grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common computational platform. mobile computing is a generic word that introduces using of movable, handheld devices with wireless communication, for processing data. mobile computing focused on providing access to data, information, services and communications anywhere an...

The molecular computing has been successfully employed to solve more and more complex computation problems. However, as an important complex problem, the Computational Tree Logic (CTL) model checking is still far from resolved under the circumstance of molecular computing, since it is still a lack of method. To address this issue, an autonomous model checking method is presented for checking al...

DNA computing is emerging research area that attracts many researchers in multidiscipline area range from biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. Nowadays, many researchers already solved problem using this technique, mostly classified as NP (Nondeterministic Polynomial) problem since the inheritance of DNA computing in processing simultaneously and it huge memory capacity. Despite...

Certain sciences such as physics, chemistry or biology, have a strong computational aspect and use computing infrastructures to advance their scientific goals. Often, high performance and/or high throughput computing infrastructures such as clusters and computational Grids are applied to satisfy computational needs. In addition, these sciences are sometimes characterised by scientific collabora...

Large–scale computation on graphs and other discrete structures is becoming increasingly important in many applications, including computational biology, web search, and knowledge discovery. High– performance combinatorial computing is an infant field, in sharp contrast with numerical scientific computing. We argue that many of the tools of high-performance numerical computing – in particular, ...

This position paper describes the Activity-Based Computing (ABC) project which has been ongoing in Denmark since 2003. Originally, the project took its outset in the design of a pervasive computing platform suited for the mobile, collaborative, and time-critical work of clinicians in a hospital setting. Out of this grew a conceptual framework, a set of six ABC principles, and a programming and ...

Programs in bioinformatics, offered many academic institutes, are assumed to expand women’s representation computer science (CS). Women’s enrolment these programs is high; Our questions are: Do attract different women from those attracted CS programs? What factors underlie decision enroll bioinformatics How do differ of who choose CS, if at all? career opportunities anticipate and pursue? Using...

Synthetic biology focuses on the re-engineering of living organisms for useful purposes while DNA computing targets the construction of therapeutics and computational circuits directly from DNA strands. The complexity of biological systems is a major engineering challenge and their modeling relies on a number of diverse formalisms. Moreover, many applications are “mission-critical” (e.g. as rec...

This special issue is devoted to the topic of Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine and to our dear friend Dirk Bartz, who suddenly passed away in March 2010. Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine is the title of a Eurographics workshop series that we started in Delft in 2008. Dirk Bartz, as a pioneer in the field, was selected as organizer for the second workshop to be held in July 2010 ...