On behalf of the SIM Executive Board and our Chapter Leaders, we are very pleased to have established an alliance with MISQE that provides benefit to our members as well as the IT profession. SIM is a community of thought leaders with a mission to share experiences and rich intellectual capital that can be applied in our profession. This matches very well with the mission of MISQE to provide in...

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this article examines the goals of george w. bush’s middle east policy and its legacy in the region. it further gives a detailed analysis of three major dilemmas in us policy - iraq, iran, and lebanon - towards the region at the present time. it then examines barak obama’s declared positions on these issues during his election campaign and his possible course of action in the region as presiden...

In this paper, we obtain new oscillation criteria for second-order half-linear impulsive differential equations having fixed moments of impulse actions. We also generalize the results to nonlinear impulsive equations. The oscillation criteria obtained in this paper can be considered as extensions of those given by Leighton, (J. London Math. Soc. 27 (1952)), Coles (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (196...

This is the first presidential address of AAAI, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In the grand scheme of history, even the history of artificial intelligence (AI), this is surely a minor event. The field this scientific society represents has been thriving for quite some time. No doubt the society itself will make solid contributions to the health of our field But it is too ...

This newsletter is the latest development in a trend that has been evident for some time now: qualitative methods are undergoing a renaissance unlike anything seen for the last 25 years. This resurgence has been demonstrated in a number of ways. Over one thousand members of the American Political Science Association, including twenty eight APSA Presidents and seven APSR Editors, signed the peti...