We describe ongoing work aiming at deriving a multilingual controlled vocabulary (German, French, Italian) from the combined subject indices from 22 volumes of a large-scale critical edition of historical documents. The controlled vocabulary is intended to support editors in assigning descriptors to new documents and to support users in retrieving documents of interest regardless of the spellin...

Post-employment restrictive covenants in the context of employment relationships have long posed challenges for employers. Both the nature of the agreement and the context in which it is entered into impact the enforceability of restrictive covenants. The lack of a unified or “national” body of law on restrictive covenants within the US further complicates the issue. For example, in some states...

Power priors are used for incorporating historical data in Bayesian analyses by taking the likelihood of raised to power α as prior distribution model parameters. The parameter is typically unknown and assigned a distribution, most commonly beta distribution. Here, we give novel theoretical result on resulting marginal posterior case normal binomial model. Counterintuitively, when current perfe...

Abstract In this paper, we present and compare several methods for generating scenarios stochastic-programming models by direct selection from historical data. The range standard sampling k -means, through iterative sampling-based methods, to a new moment-based optimization approach. We the on simple portfolio-optimization model show how use them in situation when are selecting whole sequences ...