M. Jean Smith MBE

Jean - François Laslier and M . Remzi

As the readers of this journal may not ignore, Approval Voting (AV) is a voting system where voters can “approve” as many candidates as they want and the winner is the candidate approved by the largest number of voters. Since the publication of the seminal book written by Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn in 1983, a very large number of studies have been devoted to various aspects of this voting ...

M. Jean-François DELMAS directeur de thèse

In this thesis, we study continuum tree-valued processes. First, we define anabstract framework for these processes, by constructing a metric on the space of locally com-pact, complete R-trees, endowed with a locally finite Borel measure. This topology, calledGromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov topology, allows for the definition of tree-valued Markov pro-cesses. We then give a new const...

Président: M. Jean-Pierre Richard Professeur, Ecole Centrale de Lille

Co-directeur de thèse: M. Jean-Michel MAZIN

JOEL M . SMITH JARED L . COHON Manaqing the Digital Ecosystem

B enjamin Disraeli's ironic comment, "I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" aptly describes the feelings of many college and university administrators as they develop institutional plans for information technology (IT) that will support research, teaching, and learning in the coming decades. The context in which we are expected to lead our institutions in IT decisions has changed dr...