Engineering risk and disaster: a special issue ofEngineering Studies

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 on disaster response robotics

Disaster response robotics is an important and growing application domain in robotics. Robotics researchers and the general public are increasingly aware of disaster response and rescue robotics due to the presence of disaster response robots at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant. Research in disaster response robotics focuses on core areas related to safety, security, and rescue applica...

Special Issue on Cognitive Engineering

Computer-based systems have changed the nature of the work undertaken at the human-machine interface. More than ever before, operators of complex sociotechnological systems are working in a multidimensional information space. Within aviation, the development of the glass cockpit was the forerunner of things to come. Glass interfaces now pervade all areas of aviation systems. Computerization has...

Special Issue: Developing and using engineering ontologies

Engineering today is overwhelmingly a collaborative activity, often widely geographically distributed, in which different participants bring specialist viewpoints to bear on their engineering tasks. In the process, the participants generate and use large quantities of information, often making use of sophisticated computer tools. Important challenges in this context are the sharing of informati...

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