Special Issue: Biofilm Composition and Applications

Special Issue

Ontologies and their Applications J.UCS Special Issue

After pursuing a long tradition of study in Philosophy, the term " ontology " has become the new buzzword in computer science. It is receiving special attention not only from an active community of researchers pertaining to many areas of informatics but also from the industry, which is providing increasing budgets and investments to develop this technology and make it available in business as s...

Special issue algebraic coding theory and applications

This issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation is a follow-up to the “Soria Summer School on Computational Mathematics: Algebraic Coding Theory” supported by the group SINGACOM of the University of Valladolid, held at the Campus Duques de Soria of the University of Valladolid in Soria, July 2-11, 2008 and the Special Session “Computer Algebra and Coding Theory 2008”, hosted at ACA 2008 held ...

Multimedia Services and Applications J.UCS Special Issue

Due to the latest developments in communication, computing, and storage technologies , multimedia services and applications are being deployed for various applications such as entertainment, health care, smart homes, security and surveillance, and intelligent environments. The special issue focuses on research challenges and issues related to multimedia applications. Scheibe et al. in their pap...

Collaborative Computing and Applications J.UCS Special Issue

Evolving from parallel computing, cluster computing, grid computing, to nowadays cloud computing, the distributed computing paradigm has been shifting from parallelization, distribution, sharing, to be able to support full-scale collaboration between systems and people. This new computing paradigm can be called collaborative computing, composing of technologies and techniques to facilitate peop...