Special Issue on the 10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-10)

PREFACE Special Issue on Nonlinear Programming dedicated to the ALIO - INFORMS Joint International Meeting 2010

This Special Issue is dedicated to the ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, held at the University of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between the 6th and the 9th of June, 2010. This joint conference consisted of the INFORMS International Conference and XV CLAIO, the biannual conference organized by ALIO. The ALIO-INFORMS 2010 focused on topics such as services, logistics and tran...

Special Issue on the Tenth International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

This special issue consists of eight papers drawn from presentations at the Eleventh International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER08). ISER is a series of biennial symposia whose goal is to provide the robotics community with a forum for research driven by creative ideas, bold visions, new systems, and novel applications of robotics, emphasizing experimental work. The tradition in ISER...

The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Recent work on information presentation in dialogue systems combines user modelling (UM) and stepwise refinement through clustering and summarisation (SR) in the UMSR approach. An evaluation in which participants rated dialogue transcripts showed that UMSR presents complex trade-offs understandably, provides users with a good overview of their options, and increases users’ confidence that all r...

The 2010 International Conference on Biofabrication (BF2010) special issue.

Special Issue on Entropy Generation in Thermal Systems and Processes

Thermodynamics is defined as the science of energy and entropy which are applicable to all fields of science and engineering. This special issue is essentially devoted to the entropy generation in thermal engineering systems and applications. Entropy generation is one of the most significant problems to overcome to optimize a system/process and its performance, and this will unfortunately remai...