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— 454 — The Auk, Vol. 128, Number 3, pages 454−466. ISSN 0004-8038, electronic ISSN 1938-4254.  2011 by The American Ornithologists’ Union. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals. com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.102...

PhD Dissertation

Self-Adaptive Software systems (SAS) adapt at run-time in response to changes in user’s needs, operating contexts, and resource availability, by requiring minimal to no involvement of system administrators. The ever-greater reliance on software with qualities such as flexibility and easy integrability, and the associated increase of design and maintenance effort, is raising the interest towards...

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Nan Zhou's PHD Dissertation

VOLATILITY AND JUMPS IN HIGH FREQUENCY FINANCIAL DATA: ESTIMATION AND TESTING Nan Zhou, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2011 It has been widely accepted in financial econometrics that both the microstructure noise and jumps are significantly involved in high frequency data. In some empirical situations, the noise structure is more complex than independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) assu...

Guang Yang PhD Dissertation

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