Journal Guide

Maney delivers personalised service to authors, societies, readers and libraries for the publishing and international dissemination of high quality, peer-reviewed scholarship and research. Specialising in print and electronic journal publishing, Maney is committed to technical and editorial innovation combined with traditional values of quality and collaboration.Maney Publishing is an independent publishing company specialising in academic journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities, and health science. Maney is committed to publishing high quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. With offices in Leeds and London in the UK, and in Boston and Philadelphia in North America, Maney publishes extensively for learned societies, universities and professional bodies around the world.

Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER) aims to provide expert and authoritative reviews and analyses of the most important developments across the rapidly expanding fields of energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings. It also provides a unique forum by bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts, to examine new technologies and methodologies with the latest research on systems, simulations and standards.Annually published and peer-reviewed, it delivers an invaluable resource for architects, building engineers, environmental engineers, industry professionals, students, teachers and researchers in building science. Topics covered by ABER include: 183; invaluable thermal comfort in the built environment 183; advanced materials to improve energy efficiency of buildings 183; indoor air quality 183; energy efficient lighting and daylight 183; visual comfort in the built environment 183; thermal and air flow studies in the urban environment 183; passive solar heating of buildings and passive cooling in buildings 183; energy efficient HVAC systems for buildings 183; urban energy systems 183; design and retrofitting of energy efficient buildings 183; use of renewable energies in the built environment 183; natural , mechanical and hybrid ventilation 183; monitoring and measurement techniques in buildings 183; energy rating and classification of buildings 183; intelligent control of buildings 183; building physics 183; environmental impact and sustainability in the building sector 183; legislative and educational aspects for energy efficient buildings.

Our journals represent the highest standards of research and best-practice in civil engineering. ICE Proceedings form a unique interface between the worlds of theory and practice in civil engineering, and our other titles such as Geotechnique and Magazine of Concrete Research are internationally renowned for publishing research of the highest quality. Covering every major civil and structural engineering discipline, our journals are a comprehensive source of expertise for everyone in civil engineering.

Advances in Civil Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of civil engineering.

ACS — Advances in Complex Systems aims to provide a unique medium of communication for multidisciplinary approaches, either empirical or theoretical, to the study of complex systems. The latter are seen as systems comprised of multiple interacting components, or agents. Nonlinear feedback processes, stochastic influences, specific conditions for the supply of energy, matter, or information may lead to the emergence of new system qualities on the macroscopic scale that cannot be reduced to the dynamics of the agents. Quantitative approaches to the dynamics of complex systems have to consider a broad range of concepts, from analytical tools, statistical methods and computer simulations to distributed problem solving, learning and adaptation. This is an interdisciplinary enterprise.The goal of ACS, therefore, is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas among all the scientific disciplines having to deal with their own complex systems. These include, but are not limited to, biology, physics, engineering, computer sciences, economics, cognitive science and the social sciences. It is in fact the exchange of concepts and techniques — developed within areas as diverse as spin glass physics, game theory, molecular biology, evolutionary optimization, or psychology — which has proven itself to be a major driving force in complex systems research.ACS predominantly publishes original research articles in the field of complex systems and encourages submissions of papers which result from collaborations across traditional academic disciplines.

The objective of this journal is to communicate recent and projected advances in computer-based engineering techniques. The fields covered include mechanical, aerospace, civil and environmental engineering, with an emphasis on research and development leading to practical problem-solving.The scope of the journal includes:• Innovative computational strategies and numerical algorithms for large-scale engineering problems• Analysis and simulation techniques and systems• Model and mesh generation• Control of the accuracy, stability and efficiency of computational process• Exploitation of new computing environments (eg distributed hetergeneous and collaborative computing)• Advanced visualization techniques, virtual environments and prototyping• Applications of AI, knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence, including fuzzy logic, neural networks and evolutionary computations• Application of object-oriented technology to engineering problems• Intelligent human computer interfaces• Design automation, multidisciplinary design and optimization• CAD, CAE and integrated process and product development systems• Quality and reliabilityThe journal publishes research papers, survey papers on key application areas, short communications and technical notes, discussions, software reviews and book reviews. A conference calendar is also included – entries welcome.Related conferences are listed under 'Related publications'.

Advances in Fuzzy Systems is an international journal which aims to provide a forum for original research articles in the theory and applications of fuzzy subsets and systems. The goal of the journal is to help promote the advances in the development and practice of fuzzy system technologies in the areas of engineering, management, medical, economic, environmental, and societal problems. Advances in Fuzzy Systems is intended to provide a rapid communication of fully refereed papers through the open access publication model, which will enable the journal to reach a far greater audience than traditional subscription-based journals.The areas covered by the journal include but are not limited to: Fuzzy subsets and systems theory and applicationsApproximate reasoningDecision theory and optimizationIntelligent controlNeural-fuzzy systemsFuzzy information theorySoft computing and uncertainty modelingFuzzy logic for machine intelligenceDatabases, business, finance and management, medical applications, expert Systems, image processing and pattern recognition and other such areas of interest.

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of materials science and engineering.

Advances in Mechanical Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of mechanical engineering.

publishes research on the technologies associated with multimedia systems, including computer-media integration for digital information processing, storage, transmission, and representation.

Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ANSN) is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including the fundamental physics, optics, photonics, chemistry, biology and technology of nanometer-scale materials and devices, for applications in quantum computation, smart lighting, energy generation and storage, sensors, health-care, agricultural production, environmental protection.

Advances in Polymer Technology , a quarterly peer-reviewed journal edited under the auspices of the Polymer Processing Institute, presents important developments in polymeric materials, production and processing methods, and equipment and product design. In addition to original articles on trends and advances in polymer technology, the editors welcome review articles, technico-economic studies, and patent reviews, as well as short communications on new processing and product technologies for plastics, elastomers, and other polymers. Examples are technologies for reactive processing, multiphase polymer systems, simulation of processing and product design, recycling and degradation, on-line rheological, morphological, and compositional measurements, and specialty polymers for specific applications. Submissions should be directed to the Editor, Dr. Theodore Davidson, Polymer Processing Institute, Suite 3901, Guttenberg Building, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102-1982, or to the Editor - Europe, Dr. Leno Mascia, Loughborough University, Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU, UK.