African development report . 2005 Africa in the world economy, public sector management, economic and social statistics on Africa [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452294403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-84408-6; 0-19-151565-5; 1-4294-6948-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: African development report ; ; 2005
• Disciplina: 338.5443096; 338.96
• Soggetti: Economic development - Africa; Electronic books.; Africa Economic conditions 1960- Statistics; Africa Economic policy Statistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Published for the African Development Bank.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PART ONE: AFRICA IN THE WORLD ECONOMY; Chapter 1 The African Economy in 2004; Text Figures; Text Tables; BOXES; Chapter 2 Regional Economic Profiles; PART TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA; Chapter 3 The State and Economic Development in Africa: Theory, Policy and Practice; Chapter 4 Public Sector Reforms in Africa: Past, Present, Future; Chapter 5 Public Accountability and Political and Economic Governance; Chapter 6 Public Sector Reforms in Africa: The Role of the ADB; Bibliographical Note; PART THREE: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STATISTICS ON AFRICA
• Sommario/riassunto: The African Development Report 2005 is the seventeenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the state of the African economy, examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent. - ;The African Development Report 2005 is the seventeenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the state of the African economy, ; examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent. The African Development Bank Group is a

Distributed Computing : 15th International Conference, DISC 2001, Lisbon, Portugal, October 3-5, 2001. Proceedings / / edited by Jennifer L. Welch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143622203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001
• ISBN: 3-540-45414-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2001.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 346 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2180
• Disciplina: 004/.36
• Soggetti: Computers; Computer programming; Computers, Special purpose; Algorithms; Operating systems (Computers); Theory of Computation; Programming Techniques; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Computation by Abstract Devices; Operating Systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Time Complexity Bound for Adaptive Mutual Exclusion -- Quorum-Based Algorithms for Group Mutual Exclusion -- An Effective Characterization of Computability in Anonymous Networks -- Competitive Hill-Climbing Strategies for Replica Placement in a Distributed File System -- Optimal Unconditional Information Diffusion -- Computation Slicing: Techniques and Theory -- A Low-Latency ; Non-blocking Commit Service -- Stable Leader Election -- Adaptive Long-lived O(k 2)-Renaming with O(k 2) Steps -- A New Synchronous Lower Bound for Set Agreement -- The Complexity of Synchronous Iterative Do-All with Crashes -- Mobile Search for a Black Hole in an Anonymous Ring -- Randomised Mutual Search for k > 2 Agents -- Self-stabilizing Minimum Spanning Tree Construction on Message-Passing Networks -- Self Stabilizing Distributed Queuing -- A Space Optimal, Deterministic, Self-stabilizing, Leader Election Algorithm for Unidirectional Rings -- Randomized Finite-state Distributed Algorithms As Markov Chains -- The Average Hop Count Measure For Virtual Path Layouts -- Efficient Routing in Networks with Long Range Contacts -- An Efficient Communication Strategy for Ad-hoc Mobile Networks -- A Pragmatic Implementation of Non-blocking Linked-lists -- Stabilizing Replicated Search Trees -- Adding Networks.
• Sommario/riassunto: DISC, the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of distributed computing. DISC 2001 was held on Oct 3-5, 2001, in Lisbon, Portugal. This volume includes 23 contributed papers. It is expected that these papers will be submitted in more polished form to fully refereed scienti'c journals. The extended abstracts of this year's invited lectures, by Gerard LeLann and David Peleg, will appear in next year's proceedings. We received 70 regular submissions. These submissions were read and eval- ted by the program committee, with the help of external reviewers when needed. Overall, the quality of the submissions was excellent, and we were unable to - cept many deserving papers. This year's Best Student Paper award goes to Yong-Jik Kim for the paper "A Time Complexity Bound for Adaptive Mutual Exclusion" by Yong-Jik Kim and James H. Anderson. October 2001 Jennifer Welch Organizing Committee Chair: Luis Rodrigues (University of Lisbon) Publicity: Paulo Ver´?ssimo (University of Lisbon) Treasurer: Filipe Araujo ´ (University of Lisbon) Web: Alexandre Pinto (University of Lisbon) Registration: Hugo Miranda (University of Lisbon) Steering Committee Faith Fich (U. of Toronto) Michel Raynal (vice-chair) (IRISA) Maurice Herlihy (Brown U. ) Andr´e Schiper (chair) (EPF Lausanne) Prasad Jayanti (Dartmouth) Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M U. ) Shay Kutten (Technion) Program Committee Marcos K. Aguilera (Compaq SRC) Mark Moir (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Lorenzo Alvisi (U. Texas, Austin) Stephane Perennes (CNRS U.