“…Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age is an introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his monumental two-volume study Democracy in America (1835, 1840) that pays particular attention to the critical conversation around Tocqueville and contemporary democracy. …”

“…This book deals with the different ways, paths, experiences and cultures of migrations and exiles, mainly from Portugal, to a universe of territories in Europe and America. By means various interdisciplinary models of analysis and methodologies, the authors study this subject from a contemporary and transversal perspective, with an special emphasis in some cases and biographies…”

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“…It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 27th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2018), and with it to Tempe, Arizona, United States of America. This year's HPDC continues its nearly three-decade tradition as the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing…”

“…The Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), annually promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), is the premier Software Engineering event in Latin America. SBES is held in conjunction with the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft) since 2010. …”

“…The MUM conference was founded in 2002 and has since been around the world in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. Last year for the first time it was held in Africa, in Cairo, Egypt…”