Editors' Introduction: "Our Work"

Dynamic Collective Work [Guest editors' introduction]

Schahram Dustdar Vienna University of Technology The Internet has completely changed the way in which data is circulated, and has rapidly shifted us from a world of paper documents to a world of online documents, databases, and provenance systems.1 This has also helped to increase the size and complexity of systems that support today’s globally distributed, rapidly changing and agile businesses...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Introduction from the Editors

Recent evidence suggests that the prevalence of various allergic conditions such as allergic rhinitis, food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is on the rise [1-3]. Over the last decade, there have been significant advances in our current understanding of these as well as other common allergic and immunological diseases. The purpose of this supplement entitled, A Practical Guide for All...

Introduction from the Editors

A dvances in solid organ transplantation have led to remarkable outcomes in patients that once had few options for their failing organ systems. Since 1988, it is estimated that more than 634,000 organ transplantations have been performed successfully. Today, more than 265,000 Americans are living with a transplanted organ, and in 2013, 28,954 solid organ transplants were carried out in the Unit...