About this journal

International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS) is a world leading journal dedicated to publishing high quality, rigorously reviewed, original papers that contribute to the methodology and practice in emerging systems engineering themes of intelligence, autonomy and complexity.

Modern systems are becoming more and more complex and sophisticated in their demand for performance, reliability and increasing autonomy. Historically, highly analytic and numeric-based methods have sufficed, frequently simplifying the problem to allow analytical tractability. Many manufactured and natural systems (biological, ecological and socio-economic) cannot be adequately represented or analyzed without requiring multiple interacting and interconnected frameworks and a common information-processing framework. A wide range of new theories, methodologies and techniques are required to ‘enable’ such systems, and thus engineering and integration to deal with these demands.

IJSS therefore encourages original submissions in these areas, with special focus on papers that are strongly novel as well as not being overly applied. Proposals for special issues in cutting-edge areas of systems science are encouraged, and should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief.

Papers that cover those topics related to operations management and logistics will not be accepted for publication in IJSS. Instead they should be submitted directly to sister journal International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics.

Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.

Editor-in-Chief

Zidong Wang, Department of Computer Science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK. Email:  [email protected]

Consulting Editors

Andrew J. Chipperfield, University of Southampton, UK
Alexandre. Dolgui, IMT Atlantique, France
Peter Fleming, University of Sheffield, UK
James Lam, University of Hong Kong, China
Tong Heng Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Antonio Ruano, Universidad do Algarve, Portugal
Peng Shi, University of Adelaide, Australia
Sarah K. Spurgeon, University College London, UK

Special Events Editor

Qing-Long Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Associate Editors

Michael Basin, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Laura Celentano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Michael Defoort, University of Valenciennes, France
Zhengtao Ding, University of Manchester, UK
Simon G. Fabri, University of Malta, Malta
Huijun Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Quanbo Ge, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Liang Hu, University of Essex, UK
Dmitry Ivanov, HWR Berlin, Germany
George Konstantopoulos, University of Sheffield, UK
Salah Laghrouche, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Zi-Qiang Lang, University of Sheffield, UK
Sangmoon Lee, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Shuai Li, Swansea University, UK
Xiaodi Li, Shandong Normal University, China
Jinling Liang, Southeast University, China
Chong Lin, Qingdao University, China
Jinfeng Liu, University of Alberta, Canada
Lei Liu, Liaoning University of Technology, China
Lifeng Ma, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China
Yugang Niu, East China University of Science & Technology, China
Dobrila Petrovic, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Jerzy Respondek, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Chee Pin Tan, Monash University, Australia
Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University, UK
Alessandro Vargas, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Min Wang, South China University of Technology, China
James F. Whidborne, Cranfield University, UK
Frank Woittennek, Institute of Automation and Control Engineering, UMIT, Austria
Zeshui Xu, Sichuan University, China
Kaoru Yamamoto, Kyushu University, Japan
Guang-Hong Yang, Northeastern University, China
Sung Jin Yoo, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Chris Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Guangdeng Zong, Qufu Normal University, China
Lei Zou, Brunel University, UK

Past Editors-in-Chief

Visakan Kadirkamanathan, University of Sheffield, UK [2003-2020]
Peter Fleming, University of Sheffield, UK [2003-2017]
Chris J. Harris, University of Southampton, UK [1994-2003]
Brian Porter, University of Salford, UK [1970-94] 

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