Special issue “New advancements and challenges in unconventional reservoirs”

Special issue on "Recent Advancements in Ubiquitous Computing"

The first paper, “Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data using reconfigurable hardware and Hidden Markov Models”, presents the design and development of low cost and embedded hardware tools to obtain disaggregated power consumption with the aim to interpret human activity, providing successful results. The second paper, “Self-configuration in humanized cyber-physical syste...

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Breakthroughs and Challenges in Software Engineering J.UCS Special Issue

In the seminal 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, F.L. Bauer defined this term as " the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines ". In the beginning, most proposals focused on programming languages and techniques , which are currently in a rather elaborate state. Later, the discipline exp...

Editorial for the Special Issue on the Insights and Advancements in Microfluidics

Say Hwa Tan 1 ID , Heng-Dong Xi 2 and Weihua Li 3,* 1 Queensland Microand Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Brisbane, QLD 4111, Australia; [email protected] 2 School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Rd., Xi’an 710072, China; [email protected] 3 School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering, University o...

Special Issue on New Challenges in Energy Materials Research on materials and renewable energy

In this paper, an overview on the subject of materials and renewable energy, mainly from the research point of view, is carried out. Energy and materials are nowadays driving science and technology. There is a search for cleaner, cheaper and more efficient energy production, and this is obviously related to the development of new and innovative materials. As energy is a top European priority, m...