A Simple Method for Predicting Covariance Matrices of Financial Returns makes three contributions. First, it proposes a new method for predicting the ...

Assessing the Role of the Federal Government in the Development of New Products, Industries, and Companies examines the role of the federal government ...

Emerging Technology ' Advances in Supply Chain Finance ' Risk Management r eflects the state-of-the-art in research thought leadership in supply chain ...

The Equity Premium Puzzle reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that ...

Finding low-rank solutions of semidefinite programs is important in many applications. For example, semidefinite programs that arise as relaxations of ...

Caching refers to the act of replicating information at a faster (or closer) medium with the purpose of improving performance. This deceptively simple ...

A basic question in wireless networking is how to optimize the wireless network resource allocation for utility maximization and interference management. ...

In recent years, the growing popularity of mobile devices equipped with GPS chips, in combination with the increasing availability of wireless data connections ...

This monograph comprises a series of ten lectures divided into two parts. Part 1, referred to as the Solar Lectures, focuses on the communication and ...

Learning Representation and Control in Markov Decision Processes describes methods for automatically compressing Markov decision processes (MDPs) by learning ...