EROL GELENBE: A CAREER IN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROBABILITY MODELS

ISVH – A multi-disciplinary society

The International Society for Vascular Health (ISVH) was established in June 2005 as a non-profit making society under French Law (1901). Publication of ISVH bylaws and establishment of the Executive Committee were achieved in August 2005. The first question posed by the Board was: “Why yet another International Society?” The unanimous conclusion of the ISVH Board was that there exists an urgen...

Chaotic Itinerancy: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Chaotic itinerancy is characterized here as a general mechanism of high-dimensional systems. The paper focuses on the interplay between the low-dimensional behavior in the vicinity of attractors and the transients of the embedding larger system. Using this interplay we chart the relationship of chaotic itinerancy to some other dynamical concepts and applied notions. From the dynamic computation...

Delivering cancer services: a multi-disciplinary approach

The article by Lim [1] on the development of oncology services in Malaysia was both insightful and comprehensive. It is interesting to read that cancer services are growing from strength to strength, with a national cancer institute planned. The field of oncology has been transformed over the last few decades with a proliferation in technological advances and a revolution occurring in molecular...

Mental handicap: a multi-disciplinary approach

Discrimination Data Analysis: A Multi-disciplinary Bibliography

Discrimination data analysis has been investigated for the last fifty years in a large body of social, legal, and economic studies. Recently, discrimination discovery and prevention has become a blooming research topic in the knowledge discovery community. This chapter provides a multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography of the literature on discrimination data analysis, with the intended objec...