Editor-in-Chief:

Stephen Newman - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK

Consulting Editors:

George Chryssolouris - Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26110, Greece
David J. Williams - Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU, UK

Managing Editor and Book Reviews Editor:

Aydin Nassehi - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK

North American Editors:

Paul G. Ranky - Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA 
Paul K. Wright - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, 5133 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA

European Editor:

François Vernadat - IT & Telecommunications Division, European Court of Auditors, 12, rue Alcide de Gasperi, 1615 Luxembourg

Asian Editor:

George Huang - Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

International Editorial Board:

C. R. Boer - Istituto CIM della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
J. Browne - National University of Ireland, Galway, Eire
B.-K. Choi - KAIST, Korea
G. Doumeingts - University of Bordeaux, France
Y. Fan - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
P. Ferreira - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Y. Furukawa - Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
N. N. Z. Gindy - University of Nottingham, UK
A. Gunasekaran - University of Massachusetts, USA
K. Hitomi - Kyoto University, Japan
S.-L. Hwang - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
M. Jeng - National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
A. Jones - National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
S. Joshi - Pennsylvania State University, USA
F. Jovane - Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, Milan, Italy
H. Katayama - Waseda University, Japan
K. Kosanke - CIMOSA, Böblingen, Germany
A. Kusiak - University of Iowa, USA
A. Molina - ITESM Monterrey, Mexico
L. B. Newnes - University of Bath, UK
S. Y. Nof - Purdue University, USA
P. O'Grady - University of Iowa, USA
H. Van Brussel - Katholieke Universiteit T E Leuven, Belguim
H. Van Dyke Parunak - ERIM Center for Electronic Commerce, USA
P. Pokorny - Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
P. Rogers - University of Calgary, Canada
I. Sabuncuoglu - Bilkent University, Turkey
G. Salvendy - Purdue University, USA
G. Sohlenuis - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
M. K. Tiwari - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
R. Uzsoy - Purdue University, USA
R. Veeramani - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
L. Wang - National Research Council of Canada, London, Canada
H.-J. Warnecke - Franunhofer-IPA, Germany
R. H. Weston - Loughborough University, UK
X. Xu - University of Auckland, New Zealand
D. Zelenovic - University of Novi Sad, Serbia