Die Mitglieder der Jury haben es dieses Mal der Zunft der Personalfachleutewirklich nicht leicht gemacht.Ausgerechnet das Wort „Humankapital“ haben sie zum Unwort des Jahres erwählt ...

Being able to measure the readability of a text with a simple formula is an attractive prospect, and many groups have been using readability formulas in a variety of situations where estimates of text complexity are thought to be necessary. The most obvious and explicit use of readability...

Extracting the principles associated with complexity theory and swarm intelligence has offered practical solutions for routing and scheduling. Reality mining and its link with social networking relationships may yield pragmatic ideas applicable to many fields including business services and...

Standard tools for the analysis of economic problems involving uncertainty, including risk premiums, certainty equivalents and the notions of absolute and relative risk aversion, are developed without making specific assumptions on functional form beyond the basic requirements of monotonicity,...

The term 'end-to-end' has become a familiar characterization of the architecture of the Internet, not only in engineering discourse, but in contexts as varied as political manifestos, commercial promotions, and legal arguments. Its ubiquity and opacity cloaks the complexity of the technology it...