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There is a wealth of literature and books available to engineers starting to understand what machine learning is and how it can be used in their everyday work. This presents the problem of where the engineer should start. The answer is often for a...

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One of the great success stories in economics and game theory during the latter half of the 20th century was the systematic theoretical investigation of incomplete information in different economic environments, including auctions. From an econome...

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Existing robotics technology is still mostly limited to being used by expert programmers who can adapt the systems to new required conditions, but not flexible and adaptable by non-expert workers or end-users. Imitation Learning (IL) has obtained ...

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Austrian Economics and Entrepreneurship surveys the rich history of entrepreneurship research within and inspired by the Austrian school of economics. Unlike most schools of the past 150 years or so, the Austrian tradition places entrepreneurship ...

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Value sensitive design is a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and systematic manner throughout the design process. A Survey of Value Sensitive Design Methods looks at 14 valu...

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Algorithmic Results in List Decoding introduces and motivates the problem of list decoding, and discusses the central algorithmic results of the subject, culminating with the recent results on achieving ""list decoding capacity"&quo...

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Valuation Approaches and Metrics focuses on the theory and practice of valuation of companies and stocks, providing an invaluable overview of the topic from both a practical and scholarly perspective. It reviews the finance literature on valuation...

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Image-based rendering (IBR) is unique in that it requires computer graphics, computer vision, and image processing to join forces to solve a common goal, namely photorealistic rendering through the use of images. IBR as an area of research has bee...

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Explores the copula approach for econometrics modeling of joint parametric distributions and demonstrates that practical implementation and estimation is relatively straightforward despite the complexity of its theoretical foundations. An attracti...

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Corporate Entrepreneurship provides a thorough review of the literature on this topic and presents a model based on this literature. Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is increasingly being recognized as a legitimate path to high levels of organizati...

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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels provide an abstract and unified representation of different physical communication systems, ranging from multi-antenna wireless channels to wireless digital subscriber line (DSL) systems. They have th...

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Network Coding Fundamentals reviews the basic techniques with emphasis on multicasting over error free links. It starts from the main theorem in network coding, and proceeds to discuss tools used in the context of network coding, network code desi...

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Examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence of entrepreneurship in the UK by focusing on the characteristics of the self-employed and how self-employment has changed over time. Entrepreneurship in the UK is comprehensive and c...

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This book reviews the basic definitions of Majorization Theory and Matrix-Monotone Functions, describing their concepts clearly with many illustrative examples. In addition to this tutorial, new results are presented with respect to Schur-convex f...

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Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and perf...

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Multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver ends of a wireless digital transmission channel may increase both data rate and reliability. Reliable high rate transmission over such channels can only be achieved through Space-Time coding. ...

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The number of gates on a chip is quickly growing toward and beyond the one billion mark. Keeping all the gates running at the beat of a single or a few rationally related clocks is becoming impossible. However, the electronics industry for the mos...

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Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects presents a new approach to the study of accounting Measurement and disclosure that challenges the existing accounting literature. This new approach - the "real effects" perspective - argues that how...

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The Equity Premium Puzzle reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that the equity premium - the return earned by a broad market index in excess of that earned by a r...

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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship reviews the most common concepts of entrepreneurship from the theoretical economics literature, identifying common elements and pointing to important differences. The purpose is to compare these theoretical ...

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An Introduction to Frames is an introduction to redundant signal representations called frames. These representations have recently emerged as yet another powerful tool in the signal processing toolbox, spurred by a host of recent applications req...

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Introduction to Digital Speech Processing highlights the central role of DSP techniques in modern speech communication research and applications. It presents a comprehensive overview of digital speech processing that ranges from the basic nature o...

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The Law and Economics of Public Health synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public's health that are found scattered in different literature ranging from economic journals to medical journals, jo...

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Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industry. Architecture of a Database System presents an architectural discu...

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NP-completeness arguably forms the most pervasive concept from computer science as it captures the computational complexity of thousands of important problems from all branches of science and engineering. The P versus NP question asks whether thes...

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Long Range Dependence is a wide ranging survey of the ideas, models and techniques associated with the notion of long memory. It begins with a historical survey going back to W. Hurst and the Nile river data, and goes on to discuss the various tra...

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Human-Robot Interaction presents a unified treatment of HRI-related issues, identifies key themes, and discusses challenge problems that are likely to shape the field in the near future. The authors describe the HRI story from multiple perspective...

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Behavioral Operations Management stems from a long observed gap in operations management on our understanding of human behavior and the emergence of a set of methods that promise the potential of being able to address such behavioral issues. The r...

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Work on relationship marketing suggests that developing strong relationships between consumers and brands is important given their implications for customer loyalty and price insensitivity. In turn, these customer responses can lower costs and inc...

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Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast internal memory and slower external memory (such as disks) can be a ...

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