Technology Engineering and Management in Aviation: Advancements and Discoveries

As computer and information systems technology advances, industries such as aviation stand to benefit from the overwhelming new advances in hardware, software, and best practices. Technology Engineering and Management in Aviation: Advancements and Discoveries details the essential new developments in technology and management in the aviation industry. Specific and important advances in navigation, air traffic control, and environmental impact all make their way into this volume, which also focuses on management policies keeping up with new technology. This volume is a vital reference for practitioners, management, students, and all those interested in the field of aviation.

Evon Abu-Taieh, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aviation Technology, Engineering and Management and has been a guest editor for the Journal of Information Technology Research. She has more than 26 published works on Aviation, IT, PM, KM, GIS, AI, simulation, security and ciphering; in addition, Dr. Abu-Taieh holds positions on the editorial board of the International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications, International Journal of Information Technology Project Management and International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change. Dr. Abu-Taieh served as Chair, Track chair, & reviewer in many renowned conferences.

Prof. Asim El Shiekh, PhD(LSE) is the Dean of Faculty of Information Systems & Technology at the Arab Academy For Banking & Financial Sciences, Jordan. The author of more than 5 books in the Information technology, 60 published research papers.

Mostafa Jafari was born in year 1956 in Tehran, Iran. He started in school in year 1962 and obtained Natural Diploma in 1974 (Tehran, after 12 years). He finished his first degree (B.Sc.) in Forest and Range, graduated in 1978 (Iran) and finished his Ph.D. in Plant Science (Ecology) in 1990 (UK). His Post doctorate research was in Plant Ecophysiology Methodology in 1997 (Japan). He is member of scientific board since 1990. His interest is in plant ecology, forestry and climate change and giving lectures in Universities on Ecophysiology, Ecology, Range Rehabilitation, Plant Geography. He is an advisor of several post graduate students in different universities. He enjoy from Membership to the different Professional Organizations. He was Director (President) of Research Institute of Forest and Rangelands, I.R. Iran, from 1992 to Nov. 1997 (With 600 staff including 250 scientific researcher and 900 research projects, publishing about 200 books in this period). He was Director of First Vice President Office of WMO, from August 2004 to 2009. He is Head of TP Secretariat of Low Forest Cover Countries (LFCCs, International Intergovernmental Organization). Since, March 2003, he is also International Affair Advisor to the Deputy Minister and Head of IRIMO since August 2004. He published 69 articles, 8 books and 2 university textbooks. He is Managing Director of National Research Project on Climate Change in RIFR entitled: "Investigation on Climate Change Effects on Forest Ecosystems in Hyrcanian forests with Emphasize of Wood Dendrology Studies."