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Focuses on the mechanical design of legged robots. The book introduces the topic by looking at the history of legged robots, taking us up to the dynamic legged machines that are today pushing the boundaries of speed and performance through advances in materials, design, and control.

In a good financial reporting regime, attributes, goals, and practice are not mutually exclusive. It is unlikely that any one of them is entirely satisfactory by itself; they complement one another. Better Financial Reporting argues for such a syncretic attitude to financial reporting regime.

Develops analytical methodologies to inform the planning decisions for evaluating and selecting siting plans for facilities that ensure both convenient provision of products and services by customers and users and efficient operations.

Introduces cyber maritime cycle as a collection of feedback loops where the flow of data is regulated by functional blocks of autonomy. As a new development, the split between the data-driven cycle and the geo-scientific modelling cycle allows the separation of data streams with different time and spatial scales.

The vast amount of code available on the web is increasing daily. Open-source hosting sites contain billions of lines of code. Community question-answering sites provide millions of code snippets with corresponding text and metadata. The amount of code available in executable binaries is even greater.

Describes the principles of information theoretic secrecy generation by legitimate parties with public discussion in the presence of an eavesdropper. The focus is on secrecy generation in two settings: a multiterminal source model and a multiterminal channel model.

Explores the issues and provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of business failure research that has surrounded the subject over the years within the entrepreneurship literature.

The successful application of behavioural types requires an understanding of several practical aspects, from their representation in a concrete programming language, to their integration with other programming constructs, to design and monitoring methodologies. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of these practical aspects.

Addresses all the issues in sensor fault detection and isolation. The book provides a clear tutorial on the challenges and models that can be used to address them, and describes the requirements for modelling the systems, designing the architecture, detecting faults, isolating faults, and presents learning techniques for enhancing performance.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the broad area of semantic search on text and knowledge bases. Semantic search is studied in a variety of different communities with a variety of different views of the problem.

Demonstrates that formal capital budgeting mechanisms that allocate investment costs to divisions via capital charge rates, depreciation schedules, and inter-divisional cost-sharing rules, can yield divisional performance measures that provide proper two-stage investment incentives.

Online evaluation is one of the most common approaches to measure the effectiveness of an information retrieval system. It involves fielding the information retrieval system to real users, and observing these users' interactions in situ while they engage with the system. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a well-known technique for approximating a tabular data set by a low rank matrix. In this volume, the authors extend the idea of PCA to handle arbitrary data sets consisting of numerical, Boolean, categorical, ordinal, and other data types.

Provides a historical overview of deep learning and focuses on its applications in object recognition, detection, and segmentation, which are key challenges of computer vision and have numerous applications to images and videos.

Image-based rendering (IBR) is unique in that it requires computer graphics, computer vision, and image processing to join forces to solve a common goal, namely photorealistic rendering through the use of images. Image-Based Rendering surveys the various techniques used in the area.

Provides a comprehensive summary and survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on "Say on Pay". The book theoretically studies how a poor governance structure affects the level and structure of executive pay and identifies conditions under which Say and Pay could help shareholders to improve it.

An interactive proof system is called doubly-efficient if the prescribed prover strategy can be implemented in polynomial-time and the verifier's strategy can be implemented in almost-linear time. This book surveys some of the known results regarding doubly-efficient interactive proof systems.

Provides a unique overview of inventory models, from single-item single-echelon models to multi-item multi-echelon models. Rather than starting with inventory models that are tractable from a mathematical point of view, the author starts from the inventory management problem and the modelling challenges to be faced.

This monograph is an accessible tutorial on the state-of-the-art in model predictive control. Students and researchers will find a clear exposition of current knowledge upon which they can build their own research.

Non-Boolean Computing with Spintronic Devices explores the latest research areas which employ spintronic devices for non-Boolean computing purposes. It surveys the research to date and is an ideal reference for anyone interested in how the field is developing.

Governance of Hybrid Organizations is the first attempt to develop theory and understand boards of directors in joint ventures. This monograph focuses on the structural design of boards, its interplay with other governance instruments, and reviews governance solutions in other types of hybrid organizations.

Contextual Integrity through the Lens of Computer Science is a structured survey and review of computer science literature using Contextual Integrity. It characterizes the different ways various efforts have interpreted and applied CI and identifies gaps in both contextual integrity and its technical projection that this body of work reveals.

This monograph presents an overview of information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning research that makes use of forum data, including both discussion forums and community question-answering (cQA) archives.

Factor Graphs for Robot Perception reviews the use of factor graphs for the modeling and solving of large-scale inference problems in robotics. Factor graphs are introduced as an economical representation within which to formulate the different inference problems, setting the stage for the subsequent sections on practical methods to solve them.

Executive Compensation surveys the extant literature on this important topic. The first section starts with a discussion of the theory of executive compensation, in which the author identifies two major approaches. The second section reviews the evidence on both the composition and level of pay and how it has changed over time, treating each component.

Analyses trends in the history of computing that made the transition from industry to consumers, such as desktop publishing and home video editing. The analysis reveals that any transition to consumers first requires a hardware and software system that embodies the skills and expert knowledge that consumers lack.

Microfinance: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go? examines micro lending, which has become a global phenomenon where small unsecured loans are made to the poorest people usually in groups so that the borrowers can invest the money in some business or related entrepreneurial venture and improve their social and economic conditions.

Agglomeration, Industrial Districts and Industry Clusters: Trends of the 21th Century Literature reviews the early work of 21st century scholarship on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clusters and explores the context to the prominent themes that emerged between 2000 and 2015.