Special issue: Optimization in the natural sciences

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Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop Special Issue

were all enhanced over the conference versions and separately reviewed. I would like to thank Ian Foster and Geoffrey Fox for their help putting this special issue together.

The scale issue in social and natural sciences

Spatial scale is a major concept in many sciences concerned with human activities and physical processes occurring at the Earth’s surface. In particular, geographic literature is rich in discussions about the importance of scale in both the scientific and the familiar representations of the world (Meentemeyer, 1989; Ferras, 1992). Scale is now increasingly recognized as a central concept in the...

Special issue on modeling and computational methods in genomic sciences

The discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA is a landmark event which belongs to the past century, but with great influence, in this century, on the research activity on genetic and genomic sciences, due also to the completion of a high-quality comprehensive sequence of the human genome which has made. Indeed we may talk, as observed in [1], about the genome era. The above scientific e...

Special issue: Computational models of natural argument

The international workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) is the longest standing venue focussed on Argument and Computation, with its inception in 2001. During the lifespan of CMNA, many other international venues have been constituted (see Table 1), most notably the ArgMAS workshops focusing on Agents since 2004, the biennial COMMA conference series focusing on computation...