Organizing Committee: U. Buchenau, J. Feldman, A. Fontana, K. Ngai, G. Parisi, G. Ruocco, P. Verrocchio and G. Viliani.
The papers in this Special Issue were presented at the Tenth International Workshop on Disordered Systems, which was attended by about a hundred scientists from Europe and the US. In total there were approximately sixty oral and poster presentations in the fields of soft matter, glasses, systems of biological interest and other disordered systems.
We wish to thank all the members of the Organizing Committee (in particular J. Feldman, who contacted and invited the American participants) for their help and suggestions and for their services as Guest Editors of this Special Issue. Barbara Rossi was our efficient secretary. We should like to acknowledge the professionalism and dedication of Professor E.A. Davis and the editorial staff in the Philosophical Magazine office.
Finally, we acknowledge the financial support of Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Trento, DYGLAGEMEM European Network and INFM-CNR Research Centre SOFT.