Video can be used to provide a record of a theatre performance, with subsequent annotation being used to enhance the record and understand the video contents. The aim of our work is to produce a record of the threedimensional (3D) performance recorded in the video or videos. The concept of performance is, of course, a multifaceted term, and our initial work concentrates on labelling the movemen...

We consider a mean-variance hedging (MVH) problem for an arbitrage-free large financial market, i.e. a financial market with countably many risky assets modelled by a sequence of continuous semimartingales. By using the stochastic integration theory for a sequence of semimartingales developed in De Donno and Pratelli (2003), we extend the results about change of numéraire and MVH of Gourieroux,...

With the emergence of e-business as the next killer application for the Web, automating bargaining-type negotiations between clients (i.e., buyers and sellers) has become increasingly important. With IDEAL (Internetbased Dealmaker for e-business), we have developed an architecture and framework, including a negotiation protocol, for automated negotiations among multiple IDEAL servers. The main ...

Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse d...

Purpose While the literature on migration highlights reshaping of host and immigrant population in countries, there is a paucity research marketing investigating evolving dynamics for acculturation. The purpose this study to further understanding emerging phenomenon acculturation identity negotiation. Design/methodology/approach Three experiments examined situational ethnicity, self-construal n...