Technical debt is an emergent area that has stimulated academical concern, its practical application cope development activities such as documentation, design, code and test. However, literature review pointed out an integration gap between identifying and accurately cataloging technical debt. It also mentioned bunch of tools for most activities on software development process that could identi...

We explore sell-side debt analysts’ contributions to the efficiency of securities markets. We document that debt returns lag equity returns less when debt research coverage exists, consistent with debt analysts facilitating the process by which available information is impounded in debt prices. The effect is incremental to, but comparable in magnitude to, hedge fund ownership’s effect. No such ...

Due to the periodic nature of media playback, a multimedia server can service multiple clients simultaneously by proceeding in rounds, retrieving a fixed number of media units (e.g., video frames) for each client during each round. In this paper, we analyze the performance of a conservative and an aggressive policy for retrieving media units from an asynchronous disk array. In the conservative ...

Future international deep-space missions, such as a Gateway outpost at the Earth-Moon Libration L2 point (EML2), will require advanced robotic servicing with a very high level of autonomy. Realization of this autonomy should also increase the efficiency of ground operations and analyses by making it easier to plan and monitor operations under various mission constraints. While a great deal of r...

The demands of traditional industrial robotics differ significantly from those space robotics. While industry requires robots that can perform repetitive tasks with precision and speed, the environment needs to cope uncertainties, dynamics, communication delays or interruptions, similar human astronauts. These make a well-suited application for compliant behavior-based programming. Pose Target ...

From the view of current conditions and developing trends of the debt scale in Chinese local government, the debt crisis will explode in the near future if it cannot be controlled in an effective way. According to the regional distribution in China, except for Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Hainan, the debt risk is mainly concentrated in the western region. In a further step, it can be seen th...