Special Issue on Key Technology of Miniaturization. Formfactor Reduction in Hard Disk Drive Technology.

Rewritable optical disk drive technology

Optical disk drives provide an effective solution to the growing need for removable high-capacity storage. In this paper, we review the technology behind the optical disk drives used in IBM’s optical storage systems. The basic physics of data recording and readout and the engineering of the primary building blocks of an optical drive (the optical head, the servo system, and the data channel) ar...

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

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: Innovations in intelligent agent technology

Ajith Abraham, Dennis Jarvis, Jacquie Jarvis and Lakhmi Jain aNorwegian Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, O.S. Bragstads plass 2E, N-7491 Trondheim Norway E-mail: [email protected] bCentre for Intelligent and Networked Systems, CQ University Australia, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia E-mail: [email protected]...