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Explores the confluence of two events - large economies in the world being dominated by services and a change from a material or physical economy to an information economy - by examining the double dichotomy of products versus services and information versus material, which divides the economy into four supersectors.

Provides an overview of online learning. The aim is to provide the reader with a sense of some of the interesting ideas and in particular to underscore the centrality of convexity in deriving efficient online learning algorithms.

Provides a comprehensive comparison of the GEM and GEDI approaches by using both methods side by side to analyse entrepreneurship development; and offers the GEM community a useful example on how the GEM and the GEDI methodologies can be successfully combined to allow for a more in-depth country analysis of entrepreneurial performance.

Shows how RFID has transformed the supply chain over the last decade and examines the manufacturing, logistics and retail aspects of RFID. The authors describe a vision of an "Internet of Things", where each participating object has a digital shadow with related information stored in cyberspace.

An ideal primer for anyone with an interest in computational complexity, random structures and algorithms and theoretical computer science generally.

Interference is the main performance-limiting factor of large wireless communication systems. This book addresses this problem using basic probability and tools from stochastic geometry. Starting with regular networks and the popular Poisson model, it discusses increasingly more general networks.

Reviews the recent research in closed-loop supply chains with a particular focus on strategic and tactical issues. Representative models from each area are presented along with their key managerial insights, providing the reader with both a high level overview and an in-depth look at the common assumptions and modelling frameworks.

Provides a tutorial overview of several foundational methods for dimension reduction. The authors divide the methods into projective methods and methods that model the manifold on which the data lies.

Offers a succinct in-depth review and tutorial of a subject that promises to lead to major advances in computer and communication security. This monograph provides a tutorial on combinatorial designs, which gives an overview of the theory. The application of combinatorial designs to authentication and secrecy codes is also described in depth.

Introduces the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and provides an intuitive and mathematically rigorous understanding of this method. The book describes in detail two of the most popular applications of EM: estimating Gaussian mixture models, and estimating hidden Markov models.

Presents a unified econometric framework for dealing with the issues of endogeneity in Markov-switching models and time-varying parameter models. This book focuses on the LIML (limited information maximum likelihood) estimation of a single equation of interest out of a simultaneous equations model.

Surveys the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries, which covers a wide range of issues from culture and values, institutional barriers such as financial sector development, governance and property rights, to the adequacy of education and technical skills.

Describes the current landscape of text analytics in finance. Coverage includes how text is extracted from web sites and services; the basics of text analytics; the analytics of text classification; the performance of text analytic algorithms; and the empirical literature on text mining in finance and the commercialization of textual analytics.

Shows why failing to consider the alternative hypothesis often leads to incorrect conclusions. The book shows that for most standard econometric estimators, it is not difficult to compute the proper probabilities using Bayes theorem. Simple formulas that require only readily available information in standard estimation reports are provided.

Explores questions of how consumers should manage their financial affairs and how the market can educate and aid consumers in making better financial decisions. The objective of of this book is to bring together the scientific knowledge of this topic in a systematic way to improve our understanding and provide insights into this behaviour.

The concept of computer interfaces that will be easy to use, for all users, in all situations, is known as universal usability. This survey presents an overview of universal usability as it currently exists in the human-computer interaction literature, and presents some future directions for work in universal usability.

Provides an overview of general deep learning methodology and its applications to a variety of signal and information processing tasks. This is a timely and important book for researchers and students with an interest in deep learning methodology.

There is universal agreement that the cause of the global economic crisis of 2007-09 was the combination of a credit boom and a housing bubble. This book argues that what made this economic shock unique and led to such a severe financial crisis was the behaviour of the large, complex financial institutions that dominate the financial industry.

The purpose of this volume is to explain how semicollusion works in theory, describe empirical studies of semicollusion, and discuss the possible welfare effects of semicollusion. The volume provides a framework for understanding the mechanism at work with semicollusion and reviews the different approaches in the literature to this topic.

Provides an introduction to the basic settings, concepts and processes that are the building blocks of auction research. The book then focuses on the transition from pre-internet auction research to more recent topics. Special attention is given to research opportunities as well as to experimental methods.

Provides a structured approach to behavioural finance in respect to underlying psychological concepts, formal framework, testable hypotheses, and empirical findings. A key theme of the volume is that the future of finance will combine realistic assumptions from behavioural finance and rigorous analysis from neoclassical finance.

Examines the existing body of work on Tangible User Interfaces. This book starts by sketching the history of tangible user interfaces, examining the intellectual origins of this field. It then presents TUIs in a broader context, survey application domains, and review frameworks and taxonomies.

Describes the system architectures of web databases, and analyses the research issues related to caching and materialization in such architectures. The book also presents the state of the art in caching and materialization for web databases and organises current approaches according to fundamental questions.

Discusses methods to extract 3-dimensional (3D) models from plain images. In particular, the 3D information is obtained from images for which the camera parameters are unknown. The principles underlying such uncalibrated structure-from-motion methods are outlined.

Presents the fundamentals of Monte Carlo simulation, pointing to opportunities not often utilized in current practice, especially with regards to designing their general setup, controlling their accuracy, recognising their shortcomings, and presenting their results in a coherent way.

Analyses the contributions of psychology-based research to explaining patterns in individuals' management accounting related decision-making. The book reviews four main themes: framing and reference points; individuals' valuation of non-monetary (social) payoffs; subjective decision models; and limitations on learning.

Provides research perspectives on the interface between financial reporting and disclosure policies and executive compensation. The book focuses on the effects of compensation-based incentives on executives' financial accounting and disclosure choices, and the role of financial reporting and income tax in shaping compensation practices.

Offers a survey of the science and practice of web crawling. This survey outlines the fundamental challenges and describes state-of-the-art models and solutions. It also highlights avenues for future work.

In the last two decades, property testing algorithms have been designed for many types of objects and properties, amongst them, graph properties, algebraic properties, geometric properties, and more. This book surveys results in property testing, with an emphasis on common analysis and algorithmic techniques.

Reviews and critically examines the standard approach to equity valuation using a constant risk-adjusted cost of capital and develops a new valuation approach discounting risk-adjusted fundamentals using nominal zero-coupon interest rates.