期刊名称：PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Published eight times a year, Production Planning & Control is an international journal which brings together research papers on all aspects of production planning and control, and provides a medium for their rapid publication. In addition, the Journal has successfully created a greater understanding between researchers and managers in industry, by publishing accessible articles on research and industrial applications, new techniques and development trends.
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Production Planning & Control publishes keynote papers (by invitation), research papers with an applied bias, state-of-the-art reviews, tutorial reviews, case studies, reports on applications, conference reports and book reviews.
In essence, Production Planning & Control occupies the middle ground between research and the descriptive technical approach to production planning and control, and focuses on a holistic approach to the subject.
To be published in Production Planning & Control, a paper will have been reviewed and accepted by at least two competent experts in the field. Reviewers are drawn from the Editorial Board and a list of occasional reviewers who have been nominated for their expertise. Reviewers' comments are based on relevance to the field, particularly applicability in industry, besides originality and scientific rigour.
The journal is covered by the Science Citation Index, and its current impact factor is 0.224.
Instructions to Authors
***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.***
Contributors to Production Planning & Control should send their manuscripts to the appropriate Editor:
Stephen J Childe, Editor
MABS, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA United Kingdom
E-mail: S.Childe@Plymouth.ac.uk
Bjørn Andersen, Co-Editor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
E-mail: Bjorn.Andersen@ipk.ntnu.no
Marco Garetti, Book Reviews Editor
Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
E-mail: garetti@mail.ecopro.polimi.it
Kai Mertins, Research Review Editor
FhG Berlin, Germany
E-mail: kai.mertins@ipk.fhg.de
Scope
Now published eight times a year, Production Planning & Control is an international journal which aims to bring together research papers on all aspects of production planning and control, and provide a medium for their rapid publication; and to create a greater understanding between researchers and managers in industry by publishing accessible articles on research and industrial applications, new techniques and development trends. Production Planning & Control publishes keynote papers (by invitation), research papers with an applied bias, state-of-the-art reviews, tutorial reviews, case studies, reports on applications, conference reports and book reviews. Production Planning & Control occupies the middle ground between research and the descriptive technical approach to production planning and control, and focuses on a holistic approach to the subject
About Taylor & Francis
The foundations of Taylor & Francis were laid in pioneering fashion in 1798. Richard Taylor printed and launched the Philosophical Magazine, one of the first scientific journals published by an independent company.
It was the start of a close collaboration with scholarly societies which was cultivated throughout the 1880s. The company became the printer for the Royal Astronomical Society, the Geological Society, the Zoological Society, the Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanical Society, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society and the Linnean Society of London. With the proliferation of periodicals and information generated by learned societies at the turn of the century, Taylor & Francis also became pioneers in the field of abstracting journals, and in 1890 the company became the first printer of Science Abstracts the precursor of today's Physics Abstracts.
Book publishing was a mostly secondary concern for the company until the 1960s, when significant expansion was implemented at all levels from schoolbooks to high level monographs. Since then the focus of book publishing has been predominantly at the undergraduate level and above, with an ever larger number of subject areas brought into the programme. The principles which drove the founders of Taylor and Francis are still paramount today. Academic scholarship must be of the highest quality which will be reflected in appropriate production practices and values. We hope that we remain true to those principles and that being a Taylor and Francis author is still a pleasant, profitable and proud experience.
Contacting Taylor & Francis
Production Editor, Production Planning & Control, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
email: Luke.Williams@tandf.co.uk
Submitting a paper to Production Planning & Control
Please read these Guidelines with care and attention: failure to follow them may result in your paper being delayed. Note especially the referencing conventions used by Production Planning & Control. For all manuscripts, non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms may not be used.
Production Planning & Control considers all manuscripts on condition they are the property (copyright) of the submitting author(s) and that copyright will be transferred to Production Planning & Control and Taylor & Francis Ltd if the paper is accepted.
Production Planning & Control considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Production Planning & Control, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication, nor in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged all costs which Production Planning & Control incurs, and their papers will not be published.
All papers will be reviewed by anonymous referees. Based on their statement the Editor will decide if your paper is to be accepted or rejected. If it is accepted, it will in most cases be on the condition that the manuscript is revised according to the referees' instructions.
Writing your paper
- Please write clearly and concisely, stating your objectives clearly and defining your terms. Your arguments should be substantiated with well-reasoned supporting evidence.
- For all manuscripts, non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms may not be used.
- Manuscripts must not exceed 6000 words or 20 double line-spaced typescript pages including all illustrations, tables and appendices.
- Each manuscript must contain an abstract (100 - 200 words) and 3-5 keywords and should precede the text of a paper.
- Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted.
- Manuscripts should be typed on one single side of A4 or 8 x 11 inch good quality white paper, double-spaced throughout, including the reference section.
- Accepted manuscripts in their final, revised versions, may also be submitted as electronic word processing files on disk - see 'Electronic Processing'.
- For publication a photograph and a biography of each author is required.
- Authors should include telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses on the cover page of manuscripts.
- Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing that have previously been published in the journal, and where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.
Electronic Processing
We strongly encourage you to send us the final, revised version of your article in both hard (paper) and electronic (disk) forms. This Guide sets out the procedures which will assure we can process your article efficiently. It is divided into three sections:
1. a guide for authors using standard word-processing software packages
2. a guide for authors using LaTeX mathematical software packages
3. a guide for authors using graphics software packages
There are some general rules that apply to all three options.
- These guides do not apply to authors who are submitting an article for consideration and peer review; they apply only to authors whose articles have been reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication.
- Print out your hard (paper) copy from the disk you are sending; it is essential that the hard-copy printout is identical to the material on the disk; where versions differ, the hard copy will take precedence. We advise that you maintain back-ups of your files.
- Save and send your files on a standard 3.5 inch high density disk (Mac or PC); please do not attempt to send the article via file transfer protocol or email.
- When saving your article onto a disk, please make sure that the files do not exceed a manageable size. Please ensure that figures are saved on a separate disk.
- Ensure that the files are not saved as read only.
- Virus-check your disk before sending it to the Editor.
- Label your disk.
- Package disks in such a way as to avoid damage in the post.
- Disks are not returnable after publication.
If you are not sure about the usability of your disk, contact the Production Editor, Production Planning & Control, Taylor & Francis, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN, UK, e-mail: Kirstin.Heilmann@tandf.co.uk
1. A guide for authors using standard word-processing software packages
For the main text of your article, most standard PC or Mac word-processing software packages are acceptable, although we prefer Microsoft Word in a PC format. Word-processed files should be prepared according to the journal style. Avoid the use of embedded footnotes. For numbered tables, use the table function provided with the word-processing package. All text should be saved in one file with the complete text (including the title page, abstract, all sections of the body of the paper, references), followed by numbered tables and the figure captions.
You should send the following to the Editor:
- a 3.5-inch disk containing the final, accepted version of the paper
- include an ASCII/text only version on the disk as well as the word processed version if possible
- two hard copy printouts
Disks should be clearly labelled with the following information:
1. Journal title
2. Name of author
3. File names contained on disk
4. Hardware used (PC or Mac)
5. Software used (name and version)
2. A guide for authors using LaTeX mathematical software packages
Authors who wish to prepare their articles using the LaTeX document preparation system are advised to use article.sty (for LaTex 2.09) or article.cls (for LaTex2e). The use of macros should be kept to an absolute minimum but if any are used they should be gathered together in the file, just before the \begin{document} command
You should send the following to the Editor:
- a 3.5-inch disk containing the final, accepted version of the paper
- the files you send must be text-only (often called an ASCII file), with no system-dependent control codes
- two hard copy printouts
Disks should be clearly labelled with the following information:
1. Journal title
2. Name of author
3. File names contained on disk
4. Hardware used (PC or Mac)
5. Software used (name and version)
3. A guide for authors using graphics software packages
We welcome figures on disk, but care and attention to these guidelines is essential, as importing graphics packages can often be problematic.
1. Figures must be saved on a separate disk from the text.
2. Colour can not be reproduced. Avoid the use of shading, as this does not reproduce well. Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible.
3. High quality reproducible hard copy for all line figures (printed out from your electronic files at a minimum of 600 dpi) must be supplied in case the disks are unusable; photographs and transparencies can be accepted as hard copy only. Photocopies will not be accepted.
4. All figures must be numbered in the order in which they occur (e.g. figure 1, figure 2 etc.). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1 (a), figure 1 (b) etc.)
5. The figure captions must be saved as a separate file with the text and numbered correspondingly.
6. The filename for the graphic should be descriptive of the graphic e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
7. Files should be saved as TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), containing all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g., CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
Disks should be clearly labelled with the following information:
1. Journal title
2. Name of author
3. Figures contained on disk
4. Hardware used (PC or Mac)
5. Software used (name and version)
Abstracts
Structured abstracts are required for all papers, and should be submitted as detailed below, following the title and author's name and address, preceding the main text.
For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research and for application in practice.
For review essays, state the primary objective of the review; the reasoning behind your literature selection; the way you critically analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your review; and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their implications for further research or application/practice. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
Copyright permission
Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table, or extensive (more than fifty word) extract from the text, from a source which is copyrighted - or owned - by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor.
This applies both to direct reproduction or 'derivative reproduction' - when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source.
The following form of words can be used in seeking permission:
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Dear [COPYRIGHT HOLDER]
I/we are preparing for publication an article entitled
[STATE TITLE]
to be published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Production Planning & Control.
I/we should be grateful if you would grant us permission to include the following materials:
[STATE FIGURE NUMBER AND ORGINAL SOURCE]
We are requesting non-exclusive rights in this edition and in all forms. It is understood, of course, that full acknowledgement will be given to the source.
Please note that Taylor & Francis are signatories of and respect the spirit of the STM Agreement regarding the free sharing and dissemination of scholarly information.
Your prompt consideration of this request would be greatly appreciated.
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Notes on style
All authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of Production Planning & Control. Clearly explain - or avoid the use of - terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience. However, note also that Production Planning & Control does not aspire to be international in the ways that McDonald's restaurants or Hilton Hotels are international; we much prefer papers that, where appropriate, reflect the particularities of each social and cultural system.
Some specific points of style for the text of articles, research reports, case studies, reports, essay reviews, and reviews follow:
1. We prefer US to 'American', USA to 'United States', and UK to 'United Kingdom'.
2. We use conservative (British, not US) spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [school] programme not program; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organisation not organization; analyse not analyze, etc.
3. Single 'quotes' are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the 'quote is "within" another quote'.
4. Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'.
5. Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf. Note that such abbreviations are not followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.
6. Long dashes (m-dash) should be clearly indicated in the manuscript by either a clear dash ( - ) or a double hyphen (--).
7. We are sparing in our use of the upper case in headings and references, e.g. only the first word in paper titles and all subheadings is in upper case; titles of papers from journals in the references and other places are not in upper case.
8. Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'The 1980s [not the 1980's] saw ...'. Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. PA), should be written as follows: 'The APU's findings that ...', but note that the plural is APUs.
9. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work of the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) in the early 1980s ...'. Subsequently, 'The APU studies of achievement ...', in a reference ... (Department of Education and Science [DES] 1989a).
10. Brief biographical details of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally. Some suggested editorial emendations to a 'typical' text are indicated in the following with square brackets: 'From the time of H. E. Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a shift from heurism to constructivism in the design of [British] science courses'.
11. The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers. For the USA, 'African-American', 'Hispanic' and 'Native American' are used, e.g. 'The African American presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson...'; for the UK, 'Afro-Caribbean' (not 'West Indian'), etc.
12. Material to be emphasised (italicised in the printed version) should be underlined in the typescript rather than italicised. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
Mathematics
Special care should be taken with mathematical scripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter 'ell' and the figure one, and the letter 'oh 'and the figure zero. If your keyboard does not have the characters you need, it is preferable to use longhand, in which case it is important to differentiate between capital and small letters, K, k and x and other similar groups of letters. Special symbols should be highlighted in the text and explained in the margin. In some cases it is helpful to supply annotated lists of symbols for the guidance of the sub-editor and the typesetter, and/or a 'Nomenclature' section preceding the 'Introduction'.
For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, I /(n-1). Exceptions are the proper fractions available as single type on a keyboard.
Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line. Horizontal lines are preferable to solidi, for example:
The solidus is not generally used for units: ms - 1 not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc. Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially (1, 2, etc.) on the right hand side of the page. Short expressions not referred to by any number will usually be incorporated in the text. Symbols should not be underlined to indicate fonts except for tensors, vectors and matrices, which are indicated with a wavy line in the manuscript (not with a straight arrow or arrow above) and rendered in heavy type in print: upright sans serif r (tensor), sloping serif r (vector) upright serif r (matrix). Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic. Authors will be charged for corrections at proof stage resulting from a failure to do so. Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (i.e. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators)
Notes on tables and figures
1. Tables and figures should be valuable, relevant, and visually attractive. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered in order of their appearance. Each table and figure should have a complete, descriptive title; and each table column an appropriate heading.Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: figure 1, table 1, i.e. lower case. 'As seen in table [or figure] 1 ...' (not Tab., fig. or Fig).
2. The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on a manuscript: [Insert table 2 about here]
3. Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text.
4. All figures and tables must be on separate sheets and not embedded in the text. Original copies of figures should be supplied. All figures should allow for reduction to column width (130 mm) or page width (160mm). Please avoid figures that would require landscape reproduction, i.e., reading from bottom to top of the page. Photographs may be sent as glossy prints or negatives. Please number each figure on the reverse in pencil. Do not type the caption to a figure on that figure; the legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the main text and should be grouped together.
Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements authors wish to make should be included in a separate headed section at the end of the manuscript. Please do not incorporate these into the biography or notes.
Book reviews
1. The following header material should appear in all reviews in the following order (note also the punctuation): The Politics of Social Research. By Martyn Hammersley (Sage, London, 1995), 192 pp., £35.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-8039-7718-2, £11.95 (pbk), ISBN 0-8039-7719.
2. Page references within reviews should be given as follows: (p. 337) or (pp. 36-37).
Citations in text
1. 'Ibid.' (and the like) are not used when repeating citations. Simply repeat the original citation verbatim, e.g. (Orwell 1945).
2. Citations should be included in prefatory material to quotes (wherever possible) rather than placing them at the end. Thus, for example, 'Orwell (1945: 23) reduces the principles of animalism to seven commandments, namely, ...' is preferred to 'Orwell reduced the principles of animalism to seven commandments, namely, ... (Orwell 1945: 23)'.
3. Multiple citations within parentheses should be divided by a comma, not a semi-colon, and there should be no use of '&' within such multiple references. References to works published in the same year should be cited as, e.g. (Smith 1991a, b).
4. Multiple citations within a text should be ordered by date, not alphabetically by author's name, e.g. (Smith 1902, Jones and Bower 1934, Brown 1955, 1958a, b, Green 1995).
5. 'et al.' may be used in references within the text when a paper or book has three or more authors, but note that all names should be given in the reference itself.
6. Page spans in references should be given in full, e.g. 'Sedgewick (1935: 102-103; emphasis added) outlines them as follows:'.
References
Production Planning & Control uses the following conventions for references:
1. Reference to a book:
KIDD, P. L. 1994, Agile Manufacturing, Forging New Frontiers (Addison-Wesley).
2. Reference to a chapter in a book:
GLOVER, F., and LAGUNA, M., 1993, Tabu search. In C. Reeves (ed.) Modern Heuristic Techniques for Combinatorial Problems (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 70-150.
3. Reference to an article in a journal:
FRANSOO, J. C., and RUTTEN, W. G. M. M., 1994, A Typology of production control situations in process industries. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 14, (12), 47-57.
4. Proceedings, technical reports and unpublished literature
WORTMANN, J.C., 1989, Towards an integrated theory for design, production and production management of complex, one of a kind products in the factory of the future. ESPRIT' 89, Proceedings of the 6th Annual ESPRIT Conference (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 1089-1099. GLOVER, F., and LAGUNA, M., 1991, Bin packing with tabu search. Technical Report, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
5. Reference to a newspaper or magazine
RICHARDS, H., 1996, Republican elite? The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November, 16.
6. Reference to an Internet source
Internet references should be avoided where there is an alternative (printed) source. Internet references may only be used for material that is of acceptable quality (such as following peer review), that is fixed, i.e. it will not be changed, and that is expected to be available for a prolonged period, such as 20 years. Give the universal resource locator in full, e.g. http://acsinfo.acs.org/instruct/instruct.html
7. Reference to a personal communication
BRANNEN, J., 1996, Personal communication.
8. Reference to a case in law
In text, italicise names of plaintiffs and defendants: Miranda v. Arizona 1974
9. Reference to government legislation
US Congress, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1956) The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th Congress, second session, report 2273. US Congress, House Committee on Banking & Currency (1945) Bretton Woods Agreements Act: Hearings on HR 3314, 79th Congress, first session, report 452. United Kingdom Parliament, Committee on the Working of the Monetary System [Radcliffe Committee] (1960) Principal Memoranda of Evidence, vol. 2, Cmd 1958. United Nations General Assembly, Secretariat for Economic Affairs (1951) Methods of Financing Economic Development in Less Developed Countries, report II B 2.
Editorial Board
Dr Stephen J. Childe - Manufacturing and Business Systems (MABS), University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA United Kingdom
Founding Editor:
Professor Asbjørn Rolstadås - Norway
Co-Editor:
Associate Professor Bjørn Andersen - Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Book Reviews Editor:
Professor Marco Garetti - Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Research Review Editor:
Dr Ing. Kai Mertins - Director Systems Planning, Frauenhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany
International Editorial Board:
Dr E. O. P. Akpan - Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Dr U Bititci - DMEM University of Strathclyde, UK
Professor J. Browne - National University of Ireland Galway
Professor A. S. Carrie - University of Strathclyde, UK
Professor Y. Chen - Tsinghua University, China
Professor T. C. E. Cheng - Hong Kong Polytechnic
Dr W.-M. Chow - Santa Clara, CA, USA
Professor Kun-Jen Chung - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Professor E. M. Dar-El - Technion-IT, Israel
Professor A. A. Desrochers - Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, USA
Professor G. Doumeingts - University of Bordeaux, France
E. Eloranta - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Professor A. M. Everett - University of Otago, New Zealand
Dr P. Falster - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr A. Famili - National Research Council of Canada
Professor S. K. Goyal - Concordia University, Canada
Professor R. J. Graves - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Professor J. N. D. Gupta - The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Dr A. Gunasekaran - University of Massachusetts, USA
Professor Y. Hong - POSTECH, Korea
Professor H Hvolby - Aalborg University, Denmark
Professor K. Ishii - Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
R. Anthony Inman - Louisiana Tech University, USA
Dr H. S. Jagdev - UMIST, UK
Professor M. Kang - Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea
Dr D. Kennedy - Monash University, Australia
Professor Andrew Kusiak - University of Iowa, USA
Mr C. R. McLean - National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Professor R. P. Mohanty - Associated Cement Cos. Ltd, India
Professor S. Y. Nof - Purdue University, USA
Professor P. O'Grady - University of Iowa, USA
Professor J. Olhager - Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden
Professor G. C. Onwubolu - The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Associate Professor B. Penz -Gilco ENSGI/INPG, France
Dr B. Prasad - CERA Institute, USA
Professor J. O. Riis - Aalborg Universitetscenter, Denmark
Professor A. Rolstadås - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dr S. C. Sarin - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Dr B. R. Sarker - Louisiana State University, USA
Professor P. Schönsleben - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Dr K. Takahashi - Hiroshima University, Japan
Dr Eng. K. Takeda - Hitachi Ltd, USA
Professor C. S. Tapiero - ESSEC, Cergy-Pantoise, France
Professor I. Tatsiopoulos - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Professor S. W. Wallace - Molde University College, Norway
Dr C. Walter - PGCC-UFRGS, Brazil
Professor H.-P. Wiendahl - University of Hannover, Germany
Professor J. C. Wortmann - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dr M. Youssef - Norfolk State University, USA
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