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| | | | | | Agricultural Development and Food Security in Developing Nations | | Wayne G. Ganpat (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago), Ronald Dyer (Grenoble School of Management, France) and Wendy-Ann P. Isaac (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago) | | ISBN: 9781522509424; © 2017; 370 pp. | | A pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on promoting advancements in agricultural systems and food security in developing economies. Highlighting impacts on citizens, as well as on political and social environments of a country, this book is ideally designed for students, professionals, policy makers, researchers, and practitioners interested in recent developments in the areas of agriculture. | |
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| | | | Mobile Application Development, Usability, and Security | | Sougata Mukherjea (IBM, India) | | ISBN: 9781522509455; © 2017; 320 pp. | | Provides a thorough overview on the different facets of mobile technology management and its integration into modern society. Highlighting issues related to analytics, cloud computing, and different types of application development, this book is a pivotal reference source for professionals, researchers, upper-level students, and practitioners actively involved in the area of mobile computing. | |
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| | | | Comparative Approaches to Biotechnology Development and Use in Developed and Emerging Nations | | Tomas Gabriel Bas (University of Talca, Chile) and Jingyuan Zhao (University of Toronto, Canada) | | ISBN: 9781522510406; © 2017; 592 pp. | | Evaluates the importance of manufacturing biotechnological products around the world. Highlighting a comparative analysis of public policies, technological policies, innovations, and marketing capabilities of developed and emerging nations, this publication is a pivotal reference source for government officers, policy makers, academics, and practitioners. | |
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| | | | Renewable and Alternative Energy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (3 Vols.) | | Information Resources Management Association (USA) | | ISBN: 9781522516712; © 2017; 2,006 pp. | | Provides a comprehensive overview of emerging perspectives and innovations for alternative energy sources. Highlighting relevant concepts on energy efficiency, current technologies, and ongoing industry trends, this is an ideal reference source for academics, practitioners, professionals, and upper-level students interested in the latest research on renewable energy. | |
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| | | | Design, Development, and Integration of Reliable Electronic Healthcare Platforms | | Anastasius Moumtzoglou (P&A Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Greece) | | ISBN: 9781522517245; © 2017; 357 pp. | | An authoritative reference work on the issues relating to the quality and safety of technology use in the medical realm. Featuring coverage on best practices, detailed analysis, and upcoming trends, this publication is essential for researchers, students and professionals seeking current research on the implementation of electronic technologies in healthcare. | |
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| | | | Cultural Influences on Architecture | | Gülsah Koç (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey), Marie-Therese Claes (Louvain School of Management, Belgium) and Bryan Christiansen (PryMarke, LLC, USA) | | ISBN: 9781522517443; © 2017; 352 pp. | | A pivotal reference source for the latest research on the impact of culture on architecture through the aspects of planning and production, and highlights the importance of communicative dimension in design. Featuring exhaustive coverage on a variety of relevant perspectives and topics, such as the evolution of construction systems, benefits of nature-based architecture, and fundamentals of social capital, this publication is ideally designed for researchers, scholars, and students seeking current research on the connection between culture and architecture on a global level. | |
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| | | | Handbook of Research on Fuzzy and Rough Set Theory in Organizational Decision Making | | Arun Kumar Sangaiah (VIT University, India), Xiao-Zhi Gao (Aalto University, Finland) and Ajith Abraham (Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA) | | ISBN: 9781522510086; © 2017; 474 pp. | | Collects both empirical and applied research in the field of fuzzy set theory, and bridges the gap between the application of soft computational approaches and the organizational decision making process. This publication is a pivotal reference for business professionals, IT specialists, software engineers, and advanced students of business and information technology. | |
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| | | | Scholarly Communication and the Publish or Perish Pressures of Academia | | Achala Munigal (Osmania University, India) | | ISBN: 9781522516972; © 2017; 375 pp. | | This title is an authoritative reference source for the latest material on methods and available networks for the publication of contemporary academic research. Highlighting innovative writing styles, ethical considerations, and marketing avenues, this book is ideally designed for researchers, upper-level students, scholars, professionals, and practitioners actively involved in the publication of academic research. | |
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|  | | | | | International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems | |
| Mohamed Bakhouya (Univesite Internationale de Rabat, Morocco) and Vincenzo De Florio (PATS Research Group, University of Antwerp, and iMinds, Belgium) | | Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016) | ISSN: 1947-92202156-1753; Est. 2010.
Published Semi-Annually. | | The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) examines systems and organizations characterized by the following two properties: the ability to self-adapt to the characteristics of rapidly changing and turbulent environments by adopting complex individual and social strategies and the ability to control their changes to prevent the invalidation of their original mission statements. The central focus of IJARAS is on modeling, simulating, designing, developing, maintaining, evaluating, and benchmarking such “entelechial systems.” Perception, awareness, and the planning and execution of resilient adaptation behaviors in systems and organizations are central topics of the journal. Such systems range from individual and simple embedded systems with limited perception and predefined specialized behaviors to complex hybrid social organizations like cyber-physical societies or service-oriented communities, whose emerging behaviors are many and, in some cases, difficult to predict. IJARAS focuses on the full spectrum of these problems providing academicians, practitioners, and researchers with awareness and insight on conceptual models, applied and theoretical approaches, paradigms, and other technological innovations on self-adaptive and/or self-resilient systems and organizations of any scale and nature. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research | |
| Donald Patrick Albert (Sam Houston State University, USA) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1947-9654; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal specializing in studies from applied geography that interface with geographic information science and technology. Including both regular and special themed issues, this journal presents policy analysts, geospatial practitioners, and academicians with high-quality articles exemplifying various application domains within applied geospatial research. IJAGR is interested in research highlighting various GIS&T application domains that span the social and physical sciences. The limiting factor is less topical, but more whether such studies incorporate geospatial technologies (geospatial statistics, global positioning systems, geographic information systems, remote sensing, etc.) to answer practical, utilitarian, and applied geographic questions. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education | |
| Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland), Regis Machart (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia) and Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada) | | Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 2379-7363; Est. 2016.
Published Semi-Annually. | | The International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education (IJBIDE) investigates critically the positioning of diverse individuals in formal and informal contexts of education – from kindergarten to adult education, but also lifelong learning. Diversities here refer to different identity markers such as ethnicity, religion, gender, social class, disabilities and language. IJBIDE is clearly positioned within a non-essentialist, non-culturalist perspective. IJBIDE also aims to promote original research methods by linking up macro- and micro-approaches. The journal is fully blind peer reviewed by the best experts in the field and publishes empirical and conceptual research and case studies from around the world. | |
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| | | | International Journal of E-Business Research | |
| Payam Hanafizadeh (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran) and Jeffrey Hsu (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA) | | Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1548-1131; Est. 2005.
Published Quarterly. | | The emergence of electronic business is one of the most profound changes that revolutionized the process of buying, selling, and exchanging products and services over the Internet. Organizations and customers have access to vast amounts of data, information, and services that are not limited in time or space. There is a growing demand in electronic business research that will provide insights into issues, challenges, and solutions related to the successful application and management aspects of electronic business. | |
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| | | | International Journal of E-Planning Research | |
| Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal) | | Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 2160-9918; Est. 2012.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) is a peer-reviewed international quarterly journal that publishes original theoretical and innovative empirical research on the many aspects of the emerging interdisciplinary area of e-planning. The journal is mainly focused on e-planning theory, history, methods, ethics, best practices, e-planning pedagogy, future developments, and on the software technology associated with e-planning. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals | |
| Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Østfold University College, Norway) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1947-3478; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) focuses on the IT field from the outlook of industry professionals and covers multidisciplinary themes such as human resource management, sociology, psychology, and management along with technology itself. Representing IT professionalism from the human capital point of view, the journal publishes original research papers, research notes, reviews, and cases on all aspects of IT professionalism, technology-related careers, personnel empowerment, organizational management and cutting edge technologies affecting IT practitioners. This journal emphasizes articles linking theory with application or critically analyzing cases with the objective of identifying good practice in the management of IT human capital. | |
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| | | | International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East | |
| Bryan Christiansen (PryMarke, LLC, USA) and Ewa Lechman (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) | | Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 2472-3126; Est. 2016.
Published Semi-Annually. | | The International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East (IJICTRAME) publishes original, cutting-edge research articles on the use of information communication technologies in agriculture and rural development. Emphasizing new innovations and best practices in the use of ICT, diffusion and adoption methods, techniques, e-value creation, and policy issues, IJICTRAME focuses on information communication applications in agricultural and socio-economic development and poverty alleviation. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach | |
| Manuel Mora (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico) | | Vol. 10 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1935-570X; Est. 2008.
Published Semi-Annually. | | The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) is a refereed global journal where a systemic interdisciplinary and/or a multi-methodology perspective of information systems, software engineering, and systems engineering are encouraged. The articles accepted in IJITSA address relevant and contemporaneous or recurrent and unsolved classic problems, opportunities, challenges, and solutions found in IT systems. The journal pursues a better understanding and development of the three addressed disciplines from an interdisciplinary and/or multi-methodology perspective focused on the construct IT system. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Information Technology Project Management | |
| John Wang (Montclair State University, USA) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1938-0232; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | This fully refereed journal examines current, state-of-the art research in the areas of information technology project management, and the interactions, linkages, applications, and support of project management using information systems. The journal encompasses theoretical, analytical, or empirical research, comprehensive reviews of relevant research, technical reports, book reviews, and also case studies of effective applications in this area. The use of new frameworks, principles, technologies, methods, and techniques are emphasized. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking | |
| Michael R Bartolacci (Pennsylvania State University-Berks, USA) and Steven R. Powell (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, USA) | | Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1941-8663; Est. 2009.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking (IJITN) examines timely and important telecommunications and networking issues, problems, and solutions from a multidimensional, interdisciplinary perspective for researchers and practitioners. IJITN emphasizes the cross-disciplinary viewpoints of electrical engineering, computer science, information technology, operations research, business administration, economics, sociology, and law. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research findings, case studies, and surveys, as well as the opinions of leaders and experts in the field. The journal's coverage of telecommunications and networking is broad, ranging from cutting edge research to practical implementations. Published articles must be from an interdisciplinary, rather than a narrow, discipline-specific viewpoint. The context may be industry-wide, organizational, individual user, or societal. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science | |
| W.B. Lee (Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1947-8208; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS) serves as a multi-disciplinary platform and adopts a systems approach to the theory and practice of managing information and people in knowledge intensive activities and processes, emphasizing the understanding of humans and their environment as part of interacting systems from both soft and hard systems science. As a quarterly journal that publishes theoretical, experimental, and experiential papers, practice notes, case studies, and innovative methodologies, IJKSS provides a forum for academicians, scientists, practitioners, and industry professionals to integrate diversity and fragments of knowledge. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems | |
| John Wang (Montclair State University, USA) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1947-9328; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS) examines current, state-of-the art advances in the interactions, linkages, applications, and support of operations research with information systems. Covering emerging theories, principles, models, processes, and applications within the field, this journal provides practitioners, educators, and researchers with an international collection of all operations research facets. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology | |
| Ghazy Assassa (Benha University, Egypt) and Ahmad Taher Azar (Benha University, Egypt) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1947-959X; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes high-quality and significant research in all fields of computer science, information technology, software engineering, soft computing, computational intelligence, operations research, management science, marketing, applied mathematics, statistics, policy analysis, economics, natural sciences, medicine, and psychology, among others. This journal publishes original articles, reviews, technical reports, patent alerts, and case studies on the latest innovative findings of new methodologies and techniques. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Software Innovation | |
| Roger Y. Lee (Central Michigan University, USA) and Lawrence Chung (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) | | Vol. 5 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 2166-7160; Est. 2013.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Software Innovation (IJSI) covers state-of-the-art research and development in all aspects of evolutionary and revolutionary ideas pertaining to software systems and their development. The journal publishes original papers on both theory and practice that reflect and accommodate the fast-changing nature of daily life. Topics of interest include not only application-independent software systems, but also application-specific software systems like healthcare, education, energy, and entertainment software systems, as well as techniques and methodologies for modeling, developing, validating, maintaining, and reengineering software systems and their environments. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research | |
| Yuhui Shi (Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China) | | Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 1947-9263; Est. 2010.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR) serves as a forum for facilitating and enhancing the information sharing among swarm intelligence researchers in the field, ranging from algorithm developments to real-world applications. Targeting at researchers, academicians, students, and engineers, this journal provides innovative findings in swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, computational intelligence, optimization techniques, and their applications. | |
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| | | | International Journal of System Dynamics Applications | |
| Ahmad Taher Azar (Benha University, Egypt) | | Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 2160-9772; Est. 2012.
Published Quarterly. | | The International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) publishes original scientific and quality research on the theory of and advances in dynamical systems with analyses of measure-theoretical and topological aspects. This interdisciplinary journal provides audiences with an extensive exploration of the perspectives and methods of system dynamics and system thinking, which are applied to systems in the fields of engineering, soft computing, economics, management, and medicine, among others. The journal also covers strongly related research areas including control, automation, soft-computing and systems. IJSDA publishes original articles, reviews, technical reports, patent alerts, and case studies on the latest innovative findings of new methodologies and techniques. The journal welcomes active participation and contribution by researchers, not only by submitting original works but also by making constructive suggestions for improving the journal. IJSDA appeals to academics, researchers, and professionals in the fields of engineering, modeling, and computer simulation, decision analysis, soft computing, control systems, biomedical modeling, dynamical systems, applied mathematics, statistics, natural sciences, policy analysis, management science, economics, and behavioural sciences. | |
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| | | | International Journal of Virtual and Augmented Reality | |
| Cristina Portales Ricart (Universitat de Valencia, Spain) and Marcos Fernández Marin (Universidad de Valencia, Spain) | | Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) | ISSN: 2473-537X; Est. 2017.
Published Semi-Annually. | | Advancements in computer-generated sensory have made the concept of believable virtual environments a reality. With the availability of such technologies, new questions are raised as to how these technologies can be applied beyond gaming applications and how further improvements can be made to allow for full digital immersion. The International Journal of Virtual and Augmented Reality (IJVAR) presents interdisciplinary research on the technological, social, legal, and policy implications of virtual and mixed reality integration and how the division between real and virtual worlds is becoming less distinct. Fostering interdisciplinary applied research and a unique forum for novel solutions for virtual immersion and mixed reality, the articles found within IJVAR are essential to the research needs of graduate-level students, researchers, and professionals interested in topics relevant to the digitization of everyday life. | |
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