Special issue foreword: Advances in pervasive computing systems and applications

Special issue recent advances in soft computing: Theories and applications

Soft Computing is an interdisciplinary area that encompasses a variety of computing paradigms. Examples of some popular soft computing paradigms include fuzzy computing, neural computing, evolutionary computing, and probabilistic computing. Soft computing paradigms, in general, aim to produce computing systems/machines that exhibit some useful properties, e.g. making inference with vague and/or...

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...

Foreword: Special issue on fuzzy expert systems

In this special issue on "Fuzzy Expert Systems," six papers cover a wide range of concerns--from theory to applications including: (1) a rule base reorganization, (2) a linear interpolation, (3) a neuro-fuzzy approach to pairwise comparison, (4) properties of reduction, in transitive matrices, (5) a consistency checking procedure, and (6) a context dependency model. We present a brief review of...

Foreword: Advances in Distributed Computing Systems

PPPJ special issue-Foreword

Originally established in 2002 in Kilkenny, Ireland, the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ) conference series has been held 2003 in Dublin (Ireland), 2004 in Las Vegas (USA), 2006 in Mannheim (Germany), 2007 in Monte de Caparica–Lisbon (Portugal), and 2008 in Modena (Italy). The conference has experienced a steady growth in participation because it is a lively forum for leadi...