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Summer Highlights newsletter

2009-07-07T22:58:00.002+01:00

The Summer 2009 issue of Inderscience's Highlights newsletter is now available.

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Call for papers: Technologies, Architectures and Applications for Green Wireless Sensor Networks

2009-06-30T21:57:00.001+01:00

Call for papers: Technologies, Architectures and Applications for Green Wireless Sensor Networks

A special issue of International Journal of 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 employed. However, one of the prerequisites for WSNs to play this important role is that the WSN itself has to be green. Thus, novel technologies, architectures and applications are required to design a green WSN (GWSN).

In view of this, this special issue aims to foster start-of-the-art research and expects to bring those leading researchers and developers together to present novel technologies, architectures and applications to solve the various problems and challenges in designing a GWSN.

We encourage the submission of innovative and mature results in designing, analysing and developing technologies for GWSNs. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Power-efficiency and bandwidth efficiency
Power harvesting
Self-organisation and clustering algorithms
PHY, MAC and routing issues
Cross-layer design paradigm
Topology control mechanisms
Location management and mobility management
Coverage optimisation, connectivity and transmission range assignment
Security, fault-tolerant and reliability
QoS design
Near field communication (NFC) techniques
Cooperation protocols and algorithms
Implementation issues and applications

Important Dates
Manuscript due: 15 November, 2009
Acceptance/rejection notification: 15 February, 2010
Final manuscript due: 31 March, 2010

Call for papers: Nonconvex Optimisation and Its Applications

2009-06-30T21:55:00.000+01:00

Call for papers: Nonconvex Optimisation and Its Applications

A special issue of International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics

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 economics, management science, biological and physical sciences, financial engineering and social science etc.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together emerging concepts, theoretical developments and applications. As this is a very active area of research, we are looking for theoretical and applied articles which contribute to the state-of-the-art in the field.

Example topics include, but not limited to:

Nonconvex programming
Nonlinear programming
Nonsmooth programming
Nonconvex quadratic programming
Stochastic optimisation and programming
Augmented lagrangian
Penalty function method
Semi-infinite programming
DC programming
Generalised convexity
Control and variational problems
Game theory
Variational inequalities

Important Dates
Manuscript Submission: 31 October 2009
Reviewer reports: 15 January 2010
Revised paper submission: 21 February 2010
Final manuscript submission to publisher: 15 April 2010

Special issue: Urban air pollution: problems, control technologies and management practices

2009-06-30T21:47:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Environment and Waste Management 4(1/2) 2009

Spatial and temporal differences of Particulate Matter in Berlin
The influence of atmospheric circulation and cloudiness on the intensity of temperature inversions in Sosnowiec (Upper Silesia, Southern Poland)
Reflectance spectroscopy as a tool for settled dust monitoring in office environment
Effect of averaging time on mean concentrations in building influenced dispersion
The role of atmospheric circulation in air pollution distribution in Katowice Region (Southern Poland)
Air pollution from air stripping of industrial VOCs: a mitigating alternative using renewable energy
Air quality interventions and spatial dynamics of air pollution in Delhi and its surroundings
Air quality assessment in Bologna by an urban dispersion model
Seasonal and diurnal characteristics of surface level O3 and its precursors in the north-central part of India
Analysis of local concentration gradients in complex built environments: implications for Air Quality Management Areas
The study of traffic hotspot air quality and street scale modelling in the Street Emission Ceilings (SEC) Project
Cleaner transport technology most efficient to ensure compliance with 2010 NO2 limit values in Copenhagen, Denmark
Mortality rates and air pollution levels under different weather conditions: an example from Western Europe
Weekend–Weekday differences in near-surface ozone concentrations in Chennai, South India
Effects of trees on the dilution of vehicle exhaust emissions in urban street canyons
Numerical simulation and wind tunnel studies of pollution dispersion in an isolated street canyon
Aerosol characteristics at a continental urban station in southern India

First issue: International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics

2009-06-29T14:24:00.003+01:00

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics is an international refereed journal in the field of image processing, pattern recognition, machine vision and image understanding, including the use of various intelligent and soft computing techniques.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.

5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.5.0)

2009-06-29T13:27:00.002+01:00

Inderscience is a media partner for the 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.5.0) to be held in Washington DC, 8-10 November 2009.Selected papers will appear in International Journal of Computers in Healthcare and International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

National Conference on Renewable Energy 2009 (NaCORE 2009)

2009-06-29T13:23:00.002+01:00

Selected papers from the National Conference on Renewable Energy 2009 (NaCORE 2009) to be held in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India 5-7 November 2009 will be published in the International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation

Special issue: R&D, innovation and marketing – how to convince internal and external stakeholders of technological innovations

2009-06-28T22:14:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Technology Marketing 4(2/3) 2009

The management of marketing knowledge in the early phases of the innovation process
Stakeholder perceptions and implications for technology marketing in multi-sector innovations: the case of intelligent transport systems
Leadership in interorganisational network-based innovation projects
Innovation politics: how serial innovators gain organisational acceptance for breakthrough new products
From roles to skills – key persons in the innovation process
Overcoming resistance to innovations: an approach for the use of communication tools within the innovation process
Lead-using or lead-refusing? An examination of customer integration in mechanical engineering firms
Key stakeholders' interaction as a factor of product innovation: the case of Russia
Launching technological innovations: the relevance of a stakeholder perspective
Absorptive capability and its mediating effect on the learning and market orientations' influences on performance

Special issue: Imprecise probability in engineering analysis

2009-06-28T22:08:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Reliability and Safety 3(1-3) 2009

Selected papers from the National Science Foundation Workshop on Imprecise Probability in Engineering Analysis held in Savannah, Georgia, USA, 20-22 February 2008.

Validation of imprecise probability models
Autonomous robust design optimisation with potential clouds
Information management for estimating system reliability using imprecise probabilities and precise Bayesian updating
Extreme probability distributions of random sets, fuzzy sets and p-boxes
An interval-based technique for FE model updating
Interval analysis and reliability in robotics
Design and implementation of an optimal, reliable and robust control system for an industrial plant emulator
Extended precision with a rounding mode toward zero environment. Application to the Cell processor
Engineering quantification of inconsistent information
Interval approach for nondeterministic linear static finite element method in continuum mechanics problems
Numerical structural monitoring with the uncertainty model fuzzy randomness
A global optimisation method for computing interval hull solution for parametric linear systems
Static analysis of uncertain structures using interval eigenvalue decomposition
On the statistics of oceanic waves
Reliability assessment using stochastic local regression
The probability of type I and type II errors in imprecise hypothesis testing with an application to geodetic deformation analysis
Stress analysis of a singly reinforced concrete beam with uncertain structural parameters

Special issue: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications 2008

2009-06-28T22:01:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication 3(1/2) 2009

The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications took place in Ottawa, Canada, 9-10 May 2008

Rapid impingement detection and surface distance measurement system for real-time ball-and-socket joint motion simulation
MRI image enhancement by PROPELLER data fusion
A 3D scanning system for biomedical purposes
A Master-Slave Neural Network for precise recognition of the complicated hand operations based on EEG
Reduction of doubtful detection of micro-nucleus in human lymphocyte
Human–Computer interaction for smart environment applications using hand gestures and facial expressions
Beamformer-aided processing of EEG signals for analysing epileptic seizures
Designing a wireless sensor system for continuous monitoring of the cervical dilation of a pregnant woman
Health status and air quality parameters monitoring based on mobile technology and WPAN
Towards fully integrated Lab-on-Chip: design, assembly and experimental results
New piezoelectric sensors with Gall Bladder stone material
A benchmarked automated progress measurement system for haptic motor rehabilitation
Haptic rehabilitation exercises performance evaluation using automated inference systems
Comparative analysis of tactile sensitivity between blind, deaf and unimpaired people
The possibility of standardising blood pressure measurement
Standard calibration procedures for automated non-invasive measurement of blood pressure

Special issue: Global operations

2009-06-28T21:58:00.000+01:00

International Journal of Services and Operations Management 5(6) 2009

The artificial neural network for forecasting foreign exchange rates
A closed-loop recycling system with a minimum allowed quality level on returned products
A strategic alliance model with a regional monopoly of service centres in express courier services
The impact of product architecture on supply chain integration: a case study of Nokia and Texas Instruments
The effect of technological platforms on the global supply chain: a case study on Intel's platform business in the PC industry
A comparative study of international automobile sourcing strategies based on stochastic process analysis

Special issue: Autonomic and trusted computing

2009-06-28T21:52:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 2(3) 2009

Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing 2008 (ATC’08) held in Oslo, Norway, 23-25 June 2008.

Organic traffic light control for urban road networks
Individual agent's wealth in minority games
Concepts for run-time and error-resilient control flow checking of embedded RISC CPUs
Scheduling policy design for autonomic systems
Secure remote access to autonomous safety systems: A good practice approach

Special issue: International business and trade in a variety of industries and countries

2009-06-28T21:50:00.001+01:00

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 5(3) 2009

Corporate risk disclosure by UK firms: trends and determinants
Environmental sustainability and microfinancial system: What is the link?
Environmental concurrent engineering: a way to competitive advantage?
The recent evidence of MNEs' involvement in achieving national competitiveness in developing countries: the case of Kazakhstan
The US auto industry: historical background, trade policies, and new challenges
World cotton markets liberalisation and cotton trade in Sudan
Assessing the effects of personality traits on the service quality of Korean logistics personnel

Special issue: Mahalanobis-Taguchi System analysis

2009-06-28T21:45:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering 4(6) 2009

Evaluating an adaptive One-Factor-At-a-Time search procedure within the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System
Integrating the improvement and the control phase of Six Sigma for categorical responses through application of Mahalanobis-Taguchi System (MTS)
A comparison study and discussion of the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System
Classification, feature selection and prediction with Neural-network Taguchi System
An unsupervised classification scheme for multi-class problems including feature selection based on MTS philosophy
Forecasting consumer satisfaction for vehicle ride using a multivariate measurement system

Special issue: Transparent conducting oxides

2009-06-28T21:31:00.001+01:00

International Journal of Nanotechnology 6(9) 2009

Selected invited papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides (IS-TCO 2008)

Transparent conductive oxide materials: financial stakes and technological challenges
Transparent conductors for solar energy and energy efficiency: a broad-brush picture
Development of novel integrated bio/chemical sensor systems using chalcogenide glass materials
Optimum performance solar cells using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition deposited TCOs
Solution processing of conducting dense and porous films; doped ZnO and TiO2, and perovskites
Conductivity and transparency in amorphous In-Zn-O transparent conductors
An experimental method to estimate the temperature of individual nanowires
Transparent conducting oxides superstrate for thin film solar cells: an industrial prospective

Special issue: Intelligent techniques for personalisation and recommendation

2009-06-28T21:26:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms 1(4) 2009

Dynamically constructing user profiles with similarity-based online incremental clustering
A personalised query suggestion agent based on query-concept bipartite graphs and Concept Relation Trees
Using Support Vector Machines for feature-oriented profile-based recommendations
Community Adaptive Search Engines

Additional papers

Set Cover Feature Selection for Text Categorisation and spam detection
Habituation detection with Allen-Cahn boundary generation

First issue:International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems

2009-06-25T14:02:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems publishes original and significant work related to intelligent systems based on all kinds of formal and informal reasoning. Intelligent systems imply any systems that can do systematized reasoning, including automated and heuristic reasoning.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue

First issue:International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems

2009-06-25T13:59:00.003+01:00

International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems aims to publish the latest research and development results and experiences in the areas of granular computing, rough sets, fuzzy sets, soft computing and intelligent systems, including applications in areas such as bioinformatics, e-business, security, machine learning, data mining, high-performance computing and wireless mobile computing.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.

First issue: European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management

2009-06-25T13:54:00.003+01:00

European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management is the official scholarly publication of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Management and Competence (IACCM). The journal aims to widen and deepen the discussion about issues regarding the influence of cultural differences and diversity on the management of organisations of all kinds. Of particular relevance is the question of how culture affects both managers and decision-makers in situations involving the cross-cultural transfer of knowledge, values and experiences.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.

Call for papers: Recent Advancements and Innovative Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences

2009-06-23T14:26:00.002+01:00

Call for papers: Recent Advancements and Innovative Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences

A special issue of International Journal of Product Development

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 for newer therapeutic alternatives and basic research has given birth to numerous strategies, many of which have been able to treat unmet medical needs. However, many challenging barriers have yet to be conquered.

The objective of this special theme issue is to focus on innovative and cutting edge research in this multidisciplinary field. Emphasis will be on original research with focused attention on novelty and innovativeness.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Delivery of drugs and biotech molecules
Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and radiopharmaceutics
Pharmaceutical technology and process engineering
Pharmaceutics, physical pharmacy, preformulation
Membrane transport and absorption
Macromolecule (including protein/ peptide) and gene delivery
Clinical studies with distinctive features

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 31 October 2009
Communication of peer reviews of authors: 31 December 2009
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 28 February 2010

Special issue:Environmental Biotechnology: Part 3

2009-06-23T14:21:00.001+01:00

International Journal of Environment and Pollution 38(1/2) 2009

Biosorption of Cu(II) and Zn(II) by intact and pre-treated biomass of Oscillatoria planctonica
Effects of exogenous citric acid and malic acid addition on nickel uptake and translocation in leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var. foliosa Bailey) and Alyssum corsicum
Zn and Cd hyperaccumulating characteristics of Picris divaricata Vant.
Treatment of landfill leachate by effective microorganisms
Bioremoval of colour from textile wastewater by sequencing batch reactor and biotechnological methods
Treatment of black liquor of paper-making by combined process of acid-producing white rot fungus – anaerobic hydrolysis – contact oxidation – internal electrolysis
Treatment of oil-field produced water by combined process of Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR)-Biological Aerated Filter (BAF): a pilot study
Treatment of cornstalk fibrous pulp wastewater using Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR): effect of shock loading rates
Study on Fully Coupled Activated Sludge Model No. 1 (FCASM1) for wastewater treatment biological processes
Degradability of n-hexadecane by Bacillus cereus DQ01 isolated from oil contaminated soil from Daqing oil field, China
Optimisation of lactic acid fermentation from beet molasses by strain FD173
The suitable phosphorus concentration level for restoration by duckweed
Treatment of odour containing hydrogen sulphide released from pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plant with SBR process by bio-trickling filter
Detection of enteroviruses from water samples using optimised RT-PCR with universal primers
Rapid detection of pathogenic bacteria in surface water by PCR with universal primer
Removal of bromate and natural organic matter by using biologically activated carbon
The influence of aeration rate on partial nitrification in sequencing batch reactor
Biodegradation of plasticiser di-n-butyl phthalate by immobilised microbial cells
Isolation of a freshwater cyanophage (F1) capable of infecting Anabaena flos-aquae and its potentials in the control of water bloom

Special issue: Advances in intelligent nano-measurement technology

2009-06-22T14:20:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering 3(3) 2009

Papers from members of a Japan Society for Precision Engineering technical committee: New Technology for Intelligent Measurement with Nanoscale.

Evaluation of gear engagement accuracy by Transmission Error with sub-microradian resolution
Study on residual resist layer thickness measurement for Nanoimprint Lithography based on near-field optics
Scanning in situ self-calibration method for the two-probe method of straightness measurement
Fundamental study on the position detection signal analysis for the fibre optical trapping probe
Improvement of a Fast Tool Control unit for cutting force measurement in diamond turning of micro-lens array
Proposal of concurrent measurement method for spindle radial, axial and angular motions using concentric grating interferometers
Precision positioning control of a Sawyer motor-based two-axis planar motion stage

Special issue: Computer applications in knowledge-based systems

2009-06-22T14:16:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology 35(2-4) 2009

A fuzzy-rough case-based learning approach for intelligent die design
Integrated evaluator extracted from infringement lawsuits using extension neural network accommodated to patent assessment
Improved genetic algorithm for optimal design of fuzzy classifier
A condition-based maintenance policy for intelligent monitored system
Digital watermarking for relational databases using traceability parameter
A virtual layout system integrated with polar coordinates-based genetic algorithm
Analysing the behavioural intention of using telehomecare from a management viewpoint – an application of artificial neural network
A technique for retrospective computer validation of drug manufacturing software
Feature string-based intelligent information retrieval from Tamil document images
Ontology-based relevance analysis for automatic reference tracking
Exploring optimised route selection strategy in tree- and mesh-based multicast routing in MANETs
Comparative analysis of regression and machine learning methods for predicting fault proneness models
A novel framework for optimised privacy preserving data mining using the innovative desultory technique
Analysis of the effect of Headline News in financial market through text categorisation
The discovery of history using inverse simulation
Architecture for effective personalised web search
A method to retrieve telops based on the distance of character image features between queries and telops
A unified approach for determining the underlying causes of non-stationary disturbances
A method to implement effective My-page service system using three-dimensional vectors
Ontology-based query processing for understanding intentions of indirect speech acts in natural-language question answering
An automatic extraction method of word tendency judgement for specific subjects
Relevant estimation among fields using field association words
An efficient search method of e-government information using knowledge of search history

Special issue: 8th World Congress on the Management of Electronic Business

2009-06-20T21:33:00.001+01:00

International Journal of Electronic Business 7(3) 2009

The 8th World Congress was held in Toronto, Canada in July 2007.

Sex, gender and self-concept: predicting web shopping site design preferences
Multi-channel service concept definition and prototyping
The interworking of emerging wireless access technologies and its impact on the evolution of the mobile e-commerce industry
Business models dynamics for start-ups and innovating e-businesses
An enhanced and secure messaging architecture for a distributed e-business environment

Additional paper

The actual structure of eBay's feedback mechanism and early evidence on the effects of recent changes

Special issue: Methods, tools and applications in transport and logistic services

2009-06-20T21:29:00.002+01:00

International Journal of Services Sciences 2(3/4) 2009

A software tool for commute carpooling: a case study on university students in Milan
Sustainable mobility solutions: a pre-implementation questionnaire study for Fuzzy spatial network Voronoi diagram: a spatial decision support for transportation planning
Characterising urban freight solutions for medium sized cities
An ICT platform for urban freight distribution management
Evaluating logistics performance: methodological issues, evidences from the field and some policy proposals from the Italian case
Research on international logistics dynamics with uncertain exchange rate

Additional papers

Environmental accounting and the banking sector: a framework for measuring environmental-financial risks
A study on communication media selection in IT and service work groups