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Special Section on CHANS

Central to the concept of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), humans and nature are organized into interacting subsystems of a cohesive whole at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Following an overview of the challenges in implementing the CHANS concept, we used widely available measures of social, economic, and ecological systems, including gross domestic product, population size, ne...

Special Session on Writing Patterns

Software patterns represent a promising research area in reason of the subsequent benefits of its application, mainly in terms of productivity reached with the reuse. In automatic, architectural patterns can be applied in recurrent problems involving diverse types of computational systems. A complex application, for which architectural patterns can bring great contribution, is the Supervisory C...

Special Section on Wireless networking

In this Special Section on Wireless networking, we are pleased to present a diverse set of papers covering a range of topics within the area of wireless networking. While the huge proliferation of wireless devices and technologies enables a rich set of new applications, it also raises many new research challenges. This section addresses some of these open research challenges. The proliferation ...

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 medical bionics.