Introduction: future technology and engineering management

摘要

In the last two decades, the world has witnessed the dawn and spectacular growth of new issues such as electronic communications and business, advances in computer tools, the use of computers in business, trade and management, the emergence and advancement of new technologies such as biotechnology and nanotechnology in different fields, new standards and environmental regulations, technology transfer, industrial accidents caused by human errors, natural disasters, and political and geographical changes that affect our daily lives and where simulation and integrated knowledge management can help. It is for this reason that it is important to devote a special issue of this journal to recent research activities related to such developments.