Special Issue on Ultrasound Technology in Industry and Medicine

Special issue on CNS experimental medicine.

The past 5 years have seen unprecedented changes in the approach to developing new therapeutic drug treatments. Perhaps the most significant changes have taken place in the area of clinical development with a move away from determining efficacy exclusively in traditional phase II clinical trials in patients, to earlier development phases in which efficacy is inferred from experimental studies w...

Special issue on atomically controlled fabrication technology

Editorial The Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) for atomically controlled fabrication technology was established in 2008 by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), as a succession program of the 21st Century COE program for atomistic fabrication technology promoted from 2003 to 2007. The GCOE program is implemented by three departments, namely the De...

Editorial: Special Issue on Agent Technology

Paper Special Issue on Internet Technology Iv

Autonomous Decentralized Community Information System (ADCS) is a proposition made to meet the rapidly changing users’ requirements and cope with the extreme dynamism in current information services. ADCS is a decentralized architecture that forms a community of individual end-users (community members) having the same interests and demands in specified time and location. It allows those members...

Foreword: special issue on mathematical programming in biology and medicine

In recent years, mathematical programming and optimization techniques have been increasingly applied to various fields of biological and medical sciences, and in many cases have become indispensable tools. This volume contains a collection of five papers in this area. In this foreword, we aim to provide a little context for the applications described in these papers and, in particular, their us...