Towards the future of interval computations - Editors' Introduction to the student issue

The idea of the student issue. The future of Interval Computations is with the student researchers entering the field. Their vision, their insights, their approaches will shape the future research. To highlight their contributions, the Editorial Board of the International Journal Interval Computations (since 1995, Reliable Computing) decided to make a special issue with high-quality papers written by students (either alone, or in co-authorship with their professors). The call for papers was issued at the end of 1993, and finally, after the thorough iterative process of refereeing and revision (these papers has undergone the same refereeing as all the other papers), we are happy to finally present this issue to the readers. The idea of the student issue turned out to be very successful. The total volume of accepted papers far exceeded a typical issue size, so some papers are moved to other issues [S2,S7,S8], and several submitted papers are still under consideration. In view of this success, we suggest to make such student issues regular. Let us briefly describe the contents of this issue.