Details regarding the implementation of the Hull-White one factor model are provided. The details concern the model description and parameters, the vanilla instruments pricing and the Monte Carlo implementation.

Multi-agent applications that include teams of mobile sensing agents are challenging since they are inherently dynamic and a single movement of a mobile sensor can change the problem that the whole team is facing. While agents select their positions with respect to the information available to them in their local environment, by moving to a different location they can reveal new information, e....

This paper contributes to research on routine learning based on internal change dynamics of routines. We define routine learning as a social learning process involving a multitude of actors and apply a performative routine model to analyze impacts of the institutionalization of routines within an organization on the occurrence of explorative routine learning. From an institutional perspective, ...

fourteen different morphological traits in 169 and 131 cattle of oulmes-zaer and tidili, respectively were recorded and analyzed using a multivariate approach. the characters measured included heart girth, wither height, rump height, rump length, rump width, chest depth, body length, neck length, cannon circumference, ear length, ear width, head length, horn length and tail length. breed signif...

in developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. this situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose ...

*1 Secretariat of Chinese National Committee for CODATA, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 South 4 Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, China Email: [email protected] or [email protected] 2 Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 South 4 Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, China 3 China Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation

A large volume of Open Data is being generated on a continuous basis. Examples of this are the case of social, natural, and information systems such as World Wide Web and social networks. Most entities and objects in the Open Data are interconnected, forming a complex, semi-structured, and information-rich networks. In this sense, Linked Open Data has the potential to be similar to a federated ...

The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance continues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salaries enjoyed by senior executives in corporations in the US are often contrasted with the relatively low pay received by executives in Europe and Asia. Empirical research on executive pay has mainly concentrated on the pay-performance relat...

introduction: this paper proposes an appropriate strategy for exporting hepatitis b vaccine, manufactured by pasteur institute of iran, to other countries. methods: eeffectiveness factors and their relative variables were found out by factor analysis method in spss software. results: we could identify 6 main factors which can extremely affect the export of this product. we evaluated manufacture...