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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.

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.

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 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.

Investigates smart electric vehicle charging. This book focuses jointly on the quality of service for EV users and the stability and reliability of the power grid. It lays out a solution framework that addresses many of the key problems arising from both the lower and upper levels.

Focuses on data gathered from a large-scale, systematic survey of Stanford alumni, faculty, and selected staff in 2011 to assess the university's economic impact based on its involvement in entrepreneurship.

This monograph brings together a collection of 14 value sensitive design methods. These methods-along with the heuristics and examples discussed here-go a good distance toward providing tools for engaging substantively with human values in the technical design process.

This monograph reviews the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks, focusing on Multi Path TCP (MPTCP) and Information Centric Networking (ICN). It also extensively reviews content-based networking.

This monograph provides an overview of recent developments in main-memory database systems.

By building robotic systems with soft materials, we can realize systems that are safer, cheaper, and more adaptable than the level that conventional rigid-material robots can achieve. This volume introduces the fundamental aspects of this vibrant research topic from history, modelling, control, and system integration.

Applications of Topic Models describes the recent academic and industrial applications of topic models with the goal of launching a young researcher capable of building their own applications of topic models.

Presents recently developed approaches in automotive control systems design that take implementation resources into consideration, aiming to improve the control performances for a given amount of resources, or equivalently, realize the required control performances with fewer resources.

In a good financial reporting regime, attributes, goals, and practice are not mutually exclusive. It is unlikely that any one of them is entirely satisfactory by itself; they complement one another. Better Financial Reporting argues for such a syncretic attitude to financial reporting regime.

Executive Compensation surveys the extant literature on this important topic. The first section starts with a discussion of the theory of executive compensation, in which the author identifies two major approaches. The second section reviews the evidence on both the composition and level of pay and how it has changed over time, treating each component.

Agglomeration, Industrial Districts and Industry Clusters: Trends of the 21th Century Literature reviews the early work of 21st century scholarship on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clusters and explores the context to the prominent themes that emerged between 2000 and 2015.

Explores the factors that have caused the recent explosion in hedge fund activism; examines the impact of this activism, including whether it is shortening investment horizons and discouraging investment in research and development; and surveys and evaluates possible legal interventions with an emphasis on the least restrictive alternative.

Entrepreneurship and Institutions: A Bidirectional Relationship argues that the view that institutions determine the extent to which entrepreneurial activity is productive is only part of the story. Rather, causality is bidirectional, in that entrepreneurship is also, for better or for worse, one of the main drivers of institutional change.

Presents a set of goals to help the reader understand the role of experimental economics in marketing. These include distinguishing experimental economics from other fields in the broadest possible terms; providing the basic methodological tenets of experimental economics; and delineating classes of experiments within experimental economics.