Specification of Policy Rules and Performance Measures in Multicountry Simulation Studies

Specification of Policy Rules and Performance Measures in Multicountry Simulation Studies
Author: Mr.Bennett T. McCallum
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1992-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451846010

Much recent analysis of international monetary and fiscal policy issues, such as the choice of an exchange-rate regime or the design of a policy coordination scheme, has been conducted by stochastic simulations with multicountry econometric models. In these studies, it has become standard practice to consider alternative policy rules of a particular form that calls for departures of a policy instrument, from some “baseline” reference path, that are proportional to deviations of a specified target variable from its own baseline path. The present paper argues, however, that this standard rule form is seriously defective for evaluating such issues because the implied rules (1) often fail to be operational and (2) have associated performance measures that can be misleading in important cases. An example is presented that concerns the international “assignment problem” of optimally pairing instruments with policy objectives.

The Object-Z Specification Language

The Object-Z Specification Language
Author: Graeme Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461552656

Object-Z is an object-oriented extension of the formal specification language Z. It adds to Z notions of classes and objects, and inheritance and polymorphism. By extending Z's semantic basis, it enables the specification of systems as collections of independent objects in which self and mutual referencing are possible. The Object-Z Specification Language presents a comprehensive description of Object-Z including discussions of semantic issues, definitions of all language constructs, type rules and other rules of usage, specification guidelines, and a full concrete syntax. It will enable you to confidently construct Object-Z specifications and is intended as a reference manual to keep by your side as you use and learn to use Object-Z. The Object-Z Specification Language is suitable as a textbook or as a secondary text for a graduate-level course, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Adapting Proofs-as-Programs

Adapting Proofs-as-Programs
Author: Iman Poernomo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2005-06-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780387237596

This monograph details several important advances in the direction of a practical proofs-as-programs paradigm, which constitutes a set of approaches to developing programs from proofs in constructive logic with applications to industrial-scale, complex software engineering problems. One of the books central themes is a general, abstract framework for developing new systems of programs synthesis by adapting proofs-as-programs to new contexts.

Logics of Specification Languages

Logics of Specification Languages
Author: Dines Bjørner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2007-12-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3540741070

This book presents comprehensive studies on nine specification languages and their logics of reasoning. The editors and authors are authorities on these specification languages and their application. In a unique feature, the book closes with short commentaries on the specification languages written by researchers closely associated with their original development. The book contains extensive references and pointers to future developments.

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
Author: IOS Press
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-11-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1614993599

In the same way that it has become part of all our lives, computer technology is now integral to the work of the legal profession. The JURIX Foundation has been organizing annual international conferences in the area of computer science and law since 1988, and continues to support cutting-edge research and applications at the interface between law and computer technology. This book contains the 16 full papers and 6 short papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2013), held in December 2013 in Bologna, Italy. The papers cover a wide range of research topics and application areas concerning the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, including computational techniques for: classifying and extracting information from, and detecting conflicts in, regulatory texts; modeling legal argumentation and representing case narratives; improving the retrieval of legal information and extracting information from legal case texts; conducting e-discovery; and, applications involving intellectual property and IP licensing, online dispute resolution, delivering legal aid to the public and organizing the administration of local law and regulations. The book will be of interest to all those associated with the legal profession whose work involves the use of computer technology.

NZS 8131

NZS 8131
Author: Standards Association of New Zealand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 15
Release: 1971
Genre:
ISBN: