Summary and Conclusion to the Special Issue

Conclusion to the Special Issue on Parallel SAT Solving

Recent years have shown a major architectural shift in computer hardware. The traditional efficiency gains upcoming from the relentless raise of chips frequencies has been stopped by a thermal wall and performance improvements have to be found elsewhere. The new direction is to add more computing units (cores) to a chip in order to raise its computational power. The products resulting from this...

Summary and Conclusion

The development of marine insurance has been imperative for the expansion of longdistance maritime trade. Without marine insurance, the Dutch Republic would not have been able to enlarge its trade networks and in all likelihood would not have prospered as it did in the early modern era. The emergence and early development of marine insurance in the Netherlands has been fairly well documented. T...

A Summary of the Special Issue "Cybersecurity and Cryptography"

Nowadays in the cyber world, massive amounts of data are being collected, transmitted, and stored by different organizations and individuals. As an important asset, data must be well protected in storage and during transmission. Data security is a crucial factor to the success of new information technologies and infrastructures, such as Cloud Computing and Big Data. This Special Issue includes ...

Special Issue

Foreword to the Special Issue

We are very pleased to present the Special Issue “Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Theory and its Applications”, an outcome of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action TU1208 “Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar”. The Special Issue comprises two parts: Part I includes eight papers on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology, methodology and appl...