The school of engineering and science, for example, is developing new courses in informatics and software engineering.
It is based rather on the integration of modern philosophy, epistemology, logic, denotational mathematics and cognitive informatics using engineer's perceptions rooted from intuition, commonsense and experiences without logical reasoning based on binary logic.
Likewise, designing and applying neurocognitive rehabilitation programs to prevent long-term sequelae require collaboration with informatics engineers and neuropsychologists [ 6, 7].
It is no surprise that three of the challenges on the list were specifically at the interface of engineering with medicine and health: advance health informatics; engineer better medicines; and reverse-engineer the brain.
Of the 23 participants of the BIO track, 15 were biologists, three pharmacists, two physicists, one chemist, one informatics engineer, and one mathematician.
We hope that the work presented in this special issue of Security Informatics can inspire scientists and engineers to take the next step in establishing Predictive Analytics and the science of risk management and decision-making for security and other domains alike.
Last year it added biomedical engineering technology, biomedical informatics and health information technology.
It also includes a short summary of the bioimage informatics challenges (Auer et al., 2007), including the demand for bioimage informatics techniques, the need of multiscale imaging, collaboration and communication between biologists and engineers, common bioimage informatics problems and bench test datasets and modeling.
Content of the test was developed hand in hand with Web site designers, with close cooperation between each specialist of the team (medical educators, medical informatics specialist, and research engineer).
Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
