| 1. | Afro-Asian J. of Finance and Accounting (AAJFA)
Special Issue on: "The Impact of Global Recession on Financial Markets"
The theme of this special issue is to assess the impact of the current global recession on financial markets. Its primary objective is to enrich our understanding of those complex inter-relationships that exist between real and financial markets within the context of global recession and financial market crises.
Given the extensive breadth and depth of the current global financial cr...more |
| 2. | Electronic Government, an International Journal (EG)
Special Issue on: "Examining the success and failure of E-Government and E-Governance: A Developing and Developed Countries Perspective"
It has been almost a decade since e-government (generically known as the provision of online government products and services) became an issue of importance. During this decade, a substantial body of research has been established, from which lessons can be learnt. E-government research has also led to a distinction to be drawn between e-government and e-governance.
A majority of e-gov...more |
| 3. | European J. of International Management (EJIM)
Special Issue on: "Everybody Hurts, Sometimes - Emotions and Dysfunctional Leadership"
Organisational dysfunction characterises a facet of today’s workplace that is often hidden or ignored. In general, we expect, albeit naively, that business leaders will do the right thing. They are expected to act honourably, in accordance with organisational and institutional values, as well as acting ethically. The ideal leaders of the 21st century can integrate all the necessary subordinates...more |
| 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 |
| 4. | International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
Special Issue on: "Cloud Computing: Technologies and Services"
Cloud Computing has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of cyber-physical services 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 cloud computing technologies and services, inclu...more |
| Special Issue on: "The Smart Digital Home"
A smart digital home refers to a living space with devices that are connected through wired or wireless networks. The connected devices may be sensors, actors, consumer electronics, appliances, mobile and PC devices that cooperate transparently for facilitating living and improving usability in the home. Sensors can capture the images and/or detect physical phenomena, such as temperature, humid...more |
| 5. | International Journal of Alternative Propulsion (IJAP)
Special Issue on: "Fuels and Combustion in Engines"- Joint Call for Papers with International Journal of Vehicle Design
Recent standards aim to not only reduce consumption but also lower emissions by using better mixture preparation and combustion control. This requires understanding the chemistry of combustion in detail. Hybrids with a lean-burn process using alternative fuels may combine a combustion engine with electric motors and batteries and may allow the engine to make use of a wide range of fuels such as...more |
| 6. | International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART)
Special Issue on: "Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments"
Novel interaction techniques and devices provide users with new experiences, which may have impact on their feelings, behaviours, knowledge acquisition process, performance and/or enjoyment. Innovative multimedia and augmented reality environments push the user interface beyond the digital into new physical and social contexts, affording a variety of dynamic, context-dependent and also subjecti...more |
| 7. | 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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| 8. | 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 |
| Special Issue on: "Ubiquitous Deployments of Body Sensor Networks"
The rapid growth in medical sensing technologies with low power requirements and wireless data transmission has led to ubiquitous deployments of body sensor networks (BSNs), i.e. networks of sensors worn on or implanted in a person, sensing vital readings and transmitting these (wirelessly) to a base station. Applications are often in the healthcare domain, for keeping an eye on one’s health st...more |
| 9. | International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance (IJBAF)
Special Issue on: "Behavioural Issues in Cross-Listing"
The focus of this special issue is on the behavioural factors surrounding a firm’s decision to cross-list its shares. The phenomenon of cross-listing on international markets has grown rapidly during the last decade, and has been facilitated by the deregulation and liberalisation of financial markets, and the major advances in communications and information technology which has made the flow of...more |
| 10. | International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IJBNN)
Special Issue on: "Quantum Dots in Biomedical Research"
A quantum dot is a semiconductor whose excitons (an exciton is a bound state of an electron and an imaginary particle called an electron hole in an insulator or semiconductor, and such is a Coulomb-correlated electron-hole pair ) are confined in all three spatial dimensions. Their application in medical imaging, for diagnosis and prognosis, has been investigated in different labs. In such appli...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 |
| 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 Information Systems (IJBIS)
Special issue on: "Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and
IT infrastructures: a Managerial and Technical Perspective"
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects appear to be a dream coming true. ERP is an integrated software solution to manage an organisation's core business and information processing needs. It supports a process-oriented view of the business and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise-wide as well as inter-enterprise business processes. ERP projects have the Herculean task o...more |
| 15. | International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling (IJBPSCM)
Special Issue on: "Modelling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Service Industry Supply Chain"
Market and customer pressures will drive changes in the way the core manufacturing and service industry currently does business. Customers are increasingly demanding greater reliability of products at lower total cost. Changes in public policy are likely to require plans for increased security throughout the core manufacturing and service industry. Meanwhile, infrastructure constraints and thre...more |
| 16. | 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: "Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks"
Ad hoc and sensor networks have received considerable attention from both the academic community and industry for many years, since these networks are the key underlying infrastructure for realising next generation networking and computing, e.g., ubiquitous computing, 4 G all IP networks. Along with the rapid development of hardware and embedded systems, ad hoc and sensor networks are being fur...more |
| Special Issue on: "Recent Advances in Next-Generation and Resource-Constrained Converged Networks"
Right from its beginning, the Internet has proven to be a vital medium of communication for society, be it entertainment, business, telecommunication, etc. It has rapidly found its way into our daily activities. Due to our high dependence on its functionalities, it can be regarded as one of the most integral parts of our lives. By observing the success of the Internet and packet-switched networ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Service-Oriented Computing and Separation of Concerns"
This special issue will publish research contributions that significantly advance the state-of-the-art research in service-oriented computing and separation of concerns. The separation of concerns (OR aspect-oriented software development methods), as a conceptual tool, enables us to manage the complexity of the software systems that we develop. We welcome papers that are theoretical, conceptual...more |
| Special Issue on: "Cognitive Wireless Networks"
Fixed spectrum allocation schemes for wireless communications have proved to be rigid, inefficient and may even lead to spectrum scarcity. Cognitive radio technologies promise to solve these issues. The cognitive or dynamic spectrum access schemes enable smart, adaptive wireless communications that can seamlessly co-exist with existing wireless networks and provide truly anytime, anywhere acces...more |
| Special Issue on: "Energy-Efficient Communications for High-Performance Distributed Systems"
In pursuit of a wider bandwidth and higher communication efficiency, traditional buses are being replaced by innovative communication fabrics as the principal interconnect. However, these interconnection networks consume a significant portion of the total system energy. It has been reported in most systems up to 35% of energy is consumed by the interconnection networks. Thus, we must develop in...more |
| 17. | International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (IJCBDD)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Microarray Data Analysis"
Being capable of providing scientists with global and functional profiles of gene expression of thousands of genes simultaneously, microarray has demonstrated its value in many important applications in bioscience, such as discovering novel genes, deciphering pathways involved in tumour genesis, and identifying potential diagnostic markers or therapeutic targets. However, mining microarray data...more |
| 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 |
| 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.
...more |
| 19. | International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL)
Special Issue on: "E-Competence for Lecturers and Academic Staff"
In the past few years, there has been a huge growth of educational technology at the level of higher education. However, strategic developments for individuals and organisations concerning the development of e-competences for academic staff and educators have been neglected.
There already exists a number of further education and training course programs at different universities and c...more |
| 20. | International Journal of Design Engineering (IJDE)
Special Issue on: "Design in Nature"
Humans have always faced technical challenges. In seeking solutions, human engineering has often looked to natural surroundings for inspiration, or at times for mimicry, of viable analogues. Successful adaptation of natural solutions to human-engineered systems has often led to significant enhancement to the quality of human life and further consolidated mastery of the environment. Perhaps the ...more |
| 21. | 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 |
| 22. | 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 |
| 23. | International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB)
Special Issue on: "Internet Technology: Emerging Technologies & Applications"
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in academia, industry and the government sectors has witnessed a tremendous growth in the recent years. Research in this area has in turn invoked an interest among academics. This special issue aims to study the growth areas in the above applications and understand the future scope and path. This issue also tries to evaluate newly emer...more |
| 24. | International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management (IJECRM)
Special Issue on: "Application of Multivariate Techniques in Decision Making Models for Customer Service in Supply Chain"
Customer service is widely understood as an important profit generating mechanism for a successful organisation. In the early days, customer service was viewed as a vision behind corporate success. The visionary concept has evolved to be seen as a day-to-day process towards market success. A process view has taken center-stage and treats customer service as an outcome from wide-spectrum of acti...more |
| 25. | 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 |
| 26. | International Journal of Enterprise Network Management (IJENM)
Special Issue on: "Planning, Scheduling and Optimisation in Manufacturing and Services Enterprise"
Companies must constantly contend with rapidly changing business conditions. Mergers and acquisitions, accelerated new product introductions, changing customer bases, offshore manufacturing and fluctuating fuel costs are among the many challenges they face.
Globalisation trends have significantly increased the scale and complexity of the modern enterprise. The enterprise has been tran...more |
| 27. | International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM)
Special Issue on: "Vermi-technology for Solid Waste Management"
Vermicomposting is the process of decomposition of organic matter in which the mutual actions of earthworms and micro-organisms are used to convert the organic waste into vermicompost, a rich soil fertilizer. Almost any agricultural, urban or industrial organic material can be used for vermicomposting providing that it does not contain any toxic material that can harm the earthworms.
...more |
| 28. | International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management (IJETM)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Waste Engineering and Management"
At present, our unique planet 'Earth' is facing immense environmental problems due to ignorance, over-exploitation and waste generation. All the three basic components of the environment, i.e., air; water and land, are in the disturbed state. The quality of air we inhale, the water we drink and the land we live are all deteriorating day-by-day. In such a situation, it is of utmost importance an...more |
| 29. | International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives (IJFMD)
Special Issue on: "Computational Methods for Financial Engineering"
In recent years, computational methods and techniques have become an important tool for the support of financial decisions. New statistical procedures, mathematical models, numerical algorithms and heuristics are continuously developed and used by an increasing number of firms, traders and financial risk managers across various industries.
This special issue covers the rapidly growing...more |
| 30. | 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 |
| 31. | 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 |
| 32. | International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management (IJISCM)
Special Issue on: "Change Management in the Healthcare Industry"
The healthcare industry is experiencing change, primarily directed at physician behaviours, drug regulatory processes, hospital practices and monitoring of core quality outcomes. New technologies and information systems and revised payment and financing methods are the impetus for change. In addition, countries such as the US have the potential for discontinuous systemic change through major p...more |
| 33. | 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 |
| 34. | International Journal of Innovation and Learning (IJIL)
Special Issue on: "Thresholds of Dynamic Growth"
The successful foundation of a business illustrates a first success, as a significant portion of those attempts to start a business fail. Business start-ups and new enterprises are then confronted with a multitude of different challenges and problems due to limited resources, insecurities, risks and deficiencies. If a company is able to meet those challenges and solve given problems, revenues a...more |
| 35. | International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems (IJIDSS)
Special Issue on: "Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles"
There is a growing demand and interest in the sensing, perception and navigation control of robotics and Intelligent Vehicles (IVs), including Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). IVs could be used in many areas, such as security guards, automatic inspection of power plants and refineries, the mining industry, hazardous che...more |
| Special Issue on: "Hybrid Computing"
Real-world problems are generally complex in nature. To analyse them, a hard computing tool alone or just a constituent member of soft computing family (e.g. fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and others) may not be sufficient. It may be necessary to solve a part of the problem using one tool of the soft computing family and the remaining part can be tackled utilising another mem...more |
| 36. | International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM)
Special Issue on: "Enterprise 2.0: Management Principles, Technologies and Techniques"
Enterprise 2.0 has been coined as a term to characterise the emergence of new tools to enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers. Going beyond technicalities, Enterprise 2.0 also stands as the term for business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication a...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: "Wireless Internet"
With the rapid evolution of different wireless networking technologies, wireless Internet will be a reality in the foreseeable future. Intensive research has been carried out in different aspects of wireless networking, such as system architecture, protocol designs and cross-layered optimisation designs. Different types of wireless operating platforms may be derived through the integration of h...more |
| 38. | International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence (IJKWI)
Special Issue on: "Web for All"
The number of the handicapped people is growing worldwide. One of the reasons is that in most industrialised countries the demographic, structural and social trends tend towards an increasing number of elderly people in single households, which definitely has effects on healthcare, emergency medical services and of course on the individuals themselves.
Older people and new technologie...more |
| 39. | International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation (IJLEG)
Special Issue on: "Challenging Research Issues in Logistics Management"
Companies today face numerous transportation challenges, including rising fuel costs, new regulatory mandates and global operations with higher levels of lead time variability. Customers have increasing demands for transportation performance, higher on-time delivery performance and reduced damage-in-transit. They expect transportation providers to be flexible and quickly adapt to order changes....more |
| 40. | International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials (IJMMM)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Drilling of Composite Materials"
Nowadays, the use of composite materials has increased in various areas of science and technology due to their special properties, namely for these application in aircraft, automotive, defence and aerospace as well others advanced industries. Drilling is a frequently practiced machining process in modern industry owing to the need for component assembly in composite structures. Articles with ex...more |
| 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 |
| 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: "Managing Innovative Distance Learning for Higher Education"
Innovative distance learning covers a variety of domains dictated by the convergence of emerging innovative technologies such as wireless communication infrastructure and mobile devices, and innovative applications such as online learning tools and mobile connectivity. The Internet and emerging ICT infrastructure has improved the quality and reduced costs of the online learning experience in in...more |
| Special Issue on: "Knowledge Management in Higher Education"
Knowledge is a complex phenomenon that has become one of the most important yet one of the less understood in our society and even civilization, and should thus be, as any other aspect of cultural production, carefully managed. Knowledge management is all about connection knowledge in and for an organisation to its mission, competition, performance and attitude towards changes. Higher education...more |
| 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 and Product Technology (IJMPT)
Special Issue on: "Advances in Meso and Micro Manufacturing Technology"
Nowadays, meso (1-10 mm)/micro (1-1000 µm) manufacturing is an important technology for conventional products as well as for new products, especially where miniaturisation, mechatronics and high performance are important. Applications of meso/micro manufacturing are in advanced industries, for example, aerospace, automotive, optical, military, alternative energy, biomedical and microelectronics...more |
| 44. | International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (IJMATEI)
Special Issue on: "Nanomaterials: Recent Advances, Trends and Challenges"
Recently, nanoscience and nanotechnology, as emerging multidisciplinary research fields (chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, engineering, medicine, etc.) have attracted special and considerable attention. The synthesis of materials at the nanoscale has shown an exceptional improvement of the material’s properties (thermal, optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, etc) as well as t...more |
| 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 |
| 45. | 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 |
| 46. | 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 |
| 47. | International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC)
Special Issue on: "Development of Embedded Systems: Modelling, Verification, Scheduling, Implementation and Reconfiguration"
The development of mechatronic and embedded systems (MES) is not an easy activity because they have to satisfy user requirements in addition to their time-to-market that has to be ever shorter these days. Nowadays in academia and also in industry, several rich and interesting research works have been carried out to optimise the development process of such systems in order to accelerate their de...more |
| 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 |
| 48. | International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance (IJMEF)
Special Issue on: "The Middle East Capital Markets and Investment Issues"
While the Middle East capital markets in the midst of a massive overhaul, it must be admitted that relatively little research has been done in the past on the region's capital market sector. After the recent financial crisis which originated in U.S., and its global ramifications, the issue of risk spillover across capital markets is expected to gain momentum and become the subject matter of mu...more |
| Special Issue on: "The Subprime Crisis and its Consequences"
The recent crisis originated by excess global liquidity and the cooling of housing markets in the US has had a tremendous impact on financial conditions of large banks around the world. The impacts on the real economy have been substantial, with a large deceleration in most economies around the world. Understanding the causes and consequences of the crisis, its impacts on the real economy and i...more |
| 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 |
| 49. | 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 |
| 50. | 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 |
| 51. | International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology (IJOGCT)
Special Issue on: "Catalysis in Petroleum Refining"
Catalysis plays a vital role in petroleum refining since the catalysts provide a stage for the structural and chemical changes of the hydrocarbon molecules present in the crude fractions to obtain the product of desired quality so as to make them suitable as fuels that can meet the required specifications of the fuel norms. In the modern petroleum refinery, almost all the processes are conducte...more |
| 52. | International Journal of Power Electronics (IJPELEC)
Special Issue on: "Sliding Mode Control Schemes for Power Industrial Applications"
We are aware that almost all power industrial products are controlled by either analog or digital controllers wherein some control algorithm will be employed. There are different control schemes whereby the sliding mode control scheme has proved very popular in the field of power converters, inverters, motor drives, generator drives, UPS, HVDC and robotics. Therefore, the purpose of this Specia...more |
| Special Issue on: "Utility Applications of Power Electronics"
Power electronics are growing very fast on variety of utility applications such as active front end inverters and power line conditioners etc. This special issue attempts to bring out the latest developments on following utility applications. ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Power Quality"
Power quality is becoming more popular in the electrical engineering discipline due to stringent regulations and norms. The power equipment manufacturer and system integrators are taking so many efforts to ensure that the reliability of the power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization networks is maintained all over the world. Keeping the importance of the above in mind, a spec...more |
| 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 |
| 53. | International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM)
Special Issue on: "Interaction between Software Engineering Methods/Tools and Manufacturing Production Systems/Processes"
Management of product life cycles may be viewed as an achievement of industrialisation for a systematic approach to production systems. It provides at every level of enterprises a scientific methodology for work. The operational level work first focused on various CAD systems. Coordination was then addressed by (1) providing tools to share information about product and, (2) tools to assist pro...more |
| 54. | 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 |
| 55. | International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology (IJRET)
Special Issue on: "Biomass and Bioenergy"
Biomass - that is, all plant and plant-derived materials including animal manure, not just starch, sugar, oil crops already used for food and energy -has great potential to provide renewable energy for the near future. Policy makers and governmental bodies are committed to expanding the role of biomass as an energy source. In particular, they support biomass fuels and products:
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| 56. | 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: "Hospitality and Tourism Management"
Revenue management or yield management is a scientific technique that combines operations research, statistics, and customer relationship management. Revenue management is an increasingly common strategy to maximize revenue (and profits) in the hospitality and tourism industry. This special issue aims to provide an international forum for the communication with the complex role of revenue manag...more |
| Special Issue on: "Customer Choice-Based Revenue Management"
The next generation of revenue management models is likely to be based on customer choice. The understanding of how a customer behaves when she/he purchases a service from a company using revenue management will be a corner stone of competitive advantage. This special issue seeks to highlight both innovative research and practice about consumer behaviour and revenue management. The selection pr...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 |
| 57. | International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET)
Special Issue on: "Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks"
With recent technological advances in communication and computation, new wireless sensor network (WSN) applications are growing. The emergence of low-energy and low-cost multimedia devices, such as microphones and cameras, has stimulated the development of the next generation WSNs, known as wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN). WMSNs have brought unprecedented potential, especially for app...more |
| 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 |
| Special Issue on: "Advances in Theory and Application of Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Networks"
Wireless networks have gained much popularity in recent years due to their ease of accessibility and mobility. However, as the dimensions of wireless devices decreases and as the network density increases, energy and bandwidth resources become increasingly scarce and innovative networking solutions must be developed to overcome these challenges. Moreover, due to the large demand for wireless co...more |
| 58. | International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics (IJSOI)
Special Issue on: "Service Innovation Design"
Innovation is not an option for today’s industry. For the past decade, globalisation and transformation of the industrial economy has produced vast new challenges for industry. As the practice of product design has expanded both in economic and social impact and in technological complexity, so have the demands upon innovative service systems. Industry R&D has changed its traditional corporate ...more |
| 59. | International Journal of Services, Economics and Management (IJSEM)
Special Issue on: "Global Service Supply Chain Management"
With increased globalisation, the role of global services in economic growth and job creation calls for researchers and practitioners’ attention to come up with innovative solutions to manage this increasingly strategic issue for the sustainability of firms’ competitiveness. Improved global service supply chain performance reduces the cost of service procurement, mainly of outsourced skilled l...more |
| 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 |
| 60. | International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics (IJSTL)
Special Issue on: "Future of Eurasian Logistics"
Eurasian logistics has not received that much attention, even if the concentration of population, future economic growth, and opportunity to utilise all available transportation modes in internal transport are all present. Quite often Eurasian logistics is simply seen as a sea container transportation or express air freight issue. However, the Arctic sea route as well as railway landbridge thro...more |
| Special Issue on: "Container Security and Supply Chain Visibility"
The strong growth in container transport, bottlenecks in hinterland connections, complex logistics chains consisting of many actors, information gaps as well as new security regulations are all challenges to be managed by industry and administration.
The main factors in today’s international intermodal container transport, logistics and security have to take into account different obj...more |
| Special Issue on: "Governance and Regulation of Seaports"
Governance of seaports has dramatically changed over the last two decades. Devolution, commercialisation, corporatisation and privatisation are concepts associated with the reforms that happened worldwide and that have changed the structures of governance in recent years. Governance means ‘the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented)’...more |
| 61. | International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE)
Special Issue on: "Imaging Systems and Techniques"
Imaging systems and techniques provide the users with two- or three-dimensional information on objects, materials, structures or processes. They play a key role in many fields of science, technology, industry, environment and daily life, as the variety of imaging systems and techniques is vast, ranging from medical and biological imaging, security and surveillance systems, remote sensing, biome...more |
| 62. | International Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM)
Special Issue on: "Data Mining and Control System Applications"
This special issue will cover two main areas of advanced research - data mining and control system applications. Data mining is dedicated to exploring and analysing large volumes of data, by automatic or semi-automatic means, to discover meaningful patterns in describing the given data. With these large volumes of data, the data owners have an imminent opportunity to turn them into useful knowl...more |
| 63. | International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS)
Special Issue on: "Assessment Methods in Social Systems Science"
Social systems science is now at a new stage in the midst of inevitable and rapid global change. The traditional assessment methods of the social sciences, based on assumptions of independent observations, cannot be effective in analysing social behaviour as a social system. Behaviours of individuals and groups are seen as multiple interdependencies, and these interdependencies should be view...more |
| 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 |
| 64. | International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM)
Special Issue on: "Marketing and Sponsorship in Sport Leagues"
Sport leagues regularly publish the clubs’ financial accounts, where marketing and sponsorship appear alongside other financial information. Research focusing on this data usually restricts the analysis to sport and economic variables, neglecting marketing and expenditure variables. With this special issue, we intend to go a step further to analyse these reports, calling for the attention of th...more |
| 65. | 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 |
| 66. | International Journal of Sustainable Society (IJSSOC)
Special Issue on: "Assessment and Sustainable Society"
Increasing awareness of ecological limits to economic growth has stimulated considerable interest in recent years in developing and assessing effective methods for achieving a sustainable society. Sustainability and environmental protection have become major economic, as well as societal, concerns. Assessment methods and strategies have played significant roles in achieving a balance between th...more |
| 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 |
| 67. | 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 |
| 68. | International Journal of Technology Marketing (IJTMKT)
Special Issue on: "Technology Transfer in the Virtual Environment: Transnational Culture, Pricing Mechanisms and Transactional Governance"
Virtual corporations and networks are common characteristics of global business these days, without clear organisational boundaries, national cultures, or governance mechanisms. Myriads of business activities including outsourcing and R&D projects are done in virtual networks to capitalise on the benefit of the information revolution. For example, the corporate reliance on global virtual networ...more |
| 69. | 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 |
| 70. | 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 |
| 71. | 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 |
| 72. | 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 |
| 73. | 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 |
| 74. | International Journal of Vehicle Design (IJVD)
Special Issue on: "Advanced Vehicle Handling Dynamics and Control"
The objective of this special issue is to compile recent research and development efforts contributing to advances in vehicle handling dynamic performance and its assessment and control. The special issue also welcomes contributions addressing the state-of-the-art in associated developments and methodologies, perspectives on future developments and applications, identification of most promising...more |
| Special Issue on: "Fuels and Combustion in Engines" - Joint Call for Papers with International Journal of Alternative Propulsion
Recent standards aim to not only reduce consumption but also lower emissions by using better mixture preparation and combustion control. This requires understanding the chemistry of combustion in detail. Hybrids with a lean-burn process using alternative fuels may combine a combustion engine with electric motors and batteries and may allow the engine to make use of a wide range of fuels such as...more |
| 75. | 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 |
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