This research is concerned with the technoeconomic aspects of modern and next-generation telecommunications including the Internet service. The goal of this study thereof is tailored to address the following: (i) Reviewing the technoeconomic considerations prevailing in telecommunication (telco)...

We introduce a combined two-stage least-squares (2SLS)-expectation maximization (EM) algorithm for estimating vector-valued autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity models with standardized errors generated by Gaussian mixtures. The procedure incorporates the identification of the...

The current access policies and funding schemes of computing e-infrastructures represent a huge challenge for the sustainable growth of computing e-infrastructures and a serious jeopardy for investments made into these e-infrastructures. In order to be able to address these issues, the economics...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Random Variable Generation -- 1.1 Basic Methods -- 1.1.1 Congruential Generators -- 1.1.2 The KISS Generator -- 1.1.3 Beyond Uniform Distributions -- 1.2 Transformation Methods -- 1.3 Accept-Reject...

This paper reviews the need for powerful computing facilities in econometrics, focusing on concrete problems which arise in financial economics and in macroeconomics. We argue that the profession is being held back by the lack of easy to use generic software which is able to exploit the...

Being one of the largest groundwater basins in Jordan, the Azraq basin is considered to be an important domestic and agricultural water source. Lately, there have been growing concerns about the continuous depletion and deterioration in groundwater quality in the basin due to intensive pumping...

We present a model of the global spread of a generic human infectious disease using a Monte Carlo micro-simulation with large-scale parallel-processing. This prototype has been constructed and tested on a model of the entire population of the British Isles. Typical results are presented. A...