1. Editorial announcement

   • Lee Segel

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - iii

2. The forum

   • I. Richard Lapidus

   Announcement Pages: iii - iv

3. Book reviews

   • John J. Tyson

   BookReview Pages: iv - iv

4. Stochastic model of population growth and spread

   • S. S. De

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 11

5. Hierarchical evolutive systems: A mathematical model for complex systems

   • A. C. Ehresmann
   • J. -P. Vanbremeersch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 50

6. Bayesian image processing of data from constrained source distributions—I. non-valued, uncorrelated and correlated constraints

   • Z. Liang
   • H. Hart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 74

7. Bayesian image processing of data from constrained source distributions—II. valued, uncorrelated and correlated constraints

   • H. Hart
   • Z. Liang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 91

8. Inference algorithms for developmental systems with cell lineages

   • Helmut Jürgensen
   • Aristid Lindenmayer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 123

9. Non-equilibrium fluctuation in Volterra-Lotka systems

   • M. C. Baishya
   • C. G. Chakraborti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 131

10. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: 133 - 134

11. Editorial: Software survey section

    EditorialNotes Pages: I - IV