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In the present report, we show current status of mathematical journals in Japan. Because most of their electronic edition have been loaded on various digital repositories with support of OAI-PMH, we have been able to design a subject based portal website and visual user interface which consists of harvested metadata of the journals. The outline of the portal website is reported also.
The Special Issue of Kybernetika is devoted to the publication of selected peer-reviewed articles submitted by the participants of the Czech-Japanese Seminar in Applied Mathematics 2008 which took place on September 1-7, 2008 in Takachi-ho and Miyazaki, Japan. The Czech-Japanese Seminar in Applied Mathematics 2008 was organized by the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki. It was the fourth meeting in the series of the Czech-Japanese Seminars in Applied Mathematics....
The cotangent cohomology of S. Lichtenbaum and M. Schlessinger [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 128, 41-70 (1967; Zbl 0156.27201)] is known for its ability to control the deformation of the structure of a commutative algebra. Considering algebras in the wider sense to include coalgebras, bialgebras and similar algebraic structures such as the Drinfel’d algebras encountered in the theory of quantum groups, one can model such objects as models for an algebraic theory much in the sense of F. W. Lawvere [Proc....