Guest editors preface

Guest Editors’ Preface Special Issue on Reversible Computing

Guest Editor\'s Note

Although Occupational Therapy in Iran is relatively a new profession, it has been well progressed, providing various services for people with all kinds of disabilities. As such, in the last decades, OT has been recognized as the major demand in all governmental, private and NGO sectors. Due to this demand, occupational therapy training programs have been increased from three into ten, expecting...

Dialogue on Organization and Knowledge

Preface In lieu of writing an introduction that runs the risk of adding more smoke than fire, the guest editors elected to engage in a dialogue with one another. Its purpose is to give readers a sense of the thinking behind the special issue, of the debates that ensued, and of the possible directions for further work. We met for lunch in a café-bar in Greenwich Village in April 2001 to discuss ...

Preface INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON CAUSAL DISCOVERY

Many empirical sciences, including the social sciences and life sciences, aim to study causal relationships. Researchers in these fields need computational methods for analyzing observed data and identifying causal structures among a set of variables. Such computational methods enable researchers to draw conclusions on the basis of both their assumptions and the observed data. Moreover, these m...

Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning

Guest Editors: Riina Vuorikari, Nikos Manouselis, Erik Duval Preface Social information retrieval (SIR) refers to an approach that assists people in obtaining relevant information by harnessing the knowledge or experience of colleagues, friends, peers, and others. SIR applications like collaborative filtering and social bookmarking rely on social network analysis and the use of subjective relev...