Abstract Comprehens ibility is an important factor in medical predictive modelling as it dictates the credibility and even acceptability of a model. Generally, the performance of a model has always been the primary focus in most data mining jobs. Where there are serious risks posed by the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide and develop a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the working relationship between the in-house IT department and other parts of the business. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, IT professionals and internal customers at...

Currently, multiplayer online games use the client-server architecture which is very resource intensive, expensive, and time consuming. Peer-to-peer protocols are a less resource intensive alternative to the client-server model. We implement a peer-to-peer protocol called NEO in a multiplayer...

During the past two decades, increasingly powerful and capable information technologies have made information more accessible and valuable so that it has become the prime resource for business; ahead of the traditional resources of land, labour and capital. Improved information acquisition,...

Objective : Local authorities face real challenges when it comes to annual budget planning for funding the system of long-term care. Uncertainty about the long-term cost of caring for current residents in the system, in addition to unknown future admissions, have made the tasks of local...

In this paper we analyze the performance of a recently proposed sequential auction, called the c-bisection auction, that can be used for a sale of a single indivisible object. We discuss the running time and the e±ciency in the ex-post equilibrium of the auction. We show that by changing the...