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Provides a brief introduction to three distributed learning techniques that have recently been developed: lossy communication compression, asynchronous communication, and decentralized communication. These have significant impact on the work in both the system and machine learning and mathematical optimization communities.

Reviews the existing literature in operations management on worker productivity and outlines promising areas of research. In contrast to approaches that involve estimating productivity at the national or firm level, the author looks at the individual worker as the atomic unit of analysis in order to examine the drivers that impact worker output.

Presents integrated (cyber and physical) security approaches and technologies for the critical infrastructures that underpin our societies. Specifically, the book introduces advanced techniques for threat detection, risk assessment and security information sharing, based on leading edge technologies.

Takes readers through the evolution of academic research on sales compensation. By examining the relevance of existing research, the book provides guidance on the design of an effective compensation system. It also discusses how recent technological advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning shape sales strategy transformation.

Reviews the existing empirical literature on the impacts of tax policies on entrepreneurial activity and presents an agenda for future research. The authors discuss the many ways in which researchers have measured entrepreneurship and small business activity.

Explains how corporations and other business organisations can be supplemented with blockchain-based agency constructs. Blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) expand the definition of the firm. On-chain DAO governance enables dynamic regulatory features that facilitate unprecedented decentralized regulatory solutions.

Describes the One North Carolina Small Business Program's purpose and history, as well as offers an assessment of whether it has met its stated goals and objectives. The book provides both descriptive findings as well as econometric assessments of the Program against its four stated goals.

Examines the progress properties of concurrent objects. The book formulates each progress property in terms of contextual refinement so that, when verifying clients of the objects, concrete object implementations can be replaced with their abstractions with certainty, achieving modular verification.

Introduces a set of novel risk assessment techniques and their role in the IoT security risk management process. Specifically, the book presents architectures and platforms for end-to-end security, including their implementation based on the edge/fog computing paradigm.

Presents an overview of patient-generated health data research, focusing on important aspects that inform and define studies in the area. It starts by exploring a fundamental question, 'what is patient generated health data?' and lists the main terms and definitions identified from previous research.

Reviews the literature on personality and embodied physical action (EPA) robots. The book investigates the current state of human-robot personality research, discusses the unique role of personality in human-robot research, and offers guidance for future research.

Identifies the significant or recurrent themes and patterns that can be identified across methods and techniques developed for designing with children. These themes provide useful tools and common language to analyse existing and aid in creating new design approaches.

Provides a systematic and thematic review of research on returnee entrepreneurs. The book offers a repository of research on the phenomenon and traces its emergence and development, identifies main themes to provide a conceptual mapping of the research stream, and identifies avenues for future research and new research approaches.

Provides a comprehensive review of explainable recommendation research. The authors first highlight the position of explainable recommendation in recommender system research by categorizing recommendation problems into the 5W. They then conduct a comprehensive survey of explainable recommendation.

Synthesizes the current state of affairs and future possibilities on how gender comes together with HCI design. The authors consider inclusive design of technology whatever the gender of its users of particular importance. This conceptual review provides an overview of the motivations that have driven research in gender and inclusive HCI design.

Presents a series of ten lectures divided into two parts. Part 1, referred to as the Solar Lectures, focuses on the communication and computational complexity of computing an (approximate) Nash equilibrium. Part 2, the Lunar Lectures, focuses on applications of computational complexity theory to game theory and economics.

Explores theories and concepts analysing, judging and describing financial decisions in entrepreneurial firms and draws on positive and normative aspects of entrepreneurship. This book describes these phenomena in aspects of governance issues in IPO firms, and how governance structures shape the behaviour of these firms.

Examines the role of trust in entrepreneurship. After reviewing the conceptualization of trust, the authors argue that trust should be seen in the context of a wider-set of entrepreneurship-supporting values.

The SpiNNaker project has delivered the world's largest neuromorphic computing platform incorporating over a million ARM mobile phone processors and capable of modelling spiking neural networks of the scale of a mouse brain in biological real time. This books tells the story of the origins of the machine, its development and its deployment.

Provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many forms, the focus is on the funding of business start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures.

Examines the development of entrepreneurship as a research field by describing the modern history of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field since World War II and synthesizing the development of the field in terms of the institutionalization of entrepreneurship in the academic system.

Examines the role of the federal government in the development of major innovations. This is done in a purely descriptive manner, specifically identifying and describing major products, industries, and firms resulting from US government funding of research in the years since World War II.

Explores marketing issues in health care. The primary focus of this book is the collection of summaries of marketing research articles which together represent what is known in academic research at the nexus of marketing and health care.

Costing Systems provide a structured overview of costing system research to explain the co-existence of different costing practices. This book is structured around four primary purposes of cost measurement: decision-making, cost management, inventory valuation for financial and tax accounting, and control and performance measurement.

Provides a critical review of the structural econometric research focusing on the richness and complexity of the prescription drug market and discussing future research directions.

Examines the conceptual and program models that exist for the design and implementation of government support of business innovation at different jurisdictional levels. The book explores the traditional neoclassical approach to innovation policy and more recent evolutionary approaches.

Reviews the extant literature on entrepreneurial borrowing and provides insights into some of the key concepts and findings in the literature. The emphasis on the term 'borrowing' as opposed to 'lending' indicates there is a particular interest in exploring issues related to the demand for credit.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the most common approaches used to design distributed optimization algorithms, together with the theoretical analysis of the main schemes in their basic version. The book identifies and formalizes classes of problem set-ups that arise in motivating application scenarios.

Reviews important issues related to measurement, which is indispensable for empirical research in marketing. The authors distinguish three related but distinct senses to think about measurement and based on this classification discuss issues relevant to each notion of measurement.

Explores discrete energy minimization for discrete graphical models. The book considers graphical models, or, more precisely, maximum a posteriori inference for graphical models, purely as a combinatorial optimization problem.