Special issue on Programming Language Interference and Dependence

Foreword: programming language interference and dependence

Interference and dependence are closely related concepts, the first being the observable phenomenon connected to the second. Interference essentially means that behavior of some parts of a dynamic system may influence the behavior of other parts of the same system. Dependence instead specifies the relation between the semantics of sub-components of a dynamic system. Discovering, measuring and c...

Introduction to Special Issue on Natural Language and Logic 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...

Preface to special issue on high-dimensional dependence and copulas

One of the biggest advances in recent years for high-dimensional copula models and applications has been the development of the vine pair-copula construction that covers continuous and discrete variables, and its extensions to include latent variables. Software has been made available in the VineCopula R package and the package that is companion to the book by Joe [6]. This special issue of the...

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...