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Title: ARTIFICIAL FINANCIAL MARKET: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS CHARACTERISTICS ON EMERGENT MARKET PHENOMENA
Author: Kamyab Hessary, Yasaman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Financial markets play a critical role in today's societies and are extremely important to the general health and efficiency of an economy. Solid understanding of the behavior of financial markets can benefit investors, governing organizations and...

Title: An Exploration of the Diffusion Dynamics of Open Source Software (OSS): An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach
Author: Zaffar, Muhammad
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business, Information science
Description: Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. Review of the literature suggests that previous empirical and analytical studi...

Title: Green or greenwashed? Organizational strain as an antecedent to decoupling in corporate environmental sustainability reporting
Author: Knight, Barbara
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: ABSTRACT Scholarly attention continues to focus on how organizations are responding to stakeholder demands for meaningful corporate social responsibility (CSR) impact. CSR empirical studies offer evidence of decoupling in corporate policies, imple...

Title: Emotion Mining From Text and Actionable Pattern Discovery
Author: Ranganathan, Jaishree
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: In the era of Web 2.0, people express their opinion, feelings and thoughts about topics including political and cultural events, natural disasters, products and services, through mediums such as blogs, forums, and micro-blogs, like Twitter. Also, ...

Title: Evaluating and extending the concept of wisdom of crowds in the context of problem solving
Author: Sun, Min
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: James Surowiecki in his book on the wisdom of crowds wrote about the decisions made based on the aggregation of information in groups. Knowing the many case studies and anecdotes which show the success of wisdom of crowds, he argues that under cer...

Title: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE THRESHOLD EFFECT: TOWARDS A GENERAL TOOL FOR STUDYING DYNAMIC PHENOMENA ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS
Author: Carmichael, Theodore
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Social structure, Cytology
Description: Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. A new phase begins when the system reaches a threshold that marks a qualitative change in system characteristics. These thres...

Title: COMPETITIVE STORE CLOSING DURING AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN: A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH
Author: Mayadunne, Sanjaya
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research
Description: A game theoretic mixed integer program model is introduced to determine optimal store closing decisions in a competitive market. The model considers the case of two rival firms seeking to downsize operations in a region. Both firms are looking to ...

Title: Non-nested Model Selection via Empirical Likelihood
Author: Zhao, Cong
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: In this dissertation we propose an empirical likelihood ratio (ELR) test to conductnon-nested model selection. It allows for heteroscedasticity and works for any twosupervised statistical learning methods under mild conditions. We establish asympt...

Title: Task-Specific Uncertainty for Industrial Measurements
Author: Valdez, Mario
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The purpose of measurement is to provide information about a quantity of interest – a measurand. Since no measurands are exactly known, measurement uncertainty is estimated for common measuring tasks in order to quantify the result of a measuring ...

Title: Secure Cryptographic Designs Resilient to Side-Channel Attacks
Author: Gui, Yutian
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The rapid development of IoT devices and distributed computing brings convenience and high efficiency to modern society. To enhance the security of hardware devices, quite a few cryptographic algorithms were proposed and applied. These encryption ...

Title: Perceived Overqualification of Work Among State Employees: A Replication And Extension
Author: Varney, Sandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: As trends of employment continue to rapidly shift and evolve during the post-COVID-19 era, it is important for organizations to consider rates of underemployment as much as it is to regard unemployment. Recently, a new scale measurement of employe...

Title: SEVERAL STATISTICAL RESULTS UNDER MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION WITH INFINITE CATEGORIES
Author: Zhou, Jun
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: This dissertation discusses several statistical results under multinomial distribution with infinite categories. Firstly, the discussion focuses on Simpson's diversity index and Turing's formula. We established an unbiased estimate for the newly p...

Title: Recommender System for Improving Churn Rate
Author: Duan, Yuehua
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Customer churn leads to higher customer acquisition cost, lower volume of service consumption and reduced product purchase. Reducing the outﬂow of the customers by 5% can double the proﬁt of a typical company. Therefore, it is of signiﬁcant value ...