Foreword: About ESS 2010

Foreword ICTCS 2010 special issue

The Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS) is the conference of the Italian chapter of EATCS. The first ICTCS was held in Pisa in 1972. The 12th ICTCS (ICTCS 2010) took place in Camerino, 15–17 September, 2010. The aim of ICTCS 2010 was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among researchers, and to foster an environment, where junior researchers and PhD students coul...

Foreword About the Poverty - Environment Partnership

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Foreword: Lesson learning about getting research into policy and practice

FOREWORD The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is committed to investing in research to combat poverty, reduce high mortality and morbidity in resource poor contexts and support progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Research helps us to identify what works, what does not work and how to understand the local context when introducing new ways of working. Ther...

ESS patterns: adding pairs to an ESS.

The notion of a pattern of evolutionarily stable strategies was introduced by Cannings and Vickers in 1988 (J. Theor. Biol. 132:387-420). In this paper a specific class of patterns is considered. Suppose that there is an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) on some set of n strategies {1,2,...,n} and that new strategies {n + 1,n + 2,...,n + k} are added. Supposing that for this new enlarged con...