Preface to the CIbSE 2014 Special Issue

Preface to the Cibse/eselaw 2012 Special Issue

Aiming at being one of the main scientific events in Software Engineering in the region, CIbSE fosters profitable discussions about scientific works and innovative ideas among researchers, students, educators and other professionals of the area. The IX Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop (ESELAW) was one of the co-located workshops and had indisputable quality, focusing on...

Preface to the special issue: adaptive learning agents

Computational intelligence in decision making

In this preface we stress the relevance of the traditional collaboration between Engineering and any field of Mathematics in order to build intelligent decision-aid tools, as it is illustrated by the twelve papers contained in this Special Issue. These papers, selected by means of a standard peer review process after an open call, offer an interesting variety of models, approaches and technique...

Preface INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON CAUSAL DISCOVERY

Many empirical sciences, including the social sciences and life sciences, aim to study causal relationships. Researchers in these fields need computational methods for analyzing observed data and identifying causal structures among a set of variables. Such computational methods enable researchers to draw conclusions on the basis of both their assumptions and the observed data. Moreover, these m...

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 ...