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From the latest issue back to the first edition published in 1988.
145 issues • 1988–2026 • 2,000+ articles
No. 66 - Special: European Digital Library (July 2006)
No. 65 - Special: Space Exploration (April 2006)
No. 64 - Special: Emergent Computing (January 2006)
No. 63 - Special: Security and Trust Management (October 2005)
No. 62 - Special: Multimedia Informatic (July 2005)
No. 61 - Special: Environmental Modelling (April 2005)
No. 60 - Special: Biomedical Informatics (January 2005)
No. 59 - Special: GRIDS: The Next Generation (October 2004)
No. 58 - Special: Automated Software Engineering (July 2004)
No. 57 - Special: Games Technology (April 2004)
No. 56 - Special: Analysis, Diagnosis, Planning and Simulation of Industrial Systems (January 2004)
No. 55 - Special: Machine Perception (October 2003 )
No. 54 - Special: Applications and Service Platforms for the Mobile Users (July 2003)
No. 53 - Special: Cognitive Systems (April 2003)
No. 52 - Special: Embedded Systems (January 2003)
No. 51 - Special: Semantic Web (October 2002)
No. 50 - Special: Special: erciMathematics (July 2002)
No. 49 - Special: Information Security (April 2002)
No. 48 - Special: e-government (January 2002)
No. 47 - Special: Ambient Intelligence (October 2001)
No. 46 - Special: Human Computer Interaction (July 2001)
No. 45 - Special: GRIDS: e-science to e-business (April 2001)
No. 44 - Special: Computer Graphics (January 2001)
No. 43 - Special: Bioinformatics - Biocomputing (October 2000)
No. 42 - Special: Robotics (July 2000)
No. 41 - Special: Web Technologies (April 2000)
No. 40 - Special: Control and System Theory (January 2000)
No. 39 - Special: 10 Years ERCIM (October 1999)
No. 38 - Special: Financial Mathematics (July 1999)
No. 37 - Special: Networking Technologies (April 1999)
No. 36 - Special: Programming Language Technologies (January 1999)
No. 35 - Special: Advanced Databases and Metadata (October 1998)
No. 34 - Special: Environmental Modelling (July 1998)
No. 33 - Special: Information Technology for Education and Training (April 1998)
No. 32 - Special: Software Engineering (January 1998)
No. 31 - Special: Computer Vision and Virtual Reality (October 1997)
No. 30 - Special: Electronic Commerce (July 1997)
No. 29 - Special: Information Technology in Medicine and Health Care (April 1997)
No. 28 - Special: Information Technology empowering Disabled and Elderly People (January 1997)
No. 27 - Special: Digital Libraries (October 1996)
No. 26 - Special: Computational Linguistics (July 1996)
No. 25 - Special: The World Wide Web (April 1996)
No. 24 - Special: Technology Transfer and Spin-off Companies (January 1996)
No. 23 - Special: Software Quality (October 1995)
No. 22 - Special: Computational Mathematics (July 1995)
No. 21 - Special: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (April 1995)
No. 20 - Special: Electronic Publishing (January 1995)
No. 19 - Special: High Performance Communication (October 1994)
Issues no. 18 and earlier are available in pdf only
No. 18 - The Use and Capture of Domain Knowledge for Information Systems (July 1994)
No. 17 - Human Computer Interaction (April 1994)
No. 16 - Databases (February 1994)
No. 15 - Large Scale Scientific Computing (December 1993)
No. 14 - Software Reuse (July 1993)
No. 13 - Parallel Architectures (April 1993)
No. 12 - Network Management (January 1993)
No. 11 - Numerical Linear Algebra (October 1992)
No. 10 - Software Quality - Principles and Techniques (July 1992)
No. 9 - User Interface and Multimedia (April 1992)
No. 8 - Distributed Systems (February 1992)
No. 7 - Esprit / Networks of Excellence (September 1991)
No. 6 (April 1991)
No. 5 (December 1990)
No. 4 (July 1990)
No. 3 (March 1990)
No. 2 (October 1989)
No. 1 (April 1989)
No. 0 (November 1988) courtesy of Eckart Bierduempel
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