Important Membership Message - Repeated from March Issue

Selective self-categorization: meaningful categorization and the in-group persuasion effect.

Research stemming from self-categorization theory (Turner et al., 1987) has demonstrated that individuals are typically more persuaded by messages from their in-group than by messages from the out-group. The present research investigated the role of issue relevance in moderating these effects. In particular, it was predicted that in-groups would only be more persuasive when the dimension on whi...

Editorial: A Message from the Editorial Team and an Introduction to the January-March 2013 Issue

OPTIMA Mathematical Optimization Society Newsletter 85

March 30, 2011. The Mathematical Optimization Society is alive and active, and the best proof of this statement is the number of innovations that have taken place within the Society since I wrote my last column in Optima. Let me review these innovations briefly. The first innovation, especially from the researcher point of view, is the new internet support which has been introduced for our main...

Definitions of Line-Line Relations for Geographic Databases

The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering is published quarterly and is distributed to all TC members. Its scope includes the design, implementation, modelling, theory and application of database systems and their technology. Letters, conference information, and news should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief. Papers for each issue are solicited by and should be sent to the Associa...

Properties of membership services

A membership service is used in a distributed system to maintain information about which sites are functioning and which have failed at any given time. Such services have proven to be fundamental for constructing distributed applications, with many example services and algorithms deened in the literature. Despite these eeorts, however, little has been done on examining the abstract properties i...