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Uses current knowledge about privacy and information disclosure to outline the main empirical findings regarding the influence of firms' privacy practices on consumers' behaviour. In doing so, the authors examine how the influence of firms' privacy practices on consumers differs between firms, consumers, and contexts.

Covers the Thompson sampling algorithm and its application, illustrating concepts through a range of examples, including Bernoulli bandit problems, shortest path problems, product recommendation, assortment, active learning with neural networks, and reinforcement learning in Markov decision processes.

Examines an emergent category of personal analytics - enterprise personal analytics - that encompasses the concept of organisations enabling their employees to use their individual analytics to manage their digital working lives from descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive points of view.

Discusses the process of analysing historical financial statement data for the purpose of developing forecasts of future earnings. This process is important because it is central to the valuation of companies and the securities they issue.

Investigates smart electric vehicle charging. This book focuses jointly on the quality of service for EV users and the stability and reliability of the power grid. It lays out a solution framework that addresses many of the key problems arising from both the lower and upper levels.

Offers new insights about why and how we might go about contextualizing entrepreneurship research. The authors frame the issues, the progress that has been made, and the substantial challenges that remain with a view toward calling for future work that takes more of a "critical process approach".

Collects and organises the latest findings on the prevalence of various personality traits among the entrepreneurial population and their impact on venture performance covering academic work ranging from economics to psychology to management studies.

Developments of advanced wireless networks, however, still suffer from the lack of a theoretical foundation that addresses both concerns of ""efficiency"" and ""modularity"". This monograph reviews a new research avenue that begins to address the research problem.

Provides an overview of the low-dimensional models of structure signals, along with its relevant theories and low-complexity algorithms of signal recovery. The book further reviews the recent advancements of low-dimensional-model-based electromagnetic imaging in various applied areas.

Many modern methods for prediction leverage nearest neighbour search to find past training examples most similar to a test example, an idea that dates back in text to at least the 11th century and has stood the test of time. This monograph explains the success of these methods, both in theory and in practice.

Provides a detailed economic overview of regulations and reviews the relevant economic and policy literature that has tracked the evolution and regulation of the US gas transmission market over the past century.

Investigates state-of-the-art smart healthcare systems and their constituent components, discusses various challenges that should be taken into account while designing smart healthcare systems, explains how existing studies have tackled these challenges, and suggests some avenues for future research based on a set of open issues and challenges.

Provides a first step in providing empirical evidence and knowledge about the practical relevance of IS research. This monograph first develops a broad yet sufficiently fine-grained framework of IS research by integrating earlier frameworks. It then identifies all empirical IS research published from 2001 to 2015 in four top IS journals.

Examines five governance characteristics of DCS firms and does so in the Canadian context where DCS have historically been more prevalent. This book examines governance characteristics that are salient in debates about DCS and governance generally.

Provides an in-depth overview of the index tracking problem and analyses all the caveats and practical issues an investor might have. Additionally, it provides a unified framework for a large variety of sparse index tracking formulations.

Focuses on the key operations of distributed average consensus and weight/flow balancing under a variety of communication topologies and adversarial network conditions such as delays and packet drops. The book provides the reader with thorough grounding into the theory underpinning the research before discussing two applications in detail.

Assuming no prior knowledge of MetaOCaml and only a basic familiarity with functional programming, this book explains and illustrates how to implement a simple domain-specific language for linear algebra, with layers of optimizations for sparsity and memory layout of matrices and vectors, and their algebraic properties.

The field of community detection has been expanding greatly since the 1980s, with a remarkable diversity of models and algorithms developed in different communities. Various fundamental questions remain nonetheless unsettled. This monograph describes recent developments in answering these questions in the context of block models.

Argues that design fiction can also be considered as a form of thought experiment. Excerpts from a fictional Wikipedia article about a Latvian historian and author writing design fiction in the 1940s precede each section as think pieces about the nature and value of fiction. The text is illustrated with pages from a fictional design workbook.

Summarizes the structural econometric analysis of observational data from auctions. First developing the necessary economic theory, then mapping this to the data-generating processes, and finally investigating the various estimation strategies. Throughout the review, the authors illustrate the methods using a variety of examples.

Focuses on data gathered from a large-scale, systematic survey of Stanford alumni, faculty, and selected staff in 2011 to assess the university's economic impact based on its involvement in entrepreneurship.

Concentrating on valve behaviour in a chemical process, this monograph develops insights into the manner in which equipment behaviour should impact the design process for Economic Model Predictive Control and to provide a perspective on a number of open research topics in this direction.

This monograph provides the reader with a comprehensive view on the foundations of coding for interactive communication. It reviews the basic features of coding schemes in the interactive setting, and surveys the main techniques used in designing such schemes. It also surveys recent developments in interactive coding schemes, and their applications to other related fields.

This monograph describes a general framework of entertainment marketing. Then the unique properties of entertainment and the resulting marketing challenges facing the entertainment industries, as well as the related research on each key marketing component within the framework, such as product, promotion, distribution, pricing, and talent, are reviewed.

Presents a holistic, energy-based view of robotic systems. The book examines the relevance of such energy considerations to robotics. Using the theory of Port-Hamiltonian Systems as a fundamental basis, it provides examples pertaining to energy measurement, passivity and safety.

Introduces management accounting to operations management researchers and illustrates how incorporating this accounting information perspective into the world of operations management can improve our understanding of topics of interest to operations management researchers and practitioners.

Explores the significant and growing body of research on the topic of modern in-vehicle user interfaces. In automated vehicles, human-machine interactions will increasingly allow users to reclaim their time, so that they can engage in non-driving tasks.

Provides a comprehensive tutorial on solutions to the supervisory control problem. The reader is shown results that are theoretically rigorous yet offer rich practical applications. These resource allocation techniques point the way forward for the necessary further research to successfully solve the scheduling problems in such systems.

Provides an overview of how crowdsourcing has been used in computer vision, enabling a computer vision researcher who has previously not collected non-expert data to devise a data collection strategy.

Provides the reader with an overview of path tracing and highlights important milestones in its development that have led to it becoming the preferred movie rendering technique today. The book identifies major hurdles that stood in the way of that transition, describing the technical milestones that pushed the field forward.