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This article presents news briefs related to economics societies as of November 2005. The Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association will be held in Boston, Massachusetts from January 6 to 8, 2006. The Risk Theory Society is calling for papers to be presented at its annual Risk Theory Society Seminar to be held from April 21 to 23, 2006. Also calling for papers is the "Journal of Family and Economic Issues" for its special issue on consumer finances. The American Council of Learned Societies announces its Digital Innovation Fellowship program.

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Introduces a series of articles on the philosophy of science, presented at the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts.

The article previews the joint 2006 annual meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society that will be held on June 7 to 11, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. It includes information on the meetings' theme, issues that will be addressed at various meetings, sightseeing suggestions, papers scheduled for discussion and procedures in submitting them, and giving out of awards for best student papers.

The article offers information about an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) international symposium on phased array systems and technology to be held on October 15-18, 2013 at Boston in Massachusetts inviting papers on reflect-arrays, phase-shift steering and low cost arrays.

Questionnaire data from 137 panel chairs at the 2003 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences meeting in Boston reveal respondent perceptions of the conference site, overall impressions of the conference, as well as panelist attendance, and the quality of information presented by panelists. The findings reveal high marks for the conference space, hotel rooms, and the city of Boston itself, resulting in an overall positive conference experience, but responses also highlight several areas of concern, including panelist attendance problems and presentation etiquette. Recommendations are provided, which may foster positive, incremental change at future ACJS annual meetings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on phased array systems and technology to be held in Boston, Massachusetts during October 15-18, 2013.

The article presents information on the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & TechnologyRevolutionary Developments in Phased Arrays to be held at the Westin Waltham Hotel in Greater Boston, Massachusetts on October 15-18, 2013.

The article presents information on activities of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) including the decision of WAPOR and the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) to issue the Janet A. Harkness Student Paper Award, and the WAPOR 66th Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts from May 14-16, 2013.

The article presents objectives of the symposium on tautomers and biology, which is going to be held in Boston, Massachusetts in August 2010. Tautomerism modifies the structure activity relationship of enzyme and substrate and affects enzyme mechanism. Various aspects of tautomerism including calculations of tautomeric equilibrium constant and its use in molecular docking would be discussed at the symposia.

The author discusses the special issue of the periodical "IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques" which focuses on papers presented in the 2009 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium held in Boston, Massachusetts in June. She reports that the acceptance rate for the papers submitted was high due to the good quality of the revised manuscripts. She explains how the reviewers for the special issue were selected.

The article offers information on the Thirty-second General Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts on August 5-11, 2012.

The article offers information on the Thirty-second General Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from August 5-11, 2012.

The article discusses the highlights of the Annual Meetings of the Knee Society Symposium held in Boston, Massachusetts in October 2009. The meetings tackled various issues concerning knee surgery including the risk factors for patellar crepitus following total knee arthroplasty, the use of debridement and irrigation, and the analysis of synovial fluid.

THE YEAR 2000 MARKED THE TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, now one of the largest and most important annual events in the various sub-fields of linguistics and psychology concerned with language learning. For three days during early November, researchers and educators who study how children and adults acquire language converged on the campus of Boston University, as they have every year since 1976, as guests of the BU Program in Applied Linguistics. Several hundred strong, they argued, compared data, swapped ideas, and provoked each other to keep on probing into the many intriguing mysteries of how humans learn to talk. In recognition of the conference's birthday, Margaret Thomas presented this overview of the first quarter-century of the BUCLD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces calls for scholarly papers on topics of economics for conferences including The 18th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance to be held May 2014 at the University of Crete, The 28th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics to be held June 2014 at the University of Minho, and the January 2015 American Economic Association Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The article presents an introduction to the special section related to International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'97), published in the August 1998 issue of the journal "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering." Authors say that ICSE was held in Boston Massachusetts, in the week of May 17-23, 1997. The main goal of the conference was to meet needs and expectations of a large variety of attendees. The program committee of the conference was involved in a comprehensive reviewing process of papers submitted. At the end of this process, three papers were selected for publication. In the first paper, "Evaluating Testing Methods by Delivered Reliability," researchers discuss a method for evaluating the effectiveness of testing, based on a measure of the program reliability after testing. The second paper "Analyzing Partially Implemented Real-Time System," presents a technique for analyzing partially-implemented real-time systems. The third paper "Communication Metrics for Software Development," discusses results of comprehensive experiment whose goal was to evaluate the effectiveness of a set of communication metrics.

Kampmann C. E. (1996) Feedback loop gains and system behavior Proceedings of the 1996 International System Dynamics Conference. System Dynamics Society, Boston, MA, USA In the past two decades, there has been a steady growth of analytical tools that can help the system dynamicist understand and test the behavior of large models. Without such tools, we must resort to simulation experiments and intuition developed from simple, low-order, systems. While this traditional approach has served us well, there is always the danger that we overlook important mechanisms in larger systems or falsely attribute behavior patterns to particular structures. Among these new analytical tools, eigenvalue elasticity analysis (EEA) has received the most attention, perhaps because it rests on a consistent and comprehensive theoretical foundation. The approach involves decomposing system outcomes into characteristic behavior modes, each characterized by an eigenvalue of the linearized system matrix, and then examining how each eigenvalue or behavior mode is affected by small changes in the parameters of the system. The eigenvalue elasticity of a parameter change is a dimensionless number, defined as the fractional change in the eigenvalue resulting from a fractional infinitesimal change in that parameter. Parameters or structural links or loops in the model that have large elasticities are then interpreted as playing a dominant role in that behavior mode. EEA was first used by Nathan Forrester in his doctoral dissertation from 1982. However, it did not receive much attention in the field until the 1996 International System Dynamics Conference, where Christian Kampmann presented a rigorous analysis of the topology of feedback loop structures and how eigenvalue elasticities are related to the strength of individual feedback loops. Since then, an entire strand of research has been devoted to the development and application of EEA, where Kampmann's conference paper remains a seminal reference. Yet until now, the paper has never been published, and researchers have had to rely on private circulation of various drafts of the paper. With this archival publication, we wish to remedy this deficiency in the hope that the work will inspire others to continue developing EEA and further the high standards of analytical rigor that Kampmann's paper represents. Abstract Linking feedback loops and system behavior is part of the foundation of system dynamics, yet the lack of formal tools has so far prevented a systematic application of the concept, except for very simple systems. Having such tools at their disposal would be a great help to analysts in understanding large, complicated simulation models. The paper applies tools from graph theory formally linking individual feedback loop strengths to the system eigenvalues. The significance of a link or a loop gain and an eigenvalue can be expressed in the eigenvalue elasticity, i.e., the relative change of an eigenvalue resulting from a relative change in the gain. The elasticities of individual links and loops may be found through simple matrix operations on the linearized system. Even though the number of feedback loops can grow rapidly with system size, reaching astronomical proportions even for modest systems, a central result of the paper is that one may restrict attention to an independent subset which typically grows only linearly and at most as the square of system size. An algorithm for finding an independent loop set is presented, along with suggestions for how to augment it to select loops with large elasticities. For illustration, the method is applied to a well-known system: the simple long-wave model. Because this model exhibits highly nonlinear behavior, it sheds light on the usefulness of linear methods to nonlinear system. The analysis leads to a more thorough and deeper understanding of the system and sheds new light on conventional wisdom regarding the role of many of the system's feedback loops. Copyright © 2012 System Dynamics Society [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the 2004 Quantitative Marketing and Economics conference at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Sponsors of the convention; Keynote speakers; Presentation of technical papers.

The article discusses the highlights of the First Symposium on the Biology of the Parasitic Crustacea held at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts from January 4 to 5, 2009. Among the papers given during the main session were those from C. B. Boyko and colleagues about parasites as phylogenetic indicators in decapod evolution and G. A. Boxshall on Copepoda. Also enumerated are papers on parasitic isopods and rhizocephalans tackled during the complementary session.

Information about the Association Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Conference held in Boston, Masachusetts in 2011 is presented. The event was attended by 200 members who showcased their research during the conference. Moreover, the topics discussed include the testing law on HIV in New York, the effects of information flows on organizational changes, and the emerging informatics policy.

The Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) was held October 14-18, 2013, at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Workshops were held on the two days prior to the start of the main conference, giving attendees a chance to hold indepth discussions on topics that complement the themes of the main conference program. This year the workshops included the First Workshop on AI and Game Aesthetics (1 day), the Second Workshop on AI in the Game Design Process (1 day), the Second International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (2 day), and the Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2 day). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO) has emerged as a unique annual forum in the fields of electromagnetic- and multiphysics-based modeling, simulation, and optimization for RF, microwave, terahertz, and other applications. Founded in 2014 by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and with the aim of stimulating a broad exploration and discussion of “disruptive” technologies of EM-CAD in addition to traditional topics, the sixth edition of this three-continent-rotational conference, NEMO2019, took place in Cambridge, MA, USA, in May 29–31, just before the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) which was also held in Boston, MA, USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the symposium titled "Information Privacy Law at the Crossroads" that was held at Boston University School of Law in Boston, U.S. on November 3, 2023. Topics discussed include the impact of privacy loss on minoritized communities, the use of privacy as an antisubordination legal tool and the role of privacy in advancing values such as autonomy and equality. The attendees included Woody Hartzog, Organizer of the symposium and Editor-in-Chief, Keenan Hunt-Stone.

The Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) was held October 14-18, 2013, at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The mission of the AIIDE conference is to provide a forum for researchers and game developers to discuss ways that AI can enhance games and other forms of interactive entertainment. In addition to presentations on adapting standard AI techniques such as search, planning, and machine learning for use within games, key topic areas include creating realistic autonomous characters, interactive narrative, procedural content generation, and integrating AI into game design and production tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the symposium titled "Collective Reception: A Symposium in Honor of Benjamin H. D. Buchloh" that was held at Harvard University in Boston, U.S. on September 23, 2022. Topics discussed include various aspects of art, aesthetics, and critical analysis, reflecting Buchloh's work and his contributions to the field such as historical conditions of aesthetic perception, formal analysis of artworks, migration and displacement in art, theory, and life. The symposium featured significant gathering of scholars and students who came together to celebrate and engage with the work and ideas of Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.

Information about several papers discusses at the International COPD Genetics Consortium held in Boston, Massachusetts from July 13 to 14, 2010 is presented. Topics included the genomic technology and techniques for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The event featured several physicians including Wayne Anderson.

Information on the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) entitled, "New Directions in State Court Research," held on August 29, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. The meeting highlighted papers on state courts presented by political science scholars including Melinda Gann Hall of Michigan State University, Alan Tarr of Rutgers University and Jeffrey Yates of Binghamton University of the State University of New York.

The article offers news briefs about computer music as of September 2009. An international conference was hosted by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Mexico City from March 23-27, 2009. The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia was the site of the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition held February 27-28, 2009. Do-it-yourself audio enthusiasts participated at the Megapolis Festival held April 24-26, 2009 in Cambridge and Boston in Massachusetts.

The article discusses the highlights of the International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA) 3 at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts from September 27-29, 2007. Twenty-six papers were accepted for the conference and were organized into eight sessions on issues such as personal records making and personal record keeping. Participants of the conference agreed that the idea of private papers is far more complex than many had thought.

Information about the paper of John M. Giggie, assistant professor of history at University of Texas in San Antonio, on African-American Holiness movement's relationship to the consumer market discussed at a conference held on May 4-5, 2006 under the auspices of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts is presented. Giggie discussed the African-American religious history and its impact on the consumer market.

Information about the paper of Christopher Marsh, director of J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University, on Orthodox Christianity in Russia discussed at a conference held on May 4-5, 2006 under the auspices of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts is presented. Marsh presented the attitudes of Russia's Orthodox Christians towards private property and the market.

Information about the paper of Robert P. Weller, professor of anthropology at Boston University, on the aid of the popular religious practice in China to its economic successes discussed at a conference held on May 4-5, 2006 under the auspices of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts is presented. Weller talked about the role of religions in a growing market economy.