Special Issue Research Articles

Preface of the Special Issue Dedicated to Selected Papers from IWOCA 2022

Preface of the Special Issue Dedicated to Selected Papers from IWOCA 2022

Preface for the special issue in honor of Joel Spruck

Preface for the special issue in honor of Joel Spruck

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Learning Theories and Methods With Application to Digitized Process Manufacturing

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Learning Theories and Methods With Application to Digitized Process Manufacturing

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine: Call for Special Issue Proposals

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine: Call for Special Issue Proposals

Foreword for the special issue on geo-disasters and their countermeasures

Foreword for the special issue on geo-disasters and their countermeasures

Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Establishing a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis and Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology and Beyond

In a 2019 Internet Archaeology article, Elizabeth Pearson posed the question 'are we back in the Dark Ages?'. This question was made in reference to a developer-funded archaeology sector that was generating vast quantities of evidence and, particularly, in recent years, specialist environmental data, but was failing to mobilise this in a theoretical framework that generated meaningful advancement in terms of research. The introduction to the 2021 Internet Archaeology special issue on Digital Archiving in Archaeology (Richards et al. 2021) went on to address 'a digital resource that is now in jeopardy' – not only because of the risk of technical obsolescence, but also because of crucial limitations to its interoperability and discoverability. This article builds on these arguments and complements vital work underway on high-level, internationally focused data infrastructure initiatives (e.g. Wright and Richards 2018). We emphasise here the importance of parallel discussions at a community level, particularly with the people who routinely produce archaeological data, as key to enhancing data synthesis and research potential. Specifically, we report on two surveys conducted by the 'Rewilding' Later Prehistory project at Oxford Archaeology, in collaboration with Historic England and Bournemouth University, which originated in the 'Rewilding' project's concern with improving access to palaeoenvironmental data produced within Britain. Substantial amounts of zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical data remain buried in grey literature, limited-access publications and archive reports (not to mention floppy disks, CDs and microfiche), with no integrative means of searching for particular periods or categories of evidence. This lack of accessibility inhibits specialists from contextualising their findings, and was exemplified recently by the Archaeology on Furlough project tripling the known number of aurochs finds in Britain by trawling online records, journals and museum records (Wiseman 2020). The results of the surveys presented here, which targeted both environmental archaeologists specifically and the wider sector, demonstrate a significant appetite amongst archaeologists to improve data networks and for their work to contribute meaningfully to research agendas. Contextualised within a disciplinary landscape that is increasingly dynamic in its approach to tackling the openness and connectivity of 'big data', we argue that better data synthesis in environmental archaeology, and the developer-funded sector more broadly, can be more than just a mirage on the horizon, particularly once the people who produce the data are given an active voice in the matter.

Computational approaches to Portuguese: introduction to the special issue

Computational approaches to Portuguese: introduction to the special issue

Call for a Guest Editor for a Special Issue

Call for a Guest Editor for a Special Issue

WITHDRAWAL – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Communication and Visual Literacy (Part One)

WITHDRAWAL – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Communication and Visual Literacy (Part One)

Introduction to the Special Issue on Parasitic Flowering Plants in Forests

Introduction to the Special Issue on Parasitic Flowering Plants in Forests

Celebrating Donald R. Farrar's Contribution to Botrychium Research: Introduction to an American Fern Journal Special Issue

Celebrating Donald R. Farrar's Contribution to Botrychium Research: Introduction to an American Fern Journal Special Issue

Transportation-Enabled Services: Concept, Framework, and Research Opportunities

As a result of rapid advancements in urban infrastructure and technology, transportation is transforming a variety of innovative and emerging services. This paper introduces the concept of transportation-enabled services (TRENS), which is a service model that uses transportation systems to enable and enhance the delivery, accessibility, and effectiveness of nontransportation services. We establish a general framework in which the transportation-enabled services involve four key stakeholders: customers, suppliers, TRENS providers, and transportation carriers. Within this general framework, we present five specific service models: a one-sided market, three variants of two-sided markets, and a three-sided market, each characterized by the interactions among suppliers, TRENS providers, and transportation carriers. Taking different models of transportation-enabled services into consideration, we highlight crucial research opportunities to enhance understanding of the planning, operations, evaluation, and regulation of transportation-enabled services. These research opportunities include demand and supply management, transportation system management and operations, coordination among stakeholders, and the evaluation and regulation of transportation-enabled services. We believe that the emergence, widespread adoption, and popularity of transportation-enabled services will significantly enhance and reshape many services and thus contribute to the overall improvement of future mobility in the broader context of smart cities. History: This paper has been accepted for the Service Science Special Issue on Innovation in Transportation-Enabled Urban Services. Funding: The work of Hai Wang was supported by the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship awarded by Singapore Management University. The work of Hao Sun was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grants 72301179].

Editorial of the Special Issue “Novel Oil–Water Separation Technologies Applied in Marine Environmental Science”

The marine environment, a vital component of the Earth’s ecosystem, is increasingly threatened by pollution, and notably by oil spills [...]

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning-Based Control: Data-Efficient and Resilient Methods

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning-Based Control: Data-Efficient and Resilient Methods

Introduction to special issue: The economics of catastrophes

Introduction to special issue: The economics of catastrophes

Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue on Water and Rivers in the South (Part 1)

Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue on Water and Rivers in the South (Part 1)

Editorial: Friendshoring, Nearshoring, Greenshoring and Resshoring: Changing Faces of Global Supply Chains and its Impact on International Economic Law - Introduction to the Special Issue

Editorial: Friendshoring, Nearshoring, Greenshoring and Resshoring: Changing Faces of Global Supply Chains and its Impact on International Economic Law - Introduction to the Special Issue

Investigating How Social Justice Framing for Assessments Impacts Technical Learning

Multiple studies call for engineering education to integrate social justice into classroom instruction. Yet, there is uncertainty regarding whether integrating these social topics into engineering curriculum will support or detract from the learning of technical concepts. This study focuses on evaluating how reframing technical assessments to include social justice concepts impacts student learning and investigates how well students integrate social justice into engineering decision making. Using a within-subject design, in which students were exposed to both conditions (questions with and without social justice context), we evaluate how social justice framing impacts overall student learning of technical topics. Social justice prompts are added to homework questions, and we assess students’ demonstration of knowledge of original technical content of the course, as well as their ability to consider social justice implications of engineering design. In the earlier homework assignment, the experimental group showed a significant decrease in learning when technical concepts were framed to include social justice. As the students became more familiar with social justice considerations, their learning of technical concepts became comparable to that of students who did not have the social justice components in their assignment. Their evaluation of the social implications of technical decisions also improved. History: This paper has been accepted for the INFORMS Transactions on Education Special Issue on DEI in ORMS Classrooms. Funding: This work was supported by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Wimmer Faculty Fellowship and the National Science Foundation [Grant 2053856]. D. Nock also acknowledges support from the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, where she is an energy fellow. Supplemental Material: The online appendices are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/ited.2022.0030 .

The role of innovation in for‐profit firms' tackling of grand challenges: Special issue editorial

The role of innovation in for‐profit firms' tackling of grand challenges: Special issue editorial

ISC/SCI conference 2023: ‘ See also Newfoundland’

The Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) held its first post-pandemic in-person conference on 9–10 June 2023 in St John’s, Newfoundland. This brief overview sets the scene for the articles in this special issue of The Indexer , which is largely devoted to articles based on a selection of the conference presentations.