Emerging Trends, Techniques and Open Issues of Containerization: A Review

Fixture Design Automation and Optimization Techniques: Review and Future Trends

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues

Preparing a text about emerging and reemerging infections sounds like a contradiction in terms since by the time a book is published, “new” infections may have come and gone. But Lashley and Durham have successfully walked the thin line between being dated on the one hand and providing timely, relevant data on the other. Several chapters place emerging infections and related problems such as mi...

Russia’s Emerging Multinationals: Trends and Issues

The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia’s multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the understanding of the present-day phenomenon of emerging Russian multinationals; a phenomenon that has been...

Key Biosimilar Issues and Emerging Trends

Refactoring: Emerging Trends and Open Problems

This position paper identifies emerging trends in refactoring research, and enumerates a list of open questions, from a practical as well as a theoretical point of view. We suggest these directions for further research based on our own experience with refactoring, as well as on a detailed literature survey on software refactoring.