FnT Electronic Design Automation 2:2
FPGA Architecture: Survey and Challenges
by Ian Kuon (University of Toronto), Russell Tessier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Jonathan Rose (University of Toronto)
This survey reviews the historical development of programmable logic devices, the fundamental programming technologies that the programmability is built on, and then describes the basic understandings gleaned from research on architectures.

FnT Human-Computer Interaction 1:4
Interaction Design and Children
by Juan Pablo Hourcade (University of Iowa)
This survey provides a review of research on children’s cognitive and motor development, safety issues related to technologies and design methodologies and principles.

FnT Entrepreneurship 4:5
Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Economic Growth
by Pontus Braunerhjelm (KTH)
This paper reviews the literature that addresses the issues of knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion and growth, and the role attributed the entrepreneur in such dynamic processes.

FnT Information Retrieval 1:3
Authorship Attribution
by Patrick Juola (Duquesne University)
This review surveys the history and present state of the discipline, presenting some comparative results when available.

FnT Econometrics 3:1
Nonparametric Econometrics: A Primer
by Jeffrey S. Racine (McMaster University)
This review is a primer for those who wish to familiarize themselves with nonparametric econometrics.

FnT Accounting 1:4
Earnings Quality
by Jennifer Francis, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper (Duke University)
This review lays out a research perspective on earnings quality. We provide an overview of alternative definitions and measures of earnings quality and a discussion of research design choices encountered in earnings quality research.

FnT Signal Processing 1:3
The Application of Hidden Markov Models in Speech Recognition
by Mark Gales and Steve Young (University of Cambridge)
The aim of this review is first to present the core architecture of a HMM-based LVCSR system and then describe the various refinements which are needed to achieve state-of-the-art performance.

FnT Microeconomics 4:1-2
The Microeconomics of Insurance
by Ray Rees (U. Munich) and Achim Wambach (U. Cologne)
In this survey, we present the core elements of the microeconomic analysis of insurance markets at a level suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate economics students.

FnT Web Science 1:2
Trust on the World Wide Web: A Survey
by Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland)
In this review, we present a comprehensive survey of trust on the Web in all its contexts.

FnT Communications and Information Theory 4:2-3
Reliability Criteria in Information Theory and in Statistical Hypothesis Testing
by E. Haroutunian (NAS Armenia), M.E. Haroutunian (NAS Armenia) and A.N. Harutyunyan (U. Duisburg-Essen)
This survey is devoted to one of the central problems of Information Theory -- the problem of determination of interdependence between coding rate and error probability exponent for different information transmission systems.

FnT Networking 2:3
Network Optimization and Control
by Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A and M) and R. Srikant (UIUC)
This tutorial studies how protocol design for various functionalities within a communication network architecture can be viewed as a distributed resource allocation problem.

FnT Networking 2:2
Network Coding Applications
by Christina Fragouli (EPFL) and Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs-Lucent)
This tutorial deals with wireless and content distribution networks, considered to be the most likely applications of network coding, and it also reviews emerging applications of network coding such as network monitoring and management.

FnT Marketing 1:3
Brand Attachment: Constructs, Consequences, and Causes
by C. Whan Park, Deborah J. MacInnis and Joseph Priester (USC)
This review examines four key issues involved in developing and establishing strong brand relationships with its customers.

FnT Technology, Information and OM 1:4
The Structure of Global Supply Chains: The Design and Location of Sourcing, Production, and Distribution Facility Networks for Global Markets
by Panos Kouvelis (Washington University) and Ping Su (SUNY New Paltz)
Global supply chain management is a core business process of the utmost strategic importance and all firms have to manage it as such. This review provides a better understanding of the development of the right “footprint” of a global firm in its effort to supply its markets in environments of fast paced competition and tremendous uncertainty.

FnT Technology, Information and OM 1:3
Behavioral Operations Management
by Christoph H. Loch (INSEAD) and Yaozhong Wu (National University of Singapore)
Behavioral Operations Management investigates new developments around behavioral components -- “people issues” -- in operations management (OM).

FnT Stochastic Systems 1:3
Long Range Dependence
by Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell)
The notion of long range dependence is discussed from a variety of points of view, and a new approach is suggested.

FnT Stochastic Systems 1:2
Controlled Markov Chains, Graphs, and Hamiltonicity
by Jerzy Filar (University of South Australia)
This manuscript summarizes a line of research that maps certain classical problems of discrete mathematics -- such as the Hamiltonian Cycle and the Traveling Salesman Problems -- into convex domains where continuum analysis can be carried out.

FnT Databases 1:2
Architecture of a Database System
by Joseph M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley), Michael Stonebraker (MIT) and James Hamilton (Microsoft)
This paper presents an architectural discussion of DBMS design principles, including process models, parallel architecture, storage system design, transaction system implementation, query processor and optimizer architectures, and typical shared components and utilities.

FnT Computer Graphics and Vision 3:1
The Appearance of Human Skin: A Survey
by Takanori Igarashi (Kao Corp.), Ko Nishino (Drexel) and Shree K. Nayar (Columbia)
In this survey, we review the most prominent results related to skin in these fields and show how these seemingly disconnected studies are related to one another.

FnT Finance 2:2
Portfolio Performance Evaluation
by George Aragon (ASU) and Wayne Ferson (USC)
This paper provides a review of the methods for measuring portfolio performance and the evidence on the performance of professionally managed investment portfolios.

FnT Theoretical Computer Science 2:3
A Survey of Lower Bounds for Satisfiability and Related Problems
by Dieter van Melkebeek (University of Wisconsin)
This article, surveys the known lower bounds for the time and space complexity of satisfiability and closely related problems on deterministic, randomized, and quantum models with random access.