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Biotechnology Entrepreneurship reviews past research on biotechnology at different levels of analysis. The goal is to highlight important research streams that scholars have pursued over the last two...

Since its introduction, Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation (BICM) has been regarded as a pragmatic yet powerful scheme to achieve high data rates with general signal constellations. Nowadays, BICM is...

Bivariate Markov processes play a central role in the theory and applications of estimation, control, queuing, biomedical engineering, and reliability. Bivariate Markov Processes and Their Estimation...

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,...

Entrepreneurship has traditionally been studied from the perspective of the entrepreneur or entrepreneurial enterprise. A modern view emphasizes the context in which the entrepreneur or enterprise...

With the proliferation of cloud computing, there has been a rejuvenated interest in two aspects of distributed computing. The first perspective is seen through the eyes of the cloud providers, and...

While much attention has been given to the dramatic global diversity in business creation - some countries have over ten times the activity of others - there has been less attention to the year to...

Database systems have been driving dynamic web sites since the early 90s; nowadays, even seemingly static web sites employ a database back-end for personalization and advertising purposes. In order...

Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision is mainly motivated by the increased availability and use of panoramic image acquisition devices, in computer vision and...

Capturing Knowledge explores the extent to which knowledge transferred from a university to a firm or group of firms through a research partnership results in short-term private gains to a firm as...

The recent surge of interest in AI systems has raised concerns in moral quarters about their ethical use and whether they can demonstrate fair decision taking processes. Issues of unfairness and...

Channel Simulation: Theory and Applications to Lossy Compression and Differential PrivacyAuthor: Cheuk Ting LiPublisher: Now PublishersPublication Date: Jan 02, 2025Number of Pages: 280 pagesBinding:...

China's Financial System: Growth and Risks provides an updated and comprehensive review of China's financial system and compares it with financial systems in other countries. It reviews what has...

Today's always-available interactive computing technology can be exploited in many ways to help people make good choices in everyday life-about options such as products or health-related behaviors...

Choice Models in Marketing examines recent developments in the modeling of choice for marketing and reviews a large stream of research currently being developed by both quantitative and qualitative...

Much of economists' statistical work centers on testing hypotheses in which parameter values are partitioned between a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis in order to distinguish two views...

Chordal graphs play a central role in techniques for exploiting sparsity in large semidefinite optimization problems, and in related convex optimization problems involving sparse positive...

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...

A popular method for selecting the number of clusters is based on stability arguments: one chooses the number of clusters such that the corresponding clustering results are most stable. In recent...

Over the last 70 years, information theory and coding have enabled communication technologies that have had an astounding impact on our lives. This is possible due to the match between...

The most commonly deployed multi-storage device systems are RAID housed in a single computing unit. The idea of distributing data across multiple disks has been naturally extended to multiple storage...

Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems discusses a wide variety of the recommender choices available and their implications, providing both practitioners and researchers with an introduction to...

Combinatorial Designs for Authentication and Secrecy Codes is a succinct in-depth review and tutorial of a subject that promises to lead to major advances in computer and communication security. This...

Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-Growth Firms examines high-growth firms, also known as "Gazelles", which have become critical to net job creation and economic growth. It analyzes how the...

The central theme of Competition and Cost Accounting is that strategic considerations may make it desirable for a firm to have divisions and product managers internalize something other than their...

While rapid progress has been made on upper bounds (algorithms), progress on lower bounds on the complexity of explicit problems has remained slow despite intense efforts over several decades. As is...

Computational Advertising (CA), popularly known as online advertising or Web advertising, refers to finding the most relevant ads matching a particular context on the Web. The context depends on the...

Since the seminal work of Andrey Kolmogorov in the early 1940's, imaging through atmospheric turbulence has grown from a pure scientific pursuit to an important subject across a multitude of...

Computational support for sketching has a long and interesting history dating back to the early days of computing. Computational Support for Sketching in Design: A Review takes a brief look at the...

In the arts and sciences, as well as in our daily lives, symmetry has made a profound and lasting impact. Likewise, a computational treatment of symmetry and group theory (the ultimate mathematical...