Micropumps are one product which was commercialized from Microsystem Industries. It has many applications and many potential as well, and due to this there is a growing interest in their modeling, simulation, and performance and this is going and in hand with research on their fabrication as well. In this paper, we are reviewing the basic aspects of modeling of micropump and their challenges. B...

Over forty years ago, Jerome Bruner proposed a radically new theory of education, that "...any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development." [1]. While many have disputed the more extreme claims attached to that hypothesis, it is anadmirable goal, though one difficult to achieve. One way to implement this theory is through the “s...

This position paper gives an overview of model-based testing and discusses how it might fit into the proposed grand challenge for a

Computational prediction of reaction outcomes and optimum synthetic routes was a two-day meeting and workshop organised by the EPSRC Dial-a-molecule grand challenge network. Forty delegates discussed computer predictions of synthetic routes and reactions, and considered their relevance to contemporary chemistry.

Education and Work online at: New and unprecedented standards for mathematical and computation literacy have emerged for the nation’s workforce. Generated by the science-intensive and digitally driven global economy, today’s careers in health science, engineering, value added manufacturing, and nano-fabrication require advanced mathematics. The importance of mathematical and computational compe...

The mathematical modeling of very large biological pathways presents serious computational challenges. Current techniques will no longer be adequate owing to their lack of scalability. Some of the resulting challenges are mathematical. Many of them arise from the knowledge representation, ambiguity, the qualitative nature the information, and the lack of enough information. This talk will descr...

Many of the pressing problems facing our society such as managing the delivery of health care to aging populations or making cities resilient against natural disasters are fundamentally defined by enterprise systems. The dilemma that enterprise systems pose to systems engineers is that the behavioral and social components of the system cannot be assumed away as it is the interactions among the ...

This special issue follows, in this journal, various previous ones devoted to the contribution of mathematics to the modeling, qualitative analysis, and simulation of complex living systems, more precisely large systems constituted by several living entities interacting in a nonlinear manner. The focus of the previous issues was on specific topics such as biological systems and multi-particle s...

Ubiquitous display environments are public places with various situated public displays. These displays are intended to provide relevant information to people in their vicinity, where this may include the regular inhabitants of the space as well as visitors. For this latter group, it is particularly challenging to provide relevant information. This is because personalization relies on the avail...

There are many good books written on the topics of combat modeling and distributed simulation and most of them are used as references in this book, so why write another book on this topic? The reason is simple: while all other books in this domain successfully highlight special topics in detail none of them compiles the basic knowledge of all contributing fields that a simulation engineer needs...