As one of the scientific events of the 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics held in Sydney, Australia, in the period of July 7–11, 2003, the mini-symposium entitled Inverse Problems: Methods and Applications took place.
As an outcome of such mini-symposium, six full papers were approved for publication in this special issue of the journal Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (IPSE). These papers represent a good balance between some of the fundamental concepts in inverse problems and some interesting applications of such problems.
They were internationally refereed, each of them being evaluated by three reviewers. Therefore, we must acknowledge those colleagues whose anonymous work is greatly appreciated.
Thanks are also due to the authors who have worked hard to prepare the full versions of their papers.
Finally, we are greatly indebted to Prof. George S. Dulikravich, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPSE journal who kindly approved the publication of this special issue at the very first moment we presented him our proposal, and also for his support along the entire review process.
Prof. Antônio J. Silva Neto
IPRJ/UERJ
Prof. Haroldo F. de Campos Velho
LAC/INPE
Guest Editors