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International Journal of 
Production Management 
and Engineering

Special issue: Advances in Engineering Networks

  de Castro, R. a1, Gimenez, G. a2, Mula, J.b1, Boza, A.b2, Cuenca, LL.b3, 
Gómez-Gasquet, P.b4, and Vicens-Salort, E.b5

a Grup de Recerca en Enginyeria de Procés, Producte i Producció. Universitat de Girona, Spain
b Centro de Investigación en Gestión e Ingeniería de Producción. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

a1 rudi.castro@udg.edu, a2 gerusa.gimenez@udg.edu, b1 fmula@cigip.upv.es, b2 aboza@cigip.upv.es,  
b3 llcuenca@cigip.upv.es, b4 pgomez@cigip.upv.es, b5 evicens@cigip.upv.es

1. Introduction
This special issue of the International Journal 
of Production Management and Engineering is 
dedicated on the most recent and relevant research, 
theories and practices in Industrial Engineering 
and Operations Management presented at the 12th 
International Conference on Industrial Engineering 
and Industrial Management and XXII Congreso de 
Ingeniería de Organización - CIO18.

The CIO’18 was held on 12th and 13th July 2018 
in Girona and was organized by the Universitat de 
Girona (UdG) and the Asociación para el Desarrollo 
de la Ingeniería de Organización (ADINGOR) and 
with the collaboration of GRADIENT and GREPP 
(UdG Research groups).

The assistance was 104 participants. Talking about 
classifications we could say that they are 35% women 
and 65% men, and about affiliation to ADINGOR, 
60% belong to association. Finally, there were 
244 authors from 4 countries and they contributed 
with a total of 100 communications, which were 
presented in parallel sessions (59 papers), in poster 
session (33 papers) and 8 in Doctoral symposium. 
Nine of the best communications were selected to be 
published in this special issue.

We gratefully acknowledge the authors and 
particularly the reviewers, whose valuable comments 
have improved the quality of the selected papers, 
which were extended (and again reviewed by pairs) 
after the conference in order to be published in this 
special issue.

2. Overview of the Papers
The papers chosen for this special issue were selected 
for their quality and their scientific rigor. The topics 
are diverse, but all refer to problems related to 
the CIO’s scope. The conference was a forum to 
disseminate, to all branches of academy and industry, 
information on the most recent and relevant research, 
theories and practices in Industrial Engineering 
and Operations Management. The CIO 2018 
Conference motto was: “Advances in Engineering 
Networks”. The mission was to promote links 
between researchers and practitioners from different 
branches, to enhance an interdisciplinary perspective 
of industrial engineering and management. 

The first is article is Patentometric: monitoring 
the scientific and technological trends of Additive 
Manufacturing in Medical Applications by Izaskun 
Alvarez, Enara Zarrabeitia, Rosa Rio-Belver, Iñaki 
Bildosola, Itziar Martinez de Alegria. This is about 
the use of patent statistics to monitor what is the state 
of the inventive activity of Additive Manufacturing 
in medical applications. 

The next one is also related to Basque Country, based 
on Analysis of technological knowledge flows in 
the Basque Country by Javier Gavilanes-Trapote, 
Ismael Etxeberria-Agiriano, Ernesto Cilleruelo, 
Gaizka Garechana, Iñaki Bildosola the paper is about 
the influence of a region in technological knowledge 
generation by patents data.

Third article is Methodology to Validate Results 
from European Projects: The C2NET Case Study 
by Raquel Sanchis, Beatriz Andres, Raúl Poler. Con-

https://doi.org/10.4995/ijpme.2019.11901 

To cite this article: de Castro, R., Gimenez, G., Mula, J., Boza, A., Cuenca, LL., Gómez-Gasquet, P., and Vicens-Salort, E. (2019). 
Special issue: Advances in Engineering Networks. International Journal of Production Management and Engineering, 7(SI), 63-64. 
https://doi.org/10.4995/ijpme.2019.11901 

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cretely they present the optimiser Module of this 
project which has been diffused in many publica-
tions. 

The next one is Testing successful Business Model 
using through System Dynamics by Jaione Gan-
zarain, Maria Ruiz and Juan Ignacio Igartua is re-
lated to face the firm performance complexity with 
a systemic view in order to understand better the 
phenomena. 

The next one is also related to a model applied in a 
R&D center: A Multicriteria Decision Model for 
the Evaluation and Selection of Technologies in 
a R&D Centre by Rafael Lizarralde, Jaione Gan-
zarain, Ander Olaran. A new approach linked to key 
factors as technology, economy, human and organ-
isational factors is presented and applied in an R&D 
center in Basque Country

The last article is related to a project to implement 
green technology in a big city: Electrification of 
Madrid Fleet Public Transport Company (EMT): 
Strategic Analysis and Implementation by Jaime 
García Hernanz, Gustavo Morales, Gonzalo Fernán-
dez Sánchez, Eduardo Pilkington González, Teresa 
Sánchez-Chaparro. This is a study of a future strate-
gic plan of the company applied in Madrid in order 
to support that the electrification of the whole fleet is 
the best option in the long term.

We hope you enjoy the reading of these papers and 
contribute to extend the knowledge of these topics in 
the area of Industrial Engineering. 

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