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Addresses the problem of geometric registration and the classical Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. Though commonly used in several research fields, the focus here is on mobile robotics in which point clouds need to be registered. Even with this narrowed focus, the problem is still complex and multiple-faceted.

Offers an invitation to the field of matrix concentration inequalities. The book begins with some history of random matrix theory; describes a flexible model for random matrices that is suitable for many problems; and discusses the most important matrix concentration results.

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 models from images alone. They take a possibly very large set of images and construct a 3D plausible geometry that explains the images under some reasonable assumptions.

Provides an overview of the convergence rate of distributed algorithms for coordination and its relevance to optimization in a system of autonomous agents embedded in a communication network, where each agent is aware of (and can communicate with) its local neighbours only.

To what extent does retail therapy really work? This book seeks to address this question by adopting a tripartie approach: motivational (the goals and motives that consumers have for shopping); behavioral (the activities that consumers engage in during the shopping process); and emotional (the feelings that consumers experience while shopping).

Analyses and integrates various perspectives on the impact of e-business technologies on supply chain practices and performances. Relying on the resource-based view of the firm, the authors designed a comprehensive conceptual framework within which to examine the performance implications of e business technologies.

Over the past decade, the information retrieval community has explored the problem of transforming natural language verbose queries using operations like reduction, weighting, expansion, reformulation and segmentation into more effective structural representations. This book provides a coherent and organised survey on this topic.

Constraint satisfaction problems are a central pillar of modern computational complexity theory. This monograph provides an introduction to the rapidly growing field of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity (QHC), which includes the study of quantum constraint satisfaction problems.

Focuses on energy-efficient wireless network design, including resource allocation, scheduling, precoding, relaying, and decoding. Starting from simple point-to-point systems and then gradually moving towards more complex interference networks, energy efficiency is defined and its properties characterized.

Summarizes a burgeoning research domain focused on understanding the content, governance, and structure of network relations in the entrepreneurial context.

A monograph that seeks to assess the contributions of the entrepreneurial orientation concept, provide an overview of the extant EO literature, and evaluate the state of EO research. It also highlights possible avenues for future research, and concludes with a discussion of specific areas where EO research is lacking.

A monograph that presents a more complete understanding of both the critical national features and the underlying processes affecting participation in business creation.

Surveys operations management literature and offers ways to bridge remaining gaps between research and practice. The authors include formulas and solution methods for some of the fundamental quantity discount scenarios from both buyers' and sellers' perspectives.

Provides a comprehensive overview of temporal information retrieval approaches, centred on the following questions: what are temporal dynamics, why do they occur, and when and how to leverage temporal information throughout the search cycle and architecture?

Provides a comprehensive overview of domain adaptation solutions for visual recognition problems. By starting with the problem description and illustrations, it discusses three adaptation scenarios - unsupervised adaptation, semi-supervised adaptation, and multi-domain heterogeneous adaptation.

Provides an overview of revenue management (RM) and discusses approaches that firms can use to more profitably manage and define the ways in which they sell their capacity. The book offers an in-depth discussion of the roles that price, time, and space play in RM, and discusses marketing and customer conflicts that arise from the application of RM.

Summarizes almost fifty years of research and development in the field of Augmented Reality (AR). This monograph provides an overview of the common definitions of AR, and shows how AR fits into taxonomies of other related technologies.

A monograph that reviews the impact of family control on firm performance, financing and investment, corporate disclosures, corporate governance, and various socio-economic issues.

Query Processing on Probabilistic Data: A Survey presents the main approaches developed in the literature on probabilistic relational data, reconciling concepts developed in parallel by the Database and Artificial Intelligence communities.

Provides an integrated perspective on the entire body of academic literature related to ISO 9000, ISO 14000, and related standards. The aim is to offer an overview of the academic empirical literature on ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and related management systems standards to improve the quality, relevance and coherence of that literature.

Explores investment in financial assets treated as a signal processing and optimization problem. The book explores such connections and capitalizes on the existing mathematical tools developed in wireless communications and signal processing to solve real-life problems arising in the financial markets.

Describes what the authors consider are fundamental building blocks for geometric computer vision or structure-from-motion: epipolar geometry, pose and motion estimation, 3D scene modeling, and bundle adjustment. The main goal is to highlight the core principles of these, which are independent of specific camera models.

Modular heap analysis techniques analyse a program by computing summaries for every procedure in the program that describes its effects on an input heap. This book focuses on modular heap analyses that summarize a procedure's heap effects using a context-independent, shape-graph-like summary that is agnostic to the aliasing in the input heap.

Surveys the young but established field of research that is Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In doing so, this book pays particular attention to the latest developments in MIR, such as semantic auto-tagging and user-centric retrieval and recommendation approaches.

Provides the most comprehensive review of all major research domains involving credit default swaps (CDS). CDS have been growing in importance in the global financial markets. However, their role has been hotly debated, in industry and academia, particularly since the credit crisis of 2007-2009.

Details the important econometric area of efficiency estimation, both past approaches as well as new methodology. There are two main camps in efficiency analysis: Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). This volume focuses exclusively on SFA.

International transfer pricing determines how the worldwide income of a multinational corporation is divided among countries for income tax purposes when transactions occur within the firm. This review examines economics, accounting, legal research, and tax practitioner literatures on international transfer pricing.

Provides a simple and clear description of explicit-duration modelling by categorizing the different approaches into three main groups, which differ in encoding in the explicit-duration variables different information about regime switching/reset boundaries.