Special issue on evolution of marketing channels in Japan

Special issue on simulated evolution and learning

The field of natural computation is one of the fastest growing areas in computer science and engineering. Although its origins can be traced back to the cybernetics movement of the 1950s, it has undergone a renaissance since the mid-1980s, primarily due to the fundamental work by pioneers (for example, John Holland, Ken De Jong, David Goldberg, John Koza, Lawrence Fogel) in the genetic and evol...

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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Cooperation

The Marketing Engineering Imperative: Introduction to the Special Issue

A s we enter the new millennium, we are at the end of the era when firms could gain and sustain competitive advantage merely by having market data. Today large firms have access to more market and customer data than they can use. Having too much data without the models and systems for discovering what is important and what can be discarded can be as bad (or worse) than having too little data. I...

Editorial_ Special issue “Planetary evolution and life”

Given the enormous number of stars in the universe and the number of confirmed and postulated planets in our galaxy, it is generally agreed that our home planet Earth is not likely to be unique (e.g., Sagan, 1980; Bignami et al., 2005; Hawking and Mlodinow, 2010). But is it? Although the number of known extrasolar planets grows almost by the day, observational bias caused by the technological c...