With market-driven secondary spectrum trading, licensed users can receive benefits in terms of monetary rewards or various transmission services, thus setting a fair pricing structure by suitably defining spectrum quality characteristics and accurately addressing participant’s requirement is a key issue. In this paper, we investigate the pricing-based spectrum access by casting the problem of s...

This paper presents a wavelet characteristic based approach for the automated visual inspection of ripple defects in the surface barrier layer (SBL) chips of ceramic capacitors. Difficulties exist in automatically inspecting ripple defects because of their semi-opaque and unstructured appearances, the gradual changes of their intensity levels, and the low intensity contrast between their surfac...

Inference concerning the correlation coefficient of two random variables from the bivariate normal distribution has been investigated by many authors. In particular, Fisher [1915. Frequency distribution of the values of the correlation coefficient in samples from an indefinitely large population. Biometrika 10, 507–521] and Hotelling [1953. New light on the correlation coefficient and its trans...

In this paper we derive a one-sample multivariate empirical Bayes statistic (the MB-statistic) to rank genes in the order of differential expression from replicated microarray time course experiments . We do this by testing the null hypothesis that the expectation of a k-vector of a gene’s expression levels is a multiple of 1k, the vector of k 1s. The importance of moderation in this context is...

The emerging marketplace for online free services in which service providers earn revenue from using consumer data in direct and indirect ways has lead to significant privacy concerns. This begs understanding of the following question: can the marketplace sustain multiple service providers (SPs) that offer privacy-differentiated free services? This paper studies this problem of market segmentat...