In the case of such a very special building project, the crucial stake for sustainable development is the fact that space systems are extreme cases of environmental constraints. Indeed, they constitute an interesting model as an analogy can be made between Martian utmost conditions and some of the possible extreme one’s that Earth might soon face. The didactic objective of the project is to use...

This paper is concerned with an iterative functional differential equation x′ x r z = c0z+ c1x z + c2x x z + · · · + cmx m z , where r and m are nonnegative integers, x 0 z = z x 1 z = x z x 3 z = x x x z , etc. are the iterates of the function x z , and ∑mj=0 cj = 0. By constructing a convergent power series solution y z of a companion equation of the form αy ′ αr+1z = y ′ αz ∑mj=0 cjy αz , an...

During the preparation of the corresponding chapter inDavy Landman's PhD thesis, someminor graphical and statistical discrepancieswere found in the paper “Empirical analysis of the relationship between CC and SLOC in a large corpus of Javamethods and C functions.”1 To support future reproduction and use of this work, we prepared the current erratum, containing several updated figures, a diagnos...

A theoretical framework is presented to explain how agents respond to information under uncertainty in contingent valuation surveys. Agents are provided with information signals and referendum prices as part of the elicitation process. Agents use Bayesian updating to revise prior distributions. An information prompt is presented to reduce hypothetical bias. However, we show the interaction betw...

TACO is a template library that implements higher-order parallel operations on distributed object sets by means of reusable topology classes and C++ function templates. In this paper we discuss an experimental application that exploits TACO’s distributed object groups and collective operations for computing the similarity between groups of molecular sequences, a computationally intensive core p...

We develop a stochastic frontier model with unknown locations and number of structural breaks for both efficiency and technology. The structural changes in technology and efficiency are different. It is possible to identify these two types of changes even under a short panel context. The algorithm to estimate the model is designed to avoid the potential pitfalls with panel data. Parallel comput...

Quickselect with median-of-three is routinely used as the method of choice for selection of the mth element out of n in general-purpose libraries such as the C++ Standard Template Library. Its average behavior is fairly well understood and has been shown to outperform that of the standard variant, which chooses a random pivot on each stage. However, no results were previously known about the va...

This paper investigates a general procedure to estimate second-order approximations to a DSGE model and compares the performance with the widely used estimation technique for a log-linearized economy on a version of new Keynesian monetary model. It is done in the context of posterior distributions, welfare cost, and impulse response analysis. Our findings include the followings. First, we find ...

Coordination and communication are two important parts of a successful development process. Social and organizational constraints have an effect on the development process. By thinking of software configuration management(SCM) in the context of how the SCM process helps team members work together we can apply SCM more effectively. These issues are important regardless of language used, but thes...

For n + 1 points in IR, in general position, the Kergin polynomial interpolant of C functions may be extended to an interpolant of C functions. This results in an explicit set of reduced Kergin functionals naturally stratified by their dependence on certain directional derivatives of order k, 0 ≤ k ≤ d − 1. We show that the polynomials dual to the functionals depending on derivatives of order k...