This study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to benchmark the performance of 13 thrifts and mortgage finance companies against one another for the period 2008 to 2011. We cover the period of start of the economic crisis and the consequent passing of new law to regulate the financial...

With the advancements in information systems, 'business intelligence (BI)' has gained considerable ground in business and strategic decision making. A number of studies show the relation between BI and business value, and provide ample evidence of uses of BI. The present study contributes to the...

Finding the factors leading to defects in software engineering can provide a competitive advantage for companies, project managers, programmers, and others, enabling them to better manage a project. Relying on findings from prior research in software defects prediction models, this study aims to...

This paper formulates the 3D containership loading planning problem (3D CLPP) and also proposes a new and compact representation to efficiently solve it. The key objective of stowage planning is to minimise the number of container movements and also the ship's instability. The binary formulation...

Most processes involve more than one process/product output variable, multiple process input/regulatory variables, and a category of noise variables, which consists of factors not considered in the model, or those external to the process. Since output variables are not necessarily independent of...

Multivariate statistical analysis techniques including regression analysis compose a popular toolset for analysing survey data, but the techniques require a complete dataset with no missing values. Unfortunately, most survey datasets contain missing values. These missing values must be resolved...

When the manufacturing objective is process or product improvement, quality practitioners will frequently resort to one or more approaches within the broader class of response surface methodology. Several techniques, such as the dual response, robust parameter design, and desirability function...

This paper introduces a one-sided multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (MEWMA) chart for detecting an increase in a process mean. The control limits are based on the multivariate Poisson distribution and have applications for both industrial processes and public health data. The...

Machining operations are used for creating surfaces by cutting away unwanted materials from workpieces. These operations are highly constrained and non-linear in nature. As a result traditional techniques are not suitable for machining parameter optimisation. Turning and milling are the two most...

Organisations rely on data analytics to process vast quantities of consumer data to inform strategy and policy decisions. Descriptive analytics is commonly used to provide insight into past consumer behaviour. However, greater value can be achieved by predicting future consumer behaviour through...