Mathematical modeling and computational methods

According to the traditional course of action of Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, this special issue includes a wide range of topics related to mathematical modeling in engineering, life sciences and human behavior. The purpose of this issue is to offer a collection of contributed papers that covers many relevant and modern aspects about the state of several aspects on the art of computational methods and mathematical modeling, giving a rather fair picture of the current research interests in this scientific field. Many of the contributed papers presented in this special issue were selected among the works presented at the International Conference Mathematical Modeling in Engineering & Human Behavior 2015. This conference took place in Valencia (Spain) at the Instituto Universitario de Matemática Multidisciplinar from September 9th to September 11th of year 2015.