Publications des institutions partenaires
Resistance to europeanization: National barriers to supranational changes in migration policy
We argue that the national state remains the main frame of reference in the field of immigration and ethnic relations. The cultural-historical imprint of the pattern of state formation has produced distinct regimes for the incorporation of migrants which largely explain variations in government policies, public debates, and collective mobilizations concerning this policy area. we...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2000
An empirical investigation of concentration, country segmentation and industry specialization in the European audit market
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Migration, dual labour markets and social welfare in a small open economy
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Active hypertext views on databases
Designing and building a Web site aimed to interact with a database can be a demanding task. A way to accelerate this task is to use a declarative language for specifying hypertext views on databases. In this paper, we discuss hypertext concepts for viewing and acting on a database. While viewing a database through a hypertext view enables a user to navigate among interconnected...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Formal development and validation of Java dependable distributed systems
The rapid expansion of Java programs into the software market is often not supported by a proper development methodology. We present a formal development methodology, well suited for Java dependable distributed applications. It is based on the stepwise refinement of model oriented formal specifications, and enables validation of the obtained system wrt the client's requirements...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
A Formal Developement and Validation Methodology for System Design
This paper presents first a formal development methodology that enables the validation of formal specifications as well as program codes wrt client's requirements. The methodology is based on the two languages framework: it advocates the joint use of a model-oriented specification and a logical language. Second, the paper describes development guidelines for system design within...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Reusing Dynamic Document Fragment through Virtual Documents: Key Issues In Document Engineering
Electronic documents may obviously no more be considered as a simple representation of their paper counterpart. They become dynamic components whose content may be modified accordingly to users interaction but also in reaction to modifications in the user's environment (such as an update operation in a database). They not only include data but also behavior (Scripts, Applets,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Design and Implementation of a Teleteaching Environment
The ever increasing need for education combined with the recent advances in communication technologies, have encouraged the introduction of numerous remote learning systems and services. In this paper we describe a distance learning system we have developed at the University of Geneva. We also describe the experience we have gained by using the system for conducting telelectures...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Active Business Objects (ABOs): A novel paradigm for building (and using!) Business Information System
The ABO project aims in the design and development an agent platform where mobile agents represent business processes. These agents encapsulate the policies, business practices and models of different business activities (like order management, payroll, warehouse and stock control). The aim of ABO is to provide a new paradigm of Business Information System design and use.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
How social movements matter: past research, present problems, future developments
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Under The Spotlight: The Impact of Media Attention on Protest Policing
Explanations of protest policing have neglected the "spotlight of the media." Based on data on repression and its media coverage in four Swiss cities from 1965 to 1994, our findings suggest that the mass media do have an impact on levels and forms of repression, along with political opportunity dimensions and levels of disruption. We identify two mechanisms. First, we show...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Comment on Giorgi's chapter: The Sampling Properties of Inequality Indices
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Statistical Inference for Welfare under Complete and Incomplete Information
We show how a collection of results in the literature on the empirical estimation of welfare indicators from sample data can be unified. We also demonstrate how some of these ideas can be extended to empirically important cases where the data have been trimmed or censored.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Models of citizenship, political opportunities, and the claim-making of immigrants and ethnic minorities: A comparison of France and Switzerland
In this paper we discuss the institutional setting, both cultural and political, for the claim-making of immigrants and ethnic minorities and derive a number of hypotheses regarding variations in the extent, forms, and content of claim-making. The general underlying idea is that the political-institutional setting shapes the modalities of claim-making, while the cultural-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1999
Path dependent options on yields in the affine term structure model
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
From atomism to consolidation in group's insolvency
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Conflicting contracts in sport : resolution through central filing and ad hoc arbitration
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
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