About 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...

In this special issue of Occupational Medicine.

Celebrating Occupational Medicine in Canada This special issue of Occupational Medicine is dedicated to occupational medicine in Canada. Occupational Medicine has been for many years the adopted journal of the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Canada (OEMAC) and close collaboration between the journal and Canadian occupational physicians is encouraged. The papers in this iss...

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Special Issue about Advances in Physical Agents

Nowadays, there are a lot of Spanish groups which are doing research in areas related with physical agents: they use agent-based technologies concepts, especially industrial applications, robotics and domotics (physical agents) and applications related to the information society, (software agents) highlighting the similarities and synergies among physical and software agents. In this special is...

Varieties of Question Generation: Introduction to this Special Issue

Questions are a topic that is ideally placed at the intersection of research on dialogue and discourse: in most dialogue, questions are the driving force, setting its direction, whereas answers to questions require discourse processing (e.g., contextual resolution in the case of short answers) or can be viewed as a piece of discourse themselves (e.g., an explanation in response to a whyquestion...