International Journal of Chemical Modeling

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MIHAI V. PUTZ
Laboratory of Computational and Structural Physical Chemistry
Biology-Chemistry Department
West University of Timişoara
Pestalozzi Street No.16, Timişoara, RO-300115
ROMANIA
Phone: +40-256-592638, Fax: +40-256-592620
E-mail: mvputz@cbg.uvt.ro

SENIOR EDITOR

MIRCEA V. DIUDEA
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
“Babes-Bolyai” University
A. Janos Street No. 11, 400028 Cluj-Napoca
ROMANIA
E-mail: diudea@chem.ubbcluj.ro

EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL BOARD

EDUARDO A. CASTRO
Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical-Chemistry (INIFTA)
Theoretical Chemistry Division, Suc. 4, C.C. 16
Universidad de La Plata
1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA
E-mail 1: castro@quimica.unlp.edu.ar
E-mail 2: eacast@gmail.com

ROBERTO TODESCHINI
Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Milano-Bicocca
P.za della Scienza 1
20126 Milano
Italy
michem.disat.unimib.it/chm
President of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry
www.iamc-online.org/index.htm

DULAL C. GHOSH
Department of Chemistry
University of Kalyani
Kalyani 741235
INDIA
E-mail 1: E-mail: dulal@klyuniv.ernet.in
E-mail 2: dcghosh1@rediffmail.com

IVAN GUTMAN
Faculty of Science
University of Kragujevac
P.O.Box 60
34000 Kragujevac
SERBIA
E-mail: gutman@kg.ac.rs

JOEL F. LIEBMAN
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
USA
E-mail: jliebman@umbc.edu

OTTORINO ORI
Actinium Research
Parma Office: Via Secchia 26
43056 Rivarolo di Torrile (PR)
ITALY
E-mail: ottorino.ori@alice.it

TOMAZ PISANSKI
Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics (IMFM)
Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana
SLOVENIA
E-mail: E-mail: Tomaz.Pisanski@fmf.uni-lj.si

LIONELLO POGLIANI
Dipartimento di Chimica
Università della Calabria
87036 Rende (CS)
ITALY
E-mail: lionp@unical.it

MIQUEL SOLÀ
Institut de Química Computacional and Departament de Química
Universitat de Girona
E-17071 Girona, Catalonia
SPAIN
E-mail: miquel.sola@udg.es

PAUL MEZEY
Canada Research Chair
Scientific Modeling and Simulation Laboratory
Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography
Memorial University of Newfoundland
100 Prince Philip Drive
St. John’s, NL, A1B 3X7
CANADA
E-mail 1: pmezey@mun.ca
E-mail 2: paul.mezey@gmail.com

SÁNDOR KUNSÁGI-MÁTÉ
Department of General and Physical Chemistry
University of Pécs
Ifjúság 6, Pécs, H-7624
HUNGARY
E-mail: ijchemo@gamma.ttk.pte.hu

TEIK-CHENG LIM
School of Science and Technology
SIM University (UniSIM)
535A Clementi Road S599490
SINGAPORE
E-mail: alan_tc_lim@yahoo.com

VASILE CHIŞ
Faculty of Physics
“Babes-Bolyai” University
Kogalniceanu Street No. 1
Cluj-Napoca, RO-400084
ROMANIA
E-mail: vchis@phys.ubbcluj.ro

BONO LUČIĆ
NMR Center
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Zagreb, CROATIA
lucic@irb.hr

FRANCO CATALDO
Actinium Chemical Research
Rome, ITALY
franco.cataldo@fastwebnet.it

ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

DAN CIUBOTARIU
Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babeş” Timişoara
Bd. Eftimie Murgu No. 2
Timişoara, RO-300041
ROMANIA
E-mail: dciubotariu@mail.dnttm.ro

BORIS FURTULA
University of Kragujevac
Faculty of Science
P. O. Box 60
34000 Kragujevac
SERBIA
E-mail: furtula@kg.ac.rs

A. K. HAGHI
Faculty of Engineering
University of Guilan
P.O.Box 3756
Rasht 41635
IRAN
E-mail 1: akhaghi@yahoo.com
E-mail 2: akhaghi@gmail.com
E-mail 3: haghi@guilan.ac.ir

DRAGOŞ HORVATH
UMR 8576 CNRS USTL – 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq
FRANCE
E-mail 1: d.horvath@wanadoo.fr
E-mail 2: dragos.horvath@univ-lille1.fr

PETER E. JOHN
Institute of Mathematics
Technical University, Ilmenau
GERMANY
E-mail: peter.john@tu-ilmenau.de

CSABA L. NAGY
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
“Babes-Bolyai” University
A. Janos Street No. 11
400028 Cluj-Napoca
ROMANIA
E-mail: nc35@chem.ubbcluj.ro

LÁSZLÓ POPPE
Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Gellért tér 4, H-1111 Budapest
HUNGARY
E-mail: poppe@mail.bme.hu

MIHAI POPESCU
National Institute R&D of Materials Physics
P. O. Box. Mg. 7
077125-Bucharest-Măgurele
ROMANIA
E-mail: mpopescu@infim.ro

CHRISTOPHER A. REYNOLDS
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Essex
Colchester, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: reync@essex.ac.uk

ZHONG-ZHI YANG
Department of Chemistry
LiaoNing Normal University
Dalian 116029
CHINA
E-mail: zzyang@lnnu.edu.cn

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3. Moriguchi I., Hirono S., Fuzzy adaptive least squares and its use in quantitative structure-activity relationships, in QSAR and Drug Design – New Developments and Applications, T. Fujita (ed.), Elsevier Science B. V., 1995.

4. Matos J.M.O., Quantum Chemical Methods Applied to Problems in Molecular Spectroscopy, PhD dissertation, University of Lund, Sweden, 1988.

5. Borelli M.E.S., Kleinert H., Vertical melting of a Stack of Membranes, Berlin preprint, arXiv: cond-mat/0004432, 2000.

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