Special issue on “Applied bilevel programming”

VLSS Special Issue on Blocks Programming

This special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Sentient Systems (VLSS) focuses on Blocks Programming. Over the past twenty years, blocks programming languages have evolved from research lab prototypes to practical tools used by tens of millions of people. The core idea behind these languages is simple: rather than constructing programs out of sequence of characters that are lexed int...

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Bilevel programming applied to the flow shop scheduling problem

A two level branch and bound algorithm is developed to solve an altered form of the standard flow-shop scheduling problem modeled as a bilevel programming problem. The flow-shop scheduling problem considered here differs from the standard problem in that operators are assigned to the machines and each operator has a different time table for the jobs on each machine. The shop owner is considered...

Special Issue on Emotions and People-Oriented Programming

Modelling and abstraction is fundamental to software engineering, with models of different types being used by engineers to communicate. The practical use of socio-technical approaches has to acknowledge this by providing a means of modelling, and by integrating with existing approaches. [. . . ] The abstractions currently used in technical system modelling (e.g., use-cases, objects, etc.) do n...

Foreword: special issue on mathematical programming in biology and medicine

In recent years, mathematical programming and optimization techniques have been increasingly applied to various fields of biological and medical sciences, and in many cases have become indispensable tools. This volume contains a collection of five papers in this area. In this foreword, we aim to provide a little context for the applications described in these papers and, in particular, their us...