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On I/O Virtualization Management
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The quick adoption of virtualization technology in general and the advent of the Cloud business model entail new requirements on the structure and the configuration of back-end I/O systems....
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Signal Processing and Detection for Multi-User Z Channels
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate how to send space time codes with full diversity and low decoding complexity for Z channels using pre-coders. First, they introduce their channel model and...
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Recursive Pattern: A Technique for Visualizing Very Large Amounts of Data
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
An important goal of visualization technology is to support the exploration and analysis of very large amounts of data. This paper proposes a new visualization technique called 'recursive pattern'...
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Using the HiiMap Mapping System as a Public Key Infrastructure
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The HiiMap architecture is a Next Generation Network concept which is based around the locator/identifier split idea. As with each NGN architecture, security was a major concern from the beginning...
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Facilitating Knowledge Convergence in Videoconferencing Environments: The Role of External Representation Tools
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The study analyzed how two types of graphical representation tools influence the way in which dyads use shared and unshared knowledge resources in different collaboration scenarios, and how...
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The Link between Environmental Innovation, Patents, And Environmental Management
September 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses empirically the relationship between environmental innovations, environmental management and patenting. In particular it tests a number of propositions on how environmental...
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System Identification With General Dynamic Neural Networks and Network Pruning
January 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents an exact pruning algorithm with adaptive pruning interval for General Dynamic Neural Networks (GDNN). GDNNs are artificial neural networks with internal dynamics. All layers...
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The Political Economy Of Corruption & The Role Of Financial Institutions
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In many developing and transition countries, the authors observe rather high levels of corruption. This is surprising from a political economy perspective, as the majority of people in a corrupt...
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Asynchronous Network Coded Multicast
June 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of setting up a multicast connection of minimum cost using network coding. It is well known that this can be posed in the form of a convex program. The...
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Who Is Afraid Of Political Risk? Multinational Firms And Their Choice Of Capital Structure
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how multinational firms choose their capital structure in response to political risk. The authors focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of...
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Innovation And The International Firm Structure: Theory And Evidence From German Firm-Level Data
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of off shoring. This...
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Standards, Innovation Incentives, And The Formation Of Patent Pools
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology producers. In this paper the author discusses how patent pools can be used...
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Institutions And Innovations As Sources Of Productivity Growth Cross-Country Evidence
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The investigation of the determinants of economic growth plays an important role for the understanding of the sources of cross-country income differences. This paper analyzes the effects of...
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Downstream Market Structure And The Incentive For Innovation In Telecommunication Infrastructure
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the question of how the competitive situation in the downstream market, the services, and the innovative activity in the upstream market, the network infrastructure,...
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Three Empirical Essays On The Determinants Of Economic Growth
February 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
Is there some action a government in India could take that would lead the Indian Economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's? If so, what exactly? If not, what is it about the "Nature of India"...
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The Effect Of Uncertainty On The Occurrence And Spread Of Financial Crises
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many financial crises have occurred in emerging market economies around a few initial crises, particularly around the Mexican crisis in 1994, the Thai crisis in 1997, and the Russian crisis in...
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Liquidity Shortages And Monetary Policy
September 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper models the interaction between risk taking in the financial sector and central bank policy for the case of pure illiquidity risk. It is shown that, when bad states are highly unlikely,...
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Liquidity Risk And Monetary Policy
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides a framework to analyse emergency liquidity assistance of central banks on financial markets in response to aggregate and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks. The model combines the...
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Creditor Passivity: The Effects Of Bank Competition And Institutions On The Strategic Use Of Bankruptcy Filings
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship the authors study the trade-off a bank faces when having defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if...
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Corporate Taxes And The Location Of Intangible Assets Within Multinational Firms
July 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Intangible assets, like patents and trademarks, are increasingly seen as the key to competitive success and as the drivers of corporate profit. Moreover, they constitute a major source of profit...
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Multinational Enterprises And Corporate Taxation: An Empirical Assessment Of The Location Of Assets, Profits And Debt
February 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
The globalized world economy is experiencing a rising importance of MultiNational Enterprises (MNEs). Referring to OECD data, worldwide Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has sextupled since the...
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Three Essays On Liquidity Crisis, Monetary Policy, And Banking Regulation
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Liquidity, the ease of converting assets to cash, is perhaps one of the most mysterious terms in both finance and macroeconomics. In economic booms the world is abundant with liquidity, but when...
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Predictive Ability Of Business Cycle Indicators Under Test: A Case Study For The Euro Area Industrial Production
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors assess the information content of seven widely cited early indicators for the euro area with respect to forecasting area-wide industrial production. To this end, they use...
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Responsibility Effects In Decision Making Under Risk
December 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors systematically explore decision situations in which a decision maker bears responsibility for somebody else's outcomes as well as for her own in situations of payoff equality. In the...
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Increasing Dominance - The Role Of Advertising, Pricing And Product Design
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite the empirical relevance of advertising strategies in concentrated markets, the economics literature is largely silent on the effect of persuasive advertising strategies on pricing, market...
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Frameworks For The Theoretical And Empirical Analysis Of Monetary Policy
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Monetary policy has been very successful in most countries in recent years. Average inflation rates have declined considerably since the 1980s. Furthermore, a number of authors such as Stock and...
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The Impact Of Globalisation With Rigid Labour Markets
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The public debate reveals that people are unsettled about the impact of the current globalisation wave. News about job losses fuels this unrest regularly. It is a matter of fact that firms...
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Testing Predicitive Ability Of Business Cycle Indicators For The Euro Area
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the predictive power of seven leading indicators for economic activity in the Euro Area developed by different banks, institutions and research centers. The comparison is...
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FTOS-Verify: Analysis and Verification of Non-Functional Properties for Fault-Tolerant Systems
May 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The focus of the tool FTOS is to alleviate designers' burden by offering code generation for non-functional aspects including fault-tolerance mechanisms. One crucial aspect in this context is to...
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Modeling and Verification for Timing Satisfaction of Fault-Tolerant Systems With Finiteness
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The complexity of distributed real-time systems is growing rapidly; model-based development tools are used to accelerate the development process and increase the quality of the produced code. In...
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Incidence And Growth Of Patent Thickets - The Impact Of Technological Opportunities And Complexity
April 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. The empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how...
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Robust, Complete, and Efficient Correlation Clustering
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Correlation clustering aims at the detection of data points that appear as hyperplanes in the data space and, thus, exhibit common correlations between different subsets of features. Recently...
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Interval-Focused Similarity Search in Time Series Databases
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Similarity search in time series databases usually deals with comparing entire time series objects or subsequence search. In this paper, the authors formalize the notion of interval-focused...
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Detection and Visualization of Subspace Cluster Hierarchies
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Subspace clustering (also called projected clustering) addresses the problem that different sets of attributes may be relevant for different clusters in high dimensional feature spaces. In this...
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Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Query on Uncertain Objects
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Nearest-neighbor queries are an important query type for commonly used feature databases. In many different application areas, e.g. sensor databases, location based services or face recognition...
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Index-Supported Similarity Search Using Multiple Representations
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Similarity search in complex databases is of utmost interest in a wide range of application domains. Often, complex objects are described by several representations. The combination of these...
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Periodic Pattern Analysis in Time Series Databases
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Similarity search in time series data is used in diverse domains. The most prominent work has focused on similarity search considering either complete time series or certain subsequences of time...
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Techniques for Efficiently Searching in Spatial, Temporal, Spatio-temporal, and Multimedia Databases
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedia databases. In...
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Subspace Similarity Search Using the Ideas of Ranking and Top-k Retrieval
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. While much...
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Subspace Similarity Search: Efficient k-NN Queries in Arbitrary Subspaces
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. While much...
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One Software Tool for Testing Square S-Boxes
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An encryption technique is widely used to keep data confidential. Most of the block symmetric algorithms use substitution functions. Often this functions use so called S-BOX matrix. In this paper...
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Signal Processing and Detection for Multi-User Z Channels
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate how to send space time codes with full diversity and low decoding complexity for Z channels using pre-coders. First, they introduce their channel model and...
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Effects of Channel Estimation Error on Array Processing Based QO-STBC Coded OFDM Systems
September 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper concerns performance degradation caused by channel estimation error of Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block (QO-STBC) Coded OFDM systems employing array processing decoder. The Least...
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A Metering Infrastructure for Heterogenous Mobile Networks
December 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The next generation of mobile access networks will support different access technologies like UMTS, WLAN, WiMax and LTE. Optimal handover decisions between different access networks have to take...
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Look Into My Eyes! Can You Guess My Password?
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Authentication systems for public terminals - and thus public spaces - have to be fast, easy and secure. Security is of utmost importance since the public setting allows manifold attacks from...
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Channel-And Application-Aware Transmission of Mixed Traffic Over Wireless Shared Channels
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors will present an advanced transmission strategy for improving the quality when delay-critical video and best-effort data traffic is transmitted in parallel on the downlink of a cellular...
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Financial Openness And Thresholds Revisited: Accounting For Model Uncertainty
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent research stresses the importance of supportive initial conditions for countries to reap the benefits of financial integration. This paper revisits the robustness and relative importance of...
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Equities, Credits And Volatilities: A Multivariate Analysis Of The European Market During The Sub-Prime Crisis
October 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Motivated by recent developments in light of the sub-prime and subsequent financial crisis the authors' fit two different Vector AutoRegressive Generalized Conditional Heteroscedastic (VAR-GARCH)...
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Real Versus Financial Barriers To Multinational Activity
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. However, firms typically also need external finance to...
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Profit Shifting By Multinationals And The Ownership Share: Evidence From European Micro Data
August 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide indirect empirical evidence of profit shifting behavior by MultiNational Enterprises (MNEs) employing a panel study for the years 1995 to 2005, while controlling for...
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Corporate Interest Rates And The Financial Accelerator In The Czech Republic
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the determinants of the corporate interest rates and the financial accelerator in the Czech Republic. Using a unique panel of 448 Czech firms from 1996 to 2002, they find that...
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Group Versus Individual Lending In Microfinance
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance is typically associated with joint liability of group members. However, a large part of microfinance institutions rather offers individual instead of group loans. The authors analyze...
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The Effect Of Entertainment In Newspaper And Television News Coverage Munich
June 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors analyze the equilibrium amount of entertainment in news coverage of newspapers and television stations. They find that a shift in the inclination to read, expressed by a...
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Investment Incentives And Electricity Spot Market Design
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In liberalized electricity markets strategic firms compete in an environment characterized by fluctuating demand and non-storability of electricity. While spot market design under those conditions...
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Tempus Fugit: Time Pressure In Risky Decisions
April 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the effects of time pressure on risky decisions for pure gain prospects, pure loss prospects, and mixed prospects involving both gains and losses. In an experiment they find that...
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Economic Surplus And Derived Demand
June 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Alfred Marshall has pointed out that most demand - especially labor demand - is derived from the demand for some other product. He wrote: "To take another illustration, the direct demand for...
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There's No Place Like Home: The Profitability Gap Between Headquarters And Their Foreign Subsidiaries
August 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using a large panel data set for European firms, this paper provides evidence that operations at multinational headquarters are significantly more profitable than operations at their foreign...
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Does Mobility Increase The Productivity Of Inventors?
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive...
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Empirical Capital Structure Research: New Ideas, Recent Evidence, And Methodological Issues
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Even 50 years after Modigliani/Miller's irrelevance theorem, the basic question of how firms choose their capital structure remains unclear. This survey paper aims at summarizing and discussing...
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To Be Financed Or Not - The Role Of Patents For Venture Capital Financing
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract Venture Capital (VC) financing. The authors argue that investors are faced with...
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Loan Supply Shocks During The Financial Crisis: Evidence For The Euro Area From A Panel VAR With Sign Restrictions
April 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper employs a panel vector autoregressive model for the member countries of the Euro Area to explore the role of banks during the slump of the real economy that followed the financial...
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Financial Frictions And Inflation Differentials In A Monetary Union
October 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation differentials can be explained by cross-country differences concerning the...
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US-German Differences In Productivity Growth
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that US productivity growth post 1991 was driven largely by ICT capital-skill complementarities. In the mid - 1990s these complementarities were strongest in goods-producing...
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Collect&Drop: A Technique for Physical Mobile Interaction
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The proposed demonstration presents Collect&Drop, a new technique for physical mobile Interaction with the real world, its objects and associated information. Collect&Drop is integrated with the...
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Similarity Search in Multimedia Time Series Data Using Amplitude-Level Features
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Effective similarity search in multi-media time series such as video or audio sequences is important for content-based multi-media retrieval applications. The authors propose a framework that...
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Effective and Efficient Indexing for Large Video Databases
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Content based multimedia retrieval is an important topic in database systems. An emerging and challenging topic in this area is the content based search in video data. A video clip can be...
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ELKI: A Software System for Evaluation of Subspace Clustering Algorithms
July 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In an active research area like data mining, a plethora of algorithms is proposed every year. Most of them, however, are presented once and never heard about again. On the other hand, newly...
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Subspace Similarity Search: Efficient k-NN Queries in Arbitrary Subspaces
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. While much...
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White Papers
Subspace Similarity Search Using the Ideas of Ranking and Top-k Retrieval
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
There are abundant scenarios for applications of similarity search in databases where the similarity of objects is defined for a subset of attributes, i.e., in a subspace, only. While much...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Techniques for Efficiently Searching in Spatial, Temporal, Spatio-temporal, and Multimedia Databases
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedia databases. In...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Periodic Pattern Analysis in Time Series Databases
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Similarity search in time series data is used in diverse domains. The most prominent work has focused on similarity search considering either complete time series or certain subsequences of time...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Index-Supported Similarity Search Using Multiple Representations
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Similarity search in complex databases is of utmost interest in a wide range of application domains. Often, complex objects are described by several representations. The combination of these...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Query on Uncertain Objects
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Nearest-neighbor queries are an important query type for commonly used feature databases. In many different application areas, e.g. sensor databases, location based services or face recognition...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Detection and Visualization of Subspace Cluster Hierarchies
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Subspace clustering (also called projected clustering) addresses the problem that different sets of attributes may be relevant for different clusters in high dimensional feature spaces. In this...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Interval-Focused Similarity Search in Time Series Databases
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Similarity search in time series databases usually deals with comparing entire time series objects or subsequence search. In this paper, the authors formalize the notion of interval-focused...
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White Papers
Robust, Complete, and Efficient Correlation Clustering
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Correlation clustering aims at the detection of data points that appear as hyperplanes in the data space and, thus, exhibit common correlations between different subsets of features. Recently...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Incidence And Growth Of Patent Thickets - The Impact Of Technological Opportunities And Complexity
April 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. The empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how...
Provided by University of Munich
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White Papers
Modeling and Verification for Timing Satisfaction of Fault-Tolerant Systems With Finiteness
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The complexity of distributed real-time systems is growing rapidly; model-based development tools are used to accelerate the development process and increase the quality of the produced code. In...
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FTOS-Verify: Analysis and Verification of Non-Functional Properties for Fault-Tolerant Systems
May 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The focus of the tool FTOS is to alleviate designers' burden by offering code generation for non-functional aspects including fault-tolerance mechanisms. One crucial aspect in this context is to...
Provided by TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
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White Papers
Testing Predicitive Ability Of Business Cycle Indicators For The Euro Area
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the predictive power of seven leading indicators for economic activity in the Euro Area developed by different banks, institutions and research centers. The comparison is...
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