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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the impact of computer software and computational technology on econometric theory and development, this text presents recent advances in the application of computerized tools to econometric techniques and practicesâfocusing on current innovations in Monte Carlo simulation, computer-aided testing, model selection, and Bayesian methodology for improved econometric analyses.Table of Contents1. Some Methodological Questions Arising from Large Data Sets 2. Finite-Sample Simulation-Based Tests in Seemingly Unrelated Regressions 3. Finding Optimal Penalties for Model Selection in the Linear Regression Model 4. On Bootstrap Coverage Probability with Dependent Data 5. A Comparison of Alternative Causality and Predictive Accuracy Tests in the Presence of Integrated and Cointegrated Economic Variables 6. Finite Sample Performance of the Empirical Likelihood Estimator Under Endogeneity 7. Testing for Unit Roots in Semiannual Data 8. Using Simulation Methods for Bayesian Econometric Models 9. Bayesian Inference in the Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Model 10. Computationally Intensive Methods for Deriving Optimal Trimming Parameters 11. Estimating and Testing Fundamental Stock Prices: Evidence from Simulated Economies 12. Neural Networks: An Econometric Tool 13. Real-Time Forecasting with Vector Autoregressions: Spurious Drift, Structural Change, and Intercept Correction 14. Econometric Modeling Based on Pattern Recognition via the Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm 15. Nonparametric Bootstrap Specification Testing in Econometric Models 16. The Effect of Economic Growth on Standard of Living: A Semiparametric Analysis

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Book SynopsisThis reference presents a more efficient, flexible, and manageable approach to unitary transform calculation and examines novel concepts in the design, classification, and management of fast algorithms for different transforms in one-, two-, and multidimensional cases. Illustrating methods to construct new unitary transforms for best algorithm selection and development in real-world applications, the book contains a wide range of examples to compare the efficacy of different algorithms in a variety of one-, two-, and three-dimensional cases. Multidimensional Discrete Unitary Transforms builds progressively from simple representative cases to higher levels of generalization.Table of ContentsSeries Introduction, Preface, 1: Basic Concepts and Notation, I: Tensor Representation of Multidimensional Signals, II: Analysis and effective computing procedures, III: Applications of Paired Transformations, Index

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Book SynopsisThe rapid growth of the Internet has fueled the demand for enhanced watermarking and data hiding technologies and has stimulated research into new ways to implement watermarking systems in the real world. This book presents the fundamental principles of watermarking system design and discusses state-of-the-art technologies in information concealment and recovery. It highlights the requirements and challenges of applications in security, image/video indexing, hidden communications, image captioning, and transmission error recovery and concealment. It explains the foundations of digital watermarking technologies, and offers an understanding of new approaches and applications, and lays the groundwork for future developments in the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Applications. Information Coding. Data Embedding. Data Concealment. Data Recovery. Watermark Impairments and Benchmarking. Security Issues. An Information Theoretic Perspective. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisProfessionals in the video and multimedia industries need a book that explains industry standards for video coding and how to convert the compressed information between standards. Digital Video Transcoding for Transmission and Storage answers this demand while also supplying the theories and principles of video compression and transcoding technologies. Emphasizing digital video transcoding techniques, this book summarizes its content via examples of practical methods for transcoder implementation. It relates almost all of its featured transcoding technologies to practical applications.This volume takes a structured approach, starting with basic video transcoding concepts and progressing toward the most sophisticated systems. It summarizes material from research papers, lectures, and presentations. Organized into four parts, the text first provides the background of video coding theory, principles of video transmission, and video coding standards. The second part includes thrTable of ContentsFundamentals of digital video compressions. Digital video coding standards. Video transcoding algorithms and systems architecture. Topics on optimization of transcoding performance. Video transport transcoding. System clock recovery and time stamping. Transcoder video buffer and hypothetical reference decoder. Cryptography and conditional access for video transport systems. Application and implementation of video transcoders. Universal multimedia access using MPEG-21 digital item adaption. End-to-end video streaming and transcoding system.

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Book SynopsisThroughout successive generations of information technology, the importance of the performance evaluation of software, computer architectures, and computer networks endures. For example, the performance issues of transaction processing systems and redundant arrays of independent disks replace the virtual memory and input-output problems of the 70s. ATM performance issues supercede those associated with electronic telephony of the 70s.As performance issues evolve with the technologies, so must our approach to evaluation. In System Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, top academic and industrial experts review the major issues now faced in this arena. In a series of structured, focused chapters, they present the state-of-the-art in performance methodologies and applications. They address developments in analytical modeling and its interaction with detailed analysis of measurement data. They also discuss performance evaluation methodologies for large-scale software systems - in general and in the context of critical applications, such as nuclear reactor control and air transportation systems.With its particular emphasis on network performance for wireless networks, the Internet, and ATM networking, System Performance Evaluation becomes the ideal vehicle for professionals in computer architecture, networking, and software engineering to stay up-to-date and proficient in this essential aspect of information technology.Table of ContentsIntroduction, I. Advances in Internet Network Performance, 1. Rate Adapters with Bursty Arrivals and Rational Rate Reduction: Queuing Analysis, 2. Internet Traffic: Periodicity, Tail Behavior, and Performance Implications, 3. A Generalization of a TCP Model: Multiple Source-Destination Case with Arbitrary LAN as the Access Network, II. Advances in ATM Networks, 4. A Virtual Path Routing Algorithm for ATM Networks Based on the Equivalent Bandwidth Concept, 5. Link Capacity Sharing Between Guaranteed and Best Effort Services, 6. QoS Management with Delays and Cell Drops, 7. Fluid Analysis of TCP Connections Over ABR VCs, 8. On the Exact Performance Analysis of Multicast Switches with Input Buffering, 9. Performance Evaluation of a Scene-Based Model for VBR MPEG Traffic, III. Traffic-Based System and Network Design, 10. Buffering vs. Smoothing for End-to-End QoS: Fundamental Issues and Comparison, 11. Analysis of a Time Division Multiplexing Method with Priorities, 12. Web Traffic Modeling and Performance Comparison Between HTTP1.0 and HTTP1.1, 13. Average Bandwidth and Delay for Reliable Multicast, 14. Time-Slot Allocation in Wireless TDMA, 15. Maintaining Connectivity for Mobile Computing Applications in Cellular Systems with Multiple Traffic Classes and Mixed Platform Types, 16. A Parallel Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Capacitated Network Design Problems, 17. A Unified Approach to the Analysis of Large-Scale Teletraffic Models, 18. MRE: A Robust Method of Inference for Finite Capacity Queues, IV. Advances in System Performance Methodologies, 19. PNiQ — A Concept for Performability Evaluation, 20. Performance Analysis of Multiclass Data Transfer Elements in Soft Real-Time Systems Using Semaphore Queues, 21. Hybrid Analysis of Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets, 22. A Performance Model for SPADES Specifications, 23. Analysis of Commercial Workload on SMP Multiprocessors, V. System Performance and Reliability 347, 24. Bayesian Belief Networks for Safety Assessment of Computer-Based Systems, 25. Software Performance Validation Strategies, 26. Performance Validation at Early Stages of Software Development, 27. Impact of Workload Models in Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Web-Server Systems, 28. Validation in the European Air Traffic Management Program (EATMP), Index

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Book SynopsisSoftware Requirements: Encapsulation, Quality, and Reuse describes how to make requirements easy to change by using encapsulation. It introduces the Freedom methodology that shows how to encapsulate requirements thereby promoting reuse and quality. Encapsulating requirements reduces software life cycle costs by making requirements and the code that implements them more adaptable to changing technology and business needs.The book examines the definition of requirements and explains how they can be encapsulated within software so developers, software engineers, and analysts better understand the requirements used to create software. With the theoretical underpinnings established, the book provides an overview of the Freedom methodology and details the individual tasks of the methodology in a how-to fashion, explaining relevant terminology, recording notations, and more. It also shows how the Freedom requirements methodology can be used as a part of any overall software development methodology.Table of ContentsOverview. Information-hiding secrets. What are requirements? Freedom requirements process. Quality requirements. Stimulus identification and cohesion. Stimulus organization and architecture. Reusable requirements. Incremental development. Responses and behavior tables. Requirements encapsulation design. Requirements encapsulation. Interface prototyping. Requirements evolution.

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Book SynopsisDescribes a method for accelerating process improvement that helps set the goals and directions of organizations. This book offers several real-world scenarios describing situations prevalent throughout IT organizations regardless of the primary business in which a company may be engaged.Trade Review“… enhances the likelihood of success for IT projects. This volume describes a proved methods for accelerating process improvement that helps set the goals and directions of organizations. The book offers several real-world scenarios describing situations prevalent throughout IT organizations regardless of the primary business in which a company may be engages. Without the process improvement techniques described in this volume, organizations are at risk of losing valuable employees, as well as money, reputation, and clients. … walks the reader through many process improvement methodologies, describes CMMI in detail, and then writes about agile process improvement using an easy-to-read, “cookbook” approach. Her toolkit in the appendix will give the beginner valuable tips for developing schedules, work breakdown structures, and meeting agendas and minutes. The process improvement information presented in this book is complete and easy to read. …” — Jan Scott, in StickyMinds.com, 2007Table of ContentsIntroduction. Accelerating process improvement methodology (APIM) introduction. Implementing APIM. Accelerating process improvement methodology toolkit.

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