Preface: evolving rotifers, evolving science

Independently Evolving Species in Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers

Asexuals are an important test case for theories of why species exist. If asexual clades displayed the same pattern of discrete variation as sexual clades, this would challenge the traditional view that sex is necessary for diversification into species. However, critical evidence has been lacking: all putative examples have involved organisms with recent or ongoing histories of recombination an...

Evolving science enhanced with iPS

GuEst Editorial PrEfacE Open Source Software Research: An Evolving Endeavor

i The purpose of this special issue is to provide a rigorous examination of the open source software (OSS) movement, with special consideration to the impact it has on not only the software products, but also the software industry as a whole. Naturally, the OSS movement is large and has many facets that could be worthwhile to investigate. For this special issue, we tried to take as open an appr...

Guest Editorial Evolving Fuzzy Systems - Preface to the Special Section

I T IS a well-recognized fact that the theory of fuzzy sets and systems, for the last four decades after the seminal paper by Professor Zadeh [1], has demonstrated its remarkable ability to go beyond conventional information representation. It resulted in a wide range of new formulations of practical problems, such as fuzzy control, fuzzy clustering and classification , fuzzy modeling, and fuzz...

Evolving water science in the Anthropocene

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