Best Papers from CLEI 2011

 

Jose Aguilar

aguilar@ula.ve

Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela

 

John Atkinson

atkinson@inf.udec.cl

Universidad de Concepción, Chile

 

Yezid Donoso

ydonoso@uniandes.edu.co

Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

 

David Fernández-Baca

fernande@cs.iastate.edu

Iowa State University

 

Ernst L. Leiss

coscel@cs.uh.edu

University of Houston

 

Gabriela Marín

gmarin@ecci.ucr.ac.cr

Escuela de Ciencias de la Computacion e Informatica, Costa Rica      

 

Luciana Nedel

nedel@inf.ufrgs.br

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

 

Oscar Pastor

opastor@dsic.upv.es

DSIC – Politecnic University of Valencia – Spain

 

Abstract:

This special issue contains papers from CLEI 2011 which took place in October 2011 in Quito, Ecuador. The editors for this special issue were the chairs of the six symposia that constituted the conference CLEI 2011, plus the general chair of the program committee.

 

Spanish Abstract:

Este número especial contiene trabajos de CLEI 2011 realizado en Octubre 2011 en Quito, Ecuador. Los editores para este número especial fueron los presidentes de los eis simposios que constituyeron la conferencia CLEI 2011, más el presidente del comité de programa de la conferencia.

 

Received: 2012-05-15 ; Revised: 2012-05-15; Accepted: 2012-05-15

 

This special issue contains papers from CLEI 2011 which took place in October 2011 in Quito, Ecuador. The editors for this special issue were the chairs of the six symposia that constituted the conference CLEI 2011, plus the general chair of the program committee.

 

As every year, the program committee of the conference carried out a rigorous evaluation process which resulted in the selection of papers to be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings. In addition, the program committee of the conference singled out a number of papers that were considered especially meritorious.

 

In 2011, this process was bifurcated inasmuch as meritorious papers with a theoretical content were published in Elsevier’s ENTCS (without any change from the conference papers) while the more applied papers underwent the customary evaluation process for papers to be included in a special issue of CLEI ej, namely the “Best Papers from CLEI 2011” issue. In total, 18 papers of applied content were determined to be meritorious and were invited to be considered for the special issue. These papers had to be extended versions of the conference paper and had to be in English. There was an additional refereeing process of those papers that were submitted by their authors.

 

The final outcome was that eight papers were selected; these are the papers contained in the special issue you are reading. We hope you find these papers interesting and worth your while studying.

 

 

With best regards,

Jose Aguilar          John Atkinson           Yezid Donoso           David Fernández-Baca Ernst L. Leiss           Gabriela Marín           Luciana Nedel           Oscar Pastor