Special Section on Nanoscale Nonlinear Systems: Vibrations and Applications

Introduction to the Special Section on Biometric Systems and Applications

Special section on workflow systems and applications in e-Science

Rapid development of Internet and Grid technologies has greatly extended the number of resources which scientists can apply for research. More and more scientific advances are achieved via experiments which consist of large volumes of computing tasks and data. Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWMS) are a key technology to integrate computing and data analysis components, and to control t...

Special Section on Wavelet Applications

In covering a field such as video compression, it would be logical that we begin with the compression lessons learned in (1) and (2) and then define wavelets in (3). Afterwards, we can better delineate the contribution of wavelets to the image and video compression. (1) Syntactic and Semantic Singularity Maps: Lossless data compression is at most a few factor of 2 and is not addressed here. Ima...

Special section on networks for grid applications

Grid computing has been defined as ‘‘coordinated resource sharing andproblemsolving in dynamic,multi-institutional virtual organisations’’ (Ian Foster: http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/); see also [1] for a recent overview of the current status and perceived future directions of the Grid. In practice, the above definition implies that a computation intensive application is distributed across a...

Special Section on Space Solar Power Systems

A vision is presented for the generation of enormous (terawatt) power levels using solid-state sources arranged in arrays of devices that are opto-electronically controlled to produce a microwave beam that can be safely directed towards terrestrial receptors. The performance and capabilities of discrete technologies will increase tremendously over the next three or four decades (when SSP system...