Electronic portfolios have been created by students ranging from elementary to post secondary, and by professionals in divergent fields ranging from art to business. The specific intentions of the portfolios are equally disparate, including showcases of accomplishment, competency, and self-reflection. For students in the teacher education programs advocating electronic portfolios, the initial d...

Carmine De Franco, PhD Quantitative analyst [email protected] Bruno Monnier, CFA Quantitative analyst [email protected] Ksenya Rulik, PhD, CFA Head of Quantitative Research [email protected] We assess the exposure of stock portfolios sorted by total volatility to interest rate risk and determine whether this non-equity risk can explain differences in risk and risk-adjust...

The Centralized Conferencing Manipulation Protocol (CCMP) allows a Centralized Conferencing (XCON) system client to create, retrieve, change, and delete objects that describe a centralized conference. CCMP is a means to control basic and advanced conference features such as conference state and capabilities, participants, relative roles, and details. CCMP is a stateless, XML-based, client serve...

Robust portfolios reduce the uncertainty in portfolio performance. In particular, the worst-case optimization approach is based on the Markowitz model and form portfolios that are more robust compared to mean–variance portfolios. However, since the robust formulation finds a different portfolio from the optimal mean–variance portfolio, the two portfolios may have dissimilar levels of factor exp...

This paper introduces a conferencing server design based on an innovative configurable computing architecture to support the information transmission and distributed processing associated with creating and maintaining simultaneous disjoint conferences among sets of N conferees, where rdimensional meshes can be used as the conferencing components. An r-dimensional conferencing mesh network is st...

Audio/Video Conferencing Systems need communication channels between their clients in order to transport RTP packets from one client to another. In this paper we investigate audio/video conferencing as a Web Service and the deployment of publish/subscribe systems in the context of audio/video conferencing systems. In this paper we use our research system NaradaBrokering, which supports both pee...