[AISWorld] Final call for contribution for a Springer book on sustainability

[zwluo at eti.hku.hk]

Final Call for Book Chapter Proposals 
Mechanism Design for Sustainability: Techniques and Cases 
Publisher: Springer 
Proposal Submission Deadline: August 1, 2011 
Book Editor: Dr. Zongwei Luo 

Introduction 
Sustainable economy is an economy with “capacity to endure”, where 
bearable environment, equitable society and viable economy are well 
integrated with social, culture, legal, business, financial and 
environmental perspectives. To reach for this integration for sustainable 
development, it is essential to understand and study the mechanisms for 
interactions and impact from and among these perspectives. The mechanism 
design for sustainability intends to provide advanced analytics and 
decision management techniques and tools towards developing sustainable 
competitive advantages in the studied target context (e.g. enterprises, 
economic clusters). 

This book will call for contributions of innovative concepts, theories and 
models, design methods and animation tools, and case studies and 
experience sharing in mechanism design to drive better decision makings 
with practical relevance to sustainable development. 

Target audience 
The target audience of this book will comprise professionals and 
researchers as well as policy makers.  In addition, the book will provide 
a valuable resource for business managers concerned with the 
enterprise/business sustainability. 

Solicited topics 
We welcome proposals in the following, but not limited to, the topics 
relevant to sustainability: 
•        Classic mechanism design 
•        Dynamic mechanism design 
•        Incremental and evolutionary mechanism design 
•        Algorithmic mechanism design 
•        Mechanisms in mechanism design 
•        Mechanism design tools and animation 
•        Case studies and experiences sharing 
•        Future directions for mechanism design and its applications in 
sustainability 

Submission Procedure 
Please submit your book chapter proposal (about one or two pages in 
length) to the book editor to the email address zwluo at eti.hku.hk. 

Important Dates 
August 1, 2011: Book chapter proposal due 
September 30, 2011: Book chapter proposal acceptance notification 
December 31, 2011: Full book chapter due 

Book editor 
Dr. Zongwei Luo, 
The University of Hong Kong 
Level 3, Block A, Cyberport 4, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong 
Email: zwluo at eti.hku.hk 
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