I am delighted to see this special edition of Social Work Education: the international journal, through publication, having acted as guest editor before my appointment co-Editor-in-Chief ...

Industry 4.0 is a term first introduced by the German government during Hannover Messe fair in 2011 when it launched an initiative to support industry tackling future challenges. It refers 4th industrial revolution which disruptive digital technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), Everything (IoE), robotics, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI), are impacting production....

Thanks to the many people from EPSRC ICT SAT, UKCRC Ubiquitous Grand Challenges, UK-UbiNet and others who have provided input to this.

Research in Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) aims at matching multimedia content and user needs and so at bringing image, audio and video content together with users. Users expectations regarding multimedia content access in terms of semantically rich and personalized relevance criteria have always been high and have imposed high demands on the level of sophistication of MIR solutions. Th...

In recent years and accelerated by the economic and financial crisis, complex global issues have moved to the forefront of policy making. These grand challenges require policy makers to address a variety of interrelated issues, which are built upon yet uncoordinated and dispersed bodies of knowledge. Due to the social dynamics of innovation, new socio-technical subsystems are emerging, however ...

substance abuse treatment network in iran, with nearly three thousand outpatient treatment centers, one thousand residential treatment centers, some general and specialized in-patient centers and more than ten thousand care givers; like medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and social workers construct one of the main components of iran health organization, although may “not cou...