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Reviews the social cognition and its development to explore how progression in this broader field serves as a conceptual footing for the more specialized, microfoundation-based examination of entrepreneurial social cognition, and reviews some of the relevant work in fields that are closely related to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Studies the stability, performance evaluation, stabilization via switching control, and optimal control of (continuous-time and linear) positive switched systems. The book provides a review of the results that have already been established in the literature.

Positive systems naturally arise in the description of biological systems, compartmental models, population dynamics, traffic modeling, chemical reactions, queue processes, and so on. This is the first work to provide an overview of these developments, outlining the typical applications of such systems.

Considers the expected benefits and limitations of anywhere working over the last 40 years and the extent to which the identified benefits and limitations may be the same or different in 2015. The book concludes with a long-term research agenda to develop a sustainable framework for anywhere working.

It is well documented that fully automatic rigorous verification of complex software is very challenging and perfection is impossible. This book presents abstract interpretation and shows how its principles can be successfully applied to cope with the difficulties inherent to formal verification.

Helps put contract-based design in perspective. Contracts are precisely defined and characterized so that they can be used in design methodologies with no ambiguity.

Three Branches of Theories of Financial Crises presents basic frameworks linked to the broad topic of financial crises and describes some of the directions in which they influenced the literature and the way they relate to recent events. The authors also address some of the policy challenges, shedding light on them using the analytical tools at hand so that this survey will help to highlight the basic underlying forces that have been studied in the literature for over three decades in a simple and transparent way. It will be an easy and accessible source to the many economists who are interested in exploring the topic of financial crises following recent events.After the Introduction, Section 2 reviews the literature on banking crises and panics. This literature is perhaps most directly linked to the concept of crises. While Section 2 emphasizes fragility faced by financial institutions due to coordination failures by their creditors, Section 3 reviews models that analyze frictions in loans extended by financial institutions and other lenders. Overall, the models of Sections 2 and 3 highlight fragility on the different sides of the balance sheet of a financial institution. Another literature that evolved independently is focused on currency crises. Traditionally, these were viewed as a separate phenomenon, unrelated to banking crises, but more recently the literatures have moved towards each other. Section 4 reviews models of currency crises and Section 5 provides concluding remarks.

Considers the estimation of covariance matrices in non-standard conditions including heavy-tailed distributions and outlier contamination. Prior knowledge on the structure of these matrices is exploited in order to improve the estimation accuracy.

Summarizes the state of the art in crowd-powered algorithms and system design tailored to large-scale data processing; and also surveys 13 industry users and four marketplace providers of crowd work to identify how hundreds of engineers and tens of million dollars are invested in various crowdsourcing solutions.

Provides an analysis of the progress made in the field of entrepreneurship education by looking in particular at the contributions made to theory and at the challenges that keep emerging in practice. The authors build two different frameworks of analysis in order to examine recent literature on entrepreneurial education.

Selective exposure has two sub-dimensions: usability and power. This monograph shows how these dimensions crucially impact what children can achieve with these materials, and make the case for the design of toolkits in synchrony with the child's developmental trajectory.

Updates an earlier review by the authors. This book includes reviews of recent studies on topics that were covered in the earlier survey, and summarises research on new topics. These new topics cover a broad gamut of issues, ranging from hedge funds' use of leverage and exposure to different risks to their impact on various asset markets.

Provides a compact introduction to academic research on market efficiency, behavioural finance, and fundamental analysis. The book is dedicated to the kind of decision-driven and prospectively-focused research that is much needed in a market constantly seeking to become more efficient.

Bifurcation of Macroeconometric Models and Robustness of Dynamical Inferences provides an overview of the classes of macroeconometric models for which bifurcation experiments have so far been run, and emphasizes the implications for lack of robustness of conventional dynamical inferences from macroeconometric policy simulations.

Presents the main complexity theorems in convex optimization and their corresponding algorithms. The book begins with the fundamental theory of black-box optimization and proceeds to guide the reader through recent advances in structural optimization and stochastic optimization.

Presents a detailed analysis of existing credibility models from different information seeking research areas, with a focus on the Web and its pervasive social component. This book shows that there is a very rich body of work pertaining to different aspects and interpretations of credibility, particularly for different types of textual content.

Presents various distributed storage systems, their operational characteristics, and the key techniques to improve their performance. The main focus is however on cloud storage. Cloud storage has massive scalability with the promise to provide as much storage capacity as their users demand.

Focuses on the type of brand loyalty that is not deeply rooted in values, emotions, and intense person-brand relationships. While some view that loyalty cannot exist without strong emotional involvement and bonding, the author suggests a milder phenomenon - persistent preference - for the chosen brand and its attributes.

Discusses the main facets and directions in designing error detection and repairing techniques. The book proposes a taxonomy of current anomaly detection techniques, including error types, the automation of the detection process, and error propagation. It also sets out a taxonomy of current data repairing techniques.

Examines the relevance of academic research to the most senior levels of the marketing profession, the chief marketing officer (CMO), and the interests of their C-suite colleagues, particularly those of the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO).

Addresses the dual-process approach to attitude formation as it has been applied to the domain of Information Systems. The book describes twenty six empirical research studies published in the IS literature that have been based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model or the Heuristic Systematic Model - variants of the dual-process approach.

Tracks the evolution of US science policy research largely as it has been conducted in universities and supported by the National Science Foundation, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to the present, from reliance on expert opinion to more systematic, empirical studies.

The interaction between communication entities, which is unique in the network setting, have been at the root of many difficult challenges in communications and information theory. This monograph advocates a sequential approach to make progress on the network communication problem.

Reconstructing the shape of an object from images is an important problem in computer vision that has led to a variety of solution strategies. This monograph focuses on photometric stereo, that is, techniques that exploit the observed intensity variations caused by illumination changes to recover the orientation of the surface.

Examines utilization control and optimization in real-time embedded systems. The authors present several effective solutions that adaptively adjust task rates and/or processor frequencies to enforce the desired utilization.

Multi-way communication is a means to significantly improve the spectral efficiency of wireless networks. This book provides an overview of the developments in this research area. The basic two-way communication channel is considered first, followed by the two-way relay channel obtained by the deployment of an additional cooperative relay node.

Introduces a novel technique for designing secure protocols with provable security guarantees for wireless ad-hoc networks infiltrated with adversarial nodes. This book develops a system-theoretical approach to secure protocol design that provides provable and comprehensive security guarantees.

A monograph that intends to review the main contributions of game theory in water resources over the past 70 years. It aims to compare the set of issues faced by water resources and those the sector is most likely to face in the coming future. Based on this comparison, a future research agenda and priorities will be proposed.

Covers the theory and applications of chordal graphs, with an emphasis on algorithms developed in the literature on sparse Cholesky factorization. These algorithms are formulated as recursions on elimination trees, supernodal elimination trees, or clique trees associated with the graph.