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Reviews the basic definitions of Majorization Theory and Matrix-Monotone Functions, describing their concepts clearly with many illustrative examples. In addition to this tutorial, new results are presented with respect to Schur-convex functions and regarding the properties of matrix-monotone functions.

Computational support for sketching has a long and interesting history dating back to the early days of computing. This book takes a brief look at the origins and history of the subject before going on to survey the literature from a wide variety of sources on modern sketch based design tools.

Synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public's health that are found scattered in different literature ranging from economic journals to medical journals, journals on addictive behaviors, law reviews, and books.

Presents an architectural discussion of Database Management Systems design principles, including process models, parallel architecture, storage system design, transaction system implementation, query processor and optimizer architectures, and typical shared components and utilities.

Presents design flows that can tackle large designs without significant changes with respect to synchronous design flow. The book demonstrates the possibility of implementing large legacy synchronous designs in an almost "push button" manner negating the need to re-educate synchronous RTL designers.

This book stems from a long observed gap in operations management on our understanding of human behaviour and the emergence of a set of methods that promise the potential of being able to address such behavioural issues.

Reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that the equity premium - the return earned by a broad market index in excess of that earned by a relatively risk-free security - is not a premium for bearing non-diversifiable risk.

Provides a tutorial introduction to the algebraic tools involved in the design of codes based on division algebras. The different design criteria involved are illustrated, including the constellation shaping, the information lossless property, the non-vanishing determinant property and the diversity multiplexing tradeoff.

Argues that Natural Language Processing does, and will continue to, underlie the Semantic Web, including its initial construction from unstructured sources like the World Wide Web, in several different ways, and whether its advocates realise this or not.

Reviews the basic techniques with emphasis on multicasting over error free links. The book starts from the main theorem in network coding, and proceeds to discuss tools used in the context of network coding, network code design techniques, benefits, complexity requirements, and methods to deal with cycles and delay.

Presents a unified mathematical framework for the design of point-to-point MIMO transceivers with channel state information at both sides of the link according to an arbitrary cost function as a measure of the system performance. In addition, the framework embraces the design of systems with given individual performance on the data streams.

Sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions is outlined, together with a sub-disciplinary breakdown, emphasising the multi-faceted nature of the Web, and the multi-disciplinary nature of its study and development.

Extends the primal-dual method to the setting of online algorithms, and shows its applicability to a wide variety of fundamental problems. Among the online problems considered are the weighted caching problem, generalized caching, the set-cover problem, graph optimization problems, routing, load balancing, and the problem of allocating ad-auctions.

Introduces and motivates the problem of list decoding, and discusses the central algorithmic results of the subject, culminating with the recent results on achieving "list decoding capacity". The main technical focus is on giving a complete presentation of the recent algebraic results achieving list decoding capacity.

Reviews the economics literature of market-based environmental regulations and design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. The book begins by reviewing the economics literature on the theory of market-based environmental regulations. It then goes on to cover design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems.

Focuses on the performance evaluation of linear codes under optimal maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding. Though the ML decoding algorithm is prohibitively complex for most practical codes, their performance analysis under ML decoding allows to predict their performance without resorting to computer simulations.

Presents a comprehensive theoretical framework for SIR balancing, with and without noise. The theory considers the possible use of receive strategies (eg. interference filtering or channel assignment), which can be included in the model in an abstract way.

Provides a gentle introduction to the analytical aspects of the theory of finite Markov chain mixing times and quickly ramps up to explain the latest developments in the topic. Several theorems are revisited and often derived in simpler, transparent ways, and illustrated with examples.

Derives in a tutorial manner the fundamental theorems on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues, inverses, and products of banded Toeplitz matrices and Toeplitz matrices with absolutely summable elements. Mathematical elegance and generality are sacrificed for conceptual simplicity and insight.

Provides a complete bibliography of the derivatives literature research citing the pioneering work of Fischer Black, Robert Merton, and Myron Scholes, with over 1500 research articles categorized and indexed since 1980. The book includes an introduction by the authors reviewing recent developments in the field.

Provides the first comprehensive survey of the vast new field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). The book describes a number of issues which are peculiar to the language of music - including forms, formats, and dimensions of music - together with the typologies of users and their information needs.

Explores the copula approach for econometrics modeling of joint parametric distributions and demonstrates that practical implementation and estimation is relatively straightforward despite the complexity of its theoretical foundations.

Presents the basic model of criminal behaviour and law enforcement. This book is intended for economists and lawyers, practitioners, scholars and students in the field of law and economics, microeconomics, and criminology who wish to learn the basics of the economics of crime, criminal behaviour, and law enforcement.

Presents abstract models that capture the cross layer interaction from the physical to transport layer in wireless network architectures, including cellular, ad-hoc and sensor networks as well as hybrid wireless-wireline. The model allows for arbitrary network topologies as well as traffic forwarding modes, including datagrams and virtual circuits.

Provides a discussion of the adjustment of risk references and how to go about making such adjustments to a common scale. By adjusting all information to this common scale, results can be easily summarized and compared, and the body of information concerning risk aversion can be examined as a whole rather than as individual parts.

Presents a model of earnings and dividends leading up to the core principle that growth in earnings explains the price to forward-earnings ratio. This model is referred to as the OJ (Ohlson and Jeuttner-Nauroth) model. The OJ model takes into account the near term and the long term to explain the price to forward-earnings ratio.

Provides a thorough review of the literature on this topic and presents a model based on this literature. The book presents a model of corporate entrepreneurship based on the extant literature and research. It reviews the empirical and conceptual research that substantiates the many components of the model.

Reviews the current academic literature on the macroeconomics of finance. This is the most current and comprehensive review on the subject and will be of interest to both macroeconomists and financial economists.

Summarizes existing knowledge about revisitations on the web, and surveys the potential of graphic based web history tools. A taxonomy of revisit-types distinguishes between short-, medium-, and long-term revisits, but also intra- and inter-session revisits. Assisted by a clear nomenclature this provides more clarity to the current discussion.

Provides a foundation on which those new to Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) can make more informed choices about how to design and conduct IIR evaluations with human subjects. The primary goal is to catalogue and compile material related to the IIR evaluation method into a single source.