From the Editors: Calling All Readers

Calling all leaders.

ing leaders to create a forum to address the enormous challenges that face the profession now, and will continue to do so over the next several years. Many in the profession have been addressing these challenges, typically within the confines of the organizations that employ them. There has been no focused forum where nurse leaders themselves have an intellectual space for dialogue and planning...

Calling All Agents, Where Are You?

We believe the next step in the application of agent technology to the Internet is the massive population of the Internet with software agents functioning in a wide range of capacities: information ltering, information brokering, commerce, negotiation, and so on. In such an environment, a means to eeectively locate relevant agents for relevant tasks is indispensable. In this paper, we examine i...

From the Guest Editors

The dependability of systems is known as the reliance that can justifiably be placed on the service the system delivers. Dependability has become an important aspect of computer systems since everyday life increasingly depends on them, which has left us vulnerable to their potential malfunction. The causes to these malfunctions can potentially be introduced in every step of their development, d...

Message from the Editors

Foreword from the Editors

This issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation collects selected papers on work presented at, or related to, the meeting MEGA 2005, held in Porto Conte, Alghero, Sardinia (Italy), May 27 June 1, 2005. MEGA is the acronym for “Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry” (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.), a series of (roughly) biennial conferences on computin...