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This special double issue of Serdica Journal of Computing is dedicated to the 80 th anniversary of the birthday of Professor Edward A. Friedman, internationally renowned scientist and innovative educator, versatile humanitarian, and member of our editorial board.

Serdica Journal of Computing has completed its first decade.On this occasion we offer some notes, statistical and otherwise, on the firstten volumes of the journal, concerning the number of authors and papers,the geographical and institutional distribution of authors’ affiliations, thestructural semantic makeup, the dynamics of the editorial board, and variousimportant developments in this period.ACM Computing Classification System (1998): A.0.

Serdica Journal of Computing has completed its first decade. On this occasion we offer some notes, statistical and otherwise, on the first ten volumes of the journal, concerning the number of authors and papers, the geographical and institutional distribution of authors’ affiliations, the structural semantic makeup, the dynamics of the editorial board, and various important developments in this period. ACM Computing Classification System (1998): A.0.

This special issue of Serdica Journal of Computing is aimed at presenting some current trends in Bioinformatics research and especially the impact of application of advanced Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence approaches to building novel Computational Biology models, techniques and tools. At the same time, one of the main goals of this issue is to present the interdisciplinary and inter-professional research in Bioinformatics in an understandable form and thus make its results accessible and attractive for the general computing-oriented audience.

This special issue of Serdica Journal of Computing is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Department of Software Engineering (DSE) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofa. DSE was established in March 2007 and is the youngest department within FMI. It is the frst department in Bulgaria whose curriculum includes all aspects of the whole life cycle of software systems. DSE was created to meet the needs of the Bulgarian IT industry for highly qualifed software engineers and to contribute to the development of a stronger and more modern national economy. Special issue dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Department of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Financially supported by the National Science Fund at the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria.

On September 29, 2015, the doyen of the Editorial board of Serdica Journal of Computing, Prof. Edward Friedman, celebrated his 80 th anniversary. This special issue is dedicated to the birthday boy in recognition of his numerous contributions: to science, to promoting effective strategies in integrating digital technologies with mathematics and science education, to adapting a software sys tem for the health treatment of rural patients in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, and most recently—to the development of new university courses on raising the awareness of the threat of nuclear terrorism.

The В past biomathematical conferences in Sofia (Biomath-1995, Destobio-1997, MMSC-2009, Biomath-2011, Biomath-2012, Biomath-2013, Biomath-2014) resulted in a total number of 179 original research journal articles, as follows: 4 articles in J.UCS, 34 articles in Mathematical Biosciences, 59 articles in В Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 12 articles in Serdica Journal of Computing, В 14 articles in B&BE and 56 articles in journal BIOMATH. A list of titles of these articles follows.

We are delighted to celebrate the appearance of the special issue of Serdica Journal of Computing dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystems. This special issue contains selected papers that are supported by the National Scientific Fund, Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science within the KoMEIN Project No DN 02/1 and project No DN 02/11 as well as by the European Commission under grant agreement No 763566 GATE Teaming 1 Project, and by the Scientific Fund of Sofia University within project 80-10-192/24.04.2017. The Special Issue at hand intends to promote the dissemination of the projects results in form of innovative business models, architectures, Blockchain technologies and case studies pertaining to IoT ecosystems and the Future City platform that hosts, maintain and deliver a wide range of services to citizens, government and businesses through utilizing Big Data and IoT technologies.

This special issue of Serdica Journal of Computing is aimed at presenting some current trends in Bioinformatics research and especially the impact of application of advanced Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence approaches to building novel Computational Biology models, techniques and tools. At the same time, one of the main goals of this issue is to present the interdisciplinary and inter-professional research in Bioinformatics in an understandable form and thus make its results accessible and attractive for the general computing-oriented audience.