Editorial

This Editorial is a FOREWORD to a special issue (Vol 193) of the Journal Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics edited by C.P Li and F. Mainardi. The contributions, all peer reviewd, are partly based on a successful international workshop entitled “Academic Day of Fractional Dynamics and Control” organized by C.P. Li (one of the Guest Editors of this issue) and W. Chen, held at Shanghai University in May 16-18, 2010, under the chair by Y.Q. Chen Prof Kurths of the Scientif committe of the Journal was so kind to invite the Guest Editors to publish this resulting Special Topics issue, partly based on selected original contributions from the meeting as well as including some additionally invited contributions from well known experts of Fractional Dynamics and Control. The aim of the issue is to provide an up-dated state-of-art of some topics in Fractional Dynamics and Control.