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Provides the reader with stated preference data collection methods, discrete choice models, and statistical analysis tools that can be used to forecast demand and assess welfare impacts for new or modified products or services in real markets, and summarise the conditions under which the reliability of these methods has been demonstrated.

Provides researchers, engineers and students with a comprehensive overview of core modeling, control, estimation, and planning concepts and approaches for micro aerial robots of the rotorcraft class. This monograph is a valuable starting point for researchers and developers working with aerial robots or drones.

Describes how optimization techniques can be used to plan for a flexible electricity grid that can operate under growing uncertainty. This book highlights the trends in grid design to deal effectively with future problems of security of supply. Formulations of key optimization problems in grid design are also provided.

Presents a possible research agenda for analytics and control of a deep decarbonized electric grid with pervasive data, interactive consumers, and power electronics interfaces. It focuses on new lines of investigation that are driven by new technological, economical, and policy factors.

Provides a thorough survey of current research work in max-plus linear systems. This book summarizes the main mathematical concepts required for a theory of max-plus linear systems, including idempotent semirings, residuation theory, fixed point equations in the max-plus algebra, formal power series, and timed-event graphs.

Comprehensively reviews the foundations of search engines, from index layouts to basic query processing strategies, while also providing the latest trends in the literature in efficient query processing. It goes on to describe techniques in applying a cascading infrastructure within search systems.

Introduces Bayesian theory and its role in statistical accounting information theory. The approach taken in this monograph is a Demski-like treatment of "accounting numbers" as "signals" rather than as "measurements".

Demonstrates that emotions play a role in predicting departures from expected utility maximization for making insurance purchasing decisions over time. The authors highlight the conceptual issues and alternative theories of behaviour about repeat insurance purchasing over time.

A reset controller is a linear controller whose output is reset to zero whenever its input and output satisfy an appropriate algebraic relationship. This monograph gives an in-depth assessment of the state-of-the-art and provides the reader with a starting point for further research into the increasingly important topic of Reset Control Systems.

Provides a starting point for understanding deep reinforcement learning. Although written at a research level it provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to deep reinforcement learning models, algorithms and techniques.

Provides an introduction to multi-party computation for practitioners interested in building privacy-preserving applications and researchers who want to work in the area. The goal is to enable readers to understand what is possible today, and what may be possible in the future.

Provides a complete picture of neural information retrieval techniques that culminate in supervised neural learning to rank models including deep neural network architectures that are trained end-to-end for ranking tasks. In reaching this point, the authors cover all the important topics.

Demonstrates that the need to justify is pervasive and identifies a type of agency cost - ""justification costs"" - resulting from decisions motivated by justification; considers the relationship between these sorts of agency costs and more traditional agency costs; and introduces a role for uncertainty.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the currently available Web3D tools and their applications. The authors define a schema of the available possibilities and features supported by enabling technologies and implemented systems.

Uses the focussed technique of lenses to highlight factors that interactive technology could deploy to provide powerful opportunities in the design of interactive systems. Designers can use the 10 lenses included in this monograph to explore the theoretical discussion around stimulating users through the use of technology.

Provides the first in-depth and comprehensive overview of the Holomorphic Embedding Load-Flow Method. Starting by revisiting the theoretical foundations, it proceeds to develop the complete mathematical basis required to develop practical solutions to the problem. These formulations cover both ac and dc networks.

Provides an interdisciplinary bridge between power systems engineering and theoretical computer science by relating the practical and challenging problems in electric power systems with the modern theoretical tools from computer science. The proper understanding of these hard problems can advance the frontiers of both communities.

Examines the factors that drive assignment of authority inside the corporate hierarchy. In particular, the authors focus on authority assigned to middle managers or business-unit managers because decisions and actions taken at middle levels are collectively far-reaching and because little of the literature has focused on middle managers.

Reviews the most relevant research output on self-employment and entrepreneurship of older individuals and contributes to the future development of novel theoretical and empirical approaches explaining self-employment and entrepreneurship of older individuals, bridging concepts from different fields.

Provides a nontechnical reference source of the relevant social science and policy literature on nanotechnology. The authors hope to engender not only a greater appreciation of the economic and social benefits of nanotechnology but also to encourage more extensive research and public support of this technology.

Presents an overview of and draws conclusions from extant studies related to multichannel retailing. Academic interest in this topic has increased, with a number of new articles being published on this topic. An updated understanding of how retailers and consumers influence and interact with each other in multichannel retail contexts is required.

Provides a broad overview of this fascinating subject, focusing on the simplest form of multiple-unicast index coding. The main objective is to characterize the capacity region for a general index coding instance in a computable expression and to develop the coding scheme that can achieve it.

Presents three variants of the neoclassical investment model and characterizes the firm's optimal investment policy, equity value, and the desirable properties of accrual accounting rules in each setting.

Marketing and performance data often include measures repeated over time. Time-series models are uniquely suited to capture the time dependence of both a criterion variable and predictor variables, and how they relate to each other over time. The objective of this book is to provide a foundation in these models.

Salespeople's success is critical to their organisations' performance. Sales Force Compensation reviews the many insights provided by empirical research to date, some of which are just emerging in the marketing literature.

Reviews and extends some important results in random matrix theory in the specific context of real random Wishart matrices. To overcome the complexity of the subject matter, the authors use a lecture note style to make the material accessible to a wide audience. This results in a comprehensive and self-contained introduction.

Provides a comprehensive review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles.

Weaves together a history of theories of the diffusion of innovations in selected academic disciplines, tracing the influence of these theories in the formulation of national science and technology policies from 1960 to the present.

Provides the starting point to the literature that every engineer new to machine learning needs. This book offers a basic and compact reference that describes key ideas and principles in simple terms and within a unified treatment, encompassing recent developments and pointers to the literature for further study.

Provides a systematic approach to address the role imagery plays in guiding consumer behaviour. First, it makes sense to consider the conditions that elicit imagery, then to examine how people use it, and finally to explore avenues whereby this use of imagery can help to understand a host of consumption related phenomena.