Against the backdrop of today’s climate of economic globalization and the rapid development of information, this timely book explores the complex concept of competitiveness between cities. The expert contributors illustrate that innovation is a prerequisite for increasing urban...

The objective of this paper is to discuss the possibilities of attaining a time–space harmonization of the consumer price indexes that are elaborated by the 12 European Union (EU) Euro-zone countries and by Eurostat. After focusing on the duality of the time and space domains for price indexes...

A new one-dimensional approach, based on the solution of the governing equations for unsteady, reacting and compressible flows has been developed for the simulation of the hydrodynamics, the transient filtration/loading and the catalytic/NO2-assisted regeneration occurring in diesel particulate...

We show that the equivalence between certain problems of singular stochastic control (SSC) and related questions of optimal stopping known for convex performance criteria (see, for example, Karatzas and Shreve (1984)) continues to hold in a non convex problem provided a related discretionary...