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Financial reports should provide useful information to both shareholders and creditors, according to U.S. accounting principles. However, directors of corporations have fiduciary duties only toward equity holders, and those fiduciary duties normally do not extend to the interests of creditors. We examine whether this slant in corporate governance biases financial reports in favor of equity inve...

Ozone Widget Framework (OWF) is an event-based web platform for lightweight integration of widget applications. This technical report presents a formal model of OWF’s widget composition mechanism. First, we present a detailed description of Ozone’s end user composition mechanism. Then, we describe our architectural modeling approach and its value for analysis of OWF widget compositions. We go t...

In order to enable courseware reuse, it is necessary to decompose learning materials into manageable learning objects. Most scientific projects and organizations that are concerned with courseware reuse and exchange like Ariadne [2], IMS Global Learning Consortium [4], Educause [3], the IEEE Learning Technologies Standards Committee [8] with its Learning Object Metadata (LOM) [7], and the Germa...

The ideas and results contained in this document are part of my thesis, which will be published as a Stanford computer science technical report in June 1999. Similar ideas applied to the EMD under translation have already been published in the technical report [1]. We begin some intuition, examples, and informal definitions. The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is a distance measure between discret...

Introduction. The semi–dynamical systems were introduced in the framework of the axiomatic potential theory by H m i s s i [5] and, in the more general form used in this note, by B u c u r – B e z z a r g a [1], [2]. The present paper is a natural continuation of [8] and represents the printed form of the technical report [9]. The notion of morphism was introduced in potential theory in [6], se...

We deploy a mechanism design approach for allocating a divisible commodity (electricity in our example) among consumers. We consider each consumer with an associated personal valuation function of the energy resource during a certain time interval. We aim to select the optimal consumption profile for every user avoiding consumption peaks when the total required energy could exceed the energy pr...