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Focuses on systems that help people choose for themselves. The book offers a compact synthesis of research that is specifically formulated to be accessible, useful, and memorable to researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction.

Randomized algorithms for very large matrix problems have received much attention in recent years. Much of this work was motivated by problems in large-scale data analysis, largely since matrices are popular structures with which to model data drawn from a wide range of application domains. This book provides a detailed overview of this work.

Presents a framework for computing the outage probability (OP) and transmission capacity (TC) in a wireless network. This volume gives a unified treatment of the TC framework that has been developed by the authors and their collaborators over the past decade.

Provides an overview of managing and minimizing the cost of data centres in the context of smart grids. The book reviews the operation of smart grids and analyses how power is consumed in datacenters. It then presents various cost minimization approaches using techniques from the fields of optimization, algorithmics, and feedback control.

Presents Health Web Science as a sub-discipline of Web Science that, while being concerned with the Web's impact on health and wellbeing, also examines the impact of the Web's health-related uses on the design, structure, and evolution of the Web itself.

Presents optimization tools and techniques dedicated to sparsity-inducing penalties from a general perspective. The book covers proximal methods, block-coordinate descent, working-set and homotopy methods, and non-convex formulations and extensions, and provides a set of experiments to compare algorithms from a computational point of view.

Focuses on political economy theories of the resource curse and scrutinizes how well, or poorly, these theories have been integrated with empirical work. The book starts with an overview of the broader economic literature on the resource curse, before focusing on political economy research on the resource curse.

Demonstrates how controls have been used to mitigate risk and to facilitate collaboration in inter-firm transactions. The authors highlight the central themes and identify emergent research streams that offer promise for advancing our understanding of inter-firm management controls.

Examines both the what and the how of consistency in distributed systems. The book provides the reader with tools for reasoning about consistency of protocols. The emphasis is on using basic mathematical techniques to describe a wide variety of consistency guarantees and to define protocols.

Focuses predominantly on the problems and solutions proposed in traditional areas while also looking briefly at the emerging areas. To facilitate future research, a discussion of available resources, a list of public benchmark datasets and a discussion on future research directions are provided in the concluding sections.

Presents a review of autonomous robotic perception, exploring recent work from the autonomous robotics and tracking communities in general as well as from the authors' own experiences. Throughout the text, experiments and results are derived from the authors' experiences with laser and radar based sensors.

Argues that the alternating direction method of multipliers is well suited to distributed convex optimization, and in particular to large-scale problems arising in statistics, machine learning, and related areas.

Provides a tutorial on a family of sequential learning and decision problems known as the multi-armed bandit problems. In such problems, any decision serves the purpose of exploring or exploiting or both. This balancing act between exploration and exploitation is characteristic of this type of "learning-on-the-go" problem.

Presents practical and conceptual issues related to fair value measurement in financial reporting and to evaluate certain research design aspects of empirical research that investigates the information properties of fair value measurement, both in an absolute sense and in comparison to other measurement bases.

Provides an in-depth overview of flexible electronics from their applications, manufacturing processes, device characteristics, to circuit and system design solutions. Th book also offers technical reviews of TFT technologies, manufacturing methods, and flexible photovoltaics, providing a more comprehensive introduction of this emerging field.

Studies polynomials from a computational perspective. The book illustrates that one can learn a great deal about the structure and complexity of polynomials by studying their partial derivatives. It also shows that partial derivatives provide essential ingredients in proving both upper and lower bounds for computing polynomials.

Reviews the economic and sociological literature on the topic of minority entrepreneurship. Differing approaches and their outcomes are summarized and critically probed in this monograph with the intent is to illuminate strengths and weaknesses - along with patterns of common findings - in the literature.

Examines a new and exciting concept of interest to academics and marketing practitioners who have come to realize that understanding how consumers experience brands, and how to provide appealing brand experiences for them, is critical for differentiating their offerings in a competitive marketplace.

Discusses the evolution of three main streams within the financial distress prediction literature: the set of dependent and explanatory variables used, the statistical methods of estimation, and the modeling of financial distress.

Reviews the interactions between Board of Director's role in governance and oversight, executive evaluation, and organisational goals, including truthful disclosure of earnings and investment in long-term projects.

Reviews the basics of B-trees and of B-tree indexes in databases, transactional techniques and query processing techniques related to B-trees, B-tree utilities essential for database operations, and many optimizations and improvements.

Provides an understanding of the economic impact of the entrepreneurial ventures of university graduates. In order to support economic growth through entrepreneurship, universities must create a culture and programs that make entrepreneurship widely accessible to students.

Introduces the concept of interference alignment via a series of simple linear algebraic examples that very effectively convey the central idea of interference alignment. The ideas behind the various communication theoretic instantiations and applications of the technique are illustrated through simple examples that come across as neat puzzles.

Reviews the literature in marketing, nutrition, psychology, economics and related disciplines that investigate the link between marketing activity, food intake and obesity, with a particular emphasis on the effects of marketing on overeating. The authors bring together streams of research which have so far been largely disconnected.

Focuses on electrical and layout perspectives, as opposed to discussing thermal and mechanic characteristics of System-in-Package (SiP). The book first introduces package technologies, and then presents SiP design flow and design exploration. Finally, it discusses details of beyond-die signal and power integrity and physical implementation.

Reviews the extensive theoretical and empirical literature on the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH). Beginning with a brief discussion of current efficient market theory, the authors present the theoretical foundation and discuss the recent empirical evidence on efficiency as it pertains to a range of different markets.

Reviews the current approaches and recent advances in the design and evaluation of mobile interaction and mobile user interfaces. In particular, the book focuses on the two stages that present the biggest challenges, but are also the most important for the design and validation of mobile interaction, namely the prototyping and evaluation stages.

Explores the concept of happiness in economics. There is now a growing body of serious economists who are willing to include happiness economics as a part of economic science. For a better understanding of happiness economics, the authors examine the viewpoint of mainstream economics in the introduction.

Introduces the reader to the most popular classes of structured models in computer vision. The focus is on discrete undirected graphical models which are covered in detail together with a description of algorithms for both probabilistic inference and maximum a posteriori inference.