Vol. 14, No. 8, 2008: Software Components, Architectures and Reuse - a special issue reproting the state of research and practice on the theme of software components, architectures and reuse. Guest editors: Cecília M. F. Rubira from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil and Rogério de Lemos from the University of Kent, United Kingdom.
Vol. 14, No. 7, 2008: Collective Intelligence for Semantic and Knowledge Grid , edited by Jason J. Jung from the Yeungnam University, Korea and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen from the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.
Vol. 14, No. 6, 2008: Computability and Complexity in Analysis reflects the study and advancement of the theory of computability and complexity over real-valued data and its application. Guest editors: Vasco Brattka from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Hajime Ishihara from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Matthias Schröder from the Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany and Ning Zhong from the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Vol. 14, No. 5, 2008: Socio-Economic Issues in Future Generation Internet (FGI). Quality of Service (QoS) has been a hot topic within Internet-related research for many years. However, corresponding efforts have been contrasted with Internet merely providing connectivity and best-effort service. With the advent of new services such as Triple-Play (voice, video, Internet access) and the fact that some of these services will be charged per use, performance and economic issues regarding Internet and the trade-off between them are perhaps more important than ever before. This is amongst others witnessed by large efforts of major manufacturers and service providers for improving Quality of Experience (QoE) perceived from the users. Investments in networks, on the other hand, require detailed cost analyses. In addition, users need to be equipped with well-adapted security solutions in order to retain trust in networked services. Indeed, QoS and thus QoE relate to both performance and security and come at a cost. Thus, for any (future) Internet-based service, an optimal balance between performance, economy and security has to be found in order to make it well-accepted, which is pivotal to minimize the "Digital Divide". Thus, coordination and cross-fertilization of the domains user-perceived quality, economy/costing and security is required. The issue was edited by Markus Fiedler from theBlekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, Klaus D. Hackbarth from the University of Cantabria, Spain and Helmut Hlavacs from the University of Vienna, Austria.
Vol. 14, No. 3, 2008: Cryptography in Computer System Security: Cryptography plays an important role on ensuring the security and reliability of modern computer systems. Since high speed and broad bandwidth have been becoming the keywords for modern computer systems, new cryptographic methods and tools must follow up in order to adapt to these new and emerging technologies. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for security researchers to present their newly developed cryptographic technologies in computer systems. Areas of interest for this special journal issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics: Authentication, Cryptographic algorithms and their applications, Cryptanalysis, Email security, Electronic commerce, Data integrity, Fast cryptographic algorithms and their applications, Identity-based cryptography, IP security, Key management, Multicast security, Computer network security, Privacy protection, Security in Peer-to-Peer networks, Security in sensor networks, and Smartcards. The issue was edited by Liqun Chen from the Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK, Ed Dawson from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Xuejie Lai from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Masahiro Mambo from the Tsukuba University, Japan, Atsuko Miyaji from JAIST, Japan, Yi Mu (Lead Guest Editor) from the (University of Wollongong, Australia, David Pointcheval from the École Normale Supérieure, France, Bart Preneel from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Nigel Smart from the Bristol University, United Kingdom, Willy Susilo from the University of Wollongong, Australia, Huaxiong Wang from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Duncan S. Wong from the City University of Hong Kong, China.
Vol. 14, No. 2, 2008: Advances in Document Engineering: Document Engineering is a discipline within computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, store, compact, access, and maintain documents. The fields of document recognition and retrieval have grown rapidly in recent years. This development has been fueled by the emergence of new application areas such as the World Wide Web (WWW), digital libraries, and video- and camera-based OCR. The use of OCR is spreading from high-volume, niche domains to more general tasks, including the processing of noisy "real-world" documents, photocopies, and faxes. The issue was edited by Rafael Dueire Lins from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Vol. 14, No. 1, 2008: Groupware: Issues and Applications: The articles of this special issue are significantly extended versions of selected papers presented at the 12th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2006) held in Medina del Campo, Spain in September 2006. The CRIWG workshops are annual events which have a single track of relatively few papers, providing ample time for lively and constructive discussions during and between sessions. The 2006 version had 34 accepted papers out of 101 submissions, from which six were selected to be invited to this special issue. The invited papers were reviewed by three anonymous referees each and had two rounds of improvement. Guest editors: Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain, José A. Pino; University of Chile, Chile; and Ilze Zigurs, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
Vol. 13, No. 13, 2007: The issue Applications of Formal Methods to System Design and Verification contains the extended versions of a selected set of papers presented at the first IPM International Workshop on Foundations of Software Engineering (Theory and Practice), Tehran, Iran, October 1-3, 2005. The issue was edited by Farhad Arbab from CWI, Netherlands and Leiden University, Netherlands, and Marjan Sirjani from the University of Tehran, Iran and IPM, Iran.
Vol. 13, No. 12, 2007: Ontologies and their Applications, edited by Fred Freitas from Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Heiner Stuckenschmidt Universität Mannheim, Germany, Andréia Malucelli from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil and H. Sofia Pinto from the INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal.
Vol. 13, No. 11, 2007: Combinatorics and Related Areas: A Collection of Papers in Honour of the 65th Birthday of Ioan Tomescu. The special issue was edited by Cristian S. Calude from The University of Auckland, New Zealand, Gheorghe Stefanescu from the University of Bucharest, Romania and Marius Zimand from Towson University, USA.
Vol. 13, No. 7, 2007: A special issue on Computers in Education: New Developments in e-Learning Technology, edited by Baltasar Fernández-Manjón from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain and Martín Llamas and Ramón-Ángel Fernández, both from the University of León, Spain.
Vol. 13, No. 6, 2007: Selected papers from the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP 2007), edited by Roberto Bigonha from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Martin Musicante from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Vol. 13, No. 5, 2007: A survey of The State of the Art in Formal Methods, edited by Richard Banach from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Vol. 13, No. 3, March 28, 2007: New Advances in Reconfigurable Computing and its Applications, edited by Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido and Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez from the University of Extremadura, Spain.
Vol. 13, No. 2, February 28, 2007: Communicative Intellligence, edited by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, and Toyoaki Nishida, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Vol. 13, No. 1, January 28, 2007: A selection of papers from the 1st ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks. Guest editors: Gruia Călinescu from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, Ion I. Măndoiu from the University of Connecticut, USA, Alexander Zelikovsky from the Georgia State University, USA and Marius Zimand from the Towson University, USA.
Vol. 12, No. 9, September 28, 2006: A selection of papers presented at Informatics in Higher Education conference held in 2005 in Debrecen, Hungary. Guest editors: Attila Pethő from the Debrecen University, Hungary, and Dezső Sima from the Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary..
Vol. 12, No. 7, July 28, 2006: Selected papers from the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, edited by Mariza A. S. Bigonha from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Alex de Vasconcellos Garcia from the Militar Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Vol. 6, No. 6, June 28, 2006: The special issue contains the contributions of some participants of the First and Second Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposia (JaGFoS). The First JaGFoS Symposium took place in Mainz, Germany, in January 2005, and its mathematics and computer science session was devoted to "Computational Challenges of Massive Data Sets". The Second JaGFoS Symposium took place in Shonan, Japan, in November 2005, and the topic of its mathematics and computer science session was "Randomness in Computation". Guest editors: Jörg Rothe from the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany and Hiroki Arimura from the Hokkaido University, Japan.
Vol. 12, No. 4, April 28, 2006: Special issue on Evolvable Hardware devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in automatic hardware design. The issue includes five extended papers, originally presented at the IEEE CEC 2005. Guest editors: Nadia Nedjah and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Vol. 12, No. 3, March 28, 2006: Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: New Challenges for Computing, edited by José Bravo, Castilla-La Mancha University, Javier Alamán, Autonoma University of Madrid, and Teresa Riesgo, Politecnic University of Madrid, Granada, Spain.
Vol. 12, No. 1, January 28, 2006: Pervasive Health Management: New Challenges for Health Informatics, edited by J.C. Augusto, N.D. Black, H.G. McAllister, P.J. McCullagh and C.D. Nugent from the School of Computing and Mathematics University of Ulster at Jordanstown, United Kingdom.
Vol. 11, No. 12, December 28, 2005: Constructivity, Computability, and Logic, A special collection of papers dedicated to Professor Douglas Bridges' 60th Birthday, edited by Cris Calude from University of Auckland, New Zealand and Hajime Ishihara from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
Vol. 11, No. 11, November 28, 2005: A special issue on Visual Data Mining, edited by Jesús S. Aguilar-Ruiz, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain, and Francisco J. Ferrer-Troyano, University of Seville, Spain.
Vol. 11, No. 10, October 28, 2005: Special issue on "Compositional Construction and Reasoning Techniques for Software", edited by Farhad Arbab from the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Joost N. Kok from Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Vol. 11, No. 9, October 28, 2005: A selection of the best papers from the 6th International Symposium on Computer and Education (SIIE '04). Edited by José Bravo, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain, Baltasar Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and Juan M. Sánchez, Extremadura University, Céceres, Spain.
J.UCS Vol. 11, No. 7, July 28, 2005: A selection of papers from the "9th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages", edited by Martin A. Musicante from the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil and Ricardo Massa Ferreira Lima from the Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil.
Vol. 3, No. 5, May 28, 1997: The second part of the special issue on Ten Years of Gurevich's Abstract State Machines is devoted to applications of ASMs to classical problems of programming and software engineering. Guest editor: Egon Börger, Università di Pisa, Italy.
Vol. 3, No. 4, April 28, 1997: The special issue Ten Years of Gurevich's Abstract State Machines documents the flourishing Abstract State Machines research. The special issue consists of two parts, published in the April and May issues, respectively. The papers in this issue deal with foundational questions, with questions from complexity theory, with the central notion of refinement and with machine support for reasoning about ASMs. Guest editor: Egon Börger, Università di Pisa, Italy.
Vol. 2, No. 10, October 28, 1996: The topic of this special issue is the Classroom of the Future. The issue contains papers presenting visions of the "classroom without walls," a learning environment that merges new pedagogies, advanced media, and collaborative learning to meet the needs of knowledgeworkers of the 21st century. Guest editor: Patricia A. Carlson from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA.
Vol. 2, No. 9, September 28, 1996: Special issue presenting five extended versions of WebNet '96 contributions dealing with different aspects of Internet. All five papers received a best paper award.
Vol. 2, No. 6, June 28, 1996: Special issue on Distance Teaching, edited by Bernd Kraemer from the University of Hagen, Germany.
Vol. 2, No. 2, February 28, 1996: The issue contains a selection of refereed papers contributed to the International Symposium and Young Scientists School on Mathematical Modelling and Information Systems in Biology, Ecology and Medicine (BIOMATH-95). The meeting was organized by the Institute of Informatics at the University of Basel and the Research Group for Mathematical Modelling in Biology of the Institute of Biophysics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and held in Sofia, Bulgaria from August 23 to 27, 1995. Guest editors: Svetoslav M. Markov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, and Christian P. Ullrich, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Vol. 1, No. 7, July 28, 1995: A selection of papers presented during the international conference "Real Numbers and Computers" in Saint-Etienne, France, April 1995, edited by Jean-Claude Bajard, Université de Provence, France, Dominique Michelucci, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, Jean-Michel Moreau, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France and Jean-Michel Muller, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France.
