Contributions cover the flourishing areas of commutative algebra, not yet well represented in published literature

Contains 100 open problems supplied by the authors

Provides a multi-dimensional survey of the recent development of the field and an extensive bibliography

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Preface.- Weak global dimension of Prüfer-like rings (K. Adarbeh, S.- E. Kabbaj).- Quasi-complete semilocal rings and modules (D.D. Anderson).- On the total graph of a ring and its related graphs: A survey (A. Badawi).- Prime ideals in polynomials and power series rings over Noetherian domains.- Integer-valued polynomials: Looking for regular bases (J.- L. Chabert).- On Boolean subrings of rings (I. Chajda, G. Eigenthaler).- On a new class of integral domains with the portable property (D.E. Dobbs, G. Picavet, M. Picavet-L'Hermitte).- The probability that Intn(D) is free (J. Elliott).- Some closure operations in Zariski-Riemann spaces of valuation domains: A survey (C.A. Finocchiaro, M. Fontana, K.A. Loper).- Ten problems on stability of domains (S. Gabelli).- The Development of non-Noetherian grade and its applications (L. Hummel).- Stable homotopy theory, formal group laws, and integer-valued polynomials (K. Johnson).- How to construct huge chains of prime ideals in power series rings (B.G. Kang, P.T. Toan).- Localizing global properties to individual maximal idals (T.G. Lucas).- Prime ideals that satisfy Hensel's Lemma (S. McAdam).- Finitely stable rings (B. Olberding).- Integral closure of rings of integer-valued polynomials on algebras (G. Peruginelli, N.J. Werner).- On monoids and domains whose monadic submonoids are Krull (A. Reinhart).- Integral closure (I. Swanson).- Open problems in commutative ring theory (P.- J. Cahen, M. Fontana, S. Frisch, S. Glaz).