likely to be equipped with electronics in their engines, transmission, braking, etc. With the rapidly increasing complexity of vehicular powertrain systems, control technology becomes an enabling factor in the development of powertrain systems.
Mo...more |
| Special issue on: "Engine System Design and Powertrain Integration"
Modern emission and fuel economy regulations and increasing customer demands require more integrated engine/powertrain system design approaches to handle product optimisation, among different attributes (e.g. emissions, fuel consumption, NVH, power density, transient response, acceleration performance, alternative fuels capability, thermo-mechanical durability, wear, packaging and cost) and sub...more |
| Special issue on: "Design, Modelling, Optimisation and Control of Electric Propulsion Systems"
The presence of electric propulsion systems in passenger and commercial vehicles is rapidly increasing with the commercial introduction of plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles (PHEVs and BEVs) to supplement the already robust presence of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs). The subsystems already in use in HEVs (batteries, electric machines, power converters and mechanical transmissions) w...more |
| Special issue on: "Recent Advances in the Design of Drivetrains and Geared Systems"
Modern industrial needs include increased output power-to-weight ratio, refinement of mechanical and parasitic losses, robustness and improved noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) behaviour. All the elements of drivetrains are being continuously improved to meet the above requirements, whilst new materials and designs are being introduced by engineers. Geared systems transferring torque are als...more |
| 47. | International Journal of Product Development (IJPD)
Special issue on: "Semantic Web Usage in Collaborative Product Design and Development"
Globalisation has influenced the way product design and development is handled. Today, both customers and business partners who are involved in product design and development are geographically dispersed. In order to design and develop products that satisfy customers from different cultural backgrounds, and companies that are subject to different laws, regulations and business objectives, tech...more |
| Special issue on: "Computer-aided Tools and Methodologies for Early Design"
Rapid advances in technology and design tools are enabling engineers to design systems containing multiple and interacting components (software and hardware). Growing complexity and tightening time-to-market constraints result in an increasing design productivity gap. Mastering the complexity and risk associated with the design process is then of increasing importance.
The past few ye...more |
| Special issue on: "Reacting Rapidly to Unexpected Customer Requirements"
Companies have pressures to supply new products with increasing speed to the market. In addition, the nature of products is changing in the traditional manufacturing industry where services and other intangible elements are responsible for a growing part of the profit.
Increasingly, typical deliverables are mixtures of tangible and intangible elements, also referred to as solutions. ...more |
| 48. | International Journal of Revenue Management (IJRM)
Special Issue on: "Energy Pricing and Hedging Strategy"
Energy is a basic requirement of business and economic development. The price of energy has a profound influence on the value chain of most industries. The price of energy, however, is uncertain and volatile; it is affected by many factors beyond conventional supply and demand, such as geopolitics, weather, financial markets, and other unexpected events.
The distribution of energy res...more |
| Special Issue on: "Pricing and Revenue Strategy in the Sport Industry"
The sport industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. As the industry grows, the ways in which sport properties price their goods and the strategies that they use to generate revenue becomes both increasingly important and complex. For example, industries such as airlines, hotels, and car rental agencies have used differential pricing strategies to maximise revenue for deca...more |
| 49. | International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management (IJRAM)
Special Issue on: "Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity"
This special issue will present recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of disaster recovery and business continuity. It is intended for academics, practitioners, scientists and engineers who are involved in the areas of business, economics, scientific and technological disciplines, energy industries, environmental and ecological systems, safety, publ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Assessing the Risks of Climate Change for Water Resources and Coastal Environments"
Climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges facing the world. This phenomenon refers to a statistically significant variation in weather patterns leading to a long-term shift in weather conditions. While we are certain that climate change is in our future, our ability to predict the magnitude of these changes is limited due to uncertainties in forecasting anthropogen...more |
| Special Issue on: "Learning from Experience and Event Analysis Methods for Improved Safety"
This special issue will highlight recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted methods of learning from experience and accident analysis.
Learning from experience is far more than just an event and accident analysis method. It concerns data collection methods, different analysis methods, the implementation of databases to store information, and reuse of...more |
| 50. | International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET)
Special Issue on: "Awareness in Sensor Networks"
The goal of this special issue is to provide an opportunity for researchers, engineers and scientists to publish their latest results related to awareness in sensor networks. Awareness is the ability to be conscious of, feel or perceive, and implies vigilance in
observing, or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences (Merriam-Webster).
The ultimate goal of aware comp...more |
| 51. | International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS)
Special Issue on: "Should water and sanitation services be privatised?"
In recent years, privatisation and public-private partnerships have been advocated for providing efficient drinking water supply, wastewater management and sanitation services. This issue seeks to assess the current management practices and related policies, institutions, organisations and actors in drinking water supply, wastewater management and sanitation to seek an understanding about the c...more |
| 52. | International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Sport Tourism Marketing & Management"
Sport tourism is at the heart of global tourism's growth and, as the fastest growing sector in the international travel and tourism industry, accounted in 2009 for an astonishing US$700 billion of the international tourism market. The economies of cities, regions and entire countries (in the case of mega sport events like the Olympic Games) are ever more dependent on creating synergies between...more |
| 53. | International Journal of Strategic Change Management (IJSCM)
Special Issue on: "Strategic Change Management in Service Sector: Challenges and Opportunities from a Global Perspective"
The scale of the service sector is significantly increasing internationally for both developed and developing markets. Therefore, strategic change management has become extremely important in this sector, as its implementation is directly related to the success or failure of the firm. The service sector encompasses a growing portion of commerce, with areas such as finance, insurance, real esta...more |
| 54. | International Journal of Sustainable Development (IJSD)
Special Issue on: "Sustainability Tales, Fictions and Other Stories from the Movie Industry"
Environmental issues have inspired good storytelling in both big and small budget movies during the last decades. Box office numbers account for millions of viewers for feature films such as An Inconvenient Truth, March of the Penguins, The 11 th Hour, The Age of Stupid, Erin Brockovich, etc., and smaller budget movies with great impact such as T...more |
| Special Issue on: "In the Name of Sustainability"
Over the past two decades there has been growing interest in large-scale investment projects, enterprises and initiatives in the most diverse domains: human health, agriculture, energy, climate engineering, information and communication technologies, aerospace, landscape, computer modelling, technological innovation, etc.
Notwithstanding the substantial differences that these project...more |
| 55. | International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (IJSCC)
Special issue on: "Emerging Trends in Control and Automation"
This special issue aims to present recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of control and automation. It is intended for academics, practitioners, scientists and engineers involved in the area of control engineering as well as those working in industrial automation.
The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected...more |
| Special Issue on: "Intelligent Computing for Hypersonic Vehicles"
Hypersonic vehicles (HSVs) represent a promising and cost-effective method for feasible access to space and high-speed civil transportation. Much effort has been invested into developing suitable control systems for HSVs. Because of their particular dynamics characteristics, such as strong nonlinearity, high flight altitude, large flight envelope, extreme range of operating conditions, paramete...more |
| 56. | International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL)
Young Researcher Special Issue on: "State-of-the-Art in TEL"
IJTEL invites paper submissions for a special issue targeting young researchers in the community of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). This call encourages a review of the state-of-the-art in TEL topics, accompanied by a description of the current and future work carried out by the authors researching within these topics.
This special issue is directed at all young researchers...more |
| 57. | International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM)
Special Issue on: "Collaborative Innovation: A New Paradigm in Emerging Countries"
As emerging countries are increasingly gaining prominence in the global economic arena, significantly more emphasis has been placed on understanding how latecomer firms in these countries can technologically learn, innovate and successfully catch-up with their counterparts in advanced economies.
However, current innovation theories and practices, mainly optimised for advanced econom...more |
| Special Issue on: "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China"
China has transformed itself from a planning- to a market-oriented economy over the past three decades and has sustained a long period of rapid economic growth, to which the contributions from innovation in science and technology have become increasingly important.
China’s latest five-year (2011-2015) plan aims to expand its number of scientists and engineers, to establish hi-tech in...more |
| 58. | International Journal of Tourism Anthropology (IJTA)
Special Issue on: "Tourist Behaviour: Current Trends and Issues"
This special issue invites contributions to exploring and understanding tourist behaviour in the context of current trends and emerging issues in the tourism industry.
In recent years, growing attention in the field of tourism has been given to the impacts of current trends and emerging issues, such as use of social media, technological innovations, changing economic situations, incre...more |
| 59. | International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP)
Special Issue on: "Tourism and the Triple Crisis"
The term ‘Triple Crisis’, or ‘Triple Crunch’, is becoming part of the vocabulary of journalists, academics, policy and opinion makers. ‘Triple Crisis’ refers to the combination of the three interlinked crises of global reach:
- the financial crisis,
- the crisis derived from accelerating climate change and
- the crisis associated with an infringing peak...more
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| 60. | International Journal of Trade and Global Markets (IJTGM)
Special issue on: "The Resource-Based View as Applied in International Marketing"
There have been at least two major theoretical approaches used in international marketing research. These are the industrial organisation approach and the resource-based view. The industrial organisation approach ascribes a firm’s international performance to its external market position. The resource-based view focuses on internal organisational resources such as marketing competency or market...more |
| Special issue on: "East meets West: the Choice of Optimal Socio-economic and Business Models for Emerging Economies in the Early 21st Century"
This special issue will bring together the thoughts and analyses of scholars from a range of disciplines and of differing political convictions to address the question of what sort(s) of socio-economic model and approach to business strategy could be defined as optimal and competitively compelling for emerging economies in the early 21st century.
The 1990s and the early 2000s saw the ...more |
| Special issue on: "Fast-expanding Markets"
The aim of this special issue is to foster discussion on the various interrelationships between economic growth at national and international levels as well as international trade. True to the focus of the journal, the issue will emphasise the implications that trade policy exerts on economic growth and vice versa, as well as the role of national governments, international organis...more |
| 61. | International Journal of Vehicle Design (IJVD)
Special Issue on: "Recent Advancement in Optimisation Algorithms for Vehicle Design and Manufacturing Processes"
As energy consumption becomes a larger concern for both industry and consumers, a significant amount of research is currently being carried out to save fuel and reduce production costs.
Developing new and/or optimising the use of lightweight materials, such as polymers, without compromising safety standards and performance criteria is one method of cutting fuel use, particularly in ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Advanced Developments in Tyre Modelling, Analysis and Dynamics"
The advancement of tyre technology in the areas of tyre analysis, design and development is becoming increasingly complex because of various new challenges in the areas of fuel efficiency and active safety system integration for modern vehicles. These challenges open up new opportunities for synergy in the areas of tyre simulation, application, testing and production.
This special is...more |
| 62. | International Journal of Web Science (IJWS)
Special Issue on: "Social Web Search and Mining"
Recent years have seen a flourishing of social media. Across the world, individuals can share news, opinions, experiences and expertise through Web-enabled devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
There has been a fundamental shift thanks to significant advances in the ease of publishing and sharing content. Such examples include microblogs, blogs, bookmarking...more |
| 63. | International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC)
Special Issue on: "u- and e-Service, Science and Technology"
This special issue will present recent progress, ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of u- and e-service, science and technology, and will be an essential resource intended for academics, practitioners, scientists and engineers involved in and wishing to understand personal and ubiquitous computing and its implications. Its topics also cover new personal technolog...more |
| 64. | World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WRSTSD)
Special Issue on: "Open Source Appropriate Technology"
Open source appropriate technology (OSAT) refers to technologies that are designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software. These technologies must be "appropriate technology" for sustainable development – meaning technology that meets human needs while indefinitely preserving the life support systems of the planet, and which is designed with special consideration to the environmen...more |
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