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Despite remarkable advances in the algebraic and iterative codes used in modern communication systems, finding codes that operate at rates close to capacity; have low computational complexity; and...

Policies for Scaling Up Technology-Based Firms examines policies aimed at addressing specific issues faced by growing firms and scaleups. The reason for policies in firms that want and have the...

Pondering the Fault Lines of Anywhere Working (Telework, Telecommuting): A Literature Review considers the expected benefits and limitations of anywhere working over the last 40 years and the extent...

Port Inter-Organizational Information Systems aims at providing insights into the ways global sea ports are challenged by the need for managing complex information flows, given the developments in...

Apart from offering a systematic and insightful framework for modeling and analysis of multi-physics systems, port-Hamiltonian systems theory provides a natural starting point for control. Especially...

Positive Markov Jump Linear Systems are piecewise positive linear systems affected by a stochastic signal generated by a Markov chain. Positive systems naturally arise in the description of...

Power Control in Wireless Cellular Networks provides a comprehensive survey of the models, algorithms, analysis, and methodologies in this vast and growing research area. It starts with a taxonomy of...

In an era where academic research faces scrutiny for its value to the business world, Practice-Informed Accounting Research delves into the intersection of accounting research and practical...

In globally distributed systems, shared state is never perfect. When communication is neither fast nor reliable, it is not possible to achieve strong consistency, low latency, and availability at the...

Various types of probabilistic proof systems have played a central role in the development of computer science in the last couple of decades. These proof systems deviate from the traditional concept...

Product Assortment and Consumer Choice: An Interdisciplinary Review examines existing literature and builds on the current theoretical developments across different research domains to develop a set...

Firms spend a significant part of their marketing budgets on sales promotions. Since the impact of promotions on sales is usually immediate and strong, promotions are attractive to results-oriented...

In September 2008, Google News promoted an undated article about United Airlines' near bankruptcy in 2002. In the ensuing panic, the share price of United Airlines dropped by around 75% in a few...

Proximal Algorithms discusses proximal operators and proximal algorithms, and illustrates their applicability to standard and distributed convex optimization in general and many applications of...

Psychology Models of Management Accounting analyzes the contributions of psychology-based research to explaining patterns in individuals' management accounting related decision-making.Author: Joan...

System-on-Chips (SoCs) are an integral part of our lives. The complexity of SoCs requires sophisticated tools and methods for ensuring functional correctness, especially in critical domains such as...

QoS-Based Resource Allocation and Transceiver Optimization derives a comprehensive theoretical framework for SIR balancing, with and without noise. The theory considers the possible use of receive...

Quantity Discounts surveys operations management literature and offers ways to bridge remaining gaps between research and practice. The authors include formulas and solution methods for some of the...

Constraint satisfaction problems are a central pillar of modern computational complexity theory. This monograph provides an introduction to the rapidly growing field of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity...

Chip-level soft-error rate (SER) estimation can come from two sources: direct experimental measurement and simulation. Because SER mitigation decisions need to be made very early in the product...

Random matrix theory has found many applications in physics, statistics and engineering since its inception. Although early developments were motivated by practical experimental problems, random...

Randomized algorithms for very large matrix problems have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Much of this work was motivated by problems in large-scale data analysis, largely since...

Written by the inventors, Raptor Codes, provides a complete introduction to the theory, design and practical implementation of a class of codes that that provide a lot of practical value to a large...

Numerous voice, still image, audio, and video compression standards have been developed over the last 25 years, and significant advances in the state of the art have been achieved. However, in the...

Real Options and Merchant Operations of Energy and Other Commodities delivers a distinctive perspective, integrating finance and operations, on the topic of merchant operations-a new term introduced...

A multi-armed bandit problem - or, simply, a bandit problem - is a sequential allocation problem defined by a set of actions. At each time step, a unit resource is allocated to an action and some...

Robotic rehabilitation devices have become increasingly important and popular in clinical and rehabilitation environments to facilitate prolonged duration of training, increase the number of...

Resource Allocation and Cross Layer Control in Wireless Networks presents abstract models that capture the cross layer interaction from the physical to transport layer in wireless network...

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

Rethinking Biased Estimation discusses methods to improve the accuracy of unbiased estimators used in many signal processing problems. At the heart of the proposed methodology is the use of the...