Special Issue on “Biodiesel Production Processes and Technology”

Special issue on atomically controlled fabrication technology

Editorial The Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) for atomically controlled fabrication technology was established in 2008 by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), as a succession program of the 21st Century COE program for atomistic fabrication technology promoted from 2003 to 2007. The GCOE program is implemented by three departments, namely the De...

Editorial: Special Issue on Agent Technology

Special Issue on Proton Transfer Processes

It is well established that the hydrogen bond plays crucial role in many areas of physical, chemical and biological phenomena. The relevant proton transfer reactions are the simplest but very important in many chemical problems as well as in some biological processes. It appears that the low-barrier hydrogen bond (LBHB) for this displacement may play fundamental role in stabilizing intermediate...

Paper Special Issue on Internet Technology Iv

Autonomous Decentralized Community Information System (ADCS) is a proposition made to meet the rapidly changing users’ requirements and cope with the extreme dynamism in current information services. ADCS is a decentralized architecture that forms a community of individual end-users (community members) having the same interests and demands in specified time and location. It allows those members...

Special Issue on Knowledge Integration and Innovation Processes

The issue of knowledge integration has been explored and described in the literature in many different ways and perspectives and by a significant number of authors. Knowledge integration can be seen as a process of distributed knowledge linking (Dougherty, 1992; Okhuysen & Eisenhardt, 2002) which is able to generate new value for organizations. In this vision a central activity of knowledge int...