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This book provides an accessible overview of the complexities of generalized coordination for students, researchers and practitioners alike. Covering both theory and practical issues, the authors provide examples throughout to clearly illustrate the concepts being discussed.

Presents the findings and recommendations of a study conducted by the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Study. By presenting various applications and possibilities, this monograph should appeal to persons involved specifically with robotics, and technology development in general.

Working at the intersection of information theory and neighboring disciplines, the authors provide a comprehensive survey of a particular area of asymptotic frame theory that can drastically improve the performance of codes used in communication and signal processing systems.

Written in a tutorial style, readers from both classical and quantum backgrounds will find this an enlightening treatise on the topic. This monograph is a comprehensive and accessible overview of a complex problem for students and researchers in signal processing.

Beyond ESG: Reforming Capitalism and Social Democracy analyzes various reform projects, discusses the concepts of ethics and equity and proposes projects for in-depth reforms of capitalism and social democracy.

Accounting for Risk is about using accounting information to assess risk and the required return for bearing that risk. The focus is on investing in firms and the equity claims on firms: How much should an investor discount the price of a share in a firm for risk, and how can accounting information help to answer that question?

The Economics of Securities Regulation: A Survey gives an overview of the U.S. regulatory system, explores the justifications for regulating securities markets, and describes the qualitative and quantitative literature that assesses the regulatory system's effectiveness.

This publication presents state-of-the-art designs of the most critical building blocks of the analog/digital interface highlighting new and innovative circuit architectures and techniques.

Analyses the most recent literature on IPOs of entrepreneurial firms - young firms based on intangible rather than physical assets where the founder of the firm often serves as the key inventor and the CEO.

Reflects the respect, affection and high esteem that his colleagues held for Mike Wright. This volume presents a collection of reflections paying tribute to him, as a scholar, as an academic leader and scholarly innovator, and as a special person.

Inspired by the nanopass framework for teaching compilation, this book shows how to implement refinement types via a progression of languages that incrementally add features to the language or type system. The book provides an insightful introduction into Refinement Types using an innovative tutorial style that enables fast learning.

Tensor Regression is the first thorough overview of the fundamentals, motivations, popular algorithms, strategies for efficient implementation, related applications, available datasets, and software resources for tensor-based regression analysis.

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the role of institutional investors in corporate governance.

Provides an overview of Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, a very important field of research and practice, spanning over and engaging with many disciplines, most prominently Economics (theoretical and applied), Statistics (and therefore Econometrics), Operations Research and Management Science.

Minimum-Distortion Embedding describes the theory behind and practical use of a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique. Accompanied by an open-source software package, PyMDE, it illustrates applying these AI techniques in areas such as images, co- networks, demographics, genetics, and biology.

Surveys the stream developments in the regulation and standard setting that have set the requirements for companies' financial reporting in the US capital market. Attention is given to instances in which the SEC has either been in disagreement with the private-sector accounting standard setter, or where they have partnered in a solution.

Examines the evolution of the social purpose of the corporation. This development has taken place against the background of changing regulations and globalization. Consequently, international regulations, codes of conduct and standards have impinged upon corporate strategy.

Provides evidence that over the period 2000 through 2018 nominal aggregate advertising spending in the US as a share of nominal GDP has been falling. The authors further show that nominal aggregate advertising spending has become more responsive to changes in real GDP and GDP price inflation.

Offers a detailed description of the successful technology transfer of an invention originating in intramural research within the US National Institutes of Health. The history of the commercialization of the invention is used to illustrate a new policy for the payment of royalties on the sales of biomedical products developed with public funding.

Presents the case that electronic voting can improve accessibility, leading to some positive outcomes. The authors document the various problems with centralized electronic voting systems and show how the blockchain can potentially overcome these problems.

Provides an in-depth overview and practical examples of how robots can be deployed during a disaster. As such it should prove useful for roboticists, researchers in various fields related to robotics as well as industry professionals who are responsible for saving lives and mitigating societal impacts in times of disaster.

Introduces the latest trends and deep-learning-based techniques for multimedia forensics in both architectural and data-processing. Different techniques used to manipulate content are presented, followed by image and video forgery techniques. Deep learning methods for source identification and solutions for deepfake detection are covered.

Provides a review of technologies, techniques and systems for trusted, ethical, and secure AI in manufacturing. Topics covered include systems and technologies for industrial data reliability, responsible and transparent AI systems, human centred manufacturing systems, cyber-defence in AI systems, and simulated reality systems.

Questions the varied set of organisational forms collected under the label of 'collaborative' or 'sharing' economy - ranging from grassroots peer-to-peer solidarity initiatives to corporate owned platforms - from the perspective of what is known as the European social values: respect for human dignity and human rights.

Describes in detail the research on fault diagnosis, opacity analysis and enhancement, and cyber security analysis and enforcement, within suitable discrete event system modelling frameworks. In each case, the authors describe basic problem statements and key concepts, and then point out the key challenges in each research area.

Focuses on the inclusion of security in robotics from the earliest design phases onward and with a special focus on the cost-benefit tradeoff that can otherwise be an inhibitor for the fast development of affordable systems. The authors advocate for quantitative methods of security management and design.

Describes the use of principles of reinforcement learning (RL) to design feedback policies for continuous-time dynamical systems that combine features of adaptive control and optimal control. The authors give an insightful introduction to reinforcement learning techniques that can address various control problems.

Covers five areas related to the mining of user interests from social media: the foundations of social user interest modeling; techniques that have been adopted; evaluation methodologies and benchmark datasets; applications that have been taking advantage of user interest mining; and challenges, research questions, and opportunities.

Surveys two important components of modern information access: information retrieval (IR) and knowledge graphs (KGs). The authors provide an overview of the literature on KGs in the context of IR and the components required when building IR systems that leverage KGs.

Labour income risk is key to the welfare of most people and this risk is mainly insured 'within the firm' and by public institutions, rather than by financial markets. This book asks why such insurance is provided within the firm, and what determines its boundaries. It also explores the connection between risk sharing and firms' capital structure.