Abstract Motivated by the well-established benefits to society of artistic creation and of demographic diversity, we investigate the gender and racial/ethnic composition of influential contributors to four creative domains.Women make up 51% of the U.S.population but are underrepresented at influential levels of contemporary art (28%), high fashion … Read More


The escalating advancement in Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) necessitates a formidable strategy for firmware updates, where traditional methods often fall short of guaranteeing absolute integrity.Although Dali Switch decentralization has been explored in studies for firmware integrity verification using blockchain technology, it lacks comprehensi… Read More


In a convenience store, new items like lunch boxes and dairy products are delivered several times in one day.In addition, old unsold items must be disposed because of their expiration dates.The order is made once in a day, and the retailer has to decide the number of items ordered based on the current remaining items in the store and the demand dis… Read More


This study VV@ALL investigates individual preferences for work arrangements in a discrete choice experiment.Based on sociological and economic literature, we identified six essential job attributes-earnings, job security, training opportunities, scheduling flexibility, prestige of the company, and gender composition of the work team-and mapped thes… Read More