The current literature on privacy addresses the need for privacy, user's perceptions of privacy, privacy-enhancing solutions and other related aspects. What lacks is an attempt to present the essence of privacy in a coherent, definable manner within the context of all the related factors that...

Recent research has been focused in using neural networks for developing trading strategies and also for tactical financial asset allocation. These strategies for both tactical asset allocation and financial trading in various time horizons are based on attributes of the historic time series...

Originally, the Internet was a technological playground, a collaborative endeavor among researchers who shared the common goal of achieving communication. Self-interest used not to be a concern, but the motivations of the Internet's participants have broadened. Today, the Internet consists of...

The advancement in networking technologies creates new opportunities for computer users to communicate and interact with one another. Very often, these interacting parties are strangers. A relevant concern for a user is whether to trust the other party in an interaction, especially if there are...

Today's software development is driven by software processes and practices that when followed increase the chances of building high quality software products. Not following these guidelines results in increased risk that the goal for the software's quality characteristics cannot be reached....

An important variant of a key problem for multi-attribute decision making is considered. We study the extension of the pairwise comparison matrix to the case when only partial information is available: for some pairs no comparison is given. It is natural to define the inconsistency of a...

Climate change is one of the biggest environmental problems of the 21st century. The most sensitive indicators of the effects of the climatic changes are phenological processes of the biota. The effects of climate change which were observed the earliest are the remarkable changes in the...

There is no single definition that encompasses the diverse range of activities that have been described under the heading of interdisciplinary research. The history of science from the time of the earliest scholarship abounds with examples of the integration of knowledge from many research...

The area under Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve, also known as the AUC-index, is commonly used for ranking the performance of data mining models. The AUC has many merits, such as objectivity and ease of interpretation. However, since it is class indifferent, its usefulness while...