Editorial: Risk and Engineering Management

Systems Engineering Procedia is a journal mainly publishing high-quality papers from fields such as industrial engineering, management science and engineering, financial engineering, service engineering, and environmental engineering. Papers at the first issue are mainly from 2011 International Conference on Risk and Engineering Management (REM). The acceptance rate is 33%. 2011 ERM is the fourth of the conference series organized by RiskChina Research Center, RiskLab, University of Toronto. Previously, it was named as RMEM (Risk Management and Engineering Management). REM is sponsored by an international university networks, RiskLab Global. This conference provides an idea-exchange and discussion platform for the world’s managers and academia, where internationally recognized researches and practitioners share cutting-edge information, address the hottest issue in risk and engineering management, explore new technologies, exchange and build upon ideas.