The necessity of continuously improving managerial planning processes to support cost reduction ambitions is a constant topic in dynamic business environments. Against this background we explore the importance of collaboration in strategic planning processes. Starting from the relevant...

Given the rapid development of computer techniques and the growing demand from the customer side, system customisation is becoming a necessity for software development, and this area of specialisation is attracting increasing attention from scholars. The innovative functions or applications...

While Robert and Rousseau (2010) addressed the foundational aspects of Bayesian analysis, the current chapter details its practical aspects through a review of the computational methods available for approximating Bayesian procedures. Recent innovations like Monte Carlo Markov chain, sequential...

Motivated by a mean field games stylized model for the choice of technologies (with externalities and economy of scale), we consider the associated optimization problem and prove an existence result. To complement the theoretical result, we introduce a monotonic algorithm to find the mean field...

In this paper we consider financial time series from U.S. Fixed Income Market, S&P500, DJ Eurostoxx 50, Dow Jones,Mibtel and Nikkei 225. It is well known that financial time series reveal some anomalies regarding the EfficientMarketHypothesis and some scaling behaviour, such as fat tails and...