Prof. Sangmun Shin from Dong-A University in the Republic of Korea has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology.

Associate Prof. Yacob Khojasteh from Sophia University in Japan has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Mass Customisation.

Prof. Guowei Hua from Beijing Jiaotong University in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics.

Dr. Matteo Rossi from the University of Sannio in Italy has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting.

Associate Prof. Lapo Mola from SKEMA Business School in France has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering.

Associate Prof. Paulo F. Pires from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Semantic and Infrastructure Services.

Dr. Matt Ganis from Pace University in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Agile and Extreme Software Development.

Professor Constantin Zopounidis, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making and International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making following a vote in which 677 people participated from all over the world. Furthermore, Dr. James S. Etim, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, has been appointed as the 2015 Education Panel Chair for the Undergraduate Awards, the world's largest academic awards program.

Prof. Hamid Jahankhani from GSM London in the UK has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Electronic Democracy.

Dr. Borros Arneth from the Institut für Laboratoriumsmedizin und Pathobiochemie, Molekulare Diagnostik in Germany has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Immunological Studies.

Prof. Ramaswamy Palaniappan from the University of Kent in the UK has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Cognitive Biometrics. His predecessor, Dr. Kenneth Revett, will remain with the journal in the role of Editor.

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Emerging perspectives on loss and damage from climate change are covered by the special issue published in the International Journal of Global Warming, vol.8(2), 2015. This is available as an Open Access issue.

Prof. Tana Pistorius from the University of South Africa has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

Dr. Gilles Dusserre from the Ecole des mines dAls, France, has taken over as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emergency Management. The retiring Editor, Professor Jean-Luc Wybo, has been appointed Honorary Editor in recognition of his contribution to the establishment and development of the journal.

Prof. Timothy B. Patrick from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the USA has left his Managing Editor position for the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine to become its new Editor in Chief.

Prof. Tsan-Ming (Jason) Choi from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Inventory Research.

Prof. Yanko Yanev from the Nuclear Knowledge Management Institute in Austria has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management.

Dr. Martin Liu from University of Nottingham Ningbo in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Services, Economics and Management. IJSEM's previous Editor in Chief, Dr. Alain Yee-Loong Chong, will continue to support the journal as Executive Editor.

The International Journal of Embedded Systems and the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking are both to increase their issues from four to six from 2016

The inaugural issue of the International Journal of Image Mining brings the total number of published titles in the Inderscience journals collection to 400. This represents a significant database of research and the collection will continue to grow as gaps in the collection are identified or new, significant and sustainable research areas emerge. To underline the extent of the research available, an article by Jørn Flohr Nielsen, (Problem perceptions by top managers in distant subsidiaries, in the European J. of International Management, 2015 Vol.9, No.4, pp.484 509) became the 70,000th article published in the Inderscience online collection.

Dr. K. Ganesh from McKinsey and Company in India has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Digital Enterprise Technology.

Audencia Nantes School of Management (ANSM) has recognised the work of Professor-Academic Constantin Zopounidis. He received the award for his scientific work in management science and decision making at the 5th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) organised by the ANSM Centre for Financial and Risk Management. ANSM is ranking third in "Top Business School with significant international influence" in France.

The International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling has announced that it will be increasing issues from four to six from 2016 onwards

Prof. Dilek Cetindamar from Sabanci University in Turkey has joined the editor of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, Prof. Franois Thrin, as Co-Editor.

Prof. Neil Y. Yen from the University of Aizu in Japan has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing.

Dr. Daphne Halkias from the International School of Management Paris has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning.

Prof. Valentina E. Balas from the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad in Romania has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering.

Dr. Nazreen Shaik-Peremanov from the University of South Africa has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry.

Associate Prof. Nazrul Islam from the University of Abertay in the UK has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning. The previous Editor in Chief, Dr. Eckhard Lichtenthaler, will remain with the journal in the position of Associate Editor.

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Prof. Xiaobo Yang from the Oshkosh Corporation in USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Vehicle Performance.

Prof. Jin Chen from Tsinghua University in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies.

Professor Neil Y. Yen of the University of Aizu in Japan has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support.

Associate Prof. Bahram Asiabanpour from Texas State University in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing. He will be taking the place of Ali K. Kamrani, who will remain with IJRapidM as an Editor.

Prof. Pascal Paillé of Laval University in Canada has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment.

Prof. Leon S.L. Wang from the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity.

Prof. Tugrul Daim from Portland State University in USA has left his Executive Editor appointment to become Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy.

Prof. Madjid Tavana from La Salle University in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining.

Prof. Dr. Hon-Tat Huam has been designated by the journal's editorial team as Best Reviewer for 2014 for the International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management. In recognition of this award, Prof. Huam will receive one year's free access to the journal.

Dr. Wencheng Wang from Weifang University in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems.

Prof. William Ebomoyi from Chicago State University in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics.

Professor Dr. Sascha Kraus, founding editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, has announced his retirement from the post of Editor-in-Chief. His place will be taken by Professor Dr. Alexander Brem from the University of Southern Denmark and co-Editor of the International Journal of Technology Marketing.

The International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology has announced that it will be increasing issues from eight to twelve from 2016 onwards