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Publishing in international journals is important but also a tricky task. Before this background, this editorial gives a consolidated overview of key aspects to guide authors along developing and submitting a scientific article in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management . For this, we provide insights into formal requirements, with a major on specific article requirements that must be considered

The seven papers in this special section focus on services computing management for artificial intelligence and machine learning. The goal of services computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively. The pervasive nature of services computing management is exhibited in almost all industry settings. In everyday life, new business

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Blockchain is increasingly deployed in a broad range of sectors, ranging from banking and finance to manufacturing to energy to transportation, and so on. While many technological and business related blockchain developments and challenges have been identified, many of these engineering and management challenges have not been addressed. The ongoing interest in this topic is also partly evidenced by

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In this article we analyze the case of TD-SCDMA system standardization in China. Specifically, we focus on the leading role that government-controlled enterprises (GCEs) played in the standardization, and how the Chinese government supported GCEs. The case study findings advance current knowledge on how governments support standardization efforts in a catching-up context. We found that, under strong

Changeability and evolvability analysis can aid an engineer tasked with a maintenance or an evolution task. This article applies change mining and evolution mining to evolving distributed systems. First, we propose a Service Change Classifier based Interface Slicing algorithm that mines change information from two versions of an evolving distributed system. To compare old and new versions, the following

As part of business and management studies, research works addressed blockchain technology (BCT) in logistics and supply chain management (LSCM) first in 2016. Increasing levels of interest from researchers and practitioners alike have led to an increasing number of studies from both ends; however, a thorough bibliometric- and cocitation network analysis of BCT in LSCM research has not been carried

The byzantine agreement protocol has a disadvantage that there are many limitations on node scalability, because the performance degradation may occur due to a large amount of traffic. Hence, this classical byzantine agreement algorithm seems to be infeasible to achieve scale-out performance with the same level of security as a Bitcoin. In order to improve the performance degradation due to a large

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Globalization has been a main driver for firms’ entry into standard-setting organizations (SSOs). These global multifirm settings have caught attention due to tensions arising from simultaneous collaboration and competition among firms as well as due to the increasing geographical complexity of the standardization process. SSOs present one form of a multifirm environment, where companies proactively

Research on new product development (NPD) has grown considerably over the last 30 years interweaving with serval fields of study such as strategy, marketing, supply chain management, and project management. This article offers an overview of the development of the NPD management literature published over the last ten years (2008 to 2018) in 1226 peer-reviewed articles. By applying bibliometric analysis

A vibrant development is currently taking place in entrepreneurial finance due to the field's digital evolution over recent years. This article aims to assess the interplay between four of the key phenomena that has fuelled this development, namely crowdfunding, blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, and initial coin offerings (ICOs). By making use of social media analytics, public discussions

Blockchain technology has created an excitement that was last seen two decades ago when the Internet was entering the mainstream. An appealing feature of blockchain technology is smart contracts. A smart contract is an executable code. It runs on top of the blockchain facilitating an agreement between untrusted parties. These smart contracts have a major limitation, namely they cannot operate on information

E-health systems have witnessed widespread usage in the last few years, mainly due to advancements in health monitoring hardware and the availability of remote diagnostic services. Given the numerous benefits, there are two main challenges: management of the e-health ecosystem and security and privacy of sensitive data. The former results from nonunified, redundant, and often replicated information

With the continuous development of distributed ledger and blockchain technologies, new use cases apart from cryptocurrencies have come into the spotlight. In this article, we evaluate whether an e-government service could be a suitable candidate for a blockchain transformation. We selected as a reference test system an existing cross-border e-government service that is used for supporting goods exchanges

Standards competition is a complicated process influenced by a large number of factors and mechanisms. This article develops a simulation model that draws on current theory of standards competition dynamics and represents the interplay of strategic factors that firms can use to gain a competitive advantage. The model is used to reproduce four published cases of standards competition and explore alternative

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) poses multiple challenges to traditional standardization, due to the complexity, dynamics, and accelerating speed of technological progress. The need for a timely availability of standards calls for new approaches and tools to enhance standardization processes for smart manufacturing. Industry and standards development organizations worldwide are seeking new

In this article, we propose the first self-tallying decentralized e-voting protocol for a ranked-choice voting system based on Borda count. Our protocol does not need any trusted setup or tallying authority to compute the tally. The voters interact through a publicly accessible bulletin board for executing the protocol in a way that is publicly verifiable. Our main protocol consists of two rounds.

In this article, design and development of smart systems require cooperation of different technical disciplines. This multidisciplinarity represents a challenge for today's ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) standardization environment. This environment has evolved over the years and today comprises a huge variety of hundreds of Standards Setting Organisations, partly interconnected by

Price fluctuation in agricultural products that adversely affects the actors of the market is a serious issue influenced by many factors. Uncertainty in yield estimation of the products can be counted as one of the major factors. It is a fact that an effective yield estimation method may help decision-making actors to develop effective and stable production and price policies. There are traditional

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the concept of physical objects equipped with identifying, sensing, networking, and processing capabilities being connected to the Internet. Architectures for the IoT typically rely on transmitting data to centralized cloud servers for processing. Although cloud services are supposed to enhance the IoT in storage, computation, and communication capabilities, this

In the light of digitalization and recent EU policy initiatives, information is an important asset that organizations of all sizes and from all sectors should secure. However, in order to provide common requirements for the implementation of an information security management system, the internationally well-accepted ISO/IEC 27001 standard has not shown the expected growth rate since its publication

The rapid evolution of blockchain technology has brought together stakeholders from fundamentally different backgrounds. The result is a diverse ecosystem, as exemplified by the development of a wide range of different blockchain protocols. This raises questions for decision and policy makers: How do different protocols compare? What are their tradeoffs? Existing efforts to survey the area reveal a

Supply chain literature has long recognized the benefits of information sharing. Researchers and practitioners see high potential for improving processes, enabling new replenishment policies, and enhancing supply chain integration. Even though information technology represents a vital role as a driver and a success factor for implementing information sharing, established technologies still do not reflect

The advancements in the fields of IT and robotics are provoking the fourth industrial revolution and transforming our economy toward the machine economy. Billions of economically autonomous machines engaging in business relationships raise novel requirements regarding security, privacy, regulation, business models, trustful transaction processing, and interoperability. A technology that promises to

Public key infrastructures (PKIs) provide the foundations for securing Internet communications. Currently, PKIs are operated by centralized authorities, which have been involved in numerous security incidents. Blockchain or smart contract PKIs employ their distributed, fault-tolerant log of transactions to store either all identity records, or, constant-sized data to verify identity records stored

Blockchain technology is a secure and distributed information accounting, storage, and retrieval modality which has the ability to disrupt and revolutionize business practices. One such disruption resides in the capability of Blockchain to serve as a secure method for storing and sharing electronic medical records in new and innovative ways. Current medical record storage and transmission methods are

IoT devices provide a significant medium for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In 2016, a large-scale DDoS attack, named Dyn, caused massive damage to several well-known companies. One effective countermeasure is observing previous network traffic information or abnormal behavior determined by the host machines and determining the latest DDoS-attack IP addresses. Because of the lack of

Extreme events such as hurricanes cause damages to various infrastructures, including power supply and transportation networks. Restoration of power supply services after extreme events is crucial for disaster response and recovery activities. With damages to transportation and other supply chain networks following extreme events, energy utility companies face significant challenges in achieving faster

With increasing adoption of cloud services in the e-market, collaboration between stakeholders is easier than ever. Consumer stakeholders demand data from various sources to analyze trends and improve customer services. Data-as-a-service enables data integration to serve the demands of data consumers. However, the data must be of good quality and trustful for accurate analysis and effective decision

Invoice financing has been a steadily growing component of the financing market as a whole for the last few years, and, in 2016, it became the third largest financing market. Nonetheless, the risk of frauds is still very high, and most solutions proposed so far are based on private, proprietary platforms that cannot match the global nature of such a market. Even the most recent proposals based on blockchain

The advancements in information and communication technologies have propelled the efforts of various nations toward a disaster-ready society. This progression has even conceived a new term called as smart disaster management (SDM). This profound interest and popularity of SDM among the nations in recent years has led to a considerable number of research publications in this domain. Henceforth, the

Developing a reliable parametric cost model at the conceptual stage of the project is crucial for project managers and decision makers. Existing methods, such as probabilistic and statistical algorithms have been developed for project cost prediction. However, these methods are unable to produce accurate results for conceptual cost prediction due to small and unstable data samples. Artificial intelligence

With growing data volumes and the scaling of data center clusters, communication resources often become a bottleneck in service provisioning for many MapReduce applications (e.g., training machine learning models). Therefore, data placements that bring data blocks closer to data consumers (e.g., MapReduce applications) are seen as a promising solution. In this article, we propose an efficient data-placement

Blockchain, the underlying technology of digital currency, such as Bitcoin, has the characteristics of decentralization, stability, security, anonymity, and nontampering. Blockchain is being applied in an increasing number of fields. Supply chain finance is a financing model in which banks connect core enterprises with upstream and downstream enterprises to provide flexible financial products and services

Blockchain technology is an enabler of value transactions on decentralized, secure databases (ledgers). Despite still being in its early stages, we expect blockchain's impact on business and society to be disruptive. We provide a theory-based examination of blockchain technology's transformational impact from a business model and ecosystem perspective to accelerate the debate on its potential effects

The attribute-based encryption (ABE) has drawn a lot of attention for fine-grained access control in blockchains, especially in blockchain-enabled tampering-resistant Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. However, its adoption has been severely hindered by the incompatibility between the immutability of typical blockchains and the attribute updates/revocations of ABE. In this article, we propose a new

Traditional centralized data storage and processing solutions manifest limitations with regards to overall operational cost and the security and auditability of data. One of the biggest issues with existing solutions is the difficulty of keeping track of who has had access to the data and how the data may have changed over its lifetime; while providing a secure and easy-to-use mechanism to share the

Due to increased competitive pressure, modern organizations tend to rely on knowledge and its exploitation to sustain a long-term advantage. This calls for a precise understanding of knowledge management (KM) processes and, specifically, how knowledge is created, shared/transferred, acquired, stored/retrieved, and applied throughout an organizational system. However, since the beginning of the new

As service-oriented computing (SOC) technologies gradually mature, developing service-based systems (such as mashups) has become increasingly popular in recent years. Faced with the rapidly increasing number of Web services, recommending appropriate component services for developers on demand is a vital issue in the development of mashups. In particular, since a new mashup to develop contains no component

Evacuation drills are critical to ensure safety and to evaluate emergency preparedness. However, drills are overly expensive in terms of the involved resources. Before conducting drills, it is possible to test the infrastructure under stress using computer simulation (combined with optimization) to identify critical points (hotspots) that could improve the flow dynamics during a real evacuation or

Blockchain technology has received significant attention recently, as it offers a reliable decentralized infrastructure for all kinds of business transactions. Software-producing organizations are increasingly considering blockchain technology for inclusion into their software products. Selecting the best fitting blockchain platform requires the assessment of its functionality, adaptability, and compatibility

Cross-border data sharing for knowledge generation is a challenging research direction since an application may access personal data stored in countries different from the one where the application is accessed from. In this article, we propose a cross-border data sharing platform where a global cloud is built atop multiple security gateways that are set up in different countries. Once an application

Effective safety procedures play a fundamental role in high-risk industrial contexts, because the occurrence of an accident can cause environmental catastrophes, severe damages to the structures, and fatal injuries to the workers. In particular, maintaining detailed and up-to-date information about potential accident areas is a crucial issue to prevent the occurrence of disasters and to safely plan

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are considered one of the main strategies employed by firms to maintain a competitive edge and compete in the high-velocity global industry. This research field holds great promise as many facets are underexplored. Taking into consideration the growing interdisciplinary interest in M&A research, in this article, we performed content analysis in combination

Airlift operations are vital to support contingency plans during the major humanitarian and disaster relief (HDR) events. The access to disaster zones is often limited by unsafe conditions, poor road infrastructure, and lack of commercial air services. To overcome these limitations, the development of larger planes has allowed bulkier equipment and larger quantities of supplies to be transported by

Severe catastrophic natural disasters adversely affect housing stock and regional capacity to build and repair houses, with unfavorable impacts on the business continuity of industrial and business organizations resting on that affected community. Restoring industrial capacity and business continuity is crucial for the organizations’ survival in the aftermath of a disaster but the process takes time