Editorial: Autonomy and Bureaucracy

Editorial autonomy of CMAJ.

Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy Pattern

The Bureaucracy pattern is a recurring design theme used to implement hierarchical object or component structures which allow interaction with every level of the hierarchy and maintain their inner consistency themselves. It is a composite pattern that is based on the Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Observer pattern. Composite patterns require new presentation and modeling techn...

Guest Editorial Special Section on Soft Computing for Space Autonomy

Robotic and human exploration of our solar system requires space missions to be designed with high levels of autonomy for dealing with hostile environments and restricted communication links. Researchers are discovering new solutions to associated problems using fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation and probabilistic reasoning, some of the principal elements of soft ...

Editorial 'autonomy ' in learned journals: lessons from the CMAJ episode.

Bureaucracy and Financial Markets

2 Abstract Recent research on financial market development has focused on the nature of the legal system. The law and finance literature, however, exclusively focuses on the abuse of management power as a major cause of shareholder expropriation. We examine the role of the administrative capability of the state in providing and guaranteeing the institutional foundations for securities developme...