issues on intellectual property: e.g., the extension of patents to software and business models, the lengthening of copyright protection, the compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical products or the legal suits against music downloaders. Economics is also a powerful instrument to improve public policy. It helps to design the appropriate reform to adapt intellectual property law to the 21st centur...

Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What about now? Do you still love reading? Is reading only for you who have obligation? Absolutely not! We here offer you a new book enPDFd higher order logic and hardware ...

Until its sales of a product materialize, a firm is a “pre-producer” in the market for that product. That firm may may be a new start-up, or it may already sell other products. Firms that do not succeed in generating sales eventually become discouraged and move on to other activities. When this fate befalls a lot of firms, as it recently did in several IT-related businesses, the indistry experi...

Rapidly rising system complexity has created a growing productivity gap in the design of electronic systems. One critical component is Hardware-dependent Software (HdS), the importance of which is often underestimated. In this chapter, we introduce HdS and illustrate its role in the overall system design context. We also provide a brief overview and define a basic HdS terminology and conclude w...

The experience of using a book in the classical, codex form – more than 1000 years old – is far from “broken.” However it is ripe for evolutionary enhancement. A cambrian explosion of forms is underway, offering new software, hardware, appliances, systems and networks that seek to extend and enhance the pleasure, power and utility of reading. But which of these forms, if any, promises the ideal...

This paper presents an augmented reality application framework which does not require specialized hardware or pre-calibration. Features extracted using SURF are matched between consecutive frames in order to determine the motion of the detected known object with respect to the camera. Next, a bi-directional optical flow algorithm is used to maintain the performance of the system to realtime. Th...

Our discussion of aesthetics in graphics is most often centered on content and methods of content generation. Somewhere between these abstractions and a viewer’s eye lie a mass of transistors, wires, metal, and glass. These elements can strongly affect our reaction to graphical displays. This talk is a survey of how displays and display processors can either promote or hinder our appreciation o...

While the efforts by actors on buyer-side of value chains – such as brands and retailers to address upstream labour abuses are well documented, there is a lack research into how production-side raw material producers can identify downstream risks. This presents findings an action project that focused Australian cotton industry. By applying sense-making lens, we propose four properties be used r...