Outstanding in Your Field

Outstanding in the Field

Land acquisition and ownership is an important part of modern agriculture in North America. Given the unique nature of farmland as a good, this paper develops a multi-agent simulation of farmland auction markets in a Canadian context. The model is used to generate data on land transactions between farm agents to determine if a particular auction design or type is better suited to farmland trans...

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Outstanding Challenges in OLAP

The core challenges associated with enterprise OLAP are how to structure the database and how to build a decision support architecture that allows for complex analysis and qualification. The primary components of an OLAP system – the database and the analysis engine – must be capable of handling large amounts of data in varying structures. Warehouses will continue to grow and contain data that ...

Plasma FIB: Enlarge your field of view and your field of applications

1. New products, new needs for investigation New electronic devices have to integrate more and more features and the current trend is focused on the three-dimensional miniaturization of devices [1]. This evolution leads to the design of complex systems made of several chips embedded in newgeneration packages. Flip-chips and copper pillars, multi-MEMS-ICs systems and new sensors design are examp...

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