Health and Communication Guest Editors’ Foreword

Foreword of the Guest Editors

This special issue on Differential Algebra and Differential Equations was the idea of Bob Caviness and Bruno Buchberger and originated from a special year in differential algebra that was organized by Raymond Hoobler and William Sit at The City College of New York during 1995–1996. It may interest the reader to recall the research environment under which the special year was started. As is well...

Guest Editors' Foreword: Selected papers on "Streams and Algebra"

Editors' Foreword

The papers in this issue appeared in preliminary form at the 15th Annual ACM-SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, held in Boston, Massachusetts, April 25-27, 1983. The authors of these papers were invited to submit completed versions to this Special Issue by the Special Issue Editor and his advisors. As is customary, all the papers which appear have been refereed according to the usual stan...

Foreword by the Editors

Our Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Emerging Markets in December 2000 generated 64 submissions. Of these papers, we selected seven papers, making the acceptance rate for this Special Issue in the same class as the very top finance journals. The selection procedure was as objective as possible. First, each submission was double-blind reviewed by two referees. The referees scored each pape...

Series Editors’ Foreword

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actu-ators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies..., new challenges. Much of this development work resid...