“Real options” is often viewed as a valuable managerial tool of flexibility and exploration in new technology investment. Real options theory has been criticized, however, due...
This paper studies the problem of realizing a common software clock among a large set of nodes without an external time reference (i.e., internal clock synchronization), any centr...
Ecologists instrument ecosystems to collect time series representing the evolution in time and space of relevant abiotic and biotic factors. Sensor networks promise to improve on ...