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Provides a brief introduction to three distributed learning techniques that have recently been developed: lossy communication compression, asynchronous communication, and decentralized communication. These have significant impact on the work in both the system and machine learning and mathematical optimization communities.

Presents integrated (cyber and physical) security approaches and technologies for the critical infrastructures that underpin our societies. Specifically, the book introduces advanced techniques for threat detection, risk assessment and security information sharing, based on leading edge technologies.

Takes readers through the evolution of academic research on sales compensation. By examining the relevance of existing research, the book provides guidance on the design of an effective compensation system. It also discusses how recent technological advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning shape sales strategy transformation.

Reviews the existing empirical literature on the impacts of tax policies on entrepreneurial activity and presents an agenda for future research. The authors discuss the many ways in which researchers have measured entrepreneurship and small business activity.

Explains how corporations and other business organisations can be supplemented with blockchain-based agency constructs. Blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) expand the definition of the firm. On-chain DAO governance enables dynamic regulatory features that facilitate unprecedented decentralized regulatory solutions.

Describes the One North Carolina Small Business Program's purpose and history, as well as offers an assessment of whether it has met its stated goals and objectives. The book provides both descriptive findings as well as econometric assessments of the Program against its four stated goals.

Examines the progress properties of concurrent objects. The book formulates each progress property in terms of contextual refinement so that, when verifying clients of the objects, concrete object implementations can be replaced with their abstractions with certainty, achieving modular verification.

Introduces a set of novel risk assessment techniques and their role in the IoT security risk management process. Specifically, the book presents architectures and platforms for end-to-end security, including their implementation based on the edge/fog computing paradigm.

Reviews the literature on personality and embodied physical action (EPA) robots. The book investigates the current state of human-robot personality research, discusses the unique role of personality in human-robot research, and offers guidance for future research.

Provides a comprehensive review of explainable recommendation research. The authors first highlight the position of explainable recommendation in recommender system research by categorizing recommendation problems into the 5W. They then conduct a comprehensive survey of explainable recommendation.

Synthesizes the current state of affairs and future possibilities on how gender comes together with HCI design. The authors consider inclusive design of technology whatever the gender of its users of particular importance. This conceptual review provides an overview of the motivations that have driven research in gender and inclusive HCI design.

Presents a series of ten lectures divided into two parts. Part 1, referred to as the Solar Lectures, focuses on the communication and computational complexity of computing an (approximate) Nash equilibrium. Part 2, the Lunar Lectures, focuses on applications of computational complexity theory to game theory and economics.

Explores theories and concepts analysing, judging and describing financial decisions in entrepreneurial firms and draws on positive and normative aspects of entrepreneurship. This book describes these phenomena in aspects of governance issues in IPO firms, and how governance structures shape the behaviour of these firms.

Examines the role of trust in entrepreneurship. After reviewing the conceptualization of trust, the authors argue that trust should be seen in the context of a wider-set of entrepreneurship-supporting values.

Provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many forms, the focus is on the funding of business start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures.

Examines the development of entrepreneurship as a research field by describing the modern history of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field since World War II and synthesizing the development of the field in terms of the institutionalization of entrepreneurship in the academic system.

Examines the role of the federal government in the development of major innovations. This is done in a purely descriptive manner, specifically identifying and describing major products, industries, and firms resulting from US government funding of research in the years since World War II.

Explores marketing issues in health care. The primary focus of this book is the collection of summaries of marketing research articles which together represent what is known in academic research at the nexus of marketing and health care.

Costing Systems provide a structured overview of costing system research to explain the co-existence of different costing practices. This book is structured around four primary purposes of cost measurement: decision-making, cost management, inventory valuation for financial and tax accounting, and control and performance measurement.

Provides a critical review of the structural econometric research focusing on the richness and complexity of the prescription drug market and discussing future research directions.

Examines the conceptual and program models that exist for the design and implementation of government support of business innovation at different jurisdictional levels. The book explores the traditional neoclassical approach to innovation policy and more recent evolutionary approaches.

Reviews the extant literature on entrepreneurial borrowing and provides insights into some of the key concepts and findings in the literature. The emphasis on the term 'borrowing' as opposed to 'lending' indicates there is a particular interest in exploring issues related to the demand for credit.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the most common approaches used to design distributed optimization algorithms, together with the theoretical analysis of the main schemes in their basic version. The book identifies and formalizes classes of problem set-ups that arise in motivating application scenarios.

Reviews important issues related to measurement, which is indispensable for empirical research in marketing. The authors distinguish three related but distinct senses to think about measurement and based on this classification discuss issues relevant to each notion of measurement.

Explores discrete energy minimization for discrete graphical models. The book considers graphical models, or, more precisely, maximum a posteriori inference for graphical models, purely as a combinatorial optimization problem.

Details the interplay between proof systems and efficient algorithm design and surveys the state-of-the-art for two of the most important semi-algebraic proof systems: Sherali-Adams and Sum-of-Squares. The book provides the readers with a rigorous treatment of these systems both as proof systems, and as a general family of optimization algorithms.

Provides a tutorial review of the Lattice-Reduction-Aided and Integer-Forcing approaches to equalization in MIMO communications. The authors highlight the similarities and differences of both approaches while summarizing the various criteria for selecting the integer linear combinations available in the literature in a unified way.

Provides a disciplinary perspective on the role of innovation. In particular, this volume offers several distinct disciplinary perspectives including from the academic discipline of finance, from the entrepreneurship discipline, from the management perspective, and from the marketing discipline.

The focus of this book is on the non-adaptive setting of group testing. In this setting, the test pools are designed in advance enabling them to be implemented in parallel. The book gives a comprehensive and thorough treatment of the subject from an information theoretic perspective, and covers several related developments.