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Guest Editorial: In Search of a New Alignment in Service Research-Dual-Journal Special Sections

IEEE Transactions onServicesComputing and INFORMSService Science issued a joint call for papers targeting the bridging of service perspectives from business (e.g., service science, servicesmarketing and information systems) to services computing. The intent was to advance transdisciplinary research agendas that could generate advances that go beyond the sum of independent research streams. Aswi...

Guest Editorial: NTP: New Initiatives, New Alignment

has for nearly 30 years led the effort to apply the science of toxicology to the protection of public health. In June 2007 I became the Associate Director of the NTP. I accepted this challenge with enthusiasm and pledged to a) maintain our traditional areas of strength in toxicology research and testing; b) accelerate our efforts to fulfill the goals set forth in A National Toxicology Program f...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Multi-paradigm Modeling

For decades, computational modeling and simulation have been valuable tools in tackling specific problems in the design of engineered systems. More recently, however, computational methods have moved from being applied to solve specific problems such as algorithm design, to becoming essential at the system design level. As an exponent of this trend, Model-Based Design has become key to being su...

Guest Editorial: Big Media Data: Understanding, Search, and Mining

BIG media data is a new research area, and has been attracting a lot of research interests in both industry and academia. This editorial, as the third part of this special issue, introduces two papers on video copy detection data and personalized travel sequence recommendation from social media. The first paper is “Partial Copy Detection in Videos: A Benchmark and An Evaluation of Popular Metho...

Editorial: Parasites in the Tropic—A New Paradigm Shift