Adam Smith's three sources of wealth creation–land, labor, and capital–have long been the factors that determine what a business is worth. Over the past few decades, however, a fourth factor, intellectual capital, has become increasingly important, yet difficult to quantify in the valuation equation. The Handbook of Business Valuation and Intellectual Property Analysis features the contributions of experts from leading valuation, accounting, investment banking, and law firms, and provides a comprehensive review of contemporary valuation issues related to businesses, securities, and intellectual property.

This book is one of the hardest finance books to track down today. Published in 1991, it is now out of print, and sells on Amazon and Ebay for over $1000. It is even one of the most-stolen library books, making it very difficult to find a copy to read.

Mark Jurik taps into the minds of twenty experts who reveal their strategies for maximizing profitability using computerized trading systems.

In Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures, noted technical analyst John Ehlers continues to enlighten readers on the art of predicting the market based on tested systems. With application of his engineering expertise, Ehlers explains the latest, most advanced techniques that help traders predict stock and futures markets with surgical precision. Unique new indicators and automatic trading systems are described in text as well as Easy Language and EFS code. The approaches are universal and robust enough to be applied to a full range of market conditions.

This book attempts to present some current research progress and results on the interplay of fuzzy logic and chaos theory. More specifically, this book includes a collections of some state-of-the-art surveys, tutorials, and application examples written by some experts working in the interdisciplinary fields overlapping fuzzy logic and chaos theory. The content of the book covers fuzzy definition of chaos, fuzzy modeling and control of chaotic systems using both Mamdani and Takagi-Sugeno models, fuzzy model identification using genetic algorithms and neural network schemes, bifurcation phenomena and self-referencing in fuzzy systems, complex fuzzy systems and their collective behaviours, as well as some applications of combining fuzzy logic and chaotic dynamics, such as fuzzy-chaos hybrid controllers for nonlinear dynamic systems, and fuzzy-model-based chaotic cryptosystems. This book can serve as a handy reference for researchers working in the interdisciplines related, among others, to both fuzzy logic and chaos theory.

Today, the C++ language remains one of the most important languages used by professional software developers. This book helps software developers and programmers who need to add the techniques of parallel and distributed programming to existing applications. Parallel programming uses multiple computers, or computers with multiple internal processors, to solve a problem at a greater computational speed than using a single computer. It also offers the opportunity to tackle larger problems; that is, problems with more computational steps or more memory requirements.

Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide system users and administrators with the tools they need to run the most advanced Beowulf clusters.

Written by the creator of MESA, a popular, proven and successful computerized trading system. Establishes a philosophical foundation for the existence of cycles in the market, detailing their basic characteristics. Traditional moving averages, indicators and momentum functions are examined from the cyclic perspective in order to confirm effects in the dynamic marketplace. All of the principles are combined in examples to illustrate how trading strategies can be altered to improve probability of establishing successful trades.