FnT Networking 3:1
Gossip Algorithms
by Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
This review provides a systematic survey of many of these recent results on Gossip network algorithms.

FnT Databases 1:4
Provenance in Databases: Why, How, and Where
by James Cheney (University of Edinburgh), Laura Chiticariu (IBM Almaden Research Center) and Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
This article details three main notions of database provenance, some of their applications, and compare and contrast amongst them.

FnT Machine Learning 1:4
Learning Representation and Control in Markov Decision Processes: New Frontiers
by Sridhar Mahadevan (U. Mass, Amherst)
This paper describes a novel machine learning framework for solving sequential decision problems called Markov decision processes (MDPs) by iteratively computing low-dimensional representations and approximately optimal policies.

FnT Communications and Information Theory 5:4-5
Information Theoretic Security
by Yingbin Liang (University of Hawaii) , H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University) and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
The topic of information theoretic security is introduced and the principal results in this area are reviewed.

FnT Information Retrieval 2:4
Concept-Based Video Retrieval
by Cees G. M. Snoek and Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam)
This survey reviews 300 references on video retrieval, indicating when text-only solutions are unsatisfactory and showing the promising alternatives which are in majority concept-based.

FnT Information Retrieval 3:1-2
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information
by Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina)
This paper provides overview and instruction regarding the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems with users.

FnT Entrepreneurship 5:4
Regional Dimension of Entrepreneurship
by Rolf Sternberg (University of Hannover)
This review assesses several theoretical arguments supporting the idea that entrepreneurial activities as well as entrepreneurial success are influenced in many cases by the attributes of the region where founder of a firm is located.

FnT Communications and Information Theory 5:3
Universal Estimation of Information Measures for Analog Sources
by Qing Wang (Credit Suisse Group), Sanjeev R. Kulkarni (Princeton) and Sergio Verdú (Princeton)
This monograph presents an overview of universal estimation of information measures for continuous-alphabet sources.

FnT Theoretical Computer Science 3:2-3
The Design of Competitive Online Algorithms via a Primal-Dual Approach
by Niv Buchbinder and Joseph (Seffi) Naor (Technion)
This primer concentrates on three types of probabilistic proof systems: interactive proofs, zero-knowledge proofs, and Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCP).

FnT Human-Computer Interaction 2:3
Web History Tools and Revisitation Support: A Survey of Existing Approaches and Directions
by Matthias Mayer (University of Hamburg)
This survey summarizes existing knowledge about revisitations on the web, and surveys the potential of graphic-based web history tools.

FnT Marketing 3:2
Sponsored Search Auctions: Research Opportunities in Marketing
by Song Yao and Carl F. Mela (Duke University)
This review systematically overviews the literature in keyword search and propose several promising research directions.

FnT Finance 3:2-3
Corporate Payout Policy
by Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo (University of Southern California) and Douglas J. Skinner (University of Chicago)
This survey presents a synthesis of academic research on corporate payout policy grounded in the pioneering contributions of Lintner (1956) and Miller and Modigliani (1961).

FnT Accounting 3:2-3
Line-item Analysis of Earnings Quality
by Nahum Melumad and Doron Nissim (Columbia)
This paper discusses earnings quality and the related concept of earnings management, focusing on the primary financial accounts.

FnT Web Science 1:2
Natural Language Processing as a Foundation of the Semantic Web
by Yorick Wilks (University of Oxford) and Christopher Brewster (Aston University)
The main argument of this paper is that Natural Language Processing (NLP) does, and will continue to, underlie the Semantic Web (SW), including its initial construction from unstructured sources like the World Wide Web (WWW), whether its advocates realise this or not.

FnT Computer Graphics and Vision 3:4
Precomputation-Based Rendering
by Ravi Ramamoorthi (UC Berkeley)
This survey describes the mathematical foundations, history, current research and future directions for precomputation-based rendering.