The recent accomplishment of Human Genome Project (HGP) has revolutionized the life sciences and the medical sciences in many ways. Consequently, the field of bioinformatics has emerged as a new multidisciplinary field that attempts to solve biological and medical problems by analyzing data from high throughput experiments with computational methods. In this chapter we will review the recent de...

1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 2Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 4Department...

Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineer 106, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Se Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung U Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, Nationa Taiwan Center for Emerging Material and Advanc Taipei 106, Taiwan Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engin 360, Taiwan Depa...

Quantitative social science is not only about regression analysis or, in general, data inference. Computer simulations of social mechanisms have an over 60 years long history. They have been used for many different purposes—to test scenarios, to test the consistency of descriptive theories (proofof-concept models), to explore emerging phenomena, for forecasting, etc. In this essay, we sketch th...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada (RMRB) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, Republic of South Africa (RMRB, DSJ, CTH, RMB) Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada (RMB) Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria...

This article introduces a special issue of Complexity dedicated to the increasingly important element of complexity science that engages with social policy. We introduce and frame an emerging research agenda that seeks to enhance social policy by working at the interface between the social sciences and the physical sciences (including mathematics and computer science), and term this research ar...

the comparative theory of the human sciences, I am trying to reflect on certain changes, turns and approaches that are observable in contemporary human and social sciences. I see the growing interest in nonhuman beings (flourishing animal studies, plant studies and thing studies) within the context of an emerging paradigm of non-anthropocentric human sciences, and I would like to consider certa...

This Special Issue is based on research presented at the Workshop “Modeling and Control of Social Dynamics”, hosted by the Center of Computational and Integrative Biology and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rutgers University Camden. The Workshop is part of the activities of the NSF Research Network in Mathematical Sciences: “Kinetic description of emerging challenges in multiscale p...