Special issue on “Formulation strategies and manufacturing technologies to enhance non-invasive drug delivery”

Special Issue on Next Generation Wireless Technologies

The next generation wireless networks are expected to converge into a ubiquitous architecture, which includes high-speed cellular networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), mobile ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs), etc. The increasing demand of wireless multimedia services has motivated the development of broad wireless access in the hetero...

Special Issue on Human Technologies for Special Needs

A research and development (R&D) approach has been applied to video telephony (VT) in northern Finland since 1994 by broad consortia. The focus has been on the considerable involvement of ergonomics within the engineering and implementation of VT. This multidisciplinary participatory ergonomic R&D approach (PERDA) is described briefly, in general and through two cases. The user-centeredness sho...

Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue on Semantic Informational Technologies

The term semantic informational technologies (or, shorter, semantic technologies) emerged in the 2000s as a generic concept for the qualification of a group of quickly progressing technologies including, in particular, semantics-oriented natural language processing technologies, the use of ontologies in the Semantic Web project and in many other projects of applied intelligent systems, cross-la...

Introduction to Special Issue on “Fluorescence-Based Sensing Technologies”

Paper Special Issue on Advanced Database Technologies Cooperative Query Formulation for Geographic Databases

Queries to generate a map from geographic databases are too large and complex for users to specify all components in it. Thematic parts of the map should be described by users as ad hoc queries. However, background parts of it should be inferred from users' queries corresponding to the thematic parts. Furthermore, it is important for the map systems to lead users' constructing their ad hoc quer...