There have now been two surveys of the relative position of women in academic economics in the UK published on behalf of the RES Committee for Women in Economics (CWE). The first survey was carried out by Denise Osborn and reported on by Karen Mumford (KM, 1997), the second was commissioned to the Institute for Social and Economic Research and reported on by Alison Booth and Jonathan Burton (B+...

The concept of patterns and pattern languages has been applied in different application domains like software engineering, human computer interaction, and pedagogy. In the area of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) there are different understandings on what collaboration patterns are and how they can be described and defined. Collaboration patterns are specified at different levels of gra...

The Basel 1988 Capital Accord is arguably the most successful of all recent financial ‘standards’. Although it was designed for internationally active banks in G10 countries, more than 100 countries c laim to adhere to it and many apply the Accord to all banks. Significant changes to this Accord are currently under discussion and a final version is to be published in 2002 for implementation by ...

In this paper we present a prototype of a collaborative tool that provides shared documents between users of a group, with the possibility of editing and comparing multiple drafts of the document. In order to prove its effectiveness, the collaboration must be associated with a proper software infrastructure. Our interest is to determine whether a collaborative tool must provide special features...