Do Diaspora Engagement Policies Endure? An Update of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) to 2017

The Development of Diaspora Engagement Policies in Burundi and Rwanda

Many countries are currently exploring their diaspora’s potential to contribute to local development processes. These countries face numerous challenges in effectively engaging their diasporas such as a lack of experience and resources. Conflict-affected countries, however, face legacies from the past that might challenge diaspora engagement processes. They often also struggle with security iss...

Update Policies

Incomplete transaction can be supported in databases by enabling administrators to express update policies that complete incomplete transactions. In this paper, we propose a language for expressing such update policies. We show that the problem of verifying whether or not a policy is sound and complete is undecidable in general. We identify decidable instances of this decision problem, and for ...

Engagement of nurses with human development policies.

Index Policies for Shooting Problems

We consider a scenario in which a single Red wishes to shoot at a collection of Blue targets, one at a time, to maximise some measure of return obtained from Blues killed before Red’s own (possible) demise. Such a situation arises in various military contexts such as the conduct of air defence by Red in the face of Blue SEAD (suppression of enemy air defences). A class of decision processes cal...

Real-time update of access control policies

Access control policies are security policies that govern access to resources. The need for real-time update of such policies while they are in effect and enforcing the changes immediately, arise in many scenarios. Consider, for example, a military environment responding to an international crisis, such as a war. In such situations, countries change strategies necessitating a change of policies...