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Reviews the book 'Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms,' by Donald E. Knuth.

Diakopoulos, Nicholas Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media. Should algorithms make journalism I better i or just I more productive i (in the words of the author, will they be used by news organizations for "more quality" rather than jus to produce "more content"?. [Extracted from the article]

This piece briefly introduces my Painting By Numbers, which aims to take the core messages of the QL/QR community from academic and professional circles to the rest of the citizenry. I describe the book in the context of the critical need for the most basic numeracy tools to help consumers of news, information, and analysis--delivered through traditional and contemporary social media outlets--determine where a reported numerical result lies on the scale from utter nonsense to a widely established and accepted "fact." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a bootstrap algorithm for a reduced rank vector autoregressive model with a restricted linear trend and independent, identically distributed errors is analyzed. For testing the cointegration rank, the asymptotic distribution under the hypothesis is the same as for the usual likelihood ratio test, so that the bootstrap is consistent. It is furthermore shown that a bootstrap procedure for determining the rank is asymptotically consistent in the sense that the probability of choosing the rank smaller than the true one converges to zero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A theory is developed for jointly minimizing the bit error rate (BER) between the desired and decoded signals with respect to the coefficients of transmitter and receiver finite impulse response (FIR) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) filters. The original signal is assumed to be a vector time-series with equally likely memory less Bernoulli vector components. The channel model constitutes of a known FIR MIMO transfer function and Gaussian additive noise independent of the original signal. The channel input signal is assumed to be power constrained. Based on the formulas obtained, an iterative numerical optimization algorithm is proposed. When compared with other design methods available in the literature, the proposed method yields better results due to the generality of the model considered and the joint optimization of the transmitter-receiver pair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Self-Organizing Methods in Modeling: GMDH Type Algorithms," edited by Stanley J. Farlow.

Reviews the book 'Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms,' by Donald E. Knuth.

Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen's Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong (Oxford University Press, 2009) explores efforts to develop machines that, not only can be employed for good or bad ends, but which themselves can be held morally accountable for what they do- artificial moral agents (AMAs). This essay is a critical response to Wallach and Allen's conjectures. Although Wallach and Allen do not suggest that we are close to being able to create full-fledged AMAs, they do talk seriously about making incremental progress in the direction of creating them (even if we never fully succeed). However, there are important questions about the moral development of AMAs that Moral Machines does not address. Given the responsibilities entrusted to human moral agents, we take questions about their moral development very seriously. In the case of children, the hope is that eventually they will develop into full-fledged moral agents. How might we expect this to go with less than fully formed AMAs? Will there be a comparable story of moral development and moral education that we can tell? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry," by S. Basu, R. Pollack and M.-F. Roy.

The article reviews the book "Introduction to Clustering Large and High-Dimensional Data," by Jacob Kogan.

Reviews the book "Recent Models, Algorithms and Applications," edited by Jan Weglarz.

Focuses on the implementation of the simplest instance of Shor's algorithm. Techniques for the precision control and modelling of complex quantum computers; application of the room temperature liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques; Presentation of the predictive model of decoherence effects.

Reviews the book "High Performance Algorithms and Software for Nonlinear Optimization," edited by Gianni Di Pillo and Almerico Murli.

The article reviews the book "Models & Algorithms for Global Optimization," edited by Aimo Törn and Julius Zilinkskas.

The article reviews the book "Scatter Search: Methodology and Implementations in C," by Manuel Laguna and Rafael Marti.

The article reviews the book "Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications," edited by Stephan Olariu and Albert Y. Zomaya.

Reviews the book "Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers," by Kathrin Klamroth.

Reviews the book "Approximation Algorithms," by Vijay Vazirani.

Reviews the book 'Multi-Objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms,' by Kalyanmoy Deb.

Reviews the book "Practical Numerical Algorithms for Chaotic Systems," by Thomas S. Parker and Leon O. Chua.

Reviews the book 'Algorithms on Graphs,' by H.T. Lau.

Reviews the book "Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications," by D. Dasgupta and edited by Z. Michalewicz.

The article reviews the book "Data Clustering: Theory Algorithms and Applications," by G. Gan, M. A. Chaoqun and J. Wu.

The article reviews the book "Network and Discrete Location Models, Algorithms and Applications," by Mark S. Daskin.

Reviews the book 'Approximation Algorithms,' by Vijay V. Vazirani.

The article reviews the book "Clustering and Classification," edited by P. Arabie, L. J. Hubert and G. De Soete.

The article reviews the book "Scheduling Algorithms," by Peter Brucker.

The article reviews the book "The EM Algorithm and Extensions," 2nd edition, by G. J. McLachlan and T. Krishnan.

The article reviews the book "Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook," Second Edition--2 Volume Set, by Mikhail J. Atallah and Marina Blanton.

Reviews the book "The Stable Marriage Problem: Structure and Algorithms," by Dan Gusfield and Robert W. Irving.

Reviews the book "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP Completeness," by M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson.

Reviews the book "Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms," F. Rothfaulf.

Reviews the book "Transportation Networks: A Quantitative Approach," by D. Teodorovic.

The article reviews the book "The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible," by Lance Fortnow.