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Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Thomas V. Huynh
Systems Engineering Department, Naval Postgraduate School, 777 Dyer Road, Monterey, CA 93943, USA
Tel. +1 831 656 7568; Fax: +1 831 656 2336
Website: http://faculty.nps.edu/vitae/cgi-bin/vita.cgi?p=display_vita&id=1068666410
E-Mail: thuynh@nps.edu
Interests: systems engineering and architecting methodology; complex systems and complexity theory; systems modeling and simulation; mathematical methods in systems engineering and architecting; project management; system-of-systems acquisition; enterprise transformation

Editor
Ms. Grace Lu
MDPI Beijing Office, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170; Fax: +86 10 5901 1089
E-Mail: grace.lu@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Richard Bawden
University of Western Sydney, Systemic Development Institute, PO Box 108, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia
Website: http://systemicdevelopment.org/bawden.html
E-Mail: bawden@msu.edu

Prof. Dr. Carmine Bianchi
CED4-System Dynamics Group, University of Palermo, Via Mazzini, 59 - 90100 Palermo, Italy
Tel. +39 338.9244463
Website: http://ced4.academia.edu/CarmineBianchi
E-Mail: bianchi.carmine@gmail.com
Interests: wide scope of applications of system dynamics modeling to performance management in the public sector and in SMEs; sustainability management; planning; organization studies
Contribution: Special Issue: Enhancing Sustainable Performance in Organizational and Inter-Institutional Systems

Dr. Robert Y. Cavana
Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
Website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/som/about/staff/bob-cavana
E-Mail: bob.cavana@vuw.ac.nz
Interests: systems thinking; system dynamics; management systems; quality management; sustainability; tobacco policy modeling; public policy analysis
Contribution: Special Issue: Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet

Dr. Lloyd Demetrius
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Tel. +1 617 493 7489
Website: http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/PopGenetics/demetrius_l.html
E-Mail: ldemetr@oeb.harvard.edu
Interests: ergodic theory of dynamical systems and its applications to the analysis of biological processes at molecular, cellular and population levels; quantum statistics as a formalism to investigate the dynamics of electron transport and proton transduction in cellular metabolism

Prof. Dr. Khac Duc Do
School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
Tel. +61 8 64883883; Fax: +61 8 64881024
Website: http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/Duc.Do
E-Mail: duc.do@uwa.edu.au
Interests: nonlinear control; underactuated systems; cooperative/coordination/formation control; control of PDE systems; inverse modeling; multi-agents; flocking

Dr. Jim Duggan
School of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
Website: http://corrib.it.nuigalway.ie
E-Mail: jim.duggan@nuigalway.ie
Interests: system dynamics; complex systems; agent-based simulation; public health informatics; policy optimization

Prof. Dr. Toshio Fukuda
Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-1\603, Japan
Tel. +81 52 789 4478; Fax: +81 52 789 3115
Website: http://www.mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp/staff/fukuda-e.html
E-Mail: fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Interests: autonomous distributed system; bioinspired robotic control; intelligent system control; medical robotics; bio-micro manipulation; nano robotics system; piezoelectric sensor-actuator; humanitarian demining

Prof. Dr. Martin Guay
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
Tel. +1 613 533 2788; Fax: +1 613 533 6637
Website: http://chemeng.queensu.ca/people/faculty/guay/index.php
E-Mail: guaym@chee.queensu.ca
Interests: process control; applied statistics; economic optimization control (EOC); observation and adaptation in nonlinear systems; analysis of biological systems; supervisory control design for flexible manufacturing systems

Prof. Dr. Mike C. Jackson, OBE
Hull University Business School, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Tel. +44 1482 463002
E-Mail: m.c.jackson@hull.ac.uk
Interests: systems thinking; organizational cybernetics; creative problem solving; critical systems thinking

Prof. Dr. Kyoichi Jim Kijima
Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552 Japan
Tel. +81 3 5734 2363; Fax: +81 3 5734 2363
Website: http://www.valdes.titech.ac.jp/~kk-lab/overview/kijima.html
E-Mail: kijima@valdes.titech.ac.jp
Interests: decision systems science; service systems science; agent-based simulation; problem structuring method

Prof. Dr. James Lam
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2859 2805; Fax: +852 2858 5415
Website: http://web.hku.hk/~jlam
E-Mail: james.lam@hku.hk
Interests: robust control and filtering; stability of dynamic systems; networked control systems; positive systems; genetic regulatory networks; vibration control

Prof. Dr. Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 525 6598; Fax: +31 20 525 3681
Website: http://www.leydesdorff.net/
E-Mail: loet@leydesdorff.net
Interests: science & technology studies; scientometrics; information theory; communication of meaning; discursive knowledge; nonlinear dynamics of reflexive systems; university-industry-government relations

Dr. Kimberly M. Thompson
Kid Risk Inc., P.O. Box 590129, Newton, MA 02459, USA
Tel. +1 617 680 2836
E-Mail: kimt@kidrisk.org
Interests: child health; system dynamics; risk analysis; infectious disease; economics

Prof. Dr. Dinesh Verma
508 Babbio Center, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
Tel. +1 201 216 8645; Fax: +1 201 216 5080
Website: http://www.stevens.edu/research/Dinesh-Verma,%20PhD/rid/66
E-Mail: dinesh.verma@stevens.edu
Interests: systems engineering and design with a focus on conceptual design evaluation, preliminary design and system architecture, design decision-making, life cycle costing, and supportability engineering

Prof. Dr. Hong Wang
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Tel. +44 161 306 4655
Website: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Hong.wang/
E-Mail: hong.wang@manchester.ac.uk
Interests: stochastic distribution control for non-Gaussian stochastic systems; fault detection, diagnosis and fault tolerant control for dynamic systems; semi-physical modelling and neural networks for complex non-linear systems

Prof. Dr. Hans Westerhoff
1 Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, BioCentrum Amsterdam, Faculty of Biology, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 University of Amsterdam Room C2.103, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3 University of Manchester, Integrative Systems Biology Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB), 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
Tel. +31 20 5987230; Fax: +31 20 5987229
E-Mail: hw@bio.vu.nl
Interests: systems biology; control and regulation; kinetics and non equilibrium thermodynamics

Dr. Jennifer Wilby
Management Systems, Hull University Business School, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Tel. +44 1482 463089
Website: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/hubs/about-us/our-staff/allstaff/w/wilby_j.aspx
E-Mail: j.wilby@hull.ac.uk
Interests: complex systems and complexity theory; systems modeling and simulation; general systems research, hierarchy theory, problem structuring methods

Prof. Dr. Graham Winch
24 Church Street, Modbury, Devon PL21 0QR, UK
Tel. +44 1548 830816
Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/gwinch#
E-Mail: graham.winch@plymouth.ac.uk
Interests: strategic visioning and process visualisation across a number of strategic issue areas using system dynamics diagramming and simulation approaches
Contribution: Special Issue: Enhancing Sustainable Performance in Organizational and Inter-Institutional Systems

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