Introduction to special issue on ‘Recent computing paradigms, network protocols, and applications’

This special issue of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal is devoted to selected contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics (ICACNI-2015), organized by School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Odisha, India, during 23–25 June, 2015. The conference commenced with a keynote by Prof. Nikhil R. Pal (Fellow IEEE, Vice President for Publications IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2015–2016), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) on ‘A Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach to Single Frame Super Resolution’. Apart from three regular tracks on advanced computing, networking, and informatics, the conference hosted three invited special sessions. While a total of 558 articles across different tracks of the conference were received, 132 articles are finally selected for presentation and publication by Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series of Springer as Volume 43 and 44. The conference showcased a technical talk by Prof. Nabendu Chaki (Senior Member IEEE, Calcutta University, India) on ‘Evolution from Web-based Applications to Cloud Services: A Case Study with Remote Healthcare’. The conference identified some wonderful works and has given away eight awards in different categories

An analysis and evaluation of the WeFold collaborative for protein structure prediction and its pipelines in CASP11 and CASP12

Every two years groups worldwide participate in the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) experiment to blindly test the strengths and weaknesses of their computational methods. CASP has significantly advanced the field but many hurdles still remain, which may require new ideas and collaborations. In 2012 a web-based effort called WeFold, was initiated to promote collaboration within the CASP community and attract researchers from other fields to contribute new ideas to CASP. Members of the WeFold coopetition (cooperation and competition) participated in CASP as individual teams, but also shared components of their methods to create hybrid pipelines and actively contributed to this effort. We assert that the scale and diversity of integrative prediction pipelines could not have been achieved by any individual lab or even by any collaboration among a few partners. The models contributed by the participating groups and generated by the pipelines are publicly available at the WeFold website providing a wealth of data that remains to be tapped. Here, we analyze the results of the 2014 and 2016 pipelines showing improvements according to the CASP assessment as well as areas that require further adjustments and research

Introduction to special issue on ‘Recent computing paradigms, network protocols, and applications’

This special issue of Innovations in Systems and SoftwareEngineering: A NASA Journal is devoted to selected contributionsfrom the 3rd International Conference on AdvancedComputing, Networking and Informatics (ICACNI-2015),organized by School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University,Odisha, India, during 23–25 June, 2015. The conferencecommenced with a keynote by Prof. Nikhil R. Pal (FellowIEEE, Vice President for Publications IEEE ComputationalIntelligence Society (2015–2016), Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata, India) on ‘A Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach to SingleFrame Super Resolution’. Apart from three regular tracks onadvanced computing, networking, and informatics, the conferencehosted three invited special sessions. While a totalof 558 articles across different tracks of the conference werereceived, 132 articles are finally selected for presentationand publication by Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologiesseries of Springer as Volume 43 and 44. The conferenceshowcased a technical talk by Prof. Nabendu Chaki (SeniorMember IEEE, Calcutta University, India) on ‘Evolutionfrom Web-based Applications to Cloud Services: A CaseStudy with Remote Healthcare’. The conference identifiedsome wonderful works and has given away eight awards indifferent categories.</p