Guest editorial for the special issue on ‘Lightweight Design in Transportation Engineering’

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Collaborative Engineering

Design of complex engineering systems is increasingly becoming a collaborative task among designers or design teams that are physically, geographically, and temporally distributed. The complexity of modern products means that a single designer or design team can no longer manage the complete product development effort. Developing products without sufficient expertise in a broad set of disciplin...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Maritime Transportation and Port Logistics

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Advanced Information Systems Engineering

There is a. huge investment in existing software systems, with organizations spending huge sums of money on the maintenance of old systems. As organizations transform the way that they do business, they must also transform their legacy systems to take advantage of these fundamental changes in technology. Lowering costs by moving applications to modern platforms and development approaches is a c...

Guest Editorial Special Issue: Intelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases

Knowledge bases are encountered in different AI areas such as configuration, planning, diagnosis, semantic web, game playing, and others. Very often the amount and arrangement of the elements in the knowledge base outstrips the capability of a knowledge engineer to survey them and to efficiently perform maintenance operations – a situation that triggers an enormous demand of extending and impro...

Guest editorial for the special issue

IP has become the dominant networking paradigm for the present century. The evolution towards an all-IP core network infrastructure continues, with an enriched IP layer often implementing the networking functionalities directly on top of WDM (Wave Division Multiplexed) links. Furthermore, IP over switched 1/10 GigaEthernet is replacing the traditional, relatively slow-speed, access technologies...