Salvage and Salvation: Guest Editors’ Introduction

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

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction

SOFTWARE IS THE number-one decisive competitive factor in the automotive industry. Innovations such as driver-assistance systems and energy-efficient driving require complex solutions with complex software functionality. Not only must the growing complexity be managed, but also safe behavior must be ensured. Global competition and fast release cycles enforce continuous efficiency improvement an...

Guest editors' introduction: Biocomputation

Guest Editors’ Introduction Case4ased Reasoning

RE ASONING IN ARTIFICIAL INtelligence has traditionally involved writing and customizing rules or models to solve problems. But there is another paradigm that has proven effective in many experimental and applied systems: Casebased reasoning “remembers” previous problems and either adapts their solutions or uses their outcomes to evaluate new cases. There are two kinds of case-based reasoners: ...