Call for Papers Special Issue

on Complex Equipment Development with Poor Data

In Grey Systems Theory and Application(ESCI)

SCOPE

Modern products are increasingly relying on sophisticated design and manufacture process. People give rise to the concern about the complex equipment development(CED). This is an emerging field that crosses multiple disciplines including system science, automotive, information technology, mechanical engineering, management science and engineering, etc. The research on this field will promote the rapid development of complex equipment.

This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high quality research in complex equipment development management and its operations & maintenance. Original research articles are solicited in collaborative innovation, cost estimation and control, schedule management, quality and reliability management, risk management based on poor data.

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to

1. Theory basis on grey system analysis of complex equipment development

2. Framework of grey system analysis of CED

3. Collecting, description and processing of grey data

4. Collaborative innovation of CED

5. Cost estimation and control of CED

6. Schedule management of CED

7. Quality and reliability management of CED

8. Risk management of CED

9. Forecasting and decision-making methods of CED

10. Uncertainty analysis and modeling for CED system

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Important Dates

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2018

Reviews Completed: November 30, 2018

Expected Publication Date: March 15, 2019

Guest Editors

Professor Shanlin Yang, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering,  HeFei University of Technology

Professor Hongfa Ke, University of Equipment Engineering

Contact at kehongfa2004@163.com

Professor Yingjie Yang, De Montfort University

Contact at yyang@dmu.ac.uk

Professor Naiding Yang, Northwestern Polytechnical University

Contact at naidingy@nwpu.edu.cn

Professor Zhigeng Fang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Contact at zhigengfang@163.com

Complex Equipment Development, Operations and Maintenance committee

Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics

June 20, 2018