International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology Editor-in-Chief: Prof
David Al-Dabass,
School of Science and Technology, Nottingham
Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK. Email: david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk Special Issues
Editor-Europe: Prof Maurizio Naldi, LUMSA University, Via Marcantonio
Colonna 19, 00192 Rome, Italy. E-mail: m.naldi@lumsa.it (Past Editor-Europe: Dr
Alessandra Orsoni, School of Business Information
Management, Kingston University, UK. Email: A.Orsoni@kingston.ac.uk) Special Issues Editor-Asia: Dr Zuwairie Ibrahim, University of Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, Malaysia. Email: zuwairiefke@gmail.com Print/Distribution
Editor: Dr Ibrahim Ibrahim Shapiai, University of
Technology Malaysia, Email: ibrahimfke@gmail.com
Editorial Policy: Letters is a rapid-communication format of IJSSST that publishes short
original research papers every two weeks. Its broad and interdisciplinary scope
covers the latest developments in all aspects of technology, science and
applications related fields. It may appear as a regular or special issue within the main volume,
with a DOI prefix a: 10.5013/IJSSST.a.VV.II.PP,
where VV = Volume number, II = Issue number, and PP
= Paper number within the Issue. Or it may appear as a companion volume with
a DOI prefix b: 10.5013/IJSSST.b.VV.II.PP. The regular
and special issues may have a specific tile e.g. Technology & Industry Letters, Information Technology Applications
Letters, etc, or this may be indicated in the
Editorial Notes. Both the Issues within the main volume and the companion Letters volume are genuine IJSSST publications with
no difference in international standing. Editorial Board |
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- Prof Dietmar Moeller,
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
dietmar.moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de - Prof Adrian Hopgood,
Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS,
Adrian.hopgood@ntu.ac.uk - Dr Steve Turner, Nanyang
Technical University, Singapore 639798, ASSJTurner@ntu.edu.sg - Prof Andrzej Bargiela,
Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS,
andre@doc.ntu.ac.uk - Prof. Dr. Felix
Breitenecker, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, A -
1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA, 58801-11499, Felix.Breitenecker@tuwien.ac.at - Prof Frank Wang, Head of
School of Computing, University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, Email: frankwang@ieee.org. - Prof Razali Ismail,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, UTM
Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. razali@fke.utm.my - Prof Hermann Hessling,
Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, 10313 Berlin, hessling@htw-berlin.de - Dr Jenkins, Glenn, GLJenkins@cardiffmet.ac.uk - Dr Tim Bashforth, tim.bashford@uwtsd.ac.uk -
Assoc. Prof Dr Zuwairie Ibrahim zuwairie@ump.edu.my -
Dr Ibrahim Shapiai, UTM, Malaysia, ibrahimfke@gmail.com -
Dr Valentina Colla, Pisa, Italy, valentina.colla@santannapisa.it
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Dr Gregorio Romero, University Polytechnin Madrid, Spain, gregorio.romero@upm.es
- Prof Maurizio Naldi, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy, m.naldi@lumsa.it - Arijit Bhattacharya,
University of East Anglia, UEA, United Kingdom, arijit.bhattacharya2005@gmail.com
- Prof Julie Dugdale,
University of Grenoble, Julie.Dugdale@imag.fr |
- Prof David Murray-Smith,
University of Glasgow, Rankine Building, Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LT,
d.murray-smith@eng.gla.ac.uk - Dr. Stewart Robinson,
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL,
orssr@wbs.warwick.ac.uk. - Dr John Pollard,
University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE.
j.pollard@ee.ucl.ac.uk. - Roger Smith, BTG Inc.,
3481 Woodley Park Place, Oviedo, Florida 32765, USA, adjunct Professor at the
Florida Institute of Technology, smithr@modelbenders.com - Prof Mahdi Mahfouf,
University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, m.mahfouf@shef.ac.uk
- Professor Ralph Hilzer, California
State University, Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0410, USA. hilzer@ecst.csuchico.edu,
hilzer@sunset.net
- Prof Qiang Shen,
Director, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Aberystwyth
University, Wales, UK. qqs@aber.ac.uk - Prof Khalid Al-Begain,
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd (Cardiff) CF37 1DL,UK, kbegain@glam.ac.uk - Assoc. Prof Yong Meng
Teo, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, email:
teoym@comp.nus.edu.sg
- Dr. Sani Susanto,
Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Bandung, Indonesia, sani@unpar.ac.id - Dr. Marco Remondino,
University of Genova, Italy, marco.remondino@economia.unige.it - Prof Atulya Nagar,
Liverpool Hope University, UK, atulya.nagar@hope.ac.uk - Prof Dave Parry,
Auckland University of Technology, dave.parry@aut.ac.nz - Prof. Dr. Rosalina Abdul
Salam, rosalina@usim.edu.my - Dr Danilo Pelusi, University of Teramo,
Italy, dpelusi@unite.it |
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