Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Author: James R. Cristie

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781600213564

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In the late 1980s and 1990s, Fannie Mae grew rapidly into the largest firm in the U.S. housing finance system and a major global financial institution. The Enterprise achieved double-digit growth in earnings per common share (EPS) for 15 straight years and leveraged its extraordinary financial success into enormous political influence. That financial and political success gave rise to a corporate culture at Fannie Mae in which senior management promoted the Enterprise as one of the lowest-risk financial institutions in the world and as "best in class" in terms of risk management, financial reporting, internal control, and corporate governance. This book describes the development and extent of the problems with Fannie Mae's accounting policies, internal controls, financial reporting, and corporate governance that led to the restatement of the Enterprise's financial reports and the actions to remedy that situation that the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) has directed the Enterprise to take to date. The book also recommends that actions be taken to enhance the goal of maintaining the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae.


Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2006

Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2006

Author: Elie Najm

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-10-04

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 3540462201

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, FORTE 2006, held in Paris, France, in September 2006. The 26 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions. The papers focus on the construction of middleware and services using formalised and verified approaches.


All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework

All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework

Author: Manuel Clavel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-19

Total Pages: 799

ISBN-13: 3540719997

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Maude is a language and system based on rewriting logic. In this comprehensive account, you’ll discover how Maude and its formal tool environment can be used in three mutually reinforcing ways: as a declarative programming language, as an executable formal specification language, and as a formal verification system. Examples used throughout the book illustrate key concepts, features, and the many practical uses of Maude.


Algebra, Meaning, and Computation

Algebra, Meaning, and Computation

Author: Kokichi Futatsugi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-06-22

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 354035462X

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This volume - honoring the computer science pioneer Joseph Goguen on his 65th Birthday - includes 32 refereed papers by leading researchers in areas spanned by Goguen's work. The papers address a variety of topics from meaning, meta-logic, specification and composition, behavior and formal languages, as well as models, deduction, and computation, by key members of the research community in computer science and other fields connected with Joseph Goguen's work.


Automata, Languages and Programming

Automata, Languages and Programming

Author: Luca Aceto

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 3540705821

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ICALP 2008, the 35th edition of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, was held in Reykjavik, Iceland, July 7–11, 2008. ICALP is a series of annual conferences of the European Association for Th- reticalComputer Science(EATCS) which ?rsttook placein 1972.This year,the ICALP program consisted of the established Track A (focusing on algorithms, automata,complexityandgames)andTrackB(focusing onlogic,semanticsand theory of programming), and of the recently introduced Track C (focusing on security and cryptography foundations). In response to the call for papers, the Program Committees received 477 submissions, the highest ever: 269 for Track A, 122 for TrackB and 86 for Track C. Out of these, 126 papers were selected for inclusion in the scienti?c program: 70 papers for Track A, 32 for Track B and 24 for Track C. The selection was made by the Program Committees based on originality, quality, and relevance to theoretical computer science. The quality of the manuscripts was very high indeed, and many deserving papers could not be selected. ICALP 2008 consisted of ?ve invited lectures and the contributed papers.


Data and Applications Security XX

Data and Applications Security XX

Author: Ernesto Damiani

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-07-18

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 3540367969

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual Working Conference on Data and Applications Security held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in July/August 2006. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers explore theory, technique, applications, and practical experience of data and application security covering a number of diverse research topics such as access control, privacy, and identity management.


FSTTCS 2006: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

FSTTCS 2006: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

Author: S. Arun-Kumar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 3540499954

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2006, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2006. It contains 38 papers that cover a broad variety of current topics from the theory of computing, ranging from formal methods, discrete mathematics, complexity theory, and automata theory to theoretical computer science in general.