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Logist. Res. (2011) 3:1 DOI 10.1007/s12159-011-0051-z EDITORIAL Peter Klaus Published online: 19 March 2011 Springer-Verlag 2011 Dear readers: For the end of 2011 another LOGISTICS RESEARCH special topic issue is planned and a call for papers will be LOGISTICS RESEARCH, our European-based interna- tional journal of Business and Engineering Logistics published soon on ‘‘Cooperative Logistics’’, inviting state of the art contributions and critical reviews of past work research, is entering its third year of publication with the issue which you hold in your hands. And we have the good and achievements in the fields of Supply Chain ‘‘Collab- oration’’ and ‘‘Cooperation’’. For 2012 and 2013 three news: LOGISTICS RESEARCH is now listed in the Sco- pus database of abstracts and citations, which makes work more calls and special issues are being prepared on pro- published by our authors still more widely and more easily gress in the fields of ‘‘Virtual Engineering’’, ‘‘Sustainable accessible. This is another step along the long road which Logistics’’, an ‘‘Scientific Methods in the Field of any scholarly journal has to travel from its conception—in Logistics’’. our case dating back about 10 years, when we started the In this issue you may find additional stimulation for German language predecessor journal LOGISTIK MAN- ‘‘next topics’’ in the contributions by Arlbjoern, de Haas and Munksgaard on ‘‘Exploring Supply Chain Innovation’’ AGEMENT—to a high level ranking. This is our goal! We thank our authors, reviewers, editors, and sponsors and Large on ‘‘Partner-specific Adaptations, Performance, Satisfaction and Loyalty in Third-Party Logistics for helping us so effectively on this road. We will work hard to move ahead energetically. As a next step we will Relationships’’. At last, I have a report included in this issue on a project have a series of ‘‘special topic’’ issues to further support this effort: which covers the otherwise little research field of institu- Issue nr. 2/2011, the first in this series, will focus on tional research in the logistics industry: ‘‘The Assessment ‘‘Autonomy and Decentralized Decision Making in of Competitive Intensity in Logistics Markets’’. It intends Logistics’’. Our special editors for this issue, Herbert to stimulate discussions about the markets and actors in our Kopfer and Jo ¨ rn Scho ¨ nberger of Bremen University, dynamic industry. received an excellent response to their call for papers. Two We look forward to stay in contact with you and invite you to continue submitting high quality manuscripts! of those papers—by Libert and ten Hompel on ‘‘Ontology- Based Communication for the Decentralized Material Flow Peter Klaus Control of Conveyor Facility’’ and by Jeon, Kim and Editor-in-Chief: LOGISTICS RESEARCH Kopfer ‘‘Routing automated guided vehicles in Container March 2011 Terminals through the Q-Learning Technique’’—are in this issue already. P. Klaus (&) Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Nurnberg, Germany e-mail: peter.klaus@wiso.uni-erlangen.de
Logistics Research – Springer Journals
Published: Mar 19, 2011
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