Computing power now allows empirical researchers to use intensive computing estimation techniques with nonlinear panel-data models. Maximum Likelihood estimation is often cumbersome, if not analytically intractable, when dealing with such models. Even the simple calculation of the likelihood...

Traditionally, computer and software applications have been used by economists to off-load otherwise complex or tedious tasks onto technology, freeing up time and intellect to address other, intellectually more rewarding, aspects of research. On the negative side, this increasing dependence on...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a central role in the Internet of Things (IoT). It consists of small-size sensor nodes connected to the internet through gateways providing content rich information. So, the traffic transmission between sensor nodes over radio links requires highly bandwidth...