Market prices are well known to efficiently collect and aggregate diverse information regarding the value of commodities and assets. The role of markets has been particularly suitable to pricing financial securities. This article provides an alternative application of the pricing mechanism to marketing research using pseudo-securities markets to measure preferences over new product concepts. Su...

Modern smartphones are loaded with sensible data. At the same time, there are situations, in which a user must share or wants to share the device with others. Since common authentication methods still follow a single-sign-on approach, new privacy issues arise. We argue that sharing cannot always be avoided and thus should be supported by refined authentication systems. Our assumption is based o...

Market prices are well known to efficiently collect and aggregate diverse information regarding the economic value of goods and services, particularly for financial securities. We propose a novel application of the price discovery mechanism in the context of marketing research: to use pseudo-securities markets to measure consumer preferences over new product concepts. A securities-trading appro...

In this paper, a CFD analysis on the bare hull form of submarines or torpedoes for minimizing the resistance is represented. There are several parameters in submarine form design which the most important parameter is resistance. All operational characteristics of submarines are related to the resistance, related required power and then, underwater speed and range. Other parameters are only ment...

This paper presents the continuous work towards the development of an interface for music mixing targeted towards expert sound technicians and producers. The mixing interface uses a stage metaphor mapping scheme where audio channels are represented as digital widgets on a 2D surface. These can be controlled by multi touch or by smart tangibles, which are tangible blocks with embedded sensors. T...

SH signals recorded by an array of four broadband (Benioff 1-90) instruments, run by Caltech, are inspected for evidence of a lower mantle shear wave velocity discontinuity previously detected using WWSSN data. Deep focus earthquakes beneath Argentina span the distance range 78 ø to 82 ø from the array, where the triplication in the travel time curve produced by the discontinuity is expected to...

SS precursors are the underside reflections from the upper mantle discontinuities such as those at 410 and 660 km. They are important tools for studying the existence and characteristics of mantle discontinuities both on the global and regional scales (see Deuss, 2009 for a review). Due to their sensitivity at the midpoint between source and receiver, coverage for oceanic regions is achieved wh...

The digitization has led to an ecosystem in which an online media portal has become an essential extension of traditional media and users are enabled to consume news and entertainment via different platforms. These evolutions pose some challenges for the media companies in terms of shifting business models, but they also bring them new possibilities in managing their relations with users. An im...

[1] Accurate determination of parameters about seismic discontinuities in the earth, such as their depth, existence, and strength, provides critical information about the physical and chemical states and dynamics of the earth’s interior. Unfortunately, those parameters can be strongly affected by factors that are not related to the discontinuities. We use synthetic seismograms to estimate the i...