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BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ISSN 2067-3957,  
Volume 1, October 2010, Special Issue on Advances in Applied Sciences  
 
Editor in Chief of the journal: Bogdan Patrut, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania 
Editors of the Special Issue: 

Barna Iantovics, Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania  
Marius Măruşteri, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu Mures, Romania  
Rodica-Mariana Ion, Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania; National Institute of Research and 
Development for Chemistry and Petrochemistry - ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania  
Roumen Kountchev, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria 

 
 

  Preface 
 

The primary aim of this special issue entitled Advances in Applied Sciences was to make some 
necessary preparative steps, by collecting state of the art research papers,  towards beginning the project 
entitled “Electronic Health Records for the Next Generation Medical Decision Support in Romanian and 
Bulgarian National Healthcare Systems” abbreviated as NextGenElectroMedSupport, a Bilateral 
Cooperative Research Project between Romania and Bulgaria having as directors from Bulgaria Prof. dr. 
Roumen Kountchev, Technical University of Sofia and from Romania Senior Lecturer Dr. Barna Iantovics 
from Petru Maior University of Targu Mures.  

This special issue covers themes related to the theories and applications of areas such as Complex 
Systems, Artificial Intelligence and the Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The papers included in this 
Special Issue shed light upon some introductory and advanced problems in the following areas: research 
findings in nanomedicine; photodynamic therapy; dielectric analysis of porous silicon nanochannels; 
mathematical modeling as well as plausible and paradoxical reasoning based on Dezert-Smarandache 
theory. This includes aspects such as quantitative and qualitative reasoning - information fusion and web 
portal applications (web portal applications include Internet applications and ontology’s; collaborative 
virtual environments which allow virtual collaboration among geographically distributed people); e-
learning; drug-delivery; applications in cerebral aneurysm; asymmetric model of the lung structure; 
photoelectrocatalytic materials; assessment of human bio-behavior during gait process; understanding 
service composition; business processes modelling; structural stability and chaos; formulation and study of 
some controlled release tablets and mathematical proprieties of complex networks.  

Forthcoming in the NextGenElectroMedSupport project will be two editions of the International 
Workshop on Next Generation Intelligent Medical Decision Support Systems, held in the next couple of 
years. The 2011 edition will be held in Romania at Petru Maior University, followed by the 2012 edition 
that will be held at the Technical University of Sofia. 
 
 
 
 

Editors of the Special Issue & Editor in Chief of the B.R.A.I.N. Journal