Introduction to the special issue on City Logistics

Introduction to the Special Issue on Binding

In many ways visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed visual features such as colours, shapes, sizes, or orientations. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the objects in the visual field. The binding problem in vision refers to ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization

As the amount of online information increases, systems that can automatically summarize one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated types of summaries, methods to create them, and methods to evaluate them. Several evaluation competitions (in the style of NIST’s TREC1) have helped determine baseline performance levels and provide a limited set of trainin...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Personalization

IN the traditional classroom, learning suffers from the difficulties that teachers face in meeting the needs of each student. At many times, it is unavoidable that teaching must take a “one size fits all” approach. Personalization in this setting is prohibitively expensive. Technology-enhanced learning offers the potential to implement not only personalization, but even automated personalizatio...

Introduction to the Special Issue on SENSEVAL

SENSEVAL was the first open, community-based evaluation exercise for Word Sense Disambiguation programs. It took place in the summer of 1998, with tasks for English, French and Italian. There were participating systems from 23 research groups. This special issue is an account of the exercise. In addition to describing the contents of the volume, this introduction considers how the exercise has ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Optomechatronics”