Special Issue "Creativity and Innovative Technologies in Product Design and Development"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 9 June 2023.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kelvin Wong
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Guest Editor
School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
Interests: biomedical engineering; artificial intelligence; deep learning; computational hemodynamics; image processing
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Dr. Simon Fong
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Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Room 4023, E11, FST Building, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Interests: data stream mining; big data; advanced analytics; bio-inspired optimization algorithms and applications; business intelligence; e-commerce; biomedical applications; wireless sensor networks
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Dr. Yu Lu
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College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
Interests: formal methods; machine learning; biomedical engineering
Prof. Dr. Dhanjoo N. Ghista
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Guest Editor
University 2020 Foundation, Northborough, MA 01532, USA
Interests: engineering; biomedical engineering; medical and health sciences; fitness and sports science; healthcare engineering and management; cognitive science; psychology and behaviorism
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to present the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future trends in innovative technologies selected to solve problems and challenges in product design and development phases. Original contributions describing recent findings in theory, methodologies, and applications in the field of creativity and innovation techniques for product design and development are welcome. The target audience is researchers and engineers who need to apply state-of-the-art and reliable creativity and innovative technologies in product design and development industries. The target authors are authors who work closely with industry, use creativity and innovative methods, and have performed work of a sufficiently high quality to be published in the established journal Sustainability.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • inventorying techniques;
  • associative techniques;
  • confrontational techniques;
  • provocative techniques;
  • intuitive techniques;
  • analytic–systematic techniques;
  • creative problem solving;
  • dimensional analysis;
  • SWOT analysis; and
  • engineering and visualization.

Dr. Kelvin Wong
Dr. Simon Fong
Dr. Yu Lu
Prof. Dr. Dhanjoo N. Ghista
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • product design and development
  • creativity and Innovation
  • technologies.

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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