Table of contents : Cover......Page 1 Title page......Page 3 Date-line......Page 4 Preface......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Introduction to the Uniform Classification of Banach Spaces (Y. Benyamini)......Page 9 An Introduction to Local Duality for Banach Spaces (M. Gonzalez)......Page 39 Orbits of Operators (V. Mueller)......Page 61 Genericity in Nonexpansive Mapping Theory (E. Matouskova, S. Reich and A. J. Zaslavski)......Page 89 Absolute-Valued Algebras, and Absolute-Valuable Banach Spaces (A. R. Palacios)......Page 107