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Comparing the Predictive Capability of Social and Interest Affinity for Recommendations

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The advent of online social networks created new prediction opportunities for recommender systems: instead of relying on past rating history through the use of collaborative filtering (CF), they can leverage the social relations among users as a predictor ...

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Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa, Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

In this paper, we build on a single product, finite horizon, periodic review inventory management setting and include key financial aspects such as working capital constraints, payment delays and multiple sources of financing. We numerically solve for the ...

Elsevier2013

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

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Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013

Inferring Social Ties in Academic Networks Using Short-Range Wireless Communications

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Murtuza Jadliwala, Igor Bilogrevic, Valtteri Niemi, Florent Lopez

WiFi base stations are increasingly deployed in both public spaces and private companies, and the increase in their density poses a significant threat to the privacy of connected users. Prior studies have provided evidence that it is possible to infer the ...

2013

The Influence of Urban Spatial Practices on Moral Schemes: Analyzing the Cognitive Construction of Spatial Globalization Through Experimental Moral Philosophy

Shin Alexandre Koseki

In French analytical geography, globalization is the emergence of the World as a spatial entity by which the planetary extension become one space. Taking a cognitive perspective, I suggest that globalization is by extension the process by which the individ ...

2013

Inferring Social Ties in Pervasive Networks: An On-Campus Comparative Study

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Murtuza Jadliwala, Igor Bilogrevic, Valtteri Niemi, Florent Lopez

WiFi base stations are increasingly deployed in both public spaces and private companies, and the increase in their density poses a significant threat to the privacy of users. Prior studies have shown that it is possible to infer the social ties between us ...

2013

The Social Maintenance of Cooperation through Hypocrisy

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Cooperation is widespread in human societies, but its maintenance at the group level remains puzzling if individuals benefit from not cooperating. Explanations of the maintenance of cooperation generally assume that cooperative and non-cooperative behavior ...

2013

Corporate governance and capital structure dynamics

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We develop a dynamic tradeoff model to examine the importance of managershareholder conflicts in capital structure choice. In the model, firms face taxation, refinancing costs, and liquidation costs. Managers own a fraction of the firms equity, capture par ...

2012

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