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The series De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics is indexed in MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews) and Scopus.

Editorial Board

Sayavur Bakhtiyarov, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, USA

Andrei Chtcheprov, North Carolina, USA

Vitaly Volpert, CNRS, University of Lyon, France

Editorial Office

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Autorentext

Marco Fontana, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy; Salah-Eddine Kabbaj, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Bruce Olberding, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA; Irena Swanson, Reed College, Portland, USA.

Klappentext

This volume contains selected refereed papers based on lectures presented at the 'Fifth International Fez Conference on Commutative Algebra and Applications' that was held in Fez, Morocco in June 2008. The volume represents new trends and areas of classical research within the field, with contributions from many different countries. In addition, the volume has as a special focus the research and influence of Alain Bouvier on commutative algebra over the past thirty years.