Recent progress in natural computation and knowledge discovery: an ICNC’09-FSKD’09 special issue

Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery

This Special Issue contains modified and extended versions of nine papers presented at the Fifteenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS05) which took place in the Inn Hotel at Saratoga Springs, New York on May 25-28, 2005. The goal of ISMIS symposia [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practiti...

Special Issue: Progress of the Knowledge Grid

This special issue contains five papers [1–5] reflecting the progress of the Knowledge Grid [6]. Most of them were selected from the First International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2005; http://www.knowledgegrid.net), which is currently the unique forum crossing the areas of knowledge sharing, semantic networking and Grid computing. The first paper [1] proposes a distributed...

Special Issue on Granular Knowledge Discovery

Granular Computing becomes increasingly popular in modeling of intelligent systems. Granulation of information is inherent in human thinking and reasoning processes. Granular Computing provides an information processing framework where interactive computation and operations are performed on information granules, and is based on the realization that precision is sometimes expensive and/or not mu...

Special Issue: Progress in Membrane Engineering for Food and Biotechnology Industries

An introduction to the special issue on pharmaceuticals, drug discovery and natural products.