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We are pleased to announce that we will shortly be launching a newly designed website. We hope that users will enjoy the new site and will feed back their thoughts on it to us. The precise date of the changeover will be announced on the old site a couple of days before it happens, and we will post updates through our social media pages. |
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7 brand new journal titles have been published and uploaded to our online database since the previous Highlights. Here are their contents; to find the free full text of the articles of these inaugural issues, please click on the links provided: African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development
International Journal of Cognitive Biometrics
International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics
International Journal of Social Network Mining
International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management
International Journal of Technology Policy and Law
The first issues of all our journals are available as free full-text issues. Abstracts and bibliographic details are also available for all articles, and subscription details may be found here. For more new journals published recently, go to our New Journals page. We also have other new journals in the last stages of the production process, so use the Inderscience News page and blog to keep up with our progress. Please contact info@inderscience.com or fax +41-22-7910885 for details of subscriptions. |
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Inderscience is pleased to announce that the following new journal titles have been registered, with publication planned for 2012-2013:
Contact subs@inderscience.com for subscription details of the complete Collection. |
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Social Network Mining – an Overview The growing use of the Internet has led to the birth of networked interaction environments such as social networks. In these kinds of networks, intensive and complex interactions take place among many different entities, leading to huge information networks with outstanding business potential. However, the exponential growth in the number of interacting nodes in these networks has given rise to important challenges for the machine learning and data mining community... More |
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Risk, reliability and safety are obviously of fundamental concern to any society. The Risk, Reliability and Safety Collection currently features some 15 titles. They range from the general – risk assessment and management, critical infrastructures, and reliability and safety – to specific areas of concern. Within safety, titles include vehicle safety, nuclear safety and food safety. Within the area of risk, they involve business continuity and risk management, decision sciences, risk and management, and financial engineering and risk management. Liability and scientific enquiry are also covered. The full list of journals may be found here, with links to the home pages. Please contact info@inderscience.com or fax +41-22-7910885 for details of subscriptions. |
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Inderscience regularly publishes Calls for Papers for Special Issues of its journals; here are some of the latest Calls whose submission deadlines are coming up in the next few months, arranged by submission date within each topic section: http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php Keep up to date with Calls for Papers via our RSS feed For details of some 30 further Calls for Papers with later deadlines, visit our Calls for Papers page. |
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Editorial News International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation: Dr. Prem Lal Joshi recently received from Mr. N. N. Vohra, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in India, the 6th Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel international award for his excellence in the field of research and education. The award is presented to ten people from various fields for 'displaying benevolent services towards country and countrymen'. Dr. Joshi, a Professor of Accounting at the University of Bahrain, is Editor-in-Chief of IJAAPE. International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems: Prof. Leonard Barolli from the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) Department of Information and Communication Engineering in Japan has taken over the development of IJAIS with effect from 1 February this year. Prof. Barolli has experience as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing and serves on the Boards of other international journals and on the Programme Committees of international conferences. We welcome his appointment and wish him every success with the continued development of IJAIS. International Journal of Electronic Healthcare: Prof. Kai S. Koong, Chair of the CIS and Quantitative Methods Department at The University of Texas - Pan American, has taken over as Editor-in-Chief of IJEH. Prof. Koong is the recipient of the 2011 Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (SWDSI) Distinguished Service Award. We thank Prof. Chang T. Hsieh for his sterling work in developing the title to successful publication and wish Prof. Koong well in his work in further developing the journal. International Journal of Intercultural Information Management: Prof. Jayanthi Ranjan has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of IJIIM. Professor Ranjan is Chairperson of International Relations at the Institute of Management Technology in India. International Journal of Metaheuristics: Prof. Sergio Nesmachnow has agreed to take over the editorship of IJMHeur from Dr. Christine Mumford. Prof. Nesmachnow is Aggregate Professor in the Numerical Center (CeCal) at the Computer Science Institute of the University of the Republic in Uruguay. Dr. Mumford proposed and developed the journal successfully through to publication of it first volume. We are very grateful for Dr. Mumford's invaluable efforts and are pleased to note that she has agreed to remain on the editorial board. International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering: IJMME has appointed Prof. Gang Chen as its new editor. Prof. Chen is from the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the USA. International Journal of Petroleum Engineering: IJPE has as its new editor Prof. Shirish L. Patil from the Department of Petroleum at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the USA. International Journal of Services, Economics and Management: Dr. Alain Yee-Loong Chong of the Nottingham University Business School at the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus in China has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of IJSEM. International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances: Prof. Refik Culpan has stepped down from the editorship of IJSBA, having overseen the development of the journal to its third volume. We are very grateful to Prof. Culpan for his efforts in successfully establishing the journal. His place is taken by J. Michael Geringer, Professor of Strategy and International Management at the California Polytechnic University Orfalea College of Business. Prof. Geringer is an award-winning researcher, teacher and consultant, with an international reputation for his work in strategic management, international business, joint ventures and alliances, mergers and acquisitions, entrepreneurship, venture capital and the management of technological and human resources. |
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Inderscience is pleased to have its journals associated with the following events, either as a media partner or as a publisher of selected papers. Calls for papers may be found from the linked pages below. (* represents new entries added since the last issue of Highlights)
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The following articles are among those considered more generally newsworthy and which have recently featured in the scientific and business, or national press:
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