Special Issue “Information Technology for Geotechnical 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 on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning

Guest Editors: Riina Vuorikari, Nikos Manouselis, Erik Duval Preface Social information retrieval (SIR) refers to an approach that assists people in obtaining relevant information by harnessing the knowledge or experience of colleagues, friends, peers, and others. SIR applications like collaborative filtering and social bookmarking rely on social network analysis and the use of subjective relev...

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...

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

Special Issue: 3D Printing for Biomedical Engineering

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has a long history of applications in biomedical engineering. The development and expansion of traditional biomedical applications are being advanced and enriched by new printing technologies. New biomedical applications such as bioprinting are highly attractive and trendy. This Special Issue aims to provide readers with a glimpse of the recent profile of 3D prin...