Journal Guide

Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) publishes a wide range of original high quality papers covering fundamental and applied research, critical reviews and case studies. It focuses on research and multi-disciplinary work aiming to reduce the environmental and societal impact of future cities and covers topics including design, modelling, analytical tools, testing/experimental work, optimization, environmental assessment, new codes, regulations, policy, economics, monitoring, post occupancy evaluation and legislation related to sustainable cities. In addition to fundamental and applied papers, review articles on important developments will be included. Special issues devoted to international conferences and reviews of books and major reports will be published too.Key areas covered by SCS are:Energy (creating and securing sustainable energy supplies and improving the efficiency of power generation, transmission and use);Water (sustainable water management and water preservation/recycling);Air (management of air pollution, improvement of air quality and reduction of CO2 emissions from buildings and transport;) andThe Earth (preservation of raw materials, new construction materials and energy efficient design).Submissions welcome from engineers (mechanical, building services, civil, buildings, electrical, manufacturing and chemical), architects, planners, scientists (physicists and chemists), energy experts, social scientists, economists and policy makers. All submissions are subjected to peer review from leading experts in the field.Topics covered by SCS include:Monitoring and improving air quality in buildings and cities (e.g., healthy buildings and air quality management), use of alternative energy sources (e.g., solar energy, wind, bio mass/bio-gas, geothermal energy and hybrid sources), waste recycling in cities (reduce waste and recycle materials) and development of new construction materials for building applications and transport (e.g., high performance insulation materials).Distributed energy generation such as integration of micro-generation with building services and control of renewable energy devices, dynamic demand management: matching demand to supply of renewable resources, adaptation of buildings to climate change (thermal comfort, green retrofit-buildings and interdisciplinary research such as socio-technical and economics and post occupancy evaluation).Low/zero carbon construction such holistic approaches to design, energy modelling and green retrofit, dynamic demand and local energy storage, occupant behaviour, smart metering/monitors and intelligent control.Planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, policy, social and environmental impact related to sustainable and future cities.Decarbonised society and low/zero carbon community buildings and sustainable development.Design and decision tools for low impact buildings, green retrofit of buildings and modelling/optimization of the energy performance of new and existing buildings.City transport (e.g., harness of thermal energy from vehicle engines and innovative transport methods using personal rapid transit cars)Water harvesting and management (development of household appliances designed to minimise water use, water recycling and solar-powered desalination systems)

Sustainable computing is a rapidly expanding research area spanning the fields of computer science and engineering, electrical engineering as well as other engineering disciplines. The aim of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) is to publish the myriad research findings related to energy-aware and thermal-aware management of computing resource. Equally important is a spectrum of related research issues such as applications of computing that can have ecological and societal impacts. SUSCOM publishes original and timely research papers and survey articles in current areas of power, energy, temperature, and environment related research areas of current importance to readers. SUSCOM has an editorial board comprising prominent researchers from around the world and selects competitively evaluated peer-reviewed papers.Making computing sustainable - Software systems perspective:• Power-aware software• Code profiling and transformation for power management• Power-aware middleware• Multimedia systems• Scheduling and allocationComputing for sustainability - Use of computing to make the world a sustainable place:• Use of sensors for environmental monitoring• Smart control for eco-friendly buildings• Green Data Centers and Enterprise ComputingRe-inventing algorithms and applications for sustainability:• Theoretical aspect of energy, power, and temperature• Power-aware applications• Resource management to optimize performance and power• Power implications for portable and mobile computing• Algorithms for reduced power, energy and heat for high-performance computingModeling and evaluation of sustainable systems:• Reliability of Power-aware computers• Runtime systems that assist in power saving• Models for collective optimization of power and performance• Monitoring tools for power and performance of parallel and distributed systemsSustainable hardware platforms and devices - Hardware and architecture perspective:• Power aware networking• Real-time systems• Power-efficient architectures• Efficient circuit design for energy harvesting• Power management in memory, disk, storage and other peripheral devices• Configurable and renewable energy• Low power electronics• Embedded systems, ASICs and FPGSs• Power leakage and dissipationPlease submit your article via http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/

Sustainable Energy & Fuels publishes high quality scientific research that will drive the development of sustainable energy technologies, with a particular emphasis on innovative concepts and approaches. The journal is an essential resource for energy researchers and cuts across chemistry and its interfaces with materials science, physics and biology – covering evolving and emerging areas such as the following: • Solar energy conversion including photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis • Energy storage including batteries, flow batteries and supercapacitors • Catalysis for energy technologies, including the sustainable synthesis of fuels and chemicals, and molecular/bioinspired catalysis • Electrocatalysis, photocatalysis and thermal catalysis • Fuel cells • Hydrogen production, storage and distribution • Carbon dioxide utilisation, including fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide • Biorefining and Biofuels • Capacitive desalination and desalination batteries • Other sustainable energy conversion technologies including thermochemical, piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials and devices Energy science and technologies that avoid the use of critical raw elements or detrimental environmental effects during preparation, manufacture and end-of-life are particularly encouraged.

SEGAN is an interdisciplinary journal that aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry from across Energy, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics and Energy Policy/Regulation.

SEGAN publishes original articles and short communications, as well as selected review articles by invitation and/or approval of the Editor-in-Chief. Proposals for review articles and special issues should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief for consideration.

SEGAN particularly welcomes papers on the following topics:

• Theoretical developments in planning and operation of electrical and energy systems
  – Definition and application of computational methods for stochastic optimization
  – Applied optimization and mathematical programming
• Data analysis and computation for power and energy systems
  – Data-driven modelling techniques for power and energy systems
  – Machine learning, statistics and computational intelligence
  – Big Data analytics
• Integrated operation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in electrical and energy systems
  – ICT integration in electrical and energy systems for monitoring and control
  – Modeling of cyber-physical energy and communication systems
  – Demand-side management and demand response: definition of control schemes and protocols
  – Advanced metering infrastructures
• Modeling and analysis of modern and future electrical and energy systems
  – Integrated electrical and thermal grids
  – Active distribution networks and virtual power plants
  – Massive integration of volatile renewable energy resources in smart grids
  – Integrated control of electrical transmission and distribution networks
  – Electrical systems security and reliability in systems with large-scale volatile resources
  – New dynamics and stability issues in power systems
  – Control and planning of centralized and distributed energy storage
• New components for future electrical and energy systems
  – Coupled AC/DC supergrids
  – High-Voltage DC technologies
  – Coupling of energy conversion systems with electrical and energy grids
• Sustainability assessment of electrical and energy systems
  – Policy, regulation and economics of modern electrical and thermal networks
  – Development of the Smart City concept towards the integration of energy, transportation (e.g. electric vehicles) and ICT networks.

Papers from engineers, natural and social scientists as well as philosophers are invited and those at the interface between these disciplines are particularly encouraged. Types of article published by the journal include original research, perspectives, short communications, policy and review papers. All papers should include some elements of life cycle thinking and should clearly demonstrate that they are addressing topics related to sustainable production and consumption. Note that papers on end-of-pipe treatment technologies are outside the scope.

The areas and topics covered by the journal include but are not limited to:

Concepts and approaches
• Circular economy
• Clean technology/cleaner production
• Climate change mitigation
• Consumer engagement and communication
• Corporate social responsibility
• Eco-efficiency
• Ecosystem services
• Ethical investment and consumption
• Green/sustainable chemistry
• Industrial ecology
• Intra/Intergenerational equity
• Life cycle management
• Life cycle thinking
• Life cycle sustainability assessment
• Producer responsibility
• Rebound effect
• Supply chain management
• Sustainable design
• Sustainable lifestyles
• Sustainable policies
• Sustainable procurement
• Sustainable products and services

Tools
• Carbon and water footprinting
• Analysis of consumer preferences and attitudes
• Economic instruments
• Integrated product policies
• Internalisation of environmental and social costs
• Life cycle assessment
• Life cycle costing
• Material flow analysis
• Multi-criteria decision analysis
• Scenario analysis
• Social life cycle assessment
• Stakeholder analysis
• Sustainability indicators
• System optimisation

Sectors
• Chemicals
• Construction and buildings
• Energy
• Financial
• Food
• Health
• Manufacturing
• Resources and feedstocks
• Retail
• Tourism
• Transport and mobility
• Waste
• Water

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the sustainable development of resilient communities.

Sustainability is defined in relation to the ability of infrastructure to address the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.  Resilience is considered in relation to both natural hazards (like earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes, cyclones, tornado, flooding and drought) and anthropogenic hazards (like human errors and malevolent attacks.)  Resilience is taken to depend both on the performance of the built and modified natural environment and on the contextual characteristics of social, economic and political institutions.

Contributions address pressing societal issues while exploring needed solutions.  Investigating sustainability and resilience from an interdisciplinary perspective, the journal includes original articles, reviews, short communications and case studies in all areas relevant to sustainability and resilience.

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Peer review is single blind and submission is currently via email to the Editor-in-Chief Paolo Gardoni gardoni@illinois.edu.

This journal is an international medium for the rapid publication of original research papers, short communications and subject reviews dealing with research on and applications of electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials including novel carbon architectures. These functional materials have the properties of metals, semiconductors or magnets and are distinguishable from elemental and alloy/binary metals, semiconductors and magnets.Materials considered to be within the purview of this journal include:• low-dimensional conductors and superconductors such as organic charge-transfer compounds and metal chain compounds• conducting and semiconducting polymers and molecular materials• fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and related novel carbon architectures• supramolecular conjugated architectures• nanoscale electronic molecular and electronic polymer materials• molecule- and polymer-based magnets.Experimental, theoretical and application papers on the chemistry, physics and engineering of these materials are encouraged for submission. Original manuscripts on their chemical, electrochemical, electrical, photonic and magnetic properties will be considered for publication. Papers on electronic, electroluminescent, lasing, solar cell, anticorrosion, sensor, actuator, biological and other potential device applications of these materials are encouraged.

Systems Engineering , The Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), is a primary source of multidisciplinary information for the systems engineering and management of products and services, and processes of all types. Systems engineering activities involve the technologies, processes, and systems management approaches needed for: definition of systems, including identification of user requirements and technological specifications; development of systems, including conceptual architectures, tradeoff of design concepts, configuration management during system development, integration of new systems with legacy systems, and integrated product and process development; and deployment of systems, including operational test and evaluation, maintenance over an extended lifecycle, and reengineering. Modern systems, including both products and services, are often very knowledge intensive, and are found in both the public and private sectors. The journal emphasizes strategic and program management of these, and the information and knowledge base for knowledge principles, knowledge practices, and knowledge perspectives for the engineering of systems. Definitive case studies involving systems engineering practice are especially welcome.

Systems Science & Control Engineering is a world-leading fully open access journal covering all areas of theoretical and applied systems science and control engineering.

The journal encourages the submission of original articles, reviews and short communications in areas including, but not limited to:

Proposals for special issues are encouraged, and should be discussed with the Executive Editor.

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Executive Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

As part of the  Taylor & Francis Open Access programme authors receive immediate, universal access to articles; rapid online publication; flexible licensing options; high-quality production values; fair pricing and discounts and waivers for authors in low-income countries.

To support Open Access, accepted articles will be subject to an article publishing fee of $750 (GBP £470, EUR €625).

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

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