This paper is an informal summary of different encoding techniques from process calculi and distributed formalisms to graphic frameworks. The survey includes the use of solo diagrams, term graphs, synchronized hyperedge replacement systems, bigraphs, tile models and interactive systems, all presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar 04241. The common theme of all techniques recalled here is having a gra...

Understanding and Modeling Comparative Democratic Policymaking: How Institutional and Strategic Settings Shape the Incentives for, Capacities to, and Natures of Political Budgeteering Robert J. Franzese, Jr. Associate Professor of Political Science The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [email protected] http://www-personal.umich.edu 1 March 2005 [An Introduction to a New Project and a Guide to...

Thank you for inviting me to the Centre to give this seminar. In my talk today, I have two major points to discuss. First, I would like to present what I consider to be the principle tenants of Ecological Economics. I would like to follow this by a presentation of the major implications of ecological economics to the standard methods of economic analyses, in general, and the valuation of ecosys...

The North East Medical Sociology Group is pleased to announce details of the next half day seminar to be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 26 March 2014 at Teesside University, Darlington Campus. There will be a keynote presentation by Professor Sarah Nettleton from the Department of Sociology at University of York. There will additionally be three presentations from local speakers, together w...

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These are the accompanying notes to my presentation at the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar 11101. In this talk, I will present a logic to reason about voting procedures, proposed in a common work with W. van der Hoek and M. Wooldridge. I will discuss some perspectives on its software implementation and try to assess its practicality. I will also make a short demonstration of a prototype.

The topic for this paper is extremely broad, unless one views the less developed countries as a homogeneous grouping, which I do not. In an effort to align my presentation with the seminar objectives and the other presentations, I have organized my remarks around three sub-topics. They are 1. the role of marketing in economic development; 2. marketing patterns and problems in selected countries...