Introduction: Discoveries, A Special Double Issue

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Special issue introduction.

Special Issue Editor's Introduction

Welcome to this EJISDC special issue co-edited with Devinder Thapa and Robert Davison. The special issue comprises seven selected papers from the IFIP Working Group 9.4 12 th International Conference on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries held in Ocho Rios, Jamaica during May 2013. The selected papers have been extended, independently reviewed and represent insights and...

ICSSP 2015-Special Issue Introduction

Modern systems consist of a complex mix of products and services—legacy, bespoke, COTS open source, licensed, and user developed—that must be designed to meet rapidly changing business needs [1]. Business processes must be agile to capture and maintain customers with rapidly evolving needs, tastes, and desires. Systems technology and development methods must be responsive to business needs to c...

Preface: Introduction to Special Issue

Demands for flexibility, greater variety of products, and advanced production processes complicate the logistics and planning of manufacturing systems; this also increases the number of alternatives that should be formalized in a model. The evaluation of all the possible alternatives of the planning problem is often considered an NP-hard combinatorial problem. Practical problems often contain n...