The dress issue: introduction

Introduction to the Issue

Chile has usually been considered one of the outstanding countries in the World in terms of its record in reducing poverty. At the same time, income inequality in Chile remains high by international standards; in fact, cross-country comparisons places Chile amongst those countries with the highest dispersion of monetary income (World Bank 1997, 2001; Bravo and Contreras, 2004). This volume orig...

Introduction to the Issue

For this special issue of JSET, we have assembled five important papers based on research at the Concord Consortium. These papers report new developments in strands of ongoing research and development that are among the most promising ways to realize the educational potential of information and communication technologies (ICT). The goal of this Introduction is to place these papers in their lar...

Editor's Introduction: The Diagnosis Issue.

Introduction to the thematic issue

This special issue is focussed on context awareness aspects within Smart Environments. Context awareness is one of the key features of Smart Environments, touching all layers of Ambient Intelligence from sensors and networks to Artificial Intelligence and interaction modalities. One of the questions related to Artificial Intelligence is, for example, how to appropriately represent context, or h...

’ introduction : special issue of the

This special issue is a collection of papers that were submitted to the ECML/PKDD 2014 journal track and have been accepted for publication in “DataMining andKnowledge Discovery”. The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML/PKDD, launched its journal track last year in 2013. In order to cover the full scope of the conference,...