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Orange Peal Jan 1995

Orange Peal

Syracuse University Magazine

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Exploration Of The Infomall Concept "Building On The Electronic Infomall", Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Ken Hawick, Donald Jan 1995

Exploration Of The Infomall Concept "Building On The Electronic Infomall", Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Ken Hawick, Donald

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

This document describes: the InfoMall concept; how it is employed by the Northeast Parallel Architectures center (NPAC) as a technology transfer program, how it could be used by Rome Laboratory and by the United States Air Force Materiel Command (US AFMC). A description of the “Electronic InfoMall” system built on the World Wide Web as a pilot project for Rome Laboratory is also given as well as some experiences building WWW systems for academic, commerce and industry. It should be emphasized that this document is primarily a description of the potential uses of the InfoMall concept and the human interactive …


Controlling The Complexity Of Investment Decisions Using Qualitative Reasoning Techniques, Michel Benaroch, Vasant Dhar Jan 1995

Controlling The Complexity Of Investment Decisions Using Qualitative Reasoning Techniques, Michel Benaroch, Vasant Dhar

Management - All Scholarship

Assembling financial instruments such as equities, bonds, options, and other derivatives into a portfolio requires a thorough understanding of how the portfolio will behave in response to changes of specific economic variables and parameters of the instruments. With more information about a more diverse set of instruments becoming available to traders, it is becoming important to limit the complexity of the analysis involved. We show how this complexity can be limited by using qualitative analysis, where the objective is to construct a few good vehicles which can then be analyzed quantitatively. We illustrate how two qualitative reasoning techniques -- qualitative …


Public Policy And Entrepreneurship, Douglas Holtz-Eakin Jan 1995

Public Policy And Entrepreneurship, Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Center for Policy Research

The image of the American entrepreneur retains an enduring fascination in the minds of the public and policy makers alike. For example, testifying several years ago at a congressional hearing on "the entrepreneurial spirit in America," Wisconsin's Senator Robert Kasten said of entrepreneurs: "They create new jobs. They provide new competition to existing businesses. They help to improve product quality, help to reduce prices, add new goods and services never before thought of, advance new technologies, America's competitive stance." His statement captures the view that entrepreneurial enterprises are valuable sources of technological advance, jobs, and dynamism, a trait commonly attributed …