Editorial (zbf Heft 3, 2015)

Editorial OJPHI Vol 7, No 3 (2015)

This issue contains 5 original articles covering various topics in the application of data sciences to public health practice. These range from development of data visualization platforms to facilitate health workforce planning; the development of visualization methods for utilizing incomplete data for surveillance; development of agent-based model to explore the prevalence of gonococcal infect...

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...

Editorial: Alfred Pingoud (1945–2015)

Dr Pingoud was born on 31 August 1945, as the son of a businessman and a teacher in Schwaan (Mecklenburg, Germany). After completing high school in Langen (Hessen, Germany), he studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1969 with a thesis describing ‘Studies on the aldehydeoxidase’ with Prof Ernst Bayer at the Institute of Organic C...