Editor’s Note

Abstract

This issue is the second of a recent feature in the journal, the themed issue. Started in 2014, CAIM dedicated special issues have proven to be a very popular vehicle for publishing together papers that have a common theme. Seeking to publish focused, coherent thematic volumes that will be of lasting use to the community, well cited, and of the highest quality, we hope to attract the attention of a broader community of readers and help to continue the growth of CAIM. Indeed, the number of special issue published pages has progressively increased from 2014 onwards. We believe that this growth is a very positive sign of the quality and popularity of these special issues. For this reason, we plan to continue to publish a themed issues once or more per year. The first themed issue, entitled Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments and edited by Gianni Pagnini and Enrico Scalas contained a selection of paper presented at a workshop organised on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Francesco Mainardi in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, on November 2013. CAIM Vol. 6 (2015) consist of two separate issues containing contributions of many outstanding researchers on fractional calculus that span either theoretical or applied topics on the interaction of fractional calculus, probability and non-local operators. We hereby launch the second CAIM themed issue. Under the title Constitutive Equations for Heat Conduction in Nanosystems and Nonequilibrium Processes, Guest Editors Vito Antonio Cimmelli and David Jou have assembled contributions from world-class experts in their fields that cover diverse topics related to the modelling of heat transport at nanoscale and in far-from-equilibrium processes. This issue is an outcome of the special session with the same title they organised at the First Joint Interna-