Editorial L&E, v.9, n.3, 2015

CPD Bulletin CB V9 N3.indd

Many poisoned patients are treated with no laboratory help other than general clinical chemistry and haematology. However, some emergency toxicological analyses that could influence immediate patient management such as ethanol, iron, lithium, paracetamol (acetaminophen), and salicylates should be provided at hospitals with emergency departments on an urgent (24 h, maximum 2 h turnaround) basis....

Teaching Linear Programming with Excel Solver (CHEER v9 n3)

Linear programming (LP) is one of the most widely applied O.R. techniques and owes its popularity principally to George Danzig's simplex method (Danzig 1963) and the revolution in computing. It is a very powerful technique for solving allocation problems and has become a standard tool for many businesses and organisations. Although Danzig's simplex method allows solutions to be generated by han...

Editorial: NAR Awards 2015

2015 SWAT4LS International Conference Editorial

SWAT4LS 2015 had two excellent keynotes. The first was from Bijan Parsia, of the University of Manchester, on "Representing all clinical knowledge" and the second was from Melissa Haendel, of Oregon Health and Science University, and was about "Envisioning a world where everyone helps solve disease". The conference programme, together with slides, is available on the SWAT4LS 2015 conference Web...

Editorial: Service Computing in 2015

AS we enter 2015, I have some very exciting news. First, with IEEE CS Publication Board approval, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC) will become a bi-monthly journal and publish every two months and six issues annually, instead the current quarterly publications. Second, in response to the growing community of researchers and practitioners, including both authors and readers, TSC edit...