Special Issue on SELECTED EXAMPLES OF RECENT TRENDS IN COMPUTING

The presented here a collection of conference papers is a Special Volume on Recent Trends in Computing that was compiled by the editors for the Mathematical and Computational Forestry {\&} Natural-Resource Sciences (MCFNS) journal. The creation of this Special Issue and the Special Section, which contains it, was requested by the organizers of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing (ICRTC-2017), held on Dec. 14-15, 2017, at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly SRM University) on the NCR Campus, Tamil Nadu, India. The purpose of the Special Section hosting this volume is to contain publications originated from this and other similar scientific endeavors involving research on developments of computing technology as relevant to various Computational Sciences associated with natural resources or related to their research and management. In the current issue, dedicated in its entirety to this conference, we present a set of the papers in this category, which includes 29 selected examples of research that have been reviewed externally by the conference organizers.