Guest Editorial: Contaminant Source Zones: Remediation or Perpetual Stewardship?

GuEst Editorial PrEfacE Open Source Software Research: An Evolving Endeavor

i The purpose of this special issue is to provide a rigorous examination of the open source software (OSS) movement, with special consideration to the impact it has on not only the software products, but also the software industry as a whole. Naturally, the OSS movement is large and has many facets that could be worthwhile to investigate. For this special issue, we tried to take as open an appr...

Guest editorial: Evidence-based practice: destination or journey?

Special Section Guest Editorial

In recent years there has been a strong trend to enhance traditional research techniques in neuroscience with opticalbased techniques. The trend is evident on every level of neuroscience research, spatially spanning submicron to centimeters and temporally spanning submillisecond to seconds. Optical techniques are attractive because they enable researchers to study brain function from the smalle...

Guest Editorial: Urban Computing

URBAN computing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and human, to tackle the major issues that cities face, e.g., air pollution, increased energy consumption and traffic congestion. Urban computing connects unobtrusive and ubiquitous sensing techno...

I Guest Editorial Preface

It is a great pleasure to introduce the special issue of International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine (IJCMAM) on Privacy and Security Issues for Medical Data. This special issue covers some recent advances in the field of privacy and security protection for medical data. Digitalizing and sharing medical data is crucial to curb the growing healthcare costs and facili...