Mathematics and Politics

strategy, voting, power and proof

This book teaches humanities majors the accessibility and beauty of discrete and deductive mathematics. It assumes no prior knowledge of either college-level mathematics or political science, and could be offered at the freshman or sophomore level. The book devotes one chapter each to a model ...

Risk assessment

decisions in banking and finance

Eds. Georg Bol, Svetlozar T. Rachev, Reinhold Würth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New developments in assessing and managing risk are discussed in this volume. Addressing both practitioners in the banking sector and research institutions, the book provides a manifold view on the most-discussed topics in finance. Among the subjects ...

Entrepreneurship and business

a regional perspective

Eds. Miguel- Angel Galindo, Joaquín Guzman, Domingo Ribeiro. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, growth and regional aspects of business. This text offers two broad perspectives of entrepreneurship, a historical one and a comparative perspective. In the historical part, several examples of the co-operation ...

Principles of environmental sciences

Eds. Jan J. Boersema, Lucas Reijnders. International experts provide a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living/non-living environment and mankind. Both the analysis of such problems and the way solutions to ...

Coping with the complexity of economics

The purpose of the science of complexity is to provide, if not a unified approach, at least useful tools to tackling complex problems in various scientific domains. Generally, complexity is considered a fundamental challenge to the reductionist approach in science as a whole and to ...

The beginnings of political economy

Ed. Jürgen Georg Backhaus. This volume contains eleven essays on Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi's concepts of the modern economy. These essays reflect both Justi's life and professional work, focusing on his ideas on economics and social sciences. Interesting are the aspects of ...

Financing public universities

the case of performance funding

"Financing Public Universities" addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to reform public management ...

Values and violence

intangible aspects of terrorism

Most books on terrorism deal with descriptions of terrorist organizations and activities, some examine privacy and civil liberties issues, and others treat terrorism as a series of policy choices. Hardly any books deal with the foundational questions of values and violence as they relate to ...

Modelling regional scenarios for the enlarged Europe

european competivences and global strategies

The aim of this book is to tackle the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years by providing quali-quantitative territorial scenarios for the enlarged Europe, under different assumptions on future globalisation strategies of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and ...

Democracy in an age of globalisation

In "Democracy in the Age of Globalisation", Otfried Hoffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its ...

Entrepreneurship

concepts, theory and perspective

With so many theories and so many scientific bodies implicated in its study, Entrepreneurship can, at times, seem like a veritable jungle where finding one's way can prove to be difficult. This book functions as a map locating the most important issues: those where ...

Interest rate models

an infinite-dimensional stochastic analysis perspective

"Interest Rate Models: An Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Analysis Perspective" studies the mathematical issues that arise in modeling the interest rate term structure. These issues are approached by casting the interest rate models as stochastic evolution equations in infinite dimensional function spaces. The book is comprised ...

Regional externalities

The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role. This class of externalities can be divided into three categories: externalities related to mobility and ...

Location based services and telecartography

This book presents a general picture of research-driven activities related to location-and map-based services. This type of research has emerged in recent years in the areas of positioning, spatial modeling, and cartographic communication as well as in the emerging fields of ubiquitous cartography, geopervasive services ...

Research and advanced technology for digital libraries

10th European Conference, EDCL 2006, Alicante Spain, September 17-22, 2006.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2006, held in Alicante, Spain in September 2006. The 36 revised full papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 18 demo papers and 15 ...

Complexity hints for economic policy

This volume extends the complexity approach to economics. This complexity approach is not a completely new way of doing economics, and that it is a replacement for existing economics, but rather the integration of some new analytic and computational techniques into economists' bag of tools ...

Approval voting

Approval Voting proposes a compelling way to elect some 500,000 officials in public elections. Under this system voters may vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they like in multicandidate elections. Among the many benefits of approval voting are its propensity to ...

A changing world

challenges for landscape research

Landscape Research has been established as an interdisciplinary field dealing with complex environmental processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. During the course of its history, various societal, technological and philosophical stimuli have shaped Landscape Research, e.g. the declaration of Landscape Ecology in the ...

Sovereignty and interpretation of international norms

In an International Community characterized by the weight of state sovereignty the interpretation of international norms (by states, International Organizations and judicial and arbitral bodies) is one of the key points of this legal order. State sovereignty conditions the creation and application of International Law ...

The principle of indemnity in marine insurance contracts

a comparative approach

With the global expansion of the maritime sector, marine insurance is on the forefront nowadays, more than ever before. Notwithstanding this growth, a vast number of legal disputes continues to emerge, with indemnity being, inter alia, amidst their focal points. Accordingly, the author discusses legal ...