Editorial: special section on “new data and new insights”

Special Section: New Insights into the Tropical Biodiversity Crisis

For conservation biologists, the contemporary loss of tropical biodiversity is among the greatest of all concerns. Regarded as the biologically richest ecosystems on the planet, old-growth tropical forests are disappearing at an alarming pace––roughly 30–60 football fields per minute (approximately 8–15 million ha/year) in recent decades (Achard et al. 2002; FAO 2007; Grainger 2008). During the...

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Music Data Mining

M USIC has been an important application area for data mining and machine learning techniques for many years. Music data mining is an interdisciplinary area that studies computational methods for understanding and delivering music data and is a topic of growing importance with large commercial relevance and substantial potential. It attracts researchers not only from computer science, electrica...

Special Section Guest Editorial

In recent years there has been a strong trend to enhance traditional research techniques in neuroscience with opticalbased techniques. The trend is evident on every level of neuroscience research, spatially spanning submicron to centimeters and temporally spanning submillisecond to seconds. Optical techniques are attractive because they enable researchers to study brain function from the smalle...

Special Section Editorial Preface

This special section of the International Journal of E-Business Research contains a selection of the best papers published in the E-Commerce Technologies track (ECT) of the 20th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 17, 2005. The ECT track has been held as part of SAC since 2003. The last years have seen an exponential growth and dramatic changes in the...

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