Retrieval of eco-hydrological variables/parameters from the orld’s cold and arid regions using remote sensing is more chalenging compared to other regions, and less research work on uantitative remote sensing has been carried out in these specific egions. This is because: (1) Cold and arid regions are most likely o be located in theworld’s remote and relatively under-developed reas, where conve...

In this paper, a Prototype design of electronic coupons ecosystem using NFC (Near Field Communication) in smart phones with OMM (Object Memory Model) is presented. The goal of OMM is to support the life cycle of NFC-based Electronic Coupon ecosystem for profile and usage, from E-Coupon push service and to E-Coupon clearance, using smart phone based on NFC devices. We propose the E-Coupon with O...

‎The aim of this paper is to generalize the comprehensive structural model for defaultable fixed income bonds (considered in R‎. ‎Agliardi‎, ‎A comprehensive structural model for defaultable fixed-income bondsو Quant‎. ‎Finance 11 (2011)‎, ‎no‎. ‎5‎, ‎749--762.) into a comprehensive unified model of structural and reduced form models‎. ‎In our model the bond holders receive the deterministic co...

A digital coupon distributing firm selects coupons from its coupon pool and posts them online for its customers to activate them. Its objective is to maximize the total number of clicks that activate the coupons by sequential arriving customers. This paper resolves this problem by using a multi-armed bandit approach to balance the exploration (learning customers' preference for coupons) with ex...

We surveyed of grocery shoppers in the Northeast United States to measure how demographic characteristics and consumer behavior affect the use of four coupon types (paper, in-store, checkout, and online). We employ logit models to estimate the probability that a consumer is a regular coupon user conditioned to his/her demographic and behavioral characteristics. Readership and economizing-behavi...

This paper characterizes conditions under which a risky coupon bond is equivalent to a portfolio of risky zero-coupon bonds. This characterization is extended to enable the estimation of firm specific zero-coupon bond prices from risky coupon bond prices for the determination of firm specific credit risk curves.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Since nowadays mobile phone messages are flourishing, the application of electronic coupon (e-coupon) will become a trend for mobile users. E-coupon for mobile commerce can provide mobility for users and distribution flexibility for issuers. However, most of the existed e-coupon schemes usually apply public-key cryptosystem to achieve the security, which will not be implemented in mobile device...

A coupon is an electronic data that represents the right to access a service provided by a service provider (e.g. gift certificates or movie tickets). Recently, a privacyprotecting multi-coupon system that allows a user to withdraw a predefined number of single coupons from the service provider has been proposed by Chen et al. at Financial Crypto 2005. In this system, every coupon has the same ...