| 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: "Strategic Management and Business Model Design in Electronic, Mobile, and Connected Government"
The core concept of e-government (EG) is to apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) in innovative ways for delivering quality public services to citizens and businesses, for improving internal efficiency and effectiveness of government agencies, and for facilitating service and system integration between government organisations. M-government (MG) refers to the adoption of mobil...more |
| 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. | Global Business and Economics Review (GBER)
Special Issue: "Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship"
The unit of analysis in traditional entrepreneurship was the entrepreneur. More recently, evidence has shown that individuals of different ethnic backgrounds react in unlike ways to opportunities for entrepreneurship (Dana, 1995). Therefore, entrepreneurship cannot be explained simply by individual level accounts. Furthermore, in some cultures, the backbone of the economy is community-based ent...more |
| Special Issue: "Energy Policies and Sustainable Energy Solutions"
Climate change is becoming increasingly one of the most important global challenges of this century. The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 for Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has more or less concluded a long debate on the issue of man-made climate change. Despite the increasingly worldwide recognition of the problem of climate change and the urgin...more |
| 5. | International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
Special Issue on: "Wireless & Mobile Networks"
Wireless and mobile technologies represent a rapidly emerging area of development and importance for providing ubiquitous access to the network for all end users. The wireless and mobile computing domain emerges from the integration among personal computing, networks, communication technologies, cellular technology and internet technology. Many modern applications are emerging in the area of mo...more |
| Special Issue on: "Ubiquitous RFID Computing"
RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology has been one of the most popular research topics in recent years. Besides its original use of replacing barcodes, RFID has permeated many other fields such as supply chain automation, asset tracking, medical applications, people tracking, manufacturing, retail, warehouses, livestock, timing, and so on. Its applications are limited only by imagina...more |
| Special Issue on: "Wireless Network Algorithm and Theory"
Wireless networks raise a number of interesting and undiscovered algorithmic issues, while traditional techniques are not sufficient to solve these problems in the right way. For example, the algorithms in vehicular ad hoc networks require a high degree of communication reliability, performance, scalability, security, and privacy-preserving technologies under harsh conditions. Researchers need ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing: Systems, Networking, and Applications"
Ubiquitous multimedia computing is an important and fast growing research area. Ubiquitous multimedia services allows people to access rich multimedia content anytime, anywhere, using different access networks and different computing devices. To date, the development of ubiquitous multimedia computing is still in its infancy although a few ubiquitous multimedia services have been developed and ...more |
| 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 |
| 6. | International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (IJADS)
Special Issue on: "Decision Support Systems for Unmanned Vehicles"
The growing use of autonomous air, surface, ground and underwater systems is continually demonstrating new military and commercial possibilities and applications. The technology for, and capabilities of, unmanned vehicles (UVs) have leapt dramatically ahead in the past two decades, going from concept to operational systems. However, relatively little progress has been seen in the development of...more |
| 7. | 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: "Context-awareness for Self-Managing Systems"
Computing systems are becoming inexpensive but complex in their computing power and communication capability. At the same time, the users and owners of these systems are usually mobile and demand greater flexibility and efficiency in terms of ease of interaction, response time, resource utilisation, robustness, etc., to achieve critical business goals. Moreover, users prefer less management ove...more |
| 8. | International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research (IJBHR)
Special Issue on: "Medical Tourism"
Medical tourism is an emerging industry that has international implications for the healthcare business, related industries and the economic impact on those industries and the participating countries and localities. The purpose of this special issue is to publish theoretical, empirical, and applied articles that promote an understanding of medical tourism, and define the current state and param...more |
| 9. | 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 |
| 10. | International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR)
Special issue on: "Healthcare Information Systems Topics"
Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare. Unfortunately, a substantial gap exists between theory and practice. As editors of this special issue, we are looking for a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach that will incorporate ideas and theories from rel...more |
| 11. | International Journal of Business Environment (IJBE)
Special Edition on: "Corporate Volunteering: Conceptual Embedment, Empirical Research, and Future Perspectives"
The objective of this special issue is to provide a scientific platform where researchers from multiple disciplines concerned with the issue of Corporate Volunteering (CV) may meet and exchange theoretical viewpoints as well as elaborated empirical conclusions for the current and future development of CV.
The changing role of the corporation as a ‘good citizen’ and its interaction wi...more |
| 12. | International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise (IJCENT)
Special Issue on: "Healthcare Systems Engineering"
The healthcare industry has a significant influence on industrial nations’ global competitiveness and their economical growth. Currently, the United State’s cost of healthcare is estimated to be 15% of the GDP and will be more than 20% by 2015. As the result of the high cost of healthcare delivery, the quality of service has begun to suffer and impacted those requiring it. It has also put a sig...more |
| 13. | 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: "Scalable Wireless Networks"
With the explosive proliferation of mobile communication and wireless computing devices, the scalability property is becoming an increasingly popular and important issue in wireless communication research, as it has been recognised as one of the key features for supporting pervasive networking scenarios.
The scalability concept involves several dimensions, such as the node number, the...more |
| 14. | International Journal of Computers in Healthcare (IJCIH)
Special Edition on: "Towards Systems in Support of Reminiscence Work"
In Europe by 2050, the number of ‘oldest old’ aged 80+ is expected to grow by 180%. For example, in 1951, there were 300 people aged 100 and over in the UK. By the year 2031, it is estimated that this figure could boom to 36,000. Life expectancy has been rising on average by 2.5 years per decade in Europe. This growing number of people with significant leisure time available, often socially iso...more |
| 15. | International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics (IJCSM)
Special Issue on: "Nonconvex Optimisation and Its Applications"
Nonconvex optimisation is a multi-disciplinary research field that deals with the characterisation and computation of local/global minima/maxima of nonlinear, nonconvex, nonsmooth, discrete and continuous functions. Nonconvex optimisation problems are frequently encountered in modelling complex real world systems for a very broad range of applications including engineering, mathematical economi...more |
| 16. | 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 |
| 17. | International Journal of Corporate Governance (IJCG)
Special Issue on: "Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis"
The current financial crisis comes in the wake of decades of focus on corporate governance and a previous crisis (the “Enron- and Parmalat-era” scandals) that put an intense focus on corporate governance. This special issue explores the relationships between the ongoing financial crisis and the corporate governance of financial and industrial companies.
The topic is intentionally b...more |
| 18. | International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM)
Special Issue on: "Trends in Data Mining Concept and Applications"
Since its inception, the field of data mining and knowledge discovery from databases has been driven by the need to solve practical problems. From scaling to large databases and handling noisy and high-dimensional data to finding associational patterns in grocery store transaction data, data mining is a research area, rich in application. Despite its practical roots, a few case studies of data ...more |
| Special Issue on: "FutureGIS: Riding the Wave of a Growing Geospatial Technology Literate Society"
Geospatial technologies are omnipresent in our society. From the desktop to the dashboard to millions of cell phones, geospatial information and services have spanned the globe with lightning speed. Little over a decade ago, web-based mapping applications were clumsy, slow, and designed for geospatial professionals to use in analysis and display of information. Now, users of all ages and experi...more |
| 19. | International Journal of Design Engineering (IJDE)
Special issue on: "Engineering Design At All Scales"
Recent developments in hybrid intelligent machines, mechatronics, MEMS and nano devices has led to engineering design being reviewed at all scales.
The availability of dedicated and advanced simulation tools which are possibly sufficiently accurate to design and predict novel systems and processes could be key to achieve a leap in the way new systems at all scales are designed, especi...more |
| 20. | 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 |
| 21. | International Journal of Electronic Finance (IJEF)
Special Issue on: "User and Security Issues in Electronic Finance and Electronic Business"
Broadly speaking, e-finance refers to the environments and corresponding activities involving the help of computers and other electronics in the finance area. Electronic business (e-business) can be defined even more broadly in that it can include virtually all computer and electronic transactions involving the trade of money or monetary goods. A number of services and products are involved to ...more |
| Special Issue on: "The Issues and Challenges of E-Banking Application and Development in Developing and Under-developed Nations"
Electronic finance has been continuously growing as a new industry during the last decade. In recent years, the banking industry has led this trend, which is sometimes called e-banking, referring to all banking transactions completed through internet applications. E-banking has revolutionised the way business is transacted by globalising the business enterprise. All businesses, including small ...more |
| 22. | 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 |
| 23. | International Journal of Enterprise Network Management (IJENM)
Special Issue on: "Customer-centric Service Experience Design and Choreography in Innovative Online Services and Mobile Services"
The advent of services sciences has opened up new possibilities for service innovation. The emerging discipline of service science management, engineering, and design (SSMED) is outlined in practice (IBM, Fraunhofer etc.) and academia (UC Berkeley, MIT etc.) The value-adding economical activities for service sector include retail, finance, transportation, healthcare, education, entertainment, a...more |
| 24. | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (IJEIM)
Special Issue on: "Internationalisation of Small Firms and International Entrepreneurship Strategy"
International entrepreneurship (IE) and the internationalisation of SMEs has grown phenomenally since the turn of the century, as governments and businesses continue to exploit the opportunities of globalisation and cooperation between businesses and nations. International activities of entrepreneurs contribute to the development of their home economies and the global economy as a whole, by fac...more |
| 25. | 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 |
| 26. | 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 |
| 27. | International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHPSA)
Special Issue on: "Power-Efficient, High Performance General Purpose and Application Specific Computing Architectures"
The ever-increasing needs of present and future computation-intensive applications have fuelled multiple research programmes worldwide to develop new and innovative computing techniques and architectures that can deliver accelerated computing capacity, superior data throughput, and the ability to aggregate substantial distributed computing power.
In the context of embedded computing ...more |
| 28. | International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS)
Special Issue on: "Application of Digital Human Modelling Tools in User Centred Design Processes"
The movement towards virtual product and production development processes leads to a situation where it is both possible and important to represent future product and workplace users as digital human models. These digital human models are at the disposal of design engineers, as one of many design tools that can be employed, and hence the functionality and method of application of the tools infl...more |
| 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 |
| 29. | International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE)
Special Issue on: "Integrated Manufacturing and Service Systems"
Integrated manufacturing and service systems refer to the network of manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, distributors and other service providers who are organised to enable information flow critical to the movement of materials and/or services through the supply chain, and effective coordination of activities to address various stages of the product life cycle.
Increasingly, product...more |
| 30. | International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICOT)
Special Issue on: "Codes, Lattices, and Cryptography"
In recent years there have been many new developments in the area of lattices as related to coding theory and cryptography. This special issue focuses on several aspects of this interrelation.
Lattices are related to several geometric problems (sphere packing, sphere covering, the kissing number problem), as well as other areas of mathematics, such as number theory, combinatorics and ...more |
| 31. | 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 |
| 32. | International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining (IJKEDM)
Special Issue on: "Knowledge Engineering and Management for the Intelligent Enterprise"
Enterprises of all kinds are struggling to improve over time to differentiate themselves from their competitors. The basic enabler is the quality of knowledge that needs to be available just-in-time at the point-of-action. Knowledge activities, systems, and technologies establish the capacity to generate, integrate, transfer and import new knowledge. The intelligent enterprise pursues explicit ...more |
| Special Issue on: "Knowledge and Software Engineering for Intelligent Systems"
Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in various domains based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in many areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web and business rules. The r...more |
| 33. | International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation (IJLEG)
Special Issue on: "Intelligent Applications for Customer Experience Journey in Services"
With established Internet services, customer relationship management and services, service science, services and processes of customer management, and technologies, particularly information technologies, system development new paradigm, and architecture shifted in the development of customer relationship management and services, are seen as the enablers to improve customer experience journey. T...more |
| 34. | 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 |
| 35. | International Journal of Management in Education (IJMIE)
Special Issue on: "Strategic Management in Higher Education"
Academics in the fields of management and education often bemoan the lack of a tight connection between theory and practice in higher education. Despite the abundant knowledge and expertise possessed by seasoned college administrators, today’s higher education has been widely criticized for being either inefficient or ineffective, or both. If we agree that “nothing is more practical than a go...more |
| Special Issue on: "Contemporary Issues and Trends for Effective Management in Education"
Nowadays, universities and educational institutions are faced with the challenges similar to private enterprises. Such challenges involve globalisation and competition, diversity, financial restrictions, quality assurance, and investment in new technologies. Globalisation, including on-line degrees and academic accreditation, impacts on policy initiatives and planning. Competition, as a result...more |
| Special Issue on: "E-Learning in Higher Education: EU Perspectives"
E-learning is one of the most important tools for nowadays competitors in the area of higher education (HE). Different educational institutions are looking for new ideas, new tools and new methodologies for doing their businesses faster and more effectively. They are going to use the solutions that fit to the customer needs better. E-learning seems to be the critical success factor for public a...more |
| 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 |
| 36. | 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 microelectr...more |
| 37. | 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 |
| 38. | 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 |
| 39. | 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 |
| 40. | International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC)
Special Issue on: "Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic for Modelling and Control of Mechatronic Systems"
The ability of neural networks and fuzzy logic to represent nonlinear systems is most exploited in the synthesis of nonlinear controllers. One of the main advantages of these techniques is that they do not require the exact determination of a system. This enables these techniques to be used for the design of robust controllers. Further, their abilities to adapt make them suitable to be used fo...more |
| 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 |
| 41. | 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 |
| 42. | 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 |
| 43. | International Journal of Power Electronics (IJPELEC)
Special Issue on: "Thermal Modelling, Simulation and Analysis, Management, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Experimental Verification of Power Electronic Systems"
Thermal modelling and analysis have become an integral part of power electronics system (PES) design and development, facilitating faster product development and reduced time to market. Furthermore, numerous software packages are available for successful thermal modelling and analysis on power engineering applications. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to present state of the ar...more |
| 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 |
| 44. | International Journal of Product Development (IJPD)
Special Issue on: "Recent Advancements and Innovative Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences"
The healthcare industry has witnessed unprecedented transformation recently. Pharmaceutical science has been revolutionised from the macro to the micro level and currently research is focused at the molecular level. The foundation of pharmaceutical research is based upon drug delivery, biopharmaceutics, transport, formulation process engineering, simulation and mathematical modelling. The quest...more |
| 45. | International Journal of Project Organisation and Management (IJPOM)
Special Issue on: "Risk Management in Projects and Enterprises"
Today’s projects and businesses are becoming ever more complicated and complex and this is coupled with the current global financial crisis, economic downturn and intensified competition. Hence, the associated risks are also becoming more complicated and complex. Properly identifying, assessing and responding to these risks is of vital importance for achieving project and organisational objecti...more |
| 46. | International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology (IJRET)
Special Issue on: "Marine Renewable Energy"
The British Wind Energy Association mentioned that the UK has the best wave and tidal resources in Europe, an asset that has the potential to provide a considerable proportion of the UK power market in years to come. Coupled with this is a strong history of innovation that has produced some of the leading marine energy devices in the worl...more |
| 47. | 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 |
| 48. | 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: "Recent Advances in Sensor Integration"
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the design, development and deployment of sensor systems for applications of high-level inference, which leads to an increasing demand on interconnecting wireless sensor networks with other emerging technologies, such as RFID technology, multimedia based surveillance system, biomedical technology, mobile agent based networks, P2P technology and bus...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 |
| 49. | 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 |
| 50. | International Journal of Services Sciences (IJSSCI)
Special Issue on: "Systems Thinking in Service Organisations"
Despite the importance of service operations management, this field has received sparse attention in the academic literature. Much of the literature makes no distinction between manufacturing and service. Arguably, little progress has been made since Ted Levitt wrote his seminal Harvard Business Review article, “Production line approach to service”, in 1972. The objective of this special issue ...more |
| 51. | 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: "Service-Oriented Engineering"
The continuous expansion of the Internet and its relating technologies has created new opportunities for the services sector: traditional monolithic approaches are giving way to service-oriented architectures. Services are expected to facilitate the change of the software industry into a service industry. The term ‘service-oriented engineering’ reflects this new reality.
Service-orien...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 |
| Special Issue on: "Service Quality Management in Developing and Newly Industrialised Nations"
This call for papers seeks both empirically-based and theory-based contributions addressing quality management, with emphasis on developing countries. The concept of quality management is not something new. For many organisations, it is no longer an issue of whether they would like to implement quality management, but instead how it is to be implemented. Although quality concepts were discussed...more |
| Special Issue on: "Mobile Collaboration Services and Management (MCSM)"
Recent advances in workflow technologies and the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has much facilitated the automation of business collaboration within and across organisations to increase their competiveness and responsiveness to the fast-evolving global economic environment. The widespread of mobile technologies has further resulted in an increasing demand for the support of mob...more |
| 52. | 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 |
| 53. | 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 |
| 54. | 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 |
| 55. | 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: "Tribology in Manufacturing Processes"
Tribology deals with the interaction between workpiece and tools and plays a very important role in manufacturing. Friction and wear are key problems for technicians and engineers who design processes and products in daily practice because good lubrication conditions can significantly influence the performance and economics of the manufacturing operations.
This special issue invites t...more |
| 56. | International Journal of Sustainable Economy (IJSE)
Special Issue on: "Sustainable Practices for Industrial Sectors and Regional Development"
The role of environmental performance in contemporary society is increasing. Industrial business has a potentially crucial role in developing sustainable practices which can maximise its productivity and improve its strategical, tactical and operational performance. Various industrial sectors are reconsidering actions to be taken on sustainable issues, because the political and social, as well ...more |
| 57. | 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 |
| 58. | International Journal of Technology and Globalisation (IJTG)
Special Issue on: "Emerging Markets"
With a high growth rate and still significant untapped potential, emerging markets are the growth engines of the world economy. Globalisation and technology are two prime drivers of the global economy. Innovations have become popular again and globalisation of research and development is taking place. Emerging markets are becoming a source of low cost research and development initiatives on the...more |
| 59. | 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 |
| 60. | International Journal of Trade and Global Markets (IJTGM)
Special issue on: "Real Estate Finance, Investment and Related Issues"
Recent developments in the property market have already forced major rethinking within the industry. Financial institutions as well as practitioners are under great pressure to improve professional education, lending habits, policing standards, relating to property valuation, investment, property management and decision making in the commercial property market.
This special issue tac...more |
| 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 |
| 61. | International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems (IJUWBCS)
Special Issue on: "Applications of Ultra Wideband Systems in Biomedicine"
Ultra wideband (UWB) techniques have attracted much research interest in a variety of medical applications. UWB microwave hyperthermia can be utilised to heat tissues using electromagnetic fields as part of cancer treatment. Many emerging imaging techniques have also relied on UWB radar concepts to improve the sensitivity and specificity of cancer detection. Tissue-implanted UWB devices communi...more |
| 62. | International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems (IJVAS)
Special Issue on: "Mechatronics for Ground Vehicle Autonomy: Modelling, Design and Control"
Autonomy of unmanned ground vehicles to a large extent depends on dynamics and performance of the vehicles and results in the interaction between vehicle systems and terrain/surroundings. Therefore, we can speak of the systems’ influence on unmanned vehicle dynamics and performance and hence on the vehicle autonomy. Autonomously-operating systems of unmanned vehicles are classified here as mech...more |
| 63. | International Journal of Vehicle Design (IJVD)
Special Issue on: "Research and Advances of Vehicle Body Engineering"
The evolution of the modern vehicle has led towards safety, comfort, and energy consumption. Vehicle body engineering plays an important role in the evolution of the entire vehicle. It includes exterior and interior design. It is also a multidisciplinary field that covers art, engineering, computer science, and psychology. The main topics involved in vehicle body engineering are vehicle styling...more |
| 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 |
| 64. | World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research (WRITR)
Special issue on: "Dynamics of Innovation and Competitive Strategy in Transportation Research"
While innovation has been noted to be essential to sustained competitive advantage in many industry sectors, academic and practitioner research of innovation in transportation has been minimal. Yet transportation provides a unique context in which to examine the dynamics of innovation and its impacts to competitive strategy.
As industries age, innovations developed and implemented ...more |
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