Special issue "Silicone Polymers". Application of coupling agents to elastomers.

Editorial of the Special Issue Antimicrobial Polymers

The special issue "Antimicrobial Polymers" includes research and review papers concerning the recent advances on preparation of antimicrobial polymers and their relevance to industrial settings and biomedical field. Antimicrobial polymers have recently emerged as promising candidates to fight microbial contamination onto surfaces thanks to their interesting properties. In this special issue, th...

The Many Faces of Agents: Introduction to this Special Issue

Meanwhile, the object-oriented community was defining and refining the notion of objects as units of software design that encapsulate state. They have some control over their state in the sense that the state can only be accessed or modified using the methods that the object provides. Objects could be distributed and invoked remotely through remote procedure calls or message passing. Networking...

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Special Issue about Advances in Physical Agents

Nowadays, there are a lot of Spanish groups which are doing research in areas related with physical agents: they use agent-based technologies concepts, especially industrial applications, robotics and domotics (physical agents) and applications related to the information society, (software agents) highlighting the similarities and synergies among physical and software agents. In this special is...

Preface to the special issue: adaptive learning agents