`Marriage' Special Issues

TODS Special Issues

The March 2004 issue of TODS should be in your mailbox (as well as available in cyberspace, at the ACM Digital Library) around the time you receive this issue of SIGMOD Record. This issue is a first, a special issue dedicated to extended versions of SIGMOD and PODS papers from the 2002 conference. This special issue opens the topic of invited papers from conferences, and indeed, the more genera...

Community based rehabilitation: special issues.

The primary goal in the developing field of community based rehabilitation (CBR) for individuals with TBI / ABI is community participation and integration. At present, CBR is less than clearly defined and is represented by a set of interventions with varied types, degrees of clinical support and models of intervention that are conducted for a diverse and complex set of individuals, situations, ...

A Tiger Jump: From Special Issues to Special Interest Groups?

Gale-Shapley Stable Marriage Problem Revisited: Strategic Issues and Applications

This paper is motivated by a study of the mechanism used to assign primary school students in Singapore to secondary schools. The assignment process requires that primary school students submit a rank ordered list of six schools to the Ministry of Education. Students are then assigned to secondary schools based on their preferences, with priority going to those with the highest examination scor...

Marriage and Some Troubling Issues With No-Fault Divorce

Marriage, as creating the most important relation in life, as having more to do with the morals and civilization of a people than any other institution, has always been subject to the control of the legislature. That body prescribes the age at which the parties may contract to marry, the procedure or form essential to constitute marriage, the duties and obligations it creates, its effects on th...