Subduction & orogeny: Introduction to the special volume

Introduction to the Special Volume on Relevance

The article introduces the CAIS special volume on relevance. It provides an overview of how the volume came to be, describes the relevance issue, and indicates the range of opinions expressed.

Active continental subduction and crustal exhumation: the Taiwan orogeny

It is generally accepted that continental subduction and crustal exhumation play an important role in the evolution of many orogenic belts. A variety of geological evidence suggests that continental crust is occasionally subducted to depths of tens to perhaps 150 km (e.g. Chopin, 1984; Dewey et al., 1993; Matte et al., 1997). Recently, a series of simulations (Chemenda, 1993; Chemenda et al., 1...

Initiation of the Andean orogeny by lower mantle subduction

Introduction to the Special Volume on Globalization and E-Commerce

The ten papers in this special volume of CAIS focus on environmental and policy influences on the diffusion of e-commerce in selected countries in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. They are part of a multi-year, multi-country study entitled, “Impacts of Electronic Commerce in the Global Networked Economy: A Multi-Country Study”. [www.crito.uci.edu/GIT/Project3d.asp]

Geometric Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to the Special Volume

Geometry plays an important role in our understanding of the world. It is therefore important for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to be able to represent and reason about geometry. This special volume presents a formal approach to the representation of geometric concepts in selected AI applications and describes some recent developments in algebraic methods for reasoning about geometry. Ge...