Computational science: A kaleidoscopic view into science

[ Dear computational scientist, you are now reading the 4th issue of oCS. This issue completes the first year of our new journal, and what year it was! Already in this first year of its existence JoCS received any high quality papers and lots of new ideas to push forward his research field. Putting a journal together with original material f the highest quality is no sinecure, it requires a lot of effort and ommitment from a lot of people. In these first pages of this last ssue of the first volume, I would like to take the opportunity to hank all the authors for submitting such interesting work, many hanks go to all the reviewers, editors and especially to the crew at lsevier Science publishers who has been doing such an amazing rofessional job. Thank you Jojo, Uma and Rebecca! In the previous issue [1] I talked about the importance of cross-disciplinary approach to contemporary science and how omputational Science facilitates such research. It has been a true oy to see how from the first issue onwards the published papers how this rich new content across all disciplines. From new ways o deal with protein folding, via multi-physics to computational hinking in education, it was all there [2–7]. In the current issue we publish novel work on numerical ethods, large-scale analyses of protein networks, a new way to rogram sensor networks and a semantic way to assess critical nfrastructures as well as new ways to predict wildfire growth 8–12]. This gives us indeed a kaleidoscopic view into the rich field f computational science. For the upcoming volume I can promise you lots of exiting stuff! e are negotiating focussed special sections under the control of arious excellent guest editors. These focussed sections will furher deepen our understanding of some of the hottest challenges n Computational Science. You might be aware that the International Conference on Comutational Science (www.iccs-meeting.org), will be organized in apan in June 2011. As in previous years we hope to publish the very best of the best apers accepted for ICCS 2011 in the upcoming issues of Volume 2. As always we are looking forward to novel work in modelling nd simulation and advanced computational methods, I would like o take the opportunity to call out for more original material sub-