Introduction to the Special Issue on the 0th New Object-Oriented Languages (NOOL) Workshop in 2015.

Introduction to the Special Issue on the 0th New Object-Oriented Languages (NOOL) Workshop in 2015

This JOT special issue presents 3 selected papers that formed the open call for papers following the inaugural workshop on New Object-Oriented Languages (NOOL) 2015 held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA on the 27th of October, 2015 (http: //2015.splashcon.org/track/nool2015). The workshop idea stemmed from the fact that numerous researchers in the programming language community were involved in a large n...

Introduction to the special issue on SMACD 2015

Welcome to the Special Issue devoted to the 2012 edition of the International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD). This is the XIIth edition of the conference, and it was held on 19–21 September 2012 in Seville, Spain. SMACD originated from a specialized workshop in 1991 in Paris and since 1992 it became a biannual event....

Introduction to the Special Issue on Processing Morphologically Rich Languages

Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages

The creation of language and acoustic resources, for any given spoken language, is typically a costly task. For example, a large amount of time and money is required to properly create annotated speech corpora for automatic speech recognition (ASR), domain-specific text corpora for language modeling (LM), etc. The development of speech technologies (ASR, Text-to-Speech) for the already highreso...

ICSSP 2015-Special Issue Introduction

Modern systems consist of a complex mix of products and services—legacy, bespoke, COTS open source, licensed, and user developed—that must be designed to meet rapidly changing business needs [1]. Business processes must be agile to capture and maintain customers with rapidly evolving needs, tastes, and desires. Systems technology and development methods must be responsive to business needs to c...