Guest Foreword from Michael Thomas CMG QC

Foreword of the Guest Editors

This special issue on Differential Algebra and Differential Equations was the idea of Bob Caviness and Bruno Buchberger and originated from a special year in differential algebra that was organized by Raymond Hoobler and William Sit at The City College of New York during 1995–1996. It may interest the reader to recall the research environment under which the special year was started. As is well...

Guest Editorial Foreword to the Special Issue on Aggregation Operators

Guest Editors' Foreword: Selected papers on "Streams and Algebra"

Special Issue: Real Estate Investment Trusts—Foreword from the Guest Editors

This is the first of two special issues of Real Estate Economics dedicated to the study of Real Estate Investment Trusts or REITs. The goal of these special issues is modest. Rather than attempting to provide a comprehensive survey of current research on REITs,1 our objective is instead to provide readers with a sampling of the various general directions of inquiry either about REITs or employi...

Foreword from the Editors

This issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation collects selected papers on work presented at, or related to, the meeting MEGA 2005, held in Porto Conte, Alghero, Sardinia (Italy), May 27 June 1, 2005. MEGA is the acronym for “Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry” (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.), a series of (roughly) biennial conferences on computin...