Special Issue: Topics in Stochastic Programming

Special Issue: Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems

This special issue of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience is intended to call further attention to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. P2P systems are decentralized, selforganizing distributed systems that cooperate to exchange data. These systems have emerged as the dominant consumer of residential bandwidth, and are being increasingly used in many different application do...

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VLSS Special Issue on Blocks Programming

This special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems (VLSS) focuses on Blocks Programming. Over the past twenty years, blocks programming languages have evolved from research lab prototypes to practical tools used by tens of millions of people. The core idea behind these languages is simple: rather than constructing programs out of sequence of characters that are lexed int...

Special Issue: "q-Series and Related Topics in Special Functions and Analytic Number Theory" - Foreword

It is indeed a fairly common practice for scientific research journals and scientific research periodicals to publish special issues as well as conference proceedings. Quite frequently, these special issues are devoted exclusively to specific topics and/or are dedicated respectfully to commemorate the celebrated works of renowned research scientists. The following Special Issue: " q-Series and ...

Foreword: special issue on mathematical programming in biology and medicine

In recent years, mathematical programming and optimization techniques have been increasingly applied to various fields of biological and medical sciences, and in many cases have become indispensable tools. This volume contains a collection of five papers in this area. In this foreword, we aim to provide a little context for the applications described in these papers and, in particular, their us...