ECCTD 2007 Special Issue 'Bridging Technology Innovations to Foundations'

This special issue includes extended versions of 14 contributions that were presented at the 2007European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, held in Seville, Spain. They were selected out of the 259 contributions presented as lectures at the conference sessions. The selection was made by the Guest Editors based on three criteria. First, the novelty and relevance of the ideas and results embedded in the contributions. Second, the scores of the referees who evaluated the manuscripts sent to ECCTD; they all were in full-paper format and got a minimum of three reviews each. Third, the feedback provided by the session chairmen and the audience of the lecture presentations. After completing such a selection process, 25 authors were invited to send extended versions of their conference papers. The manuscripts submitted for publication entered a peerreview process involving a minimum of three referees complementary to those who reviewed the papers sent to the conference. The 14 papers included in the issue were finally recommended for publication after a two-iteration review cycle. Unfortunately, the page budget available for this special issue is necessarily limited and hence, many high-quality papers that were presented at the conference could not find their way to this special issue. We would like to thank all the authors and presenters of ECCTD 2007 for their excellent contributions to the conference.