Editorial introduction: special issue on advances in parallel and distributed computing for neural computing

Editorial for Special Issue on Pervasive Computing

Pervasive (or Ubiquitous) Computing aims to seamlessly integrate computing and communication with our environment so as to make our day-today activities the central focus rather than the computing or communication devices per se. Mark Weiser in his 1991 visionary paper " The Computer for 21st Century " laid the foundations of this field. Last decade has seen a steady increase in the momentum fo...

Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Advances in Semantic Computing

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Cloud Computing for IoT

IN RECENT years, there has been a growing interest in the ability of embedded devices, sensors, and actuators to communicate, and create a ubiquitous cyber-physical world. The growth of the notion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the rapid development of technologies such as short range mobile communication and improved energy-efficiency is expected to create a pervasive connection of “thing...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Software for Soft Computing

The term Soft Computing refers to a family of techniques (Fuzzy Logic, Neuro-computing, Probabilistic Reasoning, Evolutionary Computation, etc.) endowed with the ability to work in a cooperative way, taking profit from the main advantages of each other, thus tackling with complex real-world problems really hard to solve otherwise [6]. In the last years, many software tools have been developed f...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Clouds for Social Computing

IN recent time, two complimentary Internet based research areas are emerging: social computing and cloud computing. On the one hand, social computing empowers individual users with relatively low technological sophistication to use the web to engage in social interactions, contribute their expertise and share their content, experiences and opinions. On the other hand, cloud computing offers eve...