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Networks in Economics

1st Edition
November 1, 2029
Chih-Sheng Hsieh + 2 more
English

Networks in Economics: Theory, Econometrics, and Policy Implications draws on the latest findings in economics, sociology, physics, computer science and mathematics, providing an empirical review of social network analysis, and their regularities. It discusses random graph-based models as well as strategic models of network formation. The three parts of the book, theory, empirics and policy, are presented in a consistent and interdependent framework. This book supports students, researchers and practitioners, helping them to understand outcomes and behaviors in networked societies, and to be able to evaluate real world policy instruments in this context.

Multiple Criteria Decision Making / Aiding in Transportation and Logistics

1st Edition
October 1, 2029
Jacek Zak
English

Transportation and Logistics Problem-Solving Through Multiple Criteria Decision Making is the first book that solves complex transportation and logistical problems through MCDM, presenting advanced methodology in an accessible format. Today’s transportation and logistics professionals are tasked daily with critical decisions affecting facility location, fleet management, crew assignment and scheduling, and portfolio optimization. Transportation and Logistics Problem-Solving Through Multiple Criteria Decision Making provides the methodological framework to solve these multiple, criteria-based decision problems. It equips readers with set of concrete rules, methods and procedures that make MCDM principles practical and applicable for transportation and logistics. Transportation and Logistics Problem-Solving Through Multiple Criteria Decision Making models and solves the various MCDM categories, including choice, ranking, and classification, with an application of applicable solution procedures. The book covers deterministic and non-deterministic, as well as static and dynamic situations, presenting original mathematical formulations of multiple criterial transportation and logistical problems. It reviews applied methods, such as meta-heuristic, hybrid, rough-set, interactive, and exact procedures, and customizes them to solve specific transportation situations. The book shows the vast majority of transportation and logistics decisions have a multiple criteria core, and explains how to use this knowledge to arrive at the best decisions possible.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

1st Edition
October 1, 2029
Meric Srokosz
English

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning: Its Past, Present, and Future Role in the Earth’s Climate presents a comprehensive introduction to this important component of the global ocean circulation and climate system. The book covers all aspects of recent AMOC research: theory, ocean observations, palaeoceanographic data, and ocean and climate modelling.The Atlantic Meridional Overturning brings the reader up to date with what is happening in this exciting field of oceanographic research. As well as describing the physical processes that determine the AMOC, the author explores the impacts that changes in the AMOC can have on ocean biogeochemical processes and on the Earth’s climate. In particular, the possibility for abrupt changes. The book is written for Oceanographers including Professors, lecturers and researchers – teaching and carrying out research in Oceanography.

Survey Data Analysis in Applied Settings

1st Edition
September 1, 2029
James Griffith + 1 more
English

Survey Data Analysis in Applied Settings provides readers with an accessible hands-on approach to modern day applied survey data analysis. It offers detailed insights and step-by-step methods and techniques to collect, prepare, analyze and interpret survey data. The book covers the presentation of data, an overview of survey design, nonresponse and missing data analysis, and an awareness of the hidden biases that often underlie poorly analyzed survey data. A companion website features computer code (primarily for R) that can be manipulated by the reader for their own purpose.

Christoffersen's Elements of Financial Risk Management

3rd Edition
September 1, 2029
Chayawat Ornthanalai + 1 more
English

Elements of Financial Risk Management focuses on the implementation of technique that help students and practitioners “bridge the gap” between standard textbooks on risk and real-life risk management systems. Without a highly sophisticated quant background, readers can understand its detailed and comprehensive coverage of most market-risk related topics. More a financial econometrics book than a financial risk management book, it shows how to apply tools developed in financial econometrics to risk management. It differs from typical risk management books by digging more deeply in the assumptions and models behind risk calculations.

Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles

1st Edition
August 1, 2029
Bryan E. Porter
English

Autonomous vehicles are a new technology rising in public interest and media intensity. Researchers are only just beginning to explore its behavioral, social, technological, economic, and environmental issues. Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles highlights the key issues the behavioral sciences plays in this largely technology-driven area, adding an important perspective often overlooked during the product development phase. Through existing psychological and other behavioral science research, Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles examines what we know--and do not know--about the expected impact of autonomous vehicles to our society. The book looks at both the potential positive, and negative, consequences of autonomous vehicles. Human Factors in Autonomous Vehicles helps technically-focused researchers become more aware of the human factors issues involved in both current and future generations of autonomous (and high autonomy) vehicles.

User-Centered Interface Improvement in Libraries

1st Edition
July 1, 2029
Ray Laura Henry
English

Libraries are optimally positioned to lead user-centered interface improvements, especially in the now-ubiquitous areas of search, discovery, and retrieval of information resources. This book delves more deeply into why that might be the case, as well as how to create those transformative changes. Modern libraries are concerned with improving the experiences our users have with the resources we provide. We operate in a technologically complex environment, however, where we are integrating many diverse resource providers that we have much less control of into our portfolio of services. How do libraries' competing interests, for example, those of standardization and interoperability versus those of personalization and context-awareness act to "intertwingle" across our user interfaces? Literacies Identity and Library Technologies examines historical and contemporary library technology practices through several overlapping lenses. Why library technologies, in particular? Precisely because they are located in a complex, interconnected ecosystem of services whose loci of control are elsewhere, and so where there is a continued struggle to make good on promises like seamless resource access. The initial adoptions, integrations, and ongoing refinements of these technologies exist in what can be described as an information society whose undergirding values are essentially opaque. Despite immersion in this vast sea of knowledge/information/data, many of us who swim in it have no clear sense of its origins or mechanisms. In particular, the core of information navigation for most has become web-scale search, and though it is treated as a utility in nearly the same way heat and light are, even those of us who may teach its use to others often aren't sure exactly how it works. Similarly, users of these systems are impacted by the values underlying their construction in ways that are hidden or invisible to them, so they may not even be able to shift their strategies to more effectively work in these systems.

Non-Human Primates and Human Culture

1st Edition
July 1, 2029
Kefeng Niu
English

Non-Human Primates and Human Culture: Case Studies and Applications of Conservation of Asian Primate Species provides the most comprehensive knowledge on the relations and interactions between humans and non-human primates. It focuses on conservation practices to ensure the safety of both humans and non-human primate species across growing Asian countries. Written by primatology, animal behavior, and conservation experts, this book assesses primate classifications, historical geography, archaeology, and conservation of various species from multiple cultural perspectives. Each chapter covers a case study of a different species of Asian non-human primates, analyzing its conservation threats due to economic expansion, climate change, and deforestation, and the inevitable encounters with humans due to displacement among growing countries. Non-Human Primates and Human Culture: Case Studies and Applications of Conservation of Asian Primate Species is a valuable resource for conservationists, primatologists, and animal behavior researchers, who are seeking to understand the relationship between these distant evolutionary relatives and future implications for protection and conservation.

The Complete Business Process Handbook

1st Edition
June 1, 2029
Mark Von Rosing + 1 more
English

The Complete Business Process Handbook: Leading Practices of the Outperformers, Volume 3, is the first of its kind to unveil how those who are ready can re-use and replicate award winning real-life examples from many of the Fortune 500 and public sector organizations that apply BPM to stand out. Learn how the leaders outthink, outcompete, and outperform the market. Volume 3 is a practical guide for executives, practitioners, and students alike, with plenty of hands-on descriptions. This book offers pragmatic instructions and a structured approach to using repeatable sequences of best practices required to achieve the best results. Written by authorities and industry leaders that shape the way we think and work with business processes today. Discover well-defined patterns of success and how to innovate, improve competitive advantage, drive digital transformation, and rethink your processes. Contains real-life examples and award winning cases from innovators, pioneers, and industry outperformers who show how early adopters of BPM practices improved their business.

Principles of Financial Engineering

4th Edition
June 1, 2029
Robert Kosowski + 1 more
English

Principles of Financial Engineering, Fourth Edition presents 5 significantly revised chapters and revisions throughout. It introduces new important derivative products and regulatory changes that affect derivatives markets while maintaining the consistency of its pedagogical philosophy. It explores the discontinuation of IBOR (Inter-bank offered rates) such as LIBOR and its implications. Increased pedagogical elements - such as solutions, case studies, spreadsheets, sample exams, and slides - help instructors design courses appropriate for their students. At the same time it provides freely-accessible solutions to all exercises in every chapter and additional password-protected materials for instructors. Written for students and practitioners who want to learn the practicalities of the financial markets, not their theories; it is fundamentally practical.