Information and Computation special issue from TACS 2001

Special issue on symbolic and algebraic computation

The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), held at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in July 2007, was a successful meeting of this annual conference series, with a significant increase of the number of participants. Built on this success, the decision to publish a special issue in the Journal of Symbolic Computation was taken and a call for contributio...

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Information Assurance and Security J.UCS Special Issue

The global economic infrastructure is becoming increasingly dependent upon information technology, with computer and communication technology being essential and vital components of Government facilities, power plant systems, medical infrastructures, financial centres and military installations to name a few. Finding effective ways to protect information systems, networks and sensitive data wit...

IMF Staff Papers, Vol,48 Special Issue, 2001

This paper attempts to portray a synthesis of what has been learned in the past 10 years with regard to the transition process. It contrasts the mainstream “Washington consensus” view of transition with the “evolutionary institutionalist” perspective. It argues that the latter gives a more adequate and complete picture both of the transition processes and of economic systems and is of better he...

IMF Staff Papers, Vol,48 Special Issue, 2001

In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have typically stood in the way, be it through taxation, regulation, or corruption. We argue that the difference can be traced to lies in the degree of political centralization present in China, but not in Russia. In China the central government has been strong and disciplined enough t...