I this paper, we investigate the integrated information and pricing strategy for a seller who can take customer preorders before the release of a product. The preorder option enables the seller to sell a product at an early stage when consumers are less certain about their valuations. We find that the optimal pricing strategy may be highly dependent on the amount of information available at pre...

Mobile robots often rely upon systems that render sensor data and perceptual features into costs that can be used in a planner. The behavior that a designer wishes the planner to execute is often clear, while specifying costs that engender this behavior is a much more difficult task. This is particularly apparent when attempting to simultaneously tune many parameters that define the mapping fro...

This paper investigates the effects of a change in the margin rules of the U.S. stock market. These rules determine how much investors can borrow to leverage their investments. Since the 1929 stock market crash, margin loans have been tightly regulated by the Securities and Exchange Act Regulation T. Between 2005 and 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission modified these margin rules becau...

The paper deals with the design of the robust PID controller for real uncertain Coupled-Tank process in the frequency domain. Only the first independent tank is considered (single-input single-output system). Robust controller is designed in two ways. The first approach is performed with the Edge Theorem and the Neimark’s D -partition method for the affine model and the second one is performed ...

We have recently proposed an extension of ADABOOST to regression that uses the median of the base regressors as the final regressor. In this paper we extend theoretical results obtained for ADABOOST to median boosting and to its localized variant. First, we extend recent results on efficient margin maximizing to show that the algorithm can converge to the maximum achievable margin within a pres...

Objectives The study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of the traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors they are often associated with. Prior Work Previous studies have found a positive association between ethnic minorities high levels of entrepreneurship (Levie, 2007) and between home computer use and entrepreneur...

We 2 present a method for face class modeling in the eigenfaces space using a large-margin classifier like SVM. Another issue addressed is how to select the number of eigenfaces to achieve a good classification rate. As the experimental evidence show, generally one needs less eigenfaces than usually considered. We will present different strategies and discuss their effectiveness in the case of ...

This paper presents a new method for computing the stability margin of two-dimensional (2-D) continuous systems. The method is based on the computation of the Hermite matrix in 2-D continuous systems, one of its partial derivatives and their resultant. The theoretical result is illustrated by examples.

High-resolution sedimentological and micropaleontological studies of several deep-sea cores retrieved from the levees of the Celtic and Armorican turbidite systems (Bay of Biscay — North Atlantic Ocean) allow the detection of the major oscillations of the British–Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) and ‘Fleuve Manche’ palaeoriver discharges over the last 30,000 years, which were mainly triggered by climate ...