Modelling and Analysis of Sustainability Related Issues in New Era

The purpose of this Special Issue is to investigate topics related to sustainability issues in the new era especially in Industry 4.0 or other new manufacturing environments. Under Industry 4.0 there have been great changes with respect to production processes production planning and control quality assurance internal control cost determination and other management issues. Moreover it is expected that Industry 4.0 can create positive sustainability impacts along the whole value chain. There are three pillars of sustainability including environmental sustainability economic sustainability and social sustainability. This Special Issue collects 15 sustainability-related papers from various industries that use various methods or models such as mathematical programming activity-based costing (ABC) material flow cost accounting fuel consumption model artificial intelligence (AI)-based fusion model multi-attribute decision model (MADM) and so on. These papers are related to carbon emissions carbon tax Industry 4.0 economic sustainability corporate social responsibility (CSR) etc. The research objects come from China Taiwan Thailand Oman Cyprus Germany Austria and Portugal. Although the research presented in this Special Issue is not exhaustive this Special Issue provides abundant significant research related to environmental economic and social sustainability. Nevertheless there still are many research topics that require our attention to solve problems of sustainability.