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Spin glass models were introduced by physicists in the 1970s to model the statistical properties of certain magnetic materials. Over the last half century, these models have motivated a blossoming...

This monograph focuses on high-level decision-making problems in autonomous environmental monitoring robots. Decision-making at the high level involves strategic planning and coordination to optimize...

This monograph reviews how visualization recommendation systems have been designed over the last 25 years.Author: Zehua Zeng, Leilani BattlePublisher: Now PublishersPublication Date: Sep 10,...

An Operations Management Perspective on Design Thinking provides a map of what is known about mechanisms of design thinking when looking through an operations management lens and identifies areas...

In this tutorial, experts from academia and industry introduce the trends and challenges of applying cloud and edge computing for CAVs, highlight representative works in the literature and discuss...

This monograph focuses on the exploration of various model-based and model-free approaches for Constrained RL within the context of average reward Markov Decision Processes (MDPs).Author: Vaneet...

Corporate Governance Meets Data and Technology explores this intersection through three main themes: the impact of big data on information asymmetry, blockchain's potential to transform shareholder...

This monograph reviews state-of-the-art time-domain accelerators and discusses system considerations and hardware implementations.Author: Hamza Al Maharmeh, Mohammed Ismail, Mohammad...

This monograph presents recent progress on using machine learning techniques to improve query optimizers in database systems. Centering around a generic paradigm of learned query optimizers, the...

New Directions for Corporate Governance: A Comparative Capitalisms Approach compares different corporate-governance systems and evaluates those systems in terms of different aspects of organizational...

Nonparametric Measurement of Productivity Growth and Technical Change explains how to isolate technical progress, scale effects, and efficiency changes as three distinct components of productivity...

Responsible Blockchain provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and controversies associated with blockchain technology. It identifies technical challenges such as scalability, security,...

This special issue, which surveys the most recent research in integrated risk management for supply chains, is motivated by the success of the 8th "Supply Chain Finance and Risk Management Workshop,"...

In pursuit of sustainable operations, this book analyses the past, present, and future of operations. Written for practitioners, scientists, and students of operations management and researchAuthor:...

In many contemporary and emerging applications of machine learning and statistical inference, the phenomena of interest are characterized by variables defined over large alphabets. This increasing...

Covering both empirical and oracle PAC-bounds, this book serves as a primer for students and researchers who want to get to grips quickly with the subject.Author: Pierre AlquierPublisher: Now...