This JOT special issue presents 3 selected papers that formed the open call for papers following the inaugural workshop on New Object-Oriented Languages (NOOL) 2015 held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA on the 27th of October, 2015 (http: //2015.splashcon.org/track/nool2015). The workshop idea stemmed from the fact that numerous researchers in the programming language community were involved in a large n...

Dynamically typed object-oriented languages must perform dynamic binding for most message sends. Typically this is slow. A number of papers have reported on attempts to adapt C++-style selector table indexing to dynamically typed languages, but it is difficul to generate space-efficient tables. Our algorithm generates considerably smaller dispatch tables for languages with single inheritance th...

This paper presents an efficient emission constrained economic dispatch algorithm that deals with nonlinear cost function and constraints. It is then incorporated into the dynamic programming based hydrothermal coordination program. The program has been tested on a practical utility system having 32 thermal and 12 hydro generating units. Test results show that a slight increase in production co...

Method look-up for dynamically typed object-oriented languages, such as SMALLTALK-80 or OBJECTIVE-C, is usually implemented by a cached inheritance search. Unfortunately, this technique is slow. A selector-indexed dispatch table implementation speeds up messages to within 10% of the speed of a statically typed language such as C++. We present a fast technique for generating compact selector-ind...

Emergency medical dispatch (EMD) is integral to emergency health care provision. It involves interaction between humans and computers and needs to be resilient to fluctuating demands. Here we investigate resilience in the London Ambulance Service control room. We find it useful to distinguish between Big R and little r, the former relating to strategy creation and the latter strategy sharing an...

Introduction The emergency medical dispatcher (EMD) has an important role as the first medical contact in the emergency response system. It's crucial for the EMD to avoid inappropriate assignment of low acuity and thereby cause delay in the ambulance response. However, it is also important to avoid overtriage in the assessment of the call. There is a lack of studies concerning feedback systems ...

Various static and dynamic analysis techniques are developed to detect and analyze Android malware. Some advanced Android malware can use Java reflection and JNI mechanisms to conceal their malicious behaviors for static analysis. Furthermore, for dynamic analysis, emulator detection and integrity selfchecking are used by Android malware to bypass all recent Android sandboxes. In this paper, we...

In this paper, a comprehensive real-time dispatch model considering renewable uncertainty based on dynamic load flow (DLF) is proposed. Through DLF, the primary and secondary frequency regulation amount caused by the variation of renewable energy as well as the line flow when primary and secondary regulation are deployed can be obtained easily. Not only the frequency constraints, but also the r...

A novel usability evaluation technique, Ontological Sketch Modelling (OSM), was applied to the analysis of systems used within a complex work setting, namely emergency medical dispatch. OSM focuses on the structure of the domain in question and the devices which are applied to that domain, in order to reason about the quality of fit between the two. This analysis shows how OSM can be used to id...

A collection of algorithms and data structures are presented which provide incremental dispatch table modification. Incrementally modified dispatch tables allow table-based dispatch techniques to be used in reflective, dynamically typed, single-receiver languages with type/implementation-paired multiple inheritance. By storing a small amount of information, the algorithms can incrementally main...