Urban Retail Systems: Vulnerability, Resilience and Sustainability. Introduction to the Special Issue

Retail planning and urban resilience – An introduction to the special issue

Globalization of retailing, dominantly through transnational corporations and foreign direct investment, follows various trajectories at different levels and scales that lead to salient changes in the structure and organization of retail businesses in host countries (Coe & Wrigley, 2007). The literature on the internationalization of retailing in emerging and less-developed markets mostly focus...

Editorial introduction to the special issue on stress resilience

The journal Neurobiology of Stress was launched to address the needs of an expanding group of researchers investigating the neural underpinnings of the stress response, neural plasticity and adaptation as consequences of stress and the translation of these consequences to neuropsychiatric disease in humans. This growth of stress research was driven by an increased realization that exposure to a...

Attention aware systems: Introduction to special issue

Introduction Special Issue on “ Sustainable Urban Design ”

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

Introduction to the IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue: Recommender Systems

Recommender systems support users in the identification of interesting products and services in situations where the amount and complexity of offers outstrips the capability of a user to survey it and to reach a decision. The interest in recommender systems has dramatically increased owing to the demand for personalization technologies by large, successful ecommerce applications (for example, s...