Special Issue: Earth Sciences and the Environment - Foreward

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Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop Special Issue

were all enhanced over the conference versions and separately reviewed. I would like to thank Ian Foster and Geoffrey Fox for their help putting this special issue together.

Special issue on modeling and computational methods in genomic sciences

The discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA is a landmark event which belongs to the past century, but with great influence, in this century, on the research activity on genetic and genomic sciences, due also to the completion of a high-quality comprehensive sequence of the human genome which has made. Indeed we may talk, as observed in [1], about the genome era. The above scientific e...

Special Issue on Robots and the Work Environment

The future development of industries is currently on the agenda of public and scientific debates. Due to new technical options such as artificial intelligence and robots, sensor networks, big data, etc., which are “captured in terms such as the Internet of Things and the Internet of Robotic Things” according to van Est and Kools [1], visions like Industry 4.0 in Germany, the Future d’Industrie ...

Acm99 Special Issue Asteroid Close Encounters with Earth: Risk Assessment

When an asteroid with an orbit close to the Earth's is observed only over a short arc, there is no way to accurately predict the future close approaches. The rst approach could change the orbital period in such a way that the asteroid is injected into a resonance , allowing an even closer approach a few years later. By using both a qualitative theory for these resonant returns, and a systematic...