Automotive Supply Chains and the Engineering Steel Supplier
Corus Engineering Steels (CES) produces approximately 1.5MTpa of engineering steel, over half of which is consumed by the automotive industry, through its associated supply chains. Two of the most significant drivers in the automotive component sector are weight and through-cost reduction. Forged engineering steels face increasing challenges to their dominant role in the automotive engine, transmission and suspension sectors. Not only are alternative materials and competitive processing routes significant elements of that challenge, but so are the globalisation of the automotive industry and progressive rationalisation of component supply chains. Steel suppliers, forgers and other supply chain players must therefore co-operate effectively if engineering steel components are to meet the automotive industry's through-cost, weight, durability, recyclability and other performance expectations. This paper illustrates how, through working closely with its supply chain, involving forgers, machinists and end users, CES has exploited its materials expertise and the component design expertise of Corus colleagues, to develop innovative and effective solutions to the automotive industry's evolving needs.
Call for Papers: Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture
A special issue of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
Cloud computing is a new paradigm in the area of computing with a pool of virtualised computer resources and is driven by economics of scale. A cloud supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models and allows workloads to recover from many unavoidable hardware/software failures. The idea of cloud computing is to move desktop computing to a service-oriented platform using server clusters and huge databases at datacenters.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility and virtual computing; however, it has emerged from these computing domains and now has its own meaning. Cloud computing is now associated with a higher level abstraction of the cloud. Instead of there being application software, routers and servers, there are now services. Using these cloud computing models and toolsets, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) also generally provides a way for consumers of services such as web-based applications to be aware of available SOA-based services. SOA defines how to integrate widely disparate applications for a Web-based environment and uses multiple implementation platforms.
This special issue will cover all of the above issues.
Although we welcome submissions on any area within the scope of cloud computing, the following areas are particularly suitable (but not exhaustive):
Paper submission deadline: 30 April, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 June, 2012
Submission of final revised paper: 1 August, 2012
Cloud computing is a new paradigm in the area of computing with a pool of virtualised computer resources and is driven by economics of scale. A cloud supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models and allows workloads to recover from many unavoidable hardware/software failures. The idea of cloud computing is to move desktop computing to a service-oriented platform using server clusters and huge databases at datacenters.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility and virtual computing; however, it has emerged from these computing domains and now has its own meaning. Cloud computing is now associated with a higher level abstraction of the cloud. Instead of there being application software, routers and servers, there are now services. Using these cloud computing models and toolsets, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) also generally provides a way for consumers of services such as web-based applications to be aware of available SOA-based services. SOA defines how to integrate widely disparate applications for a Web-based environment and uses multiple implementation platforms.
This special issue will cover all of the above issues.
Although we welcome submissions on any area within the scope of cloud computing, the following areas are particularly suitable (but not exhaustive):
- Auditing, monitoring and scheduling
- Automatic reconfiguration
- Autonomic computing
- Cloud architecture and modelling
- Cloud-based services
- Consistency models
- Data grid and semantic web
- Fault tolerance and reliability
- Hardware as a service (HaaS)
- High-performance computing
- Integration of mainframe and large systems
- Innovations in IP (especially open source) systems
- IT service and relationship management
- Load balancing
- Middleware frameworks
- New and innovative pedagogical approaches
- Novel programming models for large computing
- Optimal deployment configuration
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Power-aware profiling, modelling and optimisation
- Resource registration and discovery
- Scalable fault resilience techniques for large computing
- Scalable scheduling on heterogeneous architectures
- Security and risk
- Self-healing
- Self-monitoring
- Service integration and management
- Service level agreement definitions
- Software as a service
- Trustworthiness, security and privacy
- Utility computing
- Virtualisation technologies
Paper submission deadline: 30 April, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 June, 2012
Submission of final revised paper: 1 August, 2012
Call for Papers: Commercial Diplomacy and International Business
A special issue of International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy
Governments have a major interest in supporting business abroad as it may lead to domestic job creation, tax revenue increase and a stable economy (Naray, 2010). As a consequence, a change in the current practice of diplomacy towards more commercial activities can be observed (Kostecki & Naray, 2007). According to Lee and Hudson (2004: 343), “commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralized, […] extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems”.
Commercial diplomacy has thereby become a foreign policy priority of governments. Activities within the field of commercial diplomacy aim at “encouraging business development” (Naray, 2010: 122), “the development of socially beneficial international business ventures” (Kostecki & Naray, 2007: 1), and “national economic development” (Saner & Yiu, 2003: 1).
The spectrum of actors in commercial diplomacy ranges from the high-policy level (head of state or prime minister to ambassador) to the lower level of specialised diplomatic envoy, such as trade representative, commercial attaché or commercial diplomat.
But more and more private actors are involved, especially international business representatives. “Many of the global challenges now confronting international business are issues and matters of diplomacy”, as Muldoon (2005, p. 355) puts it. Terms such as business diplomacy (Muldoon, 2005), the business-government interface (Hillman & Keim, 1995), corporate diplomacy (Ordeix-Rigo and Duarte, 2009), strategic political management (Hillman, 2003) and corporate political strategy (Oliver & Holzinger, 2008) have been proposed in the literature to label and describe international business’ involvement in diplomatic activity.
But whereas the commercial aspect seems to be gaining importance in diplomatic practice, the body of literature on the subject is still rather limited. The literature “fails to identify, explain and understand […] the increased influence of private interests in diplomacy” (Lee & Hudson, 2004: 344), and hardly draws a complete picture of all its aspects.
This special issue aims to contribute to expanding the body of literature on the relationship between commercial diplomacy and international business. This call for papers therefore invites conceptual as well as empirical (quantitative and qualitative) work.
References:
Hillman, A.J. (2003). Determinants of political strategies in U.S. Multinationals. Business & Society. 42 (4): 455-484.
Hillman, A., Keim, G. (1995). International variation in the business-government interface: institutional and organizational considerations. Academy of Management Review. 20 (1): 193-214.
Kostecki M., Naray O. (2007). Commercial Diplomacy and International Business, Clingendael Discussion Paper in Diplomacy, The Hague, Clingendael Institute, April 2007.
Lee, D., Hudson, D. 2004. The Old en new significance of political economy in diplomacy. Review of International Studies, 30, 343 – 360.
Naray, O. (2010a). Commercial Diplomats in the context of International Business. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 6, 121-148.
Muldoon, J.P. (2005). The Diplomacy of Business. Diplomacy and Statecraft. 16: 341-359.
Ordeix-Rigo, E., Duarte, J. (2009). From Public diplomacy to corporate diplomacy: increasing corporation’s legitimacy and influence. American Behavioral Scientist. 53 (4): 549-564.
Oliver, C., Holzinger, I. (2008). The Effectiveness of Strategic Political Management: A Dynamic Capabilities Framework. Academy of Management Review. 33 (2), 496–520.
Potter, E. 2004. Branding Canada : The Renaissance of Canada’s Commercial Diplomacy, International Studies Perspectives, 5, 55-60.
Saner, & Yiu, L. (2003). International economic diplomacy: Mutations in post-modern times. The Hague : Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael", January, -37p.
Yakop, M. & Bergeijk, P.A.G. van (2009). The weight of economic and commercial diplomacy. International Institute of Social Studies, working paper 478
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Extended abstract due: 1 March, 2012 (by email)
First paper submission due: 1 April, 2012 (online submission)
Notification of acceptance/Reviews: 1 June, 2012
Final paper submission due: 1 September, 2012
Governments have a major interest in supporting business abroad as it may lead to domestic job creation, tax revenue increase and a stable economy (Naray, 2010). As a consequence, a change in the current practice of diplomacy towards more commercial activities can be observed (Kostecki & Naray, 2007). According to Lee and Hudson (2004: 343), “commercial activities of diplomatic services have been centralized, […] extended, and business interests have been formally integrated within diplomatic systems”.
Commercial diplomacy has thereby become a foreign policy priority of governments. Activities within the field of commercial diplomacy aim at “encouraging business development” (Naray, 2010: 122), “the development of socially beneficial international business ventures” (Kostecki & Naray, 2007: 1), and “national economic development” (Saner & Yiu, 2003: 1).
The spectrum of actors in commercial diplomacy ranges from the high-policy level (head of state or prime minister to ambassador) to the lower level of specialised diplomatic envoy, such as trade representative, commercial attaché or commercial diplomat.
But more and more private actors are involved, especially international business representatives. “Many of the global challenges now confronting international business are issues and matters of diplomacy”, as Muldoon (2005, p. 355) puts it. Terms such as business diplomacy (Muldoon, 2005), the business-government interface (Hillman & Keim, 1995), corporate diplomacy (Ordeix-Rigo and Duarte, 2009), strategic political management (Hillman, 2003) and corporate political strategy (Oliver & Holzinger, 2008) have been proposed in the literature to label and describe international business’ involvement in diplomatic activity.
But whereas the commercial aspect seems to be gaining importance in diplomatic practice, the body of literature on the subject is still rather limited. The literature “fails to identify, explain and understand […] the increased influence of private interests in diplomacy” (Lee & Hudson, 2004: 344), and hardly draws a complete picture of all its aspects.
This special issue aims to contribute to expanding the body of literature on the relationship between commercial diplomacy and international business. This call for papers therefore invites conceptual as well as empirical (quantitative and qualitative) work.
References:
Hillman, A.J. (2003). Determinants of political strategies in U.S. Multinationals. Business & Society. 42 (4): 455-484.
Hillman, A., Keim, G. (1995). International variation in the business-government interface: institutional and organizational considerations. Academy of Management Review. 20 (1): 193-214.
Kostecki M., Naray O. (2007). Commercial Diplomacy and International Business, Clingendael Discussion Paper in Diplomacy, The Hague, Clingendael Institute, April 2007.
Lee, D., Hudson, D. 2004. The Old en new significance of political economy in diplomacy. Review of International Studies, 30, 343 – 360.
Naray, O. (2010a). Commercial Diplomats in the context of International Business. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 6, 121-148.
Muldoon, J.P. (2005). The Diplomacy of Business. Diplomacy and Statecraft. 16: 341-359.
Ordeix-Rigo, E., Duarte, J. (2009). From Public diplomacy to corporate diplomacy: increasing corporation’s legitimacy and influence. American Behavioral Scientist. 53 (4): 549-564.
Oliver, C., Holzinger, I. (2008). The Effectiveness of Strategic Political Management: A Dynamic Capabilities Framework. Academy of Management Review. 33 (2), 496–520.
Potter, E. 2004. Branding Canada : The Renaissance of Canada’s Commercial Diplomacy, International Studies Perspectives, 5, 55-60.
Saner, & Yiu, L. (2003). International economic diplomacy: Mutations in post-modern times. The Hague : Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael", January, -37p.
Yakop, M. & Bergeijk, P.A.G. van (2009). The weight of economic and commercial diplomacy. International Institute of Social Studies, working paper 478
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- The relationship between commercial diplomats and international business representatives
- The value of commercial diplomacy for international business
- The role of international business in commercial diplomacy's effectiveness
- International business networks and commercial diplomats
- Commercial diplomats' competence for international business collaboration
- Foreign policy, economic policy, and international justice
- Corporate social responsibility and commercial diplomacy
- Commercial diplomacy instruments for international business support
- Theory development on the commercial diplomacy and international business relationship
- International business' involvement in commercial diplomacy
- Research methodology for studying the commercial diplomacy and international business relationship
Extended abstract due: 1 March, 2012 (by email)
First paper submission due: 1 April, 2012 (online submission)
Notification of acceptance/Reviews: 1 June, 2012
Final paper submission due: 1 September, 2012
Call for Papers: Role of ICT in Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning
A special issue of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology
ICT is a general tool in all fields of work and professions today. Consequently, ICT and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) professional education are integrated at all levels.
In the use of ICT in and for education in general, UNESCO stresses several points. Firstly, ICT is only part of a continuum of technologies, starting with chalk and books, all of which can support and enrich learning. Secondly, ICT, as is the case with any tool, must be considered as such, and used and adapted to serve educational goals. Thirdly, many ethical and legal issues intervene in the widespread use of ICT in education, such as ownership of knowledge, the increasing exchange of education as a commodity, and the globalisation of education in relation to cultural diversity.
The aim of this special issue is to concentrate on “21st century competencies” in a knowledge economy driven by technology. The efforts aim at finding indicators, criteria and benchmarks for international comparisons in order to assess the effects of ICT in education. Recent documents emphasise innovation strategy for education and training. Attention will be given to the needs and skills used by innovative firms, the working population, and also in arts and science education. In TVET there is a tendency to emphasise the “learning by doing” approach.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Deadlines for papers: 15 April, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2012
Submission of final paper: 15 August, 2012
ICT is a general tool in all fields of work and professions today. Consequently, ICT and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) professional education are integrated at all levels.
In the use of ICT in and for education in general, UNESCO stresses several points. Firstly, ICT is only part of a continuum of technologies, starting with chalk and books, all of which can support and enrich learning. Secondly, ICT, as is the case with any tool, must be considered as such, and used and adapted to serve educational goals. Thirdly, many ethical and legal issues intervene in the widespread use of ICT in education, such as ownership of knowledge, the increasing exchange of education as a commodity, and the globalisation of education in relation to cultural diversity.
The aim of this special issue is to concentrate on “21st century competencies” in a knowledge economy driven by technology. The efforts aim at finding indicators, criteria and benchmarks for international comparisons in order to assess the effects of ICT in education. Recent documents emphasise innovation strategy for education and training. Attention will be given to the needs and skills used by innovative firms, the working population, and also in arts and science education. In TVET there is a tendency to emphasise the “learning by doing” approach.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- ICT and TVET
- TVET and lifelong learning
- Technology-enhanced education
- Skills and competences in TVET
- Skills acquisition processes
- Quality assessment
- Entrepreneurship and SMEs
- Human-computer interaction blended learning
- Distributed work
- Global networking
- Knowledge management and collaboration systems
- Global e-learning
- TVET and sustainability
- ICT and new literacies
- ICT and new humanism
- TVET and the global knowledge society
Deadlines for papers: 15 April, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2012
Submission of final paper: 15 August, 2012
Call for Papers: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
A special issue of International Journal of Convergence Computing
Biomedical signal and image processing is an active area of research where disciplines such as engineering, computer science, physics, biology and medicine inter-disciplinarily synchronise in order to improve healthcare.
This particular area deals with the generation, reconstruction, pre-processing, improvement, analysis, quantification, visualisation and management of all kind of medical images. We invite the submission of highly innovative research papers on recent trends and challenges in the field of biomedical signal and image processing, describing new methods employing computer-aided detection and diagnosis of diseases, and improvement of diagnostic imaging using soft computing techniques.
This special issue will focus particularly on image enhancement, edge detection and segmentation methods/algorithms/tools developed to aid early detection/diagnosis of diseases (e.g. brain tumours, breast cancers, malignant melanomas) by the processing of images obtained from modalities such ultrasounds, mammography, MRI, CT-scans, etc. These methods must be preferably supported by thorough clinical evaluation or assessment on recognised standard medical databases.
The issue will be an important resource for research scholars, engineers and scientists interested in theoretical and methodological aspects of biomedical signal and image processing in reference to the development of computer-aided diagnosis techniques.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Manuscript submission: 31 March, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 30 May, 2012
Final version due: 20 June, 2012
Biomedical signal and image processing is an active area of research where disciplines such as engineering, computer science, physics, biology and medicine inter-disciplinarily synchronise in order to improve healthcare.
This particular area deals with the generation, reconstruction, pre-processing, improvement, analysis, quantification, visualisation and management of all kind of medical images. We invite the submission of highly innovative research papers on recent trends and challenges in the field of biomedical signal and image processing, describing new methods employing computer-aided detection and diagnosis of diseases, and improvement of diagnostic imaging using soft computing techniques.
This special issue will focus particularly on image enhancement, edge detection and segmentation methods/algorithms/tools developed to aid early detection/diagnosis of diseases (e.g. brain tumours, breast cancers, malignant melanomas) by the processing of images obtained from modalities such ultrasounds, mammography, MRI, CT-scans, etc. These methods must be preferably supported by thorough clinical evaluation or assessment on recognised standard medical databases.
The issue will be an important resource for research scholars, engineers and scientists interested in theoretical and methodological aspects of biomedical signal and image processing in reference to the development of computer-aided diagnosis techniques.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Mathematical models for medical image contrast enhancement
- Algorithms for noise suppression in medical images
- Edge enhancement techniques for segmentation of abnormality in diagnostic images
- Algorithms for growth detection of lesions/tumours
- Multi-scale/multi-resolution techniques for analysis of fine details in medical images
- Quantitative assessment techniques for evaluation of computer-aided detection/diagnosis algorithms
- Efficient pre- and post-processing of image-based computational models
- Non-linear techniques for contrast enhancement and edge detection of medical images
- Medical image compression and watermarking
- Fractal-based approaches for medical image analysis
- Mathematical morphology
- Soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques in medical image processing
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
Manuscript submission: 31 March, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 30 May, 2012
Final version due: 20 June, 2012
Call for Papers: eCRM and the Hospitality Industry
A special issue of International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management
We are pleased to announce a special issue focused on electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) systems used in the hospitality industry. eCRM systems have been used by many businesses to support both strategic decision making and daily operations. Traditionally, the role of eCRM has been to engage customers in a mutually beneficial relationship. But increasingly, eCRM is becoming a major part of the extended ERP system.
As with any other information system, the implementation of eCRM systems is a reconfiguration process and requires industry-specific knowledge. This is especially true when eCRM is used in the people-oriented hospitality industry. All aspects of the eCRM system, including system development issues, system quality issues, system implementation issues, evaluation issues, security and privacy issues and human-computer interface issues, should be examined in the context of the hospitality industry.
The goal of this special issue is to provide an open discussion in which researchers and practitioners can share the latest developments in electronic customer relationship management relating to the hospitality industry. The issue’s main objective focuses on the application of information and communication technology (ICT) in solving various issues in the hospitality industry.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
Manuscript submission: 1 September, 2012
Notification of initial decision: 1 October, 2012
Submission of revised manuscript: 1 November, 2012
Notification of final acceptance: 1 December, 2012
Submission of final revised paper: 1 January, 2013
We are pleased to announce a special issue focused on electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) systems used in the hospitality industry. eCRM systems have been used by many businesses to support both strategic decision making and daily operations. Traditionally, the role of eCRM has been to engage customers in a mutually beneficial relationship. But increasingly, eCRM is becoming a major part of the extended ERP system.
As with any other information system, the implementation of eCRM systems is a reconfiguration process and requires industry-specific knowledge. This is especially true when eCRM is used in the people-oriented hospitality industry. All aspects of the eCRM system, including system development issues, system quality issues, system implementation issues, evaluation issues, security and privacy issues and human-computer interface issues, should be examined in the context of the hospitality industry.
The goal of this special issue is to provide an open discussion in which researchers and practitioners can share the latest developments in electronic customer relationship management relating to the hospitality industry. The issue’s main objective focuses on the application of information and communication technology (ICT) in solving various issues in the hospitality industry.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Electronic customer relationship management (eCRM)
- Effects of CRM systems on hospitality
- Hospitality CRM strategies for the internet and e-CRM
- Hospitality CRM marketing
- Hospitality CRM technology and software
- Hospitality custom marketing
- Hospitality customer lifetime value
- Hospitality customer loyalty
- Hospitality customer satisfaction
- Hospitality consumer behaviour
- Hospitality customer databases
- Issues for implementing CRM systems in hospitality
- Tools for capturing customer information
- Solutions for hospitality CRM problems
- Hospitality partner relationship management
- Managing and sharing customer data
- Business to business market (B2B)
- Business to consumer market (B2C)
- Hospitality enterprise resource planning (ERP)
- e-commerce customer relationships on the internet
- Channel management
- Demand chain management (DCM)
- Hospitality strategic alliances and partnerships
- Hospitality sales management
- Hospitality information technology and systems
- Hospitality performance measurement and performance indicators
- Logistics information systems
- International hospitality issues
Manuscript submission: 1 September, 2012
Notification of initial decision: 1 October, 2012
Submission of revised manuscript: 1 November, 2012
Notification of final acceptance: 1 December, 2012
Submission of final revised paper: 1 January, 2013
Special issue: Aerodynamics of rotating bodies
International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation 4(1/2) 2012
Papers from the 46th International Symposium of AppliedAerodynamics, held in Orleans, France, 28-30 March 2011
Papers from the 46th International Symposium of AppliedAerodynamics, held in Orleans, France, 28-30 March 2011
- Wind turbine wake: a disturbance to wind resource in wind farms
- On the prediction of tip vortices in the near wake of the MEXICO rotor using the actuator surface method
- Aerodynamic study of a 'humpy' propeller
- Assessment of propeller 1P loads predictions
- Numerical simulations of a low-speed radial fan
- Installation impact on pusher CROR engine low speed performance and noise emission characteristics
- Semi-/empirical transition prediction and application to an isolated rotor in hover
- Optimisation of aspects of rotor blades in forward flight
- Direct numerical simulation of helical vortices
- Application of vorticity confinement to rotor wake simulations
Special issue: Sport as an entrepreneurial venture
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing 4(1) 2012
- Guest editor's introduction: Sports entrepreneurship: towards a conceptualisation
- Vanessa Ratten
- Still playing the game?
- Calgary Flames: a case study in an entrepreneurial sport franchise
- Click clack: examining the strategic and entrepreneurial brand vision of Under Armour
- Branding the elite professional athlete through use of new media and technology: an interview with Ash De Walt
- Sport entrepreneurship: challenges and directions for future research
- Opening the black box: a comparative case study on international prospectors
Special issue: Nanotechnology in Scotland
International Journal of Nanotechnology 9(1/2) 2012
- Optical in situ characterisation of carbon nanotube growth
- High pressure studies of metal organic framework materials
- Growth and characterisation of titanium sulphide nanostructures by surface-assisted vapour transport methods; from trisulphide ribbons to disulphide nanosheets
- Colloidal syntheses of FePt nanoparticles
- Ten years of electron microscopy of nanomaterials in St. Andrews
- Gold nano-particles supported on hematite and magnetite as highly selective catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro-aromatics
- Ethanol photoreaction to hydrogen over Au/TiO2 catalysts. Investigating the synergistic effect of nanoparticles
- The photoreaction of TiO2 and Au/TiO2 single crystal and powder with organic adsorbates
Special issue: Sport marketing and emerging technology
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 10(3/4) 2011
- 'It's incredible – trust me': exploring the role of celebrity athletes as marketers in online social networks
- Set the agenda like Beckham: a professional sports league's use of YouTube to disseminate messages to its users
- Opportunity or obstacle? A preliminary study of professional sport organisations in the age of social media
- Agenda-setting and La Copa Mundial: marketing through agenda-setting on soccer blogs during the 2010 World Cup
- Beyond touchdowns, homeruns, and three-pointers: an examination of fantasy sport participation motivation
- Understanding website useability: an eye-tracking study of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games website
- New media and technology use in corporate sport sponsorship: performing activational leverage from an exchange perspective
- A content analysis of sponsor representation across professional sport websites: extension of attribute typology
First issue: International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering
There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.
Special issue: Context-awareness and self-managing systems
International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 5(1) 2012
Papers from the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS2009) held in Nara, Japan, 11 May 2009.
• Building an intelligent sensing system: a case study
• Anthropomorphic awareness of partner robot to user's situation based on gaze and speech detection
• Dynamic scheduling-based inpatient nursing support: applicability evaluation by laboratory experiments
• The context aware workflow execution framework
Additional Papers
• Improving antijamming characteristics of spread spectrum communication systems
• Wireless network simulators relevance compared to a real testbed in outdoor and indoor environments
Papers from the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS2009) held in Nara, Japan, 11 May 2009.
• Building an intelligent sensing system: a case study
• Anthropomorphic awareness of partner robot to user's situation based on gaze and speech detection
• Dynamic scheduling-based inpatient nursing support: applicability evaluation by laboratory experiments
• The context aware workflow execution framework
Additional Papers
• Improving antijamming characteristics of spread spectrum communication systems
• Wireless network simulators relevance compared to a real testbed in outdoor and indoor environments
Special issue: Discrete-event simulation in production management
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling 6(3) 2011
Papers from the 12th and 13th IFACSymposiums ‘Information Control Problems inManufacturing’ (INCOM'06 and INCOM'09) held in Saint-Etienne, France, 17-19 May 2006 and Moscow, Russia, 3-5 June 2009.
Papers from the 12th and 13th IFACSymposiums ‘Information Control Problems inManufacturing’ (INCOM'06 and INCOM'09) held in Saint-Etienne, France, 17-19 May 2006 and Moscow, Russia, 3-5 June 2009.
- Proactive production activity control by online simulation
- An emulation-based execution control system evaluation tool: application to a furniture manufacturing group
- A simulation-based equipment environment for flexible manufacturing systems
- Feasibility evaluation of multi-site scheduling by distributed simulation of workshops
- Risk analysis for cooperation policies benefits in reducing the bullwhip effect in a telecom supply chain
- Manufacturing network simulation using a data-driven model
- A genetic algorithm with tournament selection for optimising inspection allocation in multiproduct multistage production systems
Special issue: Knowledge flows, learning and development in an international context
European Journal of International Management 6(1) 2012
- Editorial: Knowledge flows, learning and development in an international context
- Cross-cultural training for Dutch expatriates going to India
- Inpatriation in a globalising MNC: knowledge exchange and translation of corporate culture
- The e-mentoring of expatriates: mapping existing research domains and new opportunities
- Expatriate categorisation and evaluation: an empirical investigation in Poland and India
- The relationship between transformational leadership and innovative behaviour in a healthcare context: a team learning versus a cohesion perspective
- Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs)
Special issue: Research and advances in vehicle body engineering
International Journal of Vehicle Design 57(2/3) 2011
- A new approach to improve the vehicle ride comfort by electroencephalogram data
- Lightweight design of vehicle front-end structure: contributions of multiple surrogates
- Optimisation-based approach for determining driver seat adjustment range for vehicles
- Development of a ride comfort evaluation method with a laboratory testing system
- Multi-disciplinary optimisation for front auto body based on multiple optimisation methods
- Three-phase optimisation design of an electric car body at conceptual design stage
- Structure and transformation of the Italian car styling supply chain
- Automotive body inspection uncertainty associated with computational processes
- Rapid structural property evaluation system for car body advanced design
- Development and validation of a finite element model of a dummy for design of pedestrian-friendly vehicles
- The influence of wheel-housing shape on vehicle aerodynamic performance
- Optimal mounting design for cab vibration isolation
Newly announced title: International Journal of Swarm Intelligence
Beginning publication in 2013, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence will report research, new developments and applications in the multidisciplinary field of swarm intelligence.
Special issue: Simulation-based optimisation techniques
International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation 3(1/2) 2012
- GATE: a genetic algorithm designed for expensive cost functions
- Simulation-driven sequential metamodels for fuzzy reliability-based optimisation tasks
- Design of a matrix hydraulic turbine using a metamodel-assisted evolutionary algorithm with PCA-driven evolution operators
- Variable-fidelity simulation-driven design optimisation of microwave structures
- Metamodelling approach using radial basis functions, stochastic search algorithm and CFD – application to blade cascade design
Special issue: Cultural heritage and tourism: trends and innovative strategies for learning and management
International Journal of Web Based Communities 8(1) 2012
- E-heritage and e-museums: technological resources for tourism planning
- Facebook, heritage and tourism reorientation. The cases of Tenerife and Fuerteventura (Canary Isles, Spain)
- Tripadvisor rates Einstein: using the social web to unpack the public meanings of a cultural heritage site
- Mobile devices: a tool for tourism and learning at archaeological sites
- Cultural events, cultural heritage, tourism and new media
- Project Mus.Cat: a CMS open-source application
- User generated content in destination marketing organisations' websites
- Crossing the borders in language learning through the use of web-conferencing as an e-learning tool
Special issue: Precision micro- and nano-metrology for nanomanufacturing
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing 8(1/2) 2012
- Nanometrology at PTB in support of process control of nanoscale features in semiconductor manufacturing
- Improvement of free-spectral-range measurement for Fabry-Perot cavity using phase modulation technique
- GPU-accelerated white-light scanning interferometer for large-area, high-speed surface profile measurements
- In-situ scanning white light interferometry employing dual-sensing configuration and active fringe-locking strategy
- Development of nanoparticle sizing system integrated with optical microscopy using fluorescence polarisation
- The system and the mechatronics of a pagoda type micro-CMM
- Fabrication of micro-ball styluses for scanning-type surface form metrology
- Establishment of a measuring station on a diamond turning machine for in-process cutting edge inspection of single point diamond micro-tools
- Nanomanufacturing of radial grating patterns by nanoimprint with a silicon mould for rotational angle measurement of micro gears
- A study of characterisation of surface generation in ultra-precision polishing using power spectrum analysis Probe type micro magnetic manipulator utilising localised magnetic field with closed-loop magnetic path
Special issue: Water wars in 21st century along international rivers basins: speculation or reality?
International Journal of Sustainable Society 4(1/2) 2012
- Navigating cooperation beyond the absence of conflict: mapping determinants for the effectiveness of river basin organisations
- Rising to the challenge of water security: international (water) law in need of refinement
- Hydropolitics is what societies make of it (or why we need a constructivist approach to the geopolitics of water)
- Global climate change and challenges for international river agreements
- The Jordan River basin: at the crossroads between conflict and cooperation
- Water sector in Central Asia: slow transformation and potential for cooperation
- From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches
- Hydropower ambitions of South Asian nations and China: Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers basins
- Ganges basin: an example of social conflicts regarding water resources especially in developing countries
- Three lenses on water war, peace and hegemonic struggle on the Nile
- A DEA model for efficiency evaluation with undesirable output: an application of paper mills along Huai River
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