| Dear Readers,
Welcome to another regular issue in 2018 with high quality
contributions. This is only possible due to the increasing interest in
publishing in our journal and the great support of the community and
stakeholders. In particular, I want gratefully thank the authors for
their topical and very sound research reported in J.UCS, and the
editorial board for careful selection and helpful comments for further
improvements.
In the third regular issue of 2018, I am very pleased to introduce six
accepted papers from authors from six different countries and four
continents.
Fernando Ferri, Arianna D'Ulizia and Patrizia Grifoni from Italy
outline their analysis of the trends of the scientific production of
language evolution models discussing the current developments and
outlines the most promising future perspectives of this research
field.
Francois Meyer, Brink van der Merwe and Dirko Coetsee from South
Africa discuss their research on a concept embedding model that
extends existing word embedding techniques taking time into account by
explicitly modelling the time between concept occurrences.
Soto Montalvo, Jesus Palomo and Carmen de la Orden from Spain
introduce a complementary teaching tool utilizing artificial
intelligence techniques to compiles information from different sources
and presents only relevant breaking news classified into different
subjects and topics, which has been showcased in the finance domain.
In a collaborative research between Brazil and Spain, Giani Petri,
Alejandro Calderón, Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Adriano
F. Borgatto and Mercedes Ruiz report their study analysing the
benefits of digital and non-digital games used for SPM education in by
focusing on player experience and perceived learning outcome.
Rodrigo Souza, João Lopes, Cláudio Geyer, Anderson Cardozo, Adenauer
Yamin and Jorge Barbosa from Brazil discuss their research on the
distributed architecture CoIoT for Internet of things applications and
and findings from a case study in the agricultural area.
In their collaborative research between Chile and USA, Matías
Zapata-Barra, Alfonso Rodríguez, Angelica Caro and Eduardo
B. Fernández outline their research on BPMN extension and security
patterns to advance the software development process with security
requirements.
Enjoy reading!
Cordially,
Christian Gütl, Managing Editor
Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Email: cguetl@iicm.edu
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