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580 kr
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This book provides an in-depth explanation of public pension plan management and the decision-making processes surrounding pension policies within state and local governments in the United States. It addresses the intricate balance between securing retirement benefits for public employees and ensuring the fiscal sustainability of pension systems and their sponsoring governments. The book begins with an introduction to the purpose and significance of public pension systems, establishing a foundation for understanding key pension decisions. Using a logic model framework, the authors assess how environmental factors, stakeholders, and legal constraints shape decisions in pension management. The book identifies five core goals for public pension management — benefit sufficiency, cost affordability, funding sustainability, asset management efficiency, and governance quality — emphasizing the relationships among these objectives.Detailed chapters cover investment policies, actuarial processes, and the design of benefits and contributions, explaining the financial and actuarial bases necessary for sound pension decisions. Pension reform efforts, including the transition from defined benefit plans to defined contribution, cash-balance, and hybrid plans, are examined in depth, highlighting the reasons for reforms and analyzing their impacts on the employees and employers. The book concludes with ten takeaways for effective pension plan management and addresses emerging challenges such as fiscal pressures, inflation, and changing demographics. With practical implications grounded in research, this book serves as an essential resource for pension board members, pension system administrators, government officials, legislators and their staff, professionals, researchers, and students involved in public pension plan management.
2 103 kr
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This book provides an in-depth explanation of public pension plan management and the decision-making processes surrounding pension policies within state and local governments in the United States. It addresses the intricate balance between securing retirement benefits for public employees and ensuring the fiscal sustainability of pension systems and their sponsoring governments. The book begins with an introduction to the purpose and significance of public pension systems, establishing a foundation for understanding key pension decisions. Using a logic model framework, the authors assess how environmental factors, stakeholders, and legal constraints shape decisions in pension management. The book identifies five core goals for public pension management — benefit sufficiency, cost affordability, funding sustainability, asset management efficiency, and governance quality — emphasizing the relationships among these objectives.Detailed chapters cover investment policies, actuarial processes, and the design of benefits and contributions, explaining the financial and actuarial bases necessary for sound pension decisions. Pension reform efforts, including the transition from defined benefit plans to defined contribution, cash-balance, and hybrid plans, are examined in depth, highlighting the reasons for reforms and analyzing their impacts on the employees and employers. The book concludes with ten takeaways for effective pension plan management and addresses emerging challenges such as fiscal pressures, inflation, and changing demographics. With practical implications grounded in research, this book serves as an essential resource for pension board members, pension system administrators, government officials, legislators and their staff, professionals, researchers, and students involved in public pension plan management.
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An up-to-date examination of the latest technologies and research impacting 6G multimedia communications In 6G Multimedia Communications: Analysis, Design, and Optimization, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive new discussion of the theory, models, techniques, analysis, design, and optimization of multimedia communications in 6G networks. The authors explain the potential of multimedia communication systems using recent edge techniques, including caching, resource sharing, power allocation, multicasting, and D2D communications. You'll find solutions to various real-world application- and service-level problems in industries like surveillance, entertainment, eHealth, eLearning, smart home and environment management, and public safety. A thorough introduction to cross-layer optimization design for multimedia applications and services in content delivery networksComprehensive explorations of social-aware resource sharing and caching for video transmission in ultra-dense networksPractical discussions of MEC technology, mobile applications, and smart city scenariosComplete treatment of future wireless content delivery network technology for multimedia communicationsPerfect for working telecommunication professionals, 6G Multimedia Communications will also benefit researchers and graduate students with an interest in cutting-edge network technology.
Advanced Techniques for Optimal Sizing of Analog Integrated Circuits
Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, and Bio-inspired Optimization
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 393 kr
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A novel and authoritative approach to quantum machine learning in integrated circuits design optimization In Advanced Techniques for Optimal Sizing of Analog Integrated Circuits, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive discussion of the theory, models, methodologies, practical implementation, and utilization of integrated circuit (IC) design. The authors explain IC design optimization, demonstrating cost-effective and time-saving design approaches, as well as techniques likely to be impactful in the near future. The book covers major topics in the field, describing key concepts, recent advances, effective algorithms, and pressing challenges associated with analog circuit sizing optimization. It discusses using both animal and human-inspired optimization algorithms to create basic and quantum machine learning methods. Readers will also find: A novel approach to quantum machine learning in integrated circuit design optimizationA range of introductory and advanced topics suitable for students, advanced professionals, and researchersDetailed illustrations that clarify abstract, complicated engineering conceptsComplete treatments of animal behavior-inspired optimization algorithms, including particle swarm optimization, firefly algorithm, cuckoo search, and bat algorithmPerfect for researchers in engineering, computer scientists, professors, and senior undergraduate and graduate students in integrated circuit design, this book will also benefit students of machine learning, computer science, quantum computing, and optimization.