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Call for papers: Degenerate and Singular Parabolic and Elliptic Equations

2009-11-24T17:23:00.000Z

A special issue of International Journal of Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations

This special issue is intended to survey the recent progress in analyses and applications of nonlinear degenerate and singular equations and systems of elliptic, parabolic, and mixed parabolic-hyperbolic types. Particular attention will be paid to the mathematical and numerical analysis of models arising in the study of reaction-diffusion-convection processes.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Model development and analysis involving degenerate or singular parabolic or parabolic-hyperbolic equations.
Well-posedness of the Cauchy or initial-boundary value problems of degenerate parabolic-hyperbolic equations.
Regularity of solutions of time-dependent and steady-state solutions.
Long term behaviour of time-dependent solutions.
Blow-up property of time-dependent solutions.
Stability and instability of steady-state solutions.
Uniqueness or multiplicity of steady-state solutions.
Numerical analysis and computation of degenerate and singular elliptic, parabolic, or parabolic-hyperbolic equations.

Important Date
Deadline for Submission: 30 June, 2010

Special issue: Dynamic and impact behaviour of cellular materials

2009-11-24T17:21:00.001Z

International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation 1(2) 2009

The impulsive response of aluminium foam core sandwich structures
The mechanical behaviour of polyurethane foam: multiaxial and dynamic behaviour
Dynamic behaviour of regular closed-cell porous metals – computational study
Hyperelastic and dynamical behaviour of cork and its performance in energy absorption devices and crashworthiness applications
Frequency and temperature dependent dynamic shear response of polyurethane foams
Inverse method for dynamic characterisation of cork compounds

Newly announced journal: International Journal of Cognitive Biometrics

2009-11-23T12:51:00.002Z

Beginning publication in 2011, International Journal of Cognitive Biometrics will bridge the gap between behavioural and physiological biometrics and deal with novel approaches using biosignals (such as EEG and ECG) produced by cognitive and emotional brain states as the authentication medium.

Special issue: Mobile multimedia systems and applications

2009-11-23T12:49:00.000Z

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing 3(4) 2009

Important scene analysis model using result importance and situation importance
Anonymous communication protocol for sensor networks
Heterogeneous clock group protocol for causally ordered delivery of messages
Satoshi Kawanami, Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa
An adaptive ARQ timeout approach for audio streaming over Bluetooth
A maximum a-posteriori identification criterion for wavelet domain watermarking
Hierarchical network architecture for layered video streaming
Duplex narrowcasting operations for multipresent groupware avatars on mobile devices
A mobile intelligent negotiation agent embedded and hybrid architecture based online purchasing system
Content-based scene segmentation scheme for efficient multimedia information retrieval
Performance evaluation of selective-border-casting zone routing protocol for ad-hoc networks
On the effect of handover mechanisms on the performance of video communications in WATM networks

Call for papers: Inter-Firm Networks, Governance and Innovation in the Automotive Industry

2009-11-22T19:42:00.002Z

A special issue of International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management

The automotive industry is one of the most studied industries, which holds especially true for research on innovations, inter-firm networks and governance mechanisms within these networks. However, recently, major changes have occurred, triggered partly by the current financial crisis.

Questions raised include:

Which organisational innovations have taken place in the automotive industry in recent years?
Is lean management still the benchmark for organising the manufacturing of automobiles?
What can be said of the national innovation systems? For example, are there differences between European, Japanese and US car manufacturers with regard to the degree of outsourcing R&D?
Does the nationality of the car manufacturer critical for R&D activity?
Did design thinking change the process of innovation?
And what about user or internet driven innovations?

Another question of interest is the phase in which an innovative idea is developed, chosen or rejected. At what stage of the innovation process are innovations rejected or reinforced and how is this done?

Papers to be included in this special issue should be focused on one or more of the following subjects (the list is indicative rather than exhaustive):

Inter-firm networks
Governance and innovation in the automotive industry
Technology transfer in networks
Technology transfer and governments
Innovation systems and the automotive industry
Organisational innovations
Design thinking for innovations
The process or the stages of (non-)innovation

Case studies, surveys and papers based on empirical data are preferred; a rigorous research methodology is required, as well as a review of existing literature and adequate reference to bibliographical sources. Contributions will be subjected to double-blind review

Important Dates
Deadline for (extended) abstract submission: 1 February 2010
Response by guest editor: 28 February 2010
Deadline for full paper submission: 31 May 2010

Call for papers: Advances in Nanoindentation and Nanotribology

2009-11-22T19:32:00.002Z

A special issue of International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering

Efforts to miniaturise optical, electrical and mechanical components have been ongoing for several decades. Development of processing technologies for semiconductors, actuators, microprocessors, sensors, mechatronics, etc. has revolutionised technologies for MEMS, smart structures, micro pumps, micro engines, micro biomedical devices etc. These devices have the ability to sense, detect, compute and activate in real time. These micro components have a very high surface to volume ratio. The forces applied to such systems are quite low, meaning that surface forces play a dominant role. However, as the sizes of such systems are quite low, the contact pressure is estimated to be few hundred MPa. Such forces cause undesirable effects such as stiction and high friction leading to reduction of operational reliability. It is for these devices that nanotribology and nanoindentation become relevant.

Nanotribology, which deals with the friction, wear and lubrication of interacting surfaces in relative motion at the nanometer scale, has seen considerable advances in recent times. Many phenomena in nanotribology pose new challenges in concept as well as in practice. Although conventional tribology is well established, nanoindentation, nanomechanics and nanotribology are evolving rapidly. With the invention of probe-based microscopes and nanoindentation techniques, study of nanomechanical properties and nanotribology has quickly become a routine laboratory testing method for characterizing material surfaces and coatings for miniaturised systems.

The purpose of this special issue is therefore to present a collection of examples illustrating the state-of-the-art developments of nanoindentation, nanotribology and their applications to surface science and engineering research. To serve as a useful forum to discuss the capabilities and limitations of these technologies, the scope of this special issue is to be as broad as possible, covering all relevant aspects.

Topics covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

Theory and modelling of nanoindentation
Nanoindentation to characterize mechanical properties of materials and coatings
Nanoindentation techniques
Nanotribology experiments and theory;
Nanobiotribology
Nanolubrication
Nanomechanics
Nanoscale analysis of wear mechanisms,
Nanoscale wear measurement,
Nanotribology of magnetic recording system
Nanotribology of MEMS

Important Date
Submission of papers: 30 June 2010

Special issue: Management and promotion of international sports

2009-11-19T12:18:00.001Z

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 6(4) 2009

Motives of United States and Japanese professional baseball consumers and level of team identification
Key leadership qualities for major sporting events: the case of the World Aquatics Championships
International players from Asia: an analysis of text themes in news coverage
The influence of socialisation agents on the fan loyalty of Korean teens

Special issue: Organisational learning

2009-11-19T12:09:00.002Z

International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise 1(2) 2009

The use of blogs as organisational learning tools within project-based environments
Sub-cultures as leverage for organisational learning and lean thinking
From bureaucratic forms towards team-based knowledge work systems: implications for human resource management
Seeking the robust core of organisational learning theory
Organisational learning at the public-private sector interface
Determining the impact of organisational culture on organisational learning
The nature of a schematic description of a socially constructed organisational competency model (CCM)
Technical note: Learning based product and service development

Call for papers: Challenging Research Issues in Logistics Management

2009-11-18T16:17:00.000Z

A special issue of International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation

Companies today face numerous transportation challenges, including rising fuel costs, new regulatory mandates and global operations with higher levels of lead time variability. Customers have increasing demands for transportation performance, higher on-time delivery performance and reduced damage-in-transit. They expect transportation providers to be flexible and quickly adapt to order changes. Add to all of this an increased need for global freight visibility and control, and companies are scrambling to find the right solution to quickly address these challenges. Transportation and logistics management accomplishes this by supporting processes including carrier contract negotiations, transportation network modelling, shipment order handling, freight planning, order execution and monitoring, and freight financial settlement.

Logistics is the system of managing and regulating the movement of goods, services, information and other resources from supplier to final user. The main objective of logistics is to co-ordinate these activities in a way that meets customer requirements at minimum cost. It involves the integration of information, transportation, warehousing, inventory, material handling and packaging. The field of logistics has now come to be considered as an immensely complicated responsibility. It is a normal part of the progress in the study of any business discipline for research simultaneously to become more rigorous and more applicable to practitioners, hence the decision to publish a special issue devoted to the topic.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Distribution and transport management
Warehouse management and warehouse control systems
Business and production logistics
Third-party logistics (3PL), fourth-party logistics (4PL)
Green/sustainable logistics
Inventory Management
Modelling and simulation of logistics and supply chain network
Role of information technology in logistics (internet, RFID etc.)
Supply chain performance management
Reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain management
Global logistics operations
Buyer-supplier relationships in logistics
Vehicle routing
Research methodologies
Case studies

Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 20 January 2010
Notification of initial decision: 20 March 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 20 May 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 20 July 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 20 October 2010

Call for papers: Application of Multivariate Techniques in Decision Making Models for Customer Service in Supply Chain

2009-11-18T16:12:00.002Z

A special issue of International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management

Customer service is widely understood as an important profit generating mechanism for a successful organisation. In the early days, customer service was viewed as a vision behind corporate success. The visionary concept has evolved to be seen as a day-to-day process towards market success. A process view has taken center-stage and treats customer service as an outcome from wide-spectrum of activities. The approach also assumes customer service as a package of diverse service elements. The majority of practitioners and educationists believe that most of the service elements are unexplored. The passage of time has brought several important customer service elements to the light. A few service elements such as quality at source and on-time delivery are focused in academic and industry circles. The remaining service elements such as customer support, after-sales services, lead time, environmental concerns, condition of goods/services, quantity of goods/services, and value added services are left unscathed and overlooked despite their importance.

Recent studies underscore customer service from logistics perspective. Improving customer service is an ongoing focus of the logistics community. Logistics is understood as market winner in the industry. The term ‘logistics’ denote the systematic and planned movement of organisational resources to attain competitive advantage. Organisational resources include men, material and information that satisfy customers. Organisations mobilise these resources through a wide range of activities called processes. In essence, industry views customer service as processes to move organisational resources. Therefore, the logistics perspective culminates into a process-centric approach for customer service. This study is deeply rooted on process-driven approach for customer service in the premises of logistics. The ultimate aim of logistics is to create customer value and deliver good customer service through processes and systems.

Successful firms prove the value of long-term customer relationships and the importance of customer retention. Emulating successful firms, companies brace for customer retention methods to obviate the cost of customer acquisition. The philosophy that emphasises customer retention through relationship building is known as ‘customer relationship management’ ( CRM ). Value-added customer services ensure the organisational efforts towards building long-term customer relations. Latest CRM practices advocate post-purchase services to create customer value.

Emerging market trends visualise a strong requirement for improved customer service and support in developing markets. Industries offer customer support through a network of service centers.

This special issue intends to improve customer support performance and it is relevant to the above deliberations in following ways.

Identifying analytical models to improve the customer service and support process.
Analytical modelling in the premises of market knowledge to improve the customer service and support process.
Identifying country and industry-specific variables that impact customer service and support operations.

Other streams of interest will be practical applications in the form of quantitative and qualitative case studies based on customer service support in supply chain.

Finally, papers must have real value relevance, be primarily focused on real time implementation, and the target audience are researchers, managers, practitioners and consultants.

Contributors are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that have practical relevance, case studies, and focus on the following or other areas related to customer service support in manufacturing and service industries, but are not limited to:

Customer service in manufacturing supply chain
Customer service in services supply chain
Multivariate techniques for customer service
Multicriteria decision making models for customer service
Analytical models for customer service and support
Process of customer value creation
Marketing and logistics elements of customer service
Transaction and augmented product concept in customer service
Information integration for customer service
Service quality models focusing customer support
Queuing models for customer service
Stochastic models for customer service
Mathematical models for customer service
Simulation and optimiSation for customer service
After-sale services models

Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 15 March 2010
Notification of initial decision: 15 May 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: 15 June 2010
Notification of final acceptance: 15 July 2010
Submission of final manuscript: 15 August 2010

Special issue: RFID network technologies and innovative applications

2009-11-18T14:48:00.001Z

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology 4(4) 2009

Creating a RFID data integration framework for enterprise information systems
RFID-based seamless multimedia services for smart homes
An RFID prototype providing industrial security features in the manufacturing environment
An RFID localisation system using Dynamic Range Adjustment Localisation
An integrated surveillance system using RFID and vision-tracking technologies

Special issue: Computational Intelligence Part 2

2009-11-18T14:43:00.002Z

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(3) 2009

Further papers from the International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) held in Shanghai, China, 28 June - 2 July 2008.
(See also International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control 8(2) 2009)

A fast method for fuzzy neural network modelling and refinement
A three-dimensional self-adaptive region fuzzy guidance law based on RBF neural networks
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation of electro-hydraulic pressure servo system
Online variety recognition of auto rack girders based on combination of Fuzzy ART neural network with D-S evidence theory
Developing an R&D projects portfolio selection decision system based on fuzzy logic
Pareto optimisation of grillage system with multi-objectives
Optimum design and local structural analysis of the power yacht based on micro-genetic algorithm
Application of particle swarm optimisation based on immune evolutionary algorithm for optimal operation of cascade reservoirs
Speech recognition system based on visual features and neural network for persons with speech-impairments
Research on context-aware computing with uncertainty for proactive service

Special issue: International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) 2008

2009-11-18T14:37:00.002Z

International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics 1(2) 2009

Papers from the International Conference of Applied Economics (ICOAE 2008), held in Kastoria, Greece, 15-17 May 2008.

Monopolisation of triopoly – revisited
Optimal investment in immobile human capital in an economic and monetary union
Business cycles in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries: an RBC approach
A new macroeconometric approach to the NATREX model of the equilibrium real exchange rate
A comparison of alternative parametric efficiency estimates using rank-sum test statistic
A note on impact of new economic reforms on the elasticity of substitution in Indian industries: alternative measures
Risk process estimation techniques used in the optimisation of financial resources of an insurance company

Special issue: Reform and opening 30 years: the development of China's economy and culture

2009-11-18T14:33:00.002Z

International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management 2(2) 2009

Development strategies of high-tech enterprises in response to the new economic reform in China
Listen to the young employees
A survey on Beijing's cultural creative industries
Cultural and creative tourism: a case study of dance drama in Shanxi
Analysis of the talent exodus in the Chinese online game labour market

Special issue: Immersive virtual, mixed or augmented reality art

2009-11-13T14:49:00.002Z

International Journal of Arts and Technology 2(4) 2009

New media in situ: the re-socialisation of public space
The agent takes the stage
Intermediary zones: augmented space between real and digital
WorldWideWalks: mapping the 'mixed realities' of physical and virtual space-time
Neurophysiology-based art in immersive virtual reality
On intuitive use, physicality and tangible user interfaces

Special issue: Open forum on metadata registries

2009-11-11T17:28:00.002Z

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 4(4) 2009

Papers from the annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries

Experiences with discovery metadata
The Nordic Common Data Element repository for describing cancer data
Terminological concept modelling and conceptual data modelling
A net-centric metadata framework for service-oriented environments
ISOcat: remodelling metadata for language resources
Representing metadata constraints in Common Logic

Submitted paper

Evidence-based decisions for the wiki world

Special issue: Machine learning in biomedicine and bioinformatics

2009-11-10T15:48:00.002Z

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 3(4) 2009

Extended version of papers presented at a workshop on ‘Machine Learning in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics' at the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2007) held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 13-15 Dec. 2007.

Biomarker identification by knowledge-driven multilevel ICA and motif analysis
Logistic ensembles of Random Spherical Linear Oracles for microarray classification
Gene identification and survival prediction with Lp Cox regression and novel similarity measure
An analysis pipeline for the inference of protein-protein interaction networks
A technique to search for functional similarities in protein-protein interaction networks
Refinement of under-determined loops of Human Prion Protein by database-derived distance constraints
PRTAD: A database for protein residue torsion angle distributions

Special issue: Services operations and management

2009-11-10T15:42:00.002Z

International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics 4(4) 2009

Revised papers from the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics (IEEE/SOLI’2008) held in Beijing, China, 12–15 October 2008.

Pricing and order coordination of two-echelon supply chain under duopolistic retailer's competition
Service analytics framework for web-delivered services
The value of integrated logistics and finance services of third party logistics firms
Optimal decision-making on product allocation for crossdocking and warehousing operations
Research on the symbiotic relationship model of network shaped enterprises in the ecological logistics park
User acceptance of internet banking: an extension of the UTAUT model with trust and quality constructs

Special issue: Service oriented grid and pervasive technologies

2009-11-09T15:57:00.001Z

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 2(4) 2009

Adoption of service-oriented architecture by information systems
Reputation and policy-based three-tier grid architecture with genuine feedbacks
Proposing a service-enabled semantic grid model
A negotiation-based trust establishment service for CROWN grid
A peer-to-peer IO buffering service based on RAM-grid

Additional paper

A methodology for designing of intelligent services in ubiquitous communications

Special issue: Software issues in computational science and engineering

2009-11-09T15:49:00.002Z

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 4(4) 2009

Papers from a workshop at held in Uppsala, Sweden, 15–16 August, 2007

Coordinate-free numerics: all your variation points for free?
Unified framework for finite element assembly
Software engineering meets scientific computing: group projects in CSE education
Co-processor acceleration of an unmodified parallel solid mechanics code with FEASTGPU
Dominik Goddeke, Hilmar Wobker, Robert Strzodka, Jamaludin Mohd-Yusof, Patrick Reconsidering algorithms for iterative solvers in the multicore era
Efficient representation of computational meshes
F2PY: a tool for connecting Fortran and Python programs
Automatic parallelisation of staggered grid codes with expression templates
Run-time automatic instantiation of algorithms using C++ templates

Special issue: Delivering electronic government

2009-11-08T17:13:00.002Z

International Journal of Electronic Governance 2 (2/3) 2009

Electronic procurement: a case study of Malaysia's e-Perolehan (e-procurement) initiative
Process evaluation of award of work contracts in a government department
Does e-governance facilitate citizen empowerment in democracies? A critical discourse analysis
Decision making of agrarian communities: exploring the impact of e-governance initiatives in India
An e-governance framework for Vietnam
Development of Knowledge Model for Administrative Procedures based on behavioural trait analysis: the case of Japan
A typology of e-governance operational Information Systems tasks
E-government and integrated service delivery in Canada: the Province of Nova Scotia as a case study
Creating comparative advantage for Micro-Enterprises through e-governance

Additional paper

Changing perspectives and pragmatics of good governance and e-governance in India: a shared vision of citizens

Technical papers

Promoting electronic participation systems in the Balkans: the case of national press agencies
The role of e-facilitation (ICTs) in economic development of the rural population

Call for papers: Recommender Systems to Support the Dynamics of Virtual Learning Communities

2009-11-08T14:29:00.001Z

A special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities

Recommender systems are used in commercial sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix and others to recommend relevant products (or more generally, pieces of information such as books, music from movies, etc) to users according to their interest. It is a successful technique in the entertainment domains which is now being applied into e-learning. Recommenders are changing the way people interact with the web-based applications as they help others to find relevant products and complex information among the huge amount of products and unstructured information available in the web, providing a more personalised information access experience.

Traditionally, much of the published research on recommenders has focused on the algorithms that power the recommendation process. However, many research challenges remain, especially when it comes to applications in specific domains, the design of the interfaces and the social implications of recommenders. Research is still needed to analyse needs and expectations from the users to which recommendations are offered. In particular when recommenders are applied in domains other than the ones traditionally covered, a study of the user needs should be carried out.

This special issue aims to gather a collection of high quality contributions that reflect the support that can be provided by recommender systems in virtual learning communities (VLC). It focuses on the e-learning domain and the virtual learning communities that grow around it.

Users interact in web-based applications that provide social spaces such as learning management systems, and produce contributions with shared learning goals in mind. Moreover, mostly these communities use Web 2.0 services that can provide semantic information. This semantic information together with the contextual information provided by the community infrastructure can feed the recommender strategies. The virtual learning communities that emerge store contextual and semantic information from the contributions provided by the users when they participate in the services offered, such as discussions on forums, shared links, entries in blogs, ratings to learning objects, comments to contributions, etc. This information contributed to the virtual community could become relevant to their mates. These contributions increase continually and the community members are unable to process all of them. Recommenders can provide a valuable functionality to the members of virtual learning communities, recommending what pieces of information shared by the diversity of the members' contributions are the more interesting for each member (taking into account his/her profile).

Moreover, there is a need to take into account user-centred design methods in order to direct the technical design as well as the graphical user interface. In this sense, this special issue calls for papers in the community of researchers for recommender systems in the educational domain that analyse the needs and propose solutions from a user-centred point of view. Contributions are expected to answer some of the following questions (among others):

How recommendations can impact on the participants in VLC?
What type of activities within the VLC could be improved or made more productive with the usage of recommender systems?
What types of situations in VLC are meaningful for providing recommendations?
How can the utility of a recommender system be measured in a VLC?
What types of recommendations are of special interest for the educational domain?
How can users be modelled to facilitate the recommendations process in VLC?
What is the most appropriate design for a tool to manage the recommendations?

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Recommender systems for educational domain
Inclusive recommendations in virtual learning communities (i.e. take into account the diversity of the users, including the accessibility preferences)
User-centred design methods
User-centred evaluation
User modelling to support recommender systems for educational domain
Personalisation and user needs in educational domain
Design of the user interface for recommenders in virtual learning communities
Authoring/administration tools to manage/supervise the recommendations process
Evaluating recommendation interfaces through user studies and other human-computer interaction approaches
Recommenders to support social networking in virtual learning communities
Case studies of recommenders in virtual learning communities
Evaluation of recommender systems in educational scenarios

Important Dates
Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible
Submission of Title and Extended Abstract deadline: 28 February, 2010
Full paper submission deadline: 30 March, 2010
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 15 May, 2010
Second round of contributions: 13 June, 2010
Final version of paper: 15 September, 2010 (tentative)

Special issue: Advances in tribology in metal manufacturing

2009-11-08T14:26:00.001Z

International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering 3(5/6) 2009

Effect of tool surface topography on interfacial deformation behaviour of metal microtubes in flaring test
Tribological features of roll surface in cold metal rolling
Friction and slab deformation behaviour during rough rolling
Surface roughness characteristics of Ti6Al4V alloy in conventional lathe and mill machining
Effect of cold reduction on surface roughness of low hot-rolled carbon steel in CSP
Deformation of oxide scale and surface roughness transfer during hot rolling of stainless steel 304L
Oxide scale behaviour and surface roughness under hot rolling conditions of Fe-Ni36 Invar alloy
Numerical simulation of slab edging process by the Reproducing Kernel Particle Method considering friction effect

First issue: International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics

2009-11-08T13:50:00.002Z

Investigating the application of recent mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques to empirical economics studies International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics adopts an international and multidisciplinary scope in the examination of recent quantitative methods and their problems in policy analysis.

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

Call for Papers: Water Wars in the 21st Century along International River Basins: Speculation or Reality?

2009-11-06T12:31:00.003Z

A special issue of International Journal of Sustainable Society

This issue seeks to assess the current status of the water management in international river basins for a reality check of the potential of water wars and to encourage intellectual discussion, new methodologies and strategies to promote sustainable development and avert water related conflicts in the international river basins.

The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

Integrated water resources management in international river basins
Averting conflicts and promoting peace through international river basin management
Water diplomacy
International river basins under risk of mismanagement and conflicts
Benefits and costs asssociated with integrated river basins management
How international water policies shape international river basins management
New strategies for international river basins management
Institutional and legal issues related to international river basins management
International water treaties
Mechanisms for data and information sharing between riparian countries
UN watercourses convention (1997) and other international water related declarations
Influence of regional politics and non-water sectors in managing international river basins
Strategic research agendas to positively influence international river basins management
Best practices and lessons learned from international river basins management
International water resources managment principles and guidelines
Shared water-shared opportunities

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 10 May 2010
Communication of peer review to authors: 10 August 2010
Deadline for revised manuscripts: 15 October 2010