Computer programs, as an area of protection under the copyright branch of Intellectual Property Laws is an important aspect to venture upon. Whenever one thinks about protection of Intellectual Property in computer programs, a thought travels to the protection afforded by the law of Patents....

Individual creativity support systems have been developed to facilitate creative work. However, the designs typically consult very few creativity theories. In addition, they usually neglect problem definition and convergent thinking even though there is strong evidence that the whole creative...

This is the first research report with specific technical focus on cryptographic ‘proof of work' in the context of virtual crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin. Situated somewhere along the trajectory between real money and quantum money, virtual crypto-currencies based upon ‘cryptographic...

RiskPortfolios is an R package for constructing risk-based portfolios. It provides a set of functionalities to build mean-variance, minimum variance, inverse-volatility weighted (Leote De Carvalho, Lu, and Moulin (2012)), equal-risk-contribution (Maillard, Roncalli, and Teïletche (2010)),...

Courts have struggled for decades to develop a test for judging infringement claims in software copyright cases that distinguishes between program expression that copyright law protects and program functionality for which copyright protection is unavailable. The case law thus far has adopted...

This book is the third volume of the Handbook of Computational Statistics and covers the field of Data Visualization. In line with the companion volumes, it contains a collection of chapters by experts in the field to present readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the state of...

Expert systems (ES) have produced much excitement in recent years. Because a great deal of experience and knowledge are captured in the ES, there may be no need to consult a specialist for every decision in the given area. A properly designed expert system thus has in its knowledge base a wide...

Currency is naturally defined as having three major functions: a unit of account, a store of wealth, and a standard of exchange. Among the various forms of currency, cryptocurrencies are (a) clearly distinguished from standard currencies like coins and paper formats, (b) labeled as legal tender,...

This study assesses the comparative analysis of computerized accounting system and manual accounting system of quoted Microfinance Banks in Nigeria from 2006-2015. Three hypotheses were formulated in line with objectives of the study. Ex-post facto research design was adopted and the data for...