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Market Response and Marketing Mix Models takes a forward-looking perspective identifying research opportunities related to market response and marketing mix models.Author: Douglas BowmanPublisher:...

Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation reviews the economics literature of market-based environmental regulations and design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. It...

Marketing and Innovation Management provides an understanding of what marketing can bring to the table when it comes to setting innovation strategy and proposes a way to approach research in this...

Marketing Dynamics: A Primer on Estimation and Control provides an introduction to the estimation and control of dynamic marketing models. It introduces dynamic models in discrete- and...

Markov Random Fields in Image Segmentation introduces the fundamentals of Markovian modeling in image segmentation as well as providing a brief overview of recent advances in the field. Segmentation...

The modern era is witnessing a revolution in the ability to scale computations to massively large data sets. A key breakthrough in scalability was the introduction of fast and easy-to-use distributed...

Timely and cost-effective analytics over "big data" has emerged as a key ingredient for success in many businesses, scientific and engineering disciplines, and government endeavors. Web clicks,...

Provides an introduction to the analytical aspects of the theory of finite Markov chain mixing times and explains its developments. This book looks at several theorems and derives them in simple...

Real world Multi-Vehicle Motion Planning (MVMP) problems require the optimization of suitable performance measures under an array of complex and challenging constraints involving kinematics,...

The usual answer to the question "What probability distribution maximizes entropy or differential entropy of a random variable X subject to the constraint that the expected value of a real-valued...

The measurement of the propensity to accept or reject risk is an important and well researched topic. Measuring Risk Aversion summarizes, discusses, and interprets the published research on this...

Children have participated in the design of new technologies intended for children using diverse methods, in differing contexts, with varying degrees of involvement. This participation can be...

Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users provides a foundation on which those new to Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) can make more informed choices about...

The metric learning problem is concerned with learning a distance function tuned to a particular task, and has been shown to be useful when used in conjunction with nearest-neighbor methods and other...

The field of microrobotics has seen tremendous advances in recent years. The principles governing the design of such sub-millimeter scale robots rely on an understanding of micro-scale physics,...

The Microeconomics of Insurance presents the core elements of the microeconomic analysis of insurance markets. The aim of this analysis is to understand how insurance markets work, their fundamental...

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...

This monograph presents a theoretical background and a broad introduction to the Min-Max Framework for Majorization-Minimization (MM4MM), an algorithmic methodology for solving minimization problems...

Minority Entrepreneurship reviews the economic and sociological literature on the topic of minority entrepreneurship. While economists and sociologists have written most of the influential studies,...

Misinformation Detection: A Survey of AI Techniques and Research Opportunities highlights the evolution of techniques within misinformation detection. This monograph provides an overview of the types...

Models and Methods of University Technology Transfer covers the rise of university technology transfer since the 1980's, as well as the economic and academic benefits that stem from the...

Invented about 40 years ago and called ubiquitous less than 10 years later, B-tree indexes have been used in a wide variety of computing systems from handheld devices to mainframes and server farms...

In an era of increasingly interconnected information, graph-structured data has become pervasive across numerous domains, from social media platforms and telecommunication networks to biological...

Many applications require tracking complex 3D objects. These include visual serving of robotic arms on specific target objects, Augmented Reality systems that require real time registration of the...

Monte Carlo Simulation for Econometricians presents the fundamentals of Monte Carlo simulation (MCS), pointing to opportunities not often utilized in current practice, especially with regards to...

Multi-Agent Online OptimizationAuthor: Deming YuanPublisher: Now PublishersPublication Date: Jan 07, 2025Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1638284822ISBN-13:...

Multi-View Stereo: A Tutorial presents a hands-on view of the field of multi-view stereo with a focus on practical algorithms. Multi-view stereo algorithms are able to construct highly detailed 3D...

Multi-View Stereo: A Tutorial COLORAuthor: Yasutaka FurukawaPublisher: Now PublishersPublication Date: Jun 25, 2015Number of Pages: 166 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1680839918ISBN-13:...

Multi-way communication is a means to significantly improve the spectral efficiency of wireless networks. This monograph provides an overview of the developments in this research area since it was...

In multi-hop wireless networks; that is, networks where messages must traverse multiple nodes before reaching their destination, wireless relay nodes must play a dual role: they serve as intermediate...