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Focuses on showing lower bounds on the communication complexity of explicit functions. The book treats different variants of communication complexity, including randomized, quantum, and multiparty models.

Summarizes the rationale for robot-assisted therapy and presents the technological steps in the evolution of the design and development of lower and upper extremity rehabilitation robots. The book outlines several design criteria that are relevant for the development of effective and safe rehabilitation robots.

Provides an overview of the historical development of statistical network modelling and then introduces a number of examples that have been studied in the network literature. Subsequent discussions focus on a number of prominent static and dynamic network models and their interconnections.

Describes modern applications of spectral methods, and novel algorithms for estimating spectral parameters. The first part of the book presents applications of spectral methods to problems from a variety of topics including combinatorial optimization, learning and clustering. The second part is motivated by efficiency considerations.

Surveys the transfer pricing literature with a focus on commonly-used pricing schemes using incomplete contracting models. A key theme running through the book is that the firm's central office (i.e headquarters) plays a rather limited role in mediating individual transactions.

Provides insights into the ways global sea ports are challenged by the need for managing complex information flows, given the developments in global supply chains. The book argues that special port IT capabilities are needed to address these challenges by sharing information and planning and executing container transport in a collaborative way.

Provides a high-level overview about the existing literature on clustering stability. In addition to presenting the results in a slightly informal but accessible way, the authors of this book relate them to each other and discuss their different implications.

Provides the reader with a tutorial on some modern techniques to model and automatically analyse security protocols. Given the large body of work in this area, it does not aim to be exhaustive so the focus is on some selected methods and results.

Reviews the relevant literature on purchase intentions in marketing, and more generally on the intentions-behavior relationship in social psychology, since purchase intentions are a particular form of the more general construct of intentions.

Introduces locally decodable codes, and discusses the central results of the subject. Locally Decodable Codes assumes basic familiarity with the properties of finite fields and is otherwise self-contained. It will benefit computer scientists, electrical engineers, and mathematicians with an interest in coding theory.

Identifies research opportunities related to market response and marketing mix models falling under four broad areas: "new" or under-studied inputs and/or "richer" measures of inputs constructs; explicitly accounting for the process linking inputs to outputs; "new" or under-studied dependent variables; and under-studied or emerging contexts.

Discusses why marketing has been perceived as being less relevant for innovation strategy and explains how this can be remedied. The book reviews the role marketing plays at the early phases of innovation management when decisions are being made on new products and services.

This two-part work is both a tutorial on and a historical survey of linear predictive coding and the internet protocol.

Discusses the motivations for and principles of learning algorithms for deep architectures. By analysing and comparing recent results with different learning algorithms for deep architectures, explanations for their success are proposed and discussed, highlighting challenges and suggesting avenues for future explorations in this area.

Security issues arising in communication networks include confidentiality, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation. This book focuses on confidentiality issues, in which passive attacks are of primary concern.

Gossip network algorithms are built on a gossip or rumour style unreliable, asynchronous information exchange protocol. Examples include, estimation algorithms in sensor networks, broadcasting news through a peer-to-peer network, or viral advertising in a social network. This book captures the recent excitement in this interdisciplinary topic.

Reviews research over the past ten years on why, how, and where provenance, clarifies the relationships among notions of provenance, and describes some of their applications in confidence computation, view maintenance and update, debugging, and annotation propagation.

Describes methods for automatically compressing Markov decision processes (MDPs) by learning a low-dimensional linear approximation defined by an orthogonal set of basis functions. A unique feature of the text is the use of Laplacian operators, whose matrix representations have non-positive off-diagonal elements and zero row sums.

Presents a comprehensive overview of the various dynamic effects of promotions. To keep the discussion centred on a common theme, the authors focus in particular on the dynamic effects of price promotions (rather than non-price promotions) offered to consumers (rather than to the trade or to sales force).

The first review of experimentation in asset pricing, which is both rare and novel. The goal of experimentation is twofold. First, experimentation is meant to evaluate the science behind asset pricing theory. Second, the goal of experimentation is to come to a deeper understanding of asset pricing theory.

Provides an introduction to the field of learning to rank, a hot research topic in information retrieval and machine learning. Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval is both a guide for beginners who are embarking on research in this area, and a useful reference for established researchers and practitioners.

Presents a Mathematical Programming (MP) framework that captures the salient features of the general Multi-Vehicle Motion Planning (MVMP) problem. To demonstrate the use of MP for the formulation and solution of MVMP problems, the book examines in detail four representative works and summarizes several other related ones.

Provides a comprehensive review of the literature on economic models of national brand - store brand competition. The authors review 47 studies published between 1966 and 2011, and report over 160 results. More importantly, the focus is exclusively on the analytical models that give rise to those results.

Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of numerical simulation, and to the basics of modelling electronic circuits and biochemical reactions. The emphasis is on capturing a minimal set of important concepts succinctly, but concretely enough that the reader will be left with an adequate foundation for further independent exploration.

Three major international research projects that track data on global institutions in most countries do not track the firm formation process and do not correlate with measures of the firm formation process. This book addresses this paradox in the economic development literature.

Surveys several techniques for proving lower bounds in Boolean, algebraic, and communication complexity based on certain linear algebraic approaches. The common theme among these approaches is to study robustness measures of matrix rank that capture the complexity in a given model.

Examines recent developments in the modelling of choice for marketing and reviews a large stream of research currently being developed by both quantitative and qualitative researches in marketing. The aim of this book is to lay out the foundations of choice models and discuss recent advances.

Reviews research related to the role of financial analysts in the allocation of resources in capital markets. The authors provide an organised look at the literature, with particular attention to important questions that remain open for further research.

Summarises accounting history over the past ten thousand years. This literature review provides useful examples for subsequent sections and can be used as a primer of accounting history. The authors explain how accounting history can inform scholars studying modern institutions by analysing several exemplary research papers.

Provides a summary of the issues contributing to the policy debates on this emerging and important topic. The biofuel policy debate is likely to be an ongoing one and Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding this diverse and growing literature.