Ubiquitous Digital Predistortion and Postcorrection [From the Guest Editors' Desk]

Musings from the Editors' Desk

From the Guest Editor's Desk.

Treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes Selection of the treatment plan for a patient with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) depends upon the prognosis for the disease course. Currently, the best approach for assessing prognosis is to utilize the International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS). The IPSS incorporates the results from three types of analyses—the levels of blood counts, the percent of...

From the Guest Editors

The dependability of systems is known as the reliance that can justifiably be placed on the service the system delivers. Dependability has become an important aspect of computer systems since everyday life increasingly depends on them, which has left us vulnerable to their potential malfunction. The causes to these malfunctions can potentially be introduced in every step of their development, d...

Letter from the Guest Editors

The simple fact that this special issue is being published suggests that “we've come a long way, baby.” From obesity, vitamin D, and dietary intervention to interventional cardiology and maternal effects on cardiovascular risk in offspring, this issue includes more than a conventional discussion of heart disease in women and differentiates the dogma from the data. Of course, much remains to be ...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Building and Evaluating Ubiquitous System Software

O ne question we debated when setting out as guest editors was whether to entitle this issue Everyware—a name for the new class of software needed to power the world of ubiquitous computing. The title we eventually used—the title of this introduction—reflects the more explicit and pragmatic topic on which we settled. We hope before too long to have everyware literally all around us. But we’re n...