Special Issue: Ensuring Sustainability. New Challenges for Organizational Engineering

Special Issue for 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017)

     This special issue is a collection of refereed articles selected from the 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017). The initial selection was made by Dr. Hamed Fazlollahtabar who also wrote the following description. The accepted articles were reviewed going through the usual reviewing process of IJOR. Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri Editor-in-Chief &nbs...

Special Issue: Sustainability

The purpose of this paper is to examine issues around liable entity determination for greenhouse gas emissions have risen to dominance since the anticipated introduction of a carbon price in Australia. This paper seeks to explore the views of industry pertaining to the use of operational control as the sole boundary setting approach for carbon liability determination under current mandated Nati...

Breakthroughs and Challenges in Software Engineering J.UCS Special Issue

In the seminal 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, F.L. Bauer defined this term as " the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines ". In the beginning, most proposals focused on programming languages and techniques , which are currently in a rather elaborate state. Later, the discipline exp...

Special Issue on Sustainability Assessment: Developing ‘Green Thinking’ Towards Sustainability

During the last two decades academic and political discussions about the potential of environmental innovations to meet grand challenges have increased. With the topic's greater popularity, the discussion has become more substantial and dedicated to the elements of environmental innovations. During the 1990s one could understand environmental innovation as a new buzzword frequently referenced b...

Special Issue: Progress in Membrane Engineering for Food and Biotechnology Industries