Special Issue devoted to papers presented at the International Meeting on Matrix Analysis and Applications, December 14 - 16, 2003, at Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). Special issue editors are: Chi-Kwong Li, Hugo Woerdeman, and Fuzhen Zhang. The submission deadline is May 1, 2004 with publication expected in early 2005. Further details provided with the conference announcements, see http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~cklixx/nova03.html .