EDITORS' REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2004

Annual report: September 2004 to November 2005.

Because the Annual General Meeting of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) was moved to November from September, this report covers a 14-month period. During this time, ACEN has taken on a new identity on the national front. We have implemented the decisions taken at the last annual meeting related to changes in membership categories and fees, establishing a national office and incre...

Version: September 2, 2004

g a dynamic ntries and the d from 1990 to 2003. The empirical results find supportive evidence of a contagion effect. By analyzing the correlation-coefficient series, this paper the Asian crisis. The first phase shows an increase in correlation (contagion) and the second phase shows continued high correlation (herding). Statistical ll as in the variance of the correlation coefficients, casting ...

Preference Programming September 16 , 2004

Methods for dealing with incomplete preference information in hierarchical weighting models have continued to attract attention in the literature on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). In this paper, we give a structured overview of several such methods which (i) accommodate incomplete preference information, (ii) offer dominance concepts and decision rules for the generation of decision r...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Emerging Technologies 2004

Washington University Record, September 3, 2004