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The Probabilistic Relevance Framework

Stephen Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Information Retrieval
• Presents the Probabilistic Relevance Framework from a conceptual point of view, describing the probabilistic modelling assumptions behind the framewor... Lees meer

Computational Studies of Human Motion

David A. Forsyth, Okan Arikan, Leslie Ikemoto, James O'Brien, Deva Ramanan

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Computer Graphics and Vision
• Reviews methods for kinematic tracking of the human body in video. The review confines itself to the earlier stages of motion, focusing on tracking an... Lees meer

Web Science

Kieron Hara, Noshir S. Contractor, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Web Science
• Considers the development of Web Science since the publication A Framework for Web Science. The theme of emergence is discussed as the characteristic ... Lees meer

On-the-Job Training

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Microeconomics
• Surveys the literature from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. The authors present a theoretical model showing that costs and returns to ge... Lees meer

Spoken Content Retrieval

Martha Larson, Gareth J. F. Jones

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Information Retrieval
• Provides an overview of the field of spoken content retrieval (SCR) encompassing component technologies, the relationship of SCR to text IR and automa... Lees meer

Regional Dimension of Entrepreneurship

Rolf Sternberg

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship
• Reviews the theoretical arguments supporting the idea that entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurial success are influenced by the attributes of ... Lees meer

Mesh Parameterization Methods and Their Applications

Alla Sheffer, Emil Praun, Kenneth Rose

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Computer Graphics and Vision
• Reviews the various parameterization methods, summarizing the main ideas of each technique and focusing on the practical aspects of the methods. The b... Lees meer

Applied Assertion-Based Verification

Harry Foster

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Electronic Design Automation
• Examines the application of assertion-based verification in today's electronic design industry to address specific challenges of poor observability an... Lees meer

End-User Privacy in Human-Computer Interaction

Giovanni Iachello, Jason Hong

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Human-Computer Interaction
• Surveys the diverse landscape of privacy in human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work, describing some of the legal foundatio... Lees meer

A Stochastic Grammar of Images

Song-Chun Zhu, David, QC Mumford

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Computer Graphics and Vision
• Provides a foundational review and perspective of grammatical approaches to computer vision. In its quest for a stochastic and context sensitive gramm... Lees meer

New Firm Creation

Paul D. Reynolds

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship
• New firm creation is one of the most important facets of modern economic life. This book employs procedures, which have been developed and implemented... Lees meer

Context Matters

Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship
• Analyses the connection between entrepreneurship and institutions. The goal is to provide a discussion of the literature on institutions in economics,... Lees meer

On the Sensitivity of the Critical Transmission Range

Armand M. Makowski, Guang Han

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Networking
• Explores how properties of the node distribution affect the critical transmission range, and develops engineering implications for power allocation. I... Lees meer

Multiple Reference Motion Compensation

Athanasios Leontaris, Pamela C. Cosman, Alexis M. Tourapis

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Signal Processing
• Explores different aspects of multiple reference frame motion compensation, including multihypothesis prediction, global motion prediction, improved e... Lees meer

A Review of Taxes and Corporate Finance

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Finance
• Investigates the consequences of taxation on corporate finance focusing on how taxes affect corporate policies and firm value. A common theme is that ... Lees meer

The Trustworthy and Trusted Web

Piotr Cofta

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Web Science
• Provides a thorough investigation of the complex question of trustworthy ICT. The book analyses this concept from the dual perspectives of the technic... Lees meer

Full-Reference Image Quality Metrics

Marius Pedersen, Jon Yngve Hardeberg

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Computer Graphics and Vision
• Provides a survey of full-reference image quality metrics. The book starts by classifying image quality metrics into four groups: mathematically based... Lees meer

Approximate String Processing

Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Divesh Srivastava

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Databases
• Focuses specifically on the problem of approximate string matching and surveys indexing techniques and algorithms specifically designed for this purpo... Lees meer

Hedonic Wage Equilibrium

Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Microeconomics
• Examines empirically and theoretically the properties of the equilibrium wage function. The book presents the complete economic structure of the hedon... Lees meer

Application of Hidden Markov Models in Speech Recognition

Mark Gales, Steve Young

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Signal Processing
• Presents the core architecture of a HMM-based LVCSR system and proceeds to describe the various refinements which are needed to achieve state-of-the-a... Lees meer

Bilateral Filtering

Sylvain Paris, Pierre Kornprobst, Jack Tumblin, Fredo Durand

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Computer Graphics and Vision
• Provides a graphical, intuitive introduction to bilateral filtering, a practical guide for efficient implementation, an overview of its numerous appli... Lees meer

The Web Economy

Michalis Vafopoulos

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Web Science
• Surveys the landscape of the web ecosystem from several angles. The book begins by defining the component parts of the ecosystem, digital and web good... Lees meer

Scaling Laws for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks

Feng Xue, P. R. Kumar

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Networking
• The advent of ad hoc wireless networks demands an understanding about what they can provide in the way of information transfer and what the appropriat... Lees meer

Structure of Global Supply Chains

Panos Kouvelis, Ping Su

• Paperback | Foundations and Trends (R) in Technology, Information and Operations Management
• Uses the latest research to identify the multiplicity of factors that contribute to designing networks for competitive advantage of the global firm, w... Lees meer