This research demonstrates the application of multiple data mining techniques to test theories of the macro-level causes of terrorism. The unique dataset is comprised of terrorist events and measures of social, political and economic contexts in 185 countries worldwide between the years 1970 and...

We apply linear and non-linear programming to find the solutions for Nash equilibriums and Nash arbitration in game theory problems. Linear programming was shown as a viable method for solving mixed strategy zero-sum games. We review this methodology and suggest a class of zero-sum game theory...

The method of association rule mining has been used by marketers for many years to extract marketing rules from purchase transactions. Marketers and managers employ these rules in order to predict customer needs for future sales. Extracting effective rules is one of the major problems of...

Stakeholder theories, from the strategic management or ethics perspective, seem to be on hold due to the lack of a measure of stakeholder orientation to enable theory testing and/or comparative analysis. Managers and whole organisations must balance competing stakeholders, some of whom induce...

Because of globalisation and an associated global manufacturing environment, cost competitiveness has become necessary. In order to survive, the manufacturing firms have to provide a high level of service to the customers and a high level of throughput with the lowest Work-In-Process (WIP)...

Historical data (1958–1963) on frog malformations in Minnesota, USA, are compared to malformation data collected from 1996 to 1999, at many of the same collection sites, to investigate malformation risk changes between the study periods. We initially consider Mantel-Haenszel and simple...

Component-based software development (CBSD) has given a new direction for developing just-in-time to market, cost-effective, easily maintainable and customer requirement-based software systems. Using CBSD, software systems can be built by two techniques. The first technique involves integration...

Monoblock centrifugal pumps are widely used in a variety of applications. Defects and malfunctions (faults) of these pumps result in significant economic loss. Therefore, the pumps must be under constant monitoring. When a possible fault is detected, diagnosis is carried out to pinpoint it. In...

This study addresses the problem of car allocation to different routes under certain restrictions with the objective of reducing the excess cost of transportation. A meta-heuristic approach based on Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) algorithm is proposed and implemented to schedule the cars...

Today, the data related to business, finance and healthcare pose problems for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (PPDM). Privacy regulations and concerns prevent data owners from sharing data for mining purposes. To circumvent this problem, data owners must design strategies to meet privacy...