Guest Foreword by Bashar Malkawi

Foreword of the Guest Editors

This special issue on Differential Algebra and Differential Equations was the idea of Bob Caviness and Bruno Buchberger and originated from a special year in differential algebra that was organized by Raymond Hoobler and William Sit at The City College of New York during 1995–1996. It may interest the reader to recall the research environment under which the special year was started. As is well...

Guest Editorial Foreword to the Special Issue on Aggregation Operators

Guest Editors' Foreword: Selected papers on "Streams and Algebra"

The Computer Journal Special Issue on Parameterized Complexity: Foreword by the Guest Editors

Parameterized complexity studies a generalization of the notion of polynomial time where, in addition to the overall input size n, one also considers the effects on computational complexity of a secondary measurement, the parameter. The central notion of the field is fixed-parameter tractability (FPT), which refers to solvability in time f(k)n, where f is some function (usually exponential) of ...

Foreword by the Editors

Our Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Emerging Markets in December 2000 generated 64 submissions. Of these papers, we selected seven papers, making the acceptance rate for this Special Issue in the same class as the very top finance journals. The selection procedure was as objective as possible. First, each submission was double-blind reviewed by two referees. The referees scored each pape...