Guest Editorial Special Issue on Biorobotics

The focus of this special issue is to show how the main achievements on different technical topics relevant to the development of bioinspired and bioapplied mechatronic devices and robotic systems. The 19 articles in this special issue are summarized here.     

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Databases and Crowdsourcing

Distributed and Parallel Databases -     

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Rehabilitation Robotics

The 16 papers in this special section have been logically organized into four different groups: enabling technologies for rehabilitation robotics; two robotic systems used for assisted diagnosis of pathologies of interest in the rehabilitation domain; different robotic systems applied to assisted physical rehabilitation; and robotic systems used for assisted psychophysiological rehabilitation.     

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Scale-Space and Morphology

International Journal of Computer Vision -     

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Positive Polynomials in Control

The 16 papers in this special section focus on positive polynomials in control. These papers propose new contributions to the characterization of positive polynomials and illustrate novel applications in the areas of uncertain systems, nonlinear systems, time-delay systems, hybrid systems, and model predictive control.     

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Software Maintenance and Evolution

In systems developed without aspect-oriented programming, code implementing a crosscutting concern may be spread over many different parts of a system. Identifying such code automatically could be of great help during maintenance of the system. First of all, it allows a developer to more easily find the places in the code that must be changed when the concern changes and, thus, makes such changes less time consuming and less prone to errors. Second, it allows the code to be refactored to an aspect-oriented solution, thereby improving its modularity. In this paper, we evaluate the suitability of clone detection as a technique for the identification of crosscutting concerns. To that end, we manually identify five specific crosscutting concerns in an industrial C system and analyze to what extent clone detection is capable of finding them. We consider our results as a stepping stone toward an automated "aspect miner” based on clone detection.