Preface to the First Three Articles of this Special Issue

Preface to this special issue

This issue of JMLR is devoted to the memory of Alexey Chervonenkis. Over the period of a dozen years between 1962 and 1973 he and Vladimir Vapnik created a new discipline of statistical learning theory—the foundation on which all our modern understanding of pattern recognition is based. Alexey was 28 years old when they made their most famous and original discovery, the uniform law of large num...

Preface to the Special Issue

Large-scale assessments, such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), provide big data in the educational context. A researcher who wants to conduct a secondary analysis using this big data has to notice that analyses of this type of data require considering some technical complexities. Among these complexities ...

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Preface: Introduction to Special Issue

Demands for flexibility, greater variety of products, and advanced production processes complicate the logistics and planning of manufacturing systems; this also increases the number of alternatives that should be formalized in a model. The evaluation of all the possible alternatives of the planning problem is often considered an NP-hard combinatorial problem. Practical problems often contain n...

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