Forthcoming and Online First Articles

International Journal of Product Development

International Journal of Product Development (IJPD)

Forthcoming articles have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication but are pending final changes, are not yet published and may not appear here in their final order of publication until they are assigned to issues. Therefore, the content conforms to our standards but the presentation (e.g. typesetting and proof-reading) is not necessarily up to the Inderscience standard. Additionally, titles, authors, abstracts and keywords may change before publication. Articles will not be published until the final proofs are validated by their authors.

Forthcoming articles must be purchased for the purposes of research, teaching and private study only. These articles can be cited using the expression "in press". For example: Smith, J. (in press). Article Title. Journal Title.

Articles marked with this shopping trolley icon are available for purchase - click on the icon to send an email request to purchase.

Online First articles are published online here, before they appear in a journal issue. Online First articles are fully citeable, complete with a DOI. They can be cited, read, and downloaded. Online First articles are published as Open Access (OA) articles to make the latest research available as early as possible.

Open AccessArticles marked with this Open Access icon are Online First articles. They are freely available and openly accessible to all without any restriction except the ones stated in their respective CC licenses.

Register for our alerting service, which notifies you by email when new issues are published online.

We also offer which provide timely updates of tables of contents, newly published articles and calls for papers.

International Journal of Product Development (1 paper in press)

Regular Issues

  • Multi-objective optimization method for product appearance colour matching based on colour imagery   Order a copy of this article
    by Xia Wu, Decai Jin 
    Abstract: To improve the colour coordination of product appearance, the paper proposes a multi-objective optimisation method for product appearance colour matching based on colour imagery. Firstly, select the product colour image and choose the product appearance colour scheme from two perspectives: the main colour and auxiliary colour. Then, design and optimise the objective function from the perspectives of harmonic ratio and colour matching beauty. Finally, the Grey Wolf algorithm is used to optimise the two-colour parameters in the objective function. By iteratively searching in the solution space, the optimal harmonic ratio and colour beauty are obtained, thereby obtaining the best product appearance colour scheme. Experimental results show that the optimised colour scheme of this method has a harmonious proportion, and the visual effects of different colour matching areas are prominent. The colour difference values of different areas are between 1.47 and 1.60, indicating better colour coordination of the product appearance.
    Keywords: Product appearance; Optimize color matching; Color imagery; Color selection; Grey wolf algorithm.