Regarding complex networks, one of the most relevant problems is to understand and to explore community structure. In particular it is important to define the network organization and the functions associated to the different network partitions. In this context, the idea is to consider some new...

The prosperity of Web 2.0 and social media brings about many diverse social networks of unprecedented scales, which present new challenges for more effective graph-mining techniques. One of the most relevant features of networks representing real systems is community structure or clustering i.e....

Financial services for the poor have existed since early ages and have been evolving from simple transactions to the nowadays microfinance sophisticated products and complex markets. However, despite the steady progress of microfinance, many issues still need to be addressed, and the...

In this work, we have outlined a research framework for a new management paradigm, attempting trying to link the main concepts of complexity theory, change management, knowledge management, sustainable development and, cybernetics. We discussed the transition from the industrial era to the...

Accounting research and publishing, tenure and promotion, elite journals, journal rankings, influential articles, faculty productivity, and academics vs. practitioners have been critically studied for decades. Empirical support is absent in many of the critical studies on accounting research and...

We analyse a sample of funds and other securities each assigned a total rating score by an unknown expert entity. The scores are based on a number of risk and complexity factors, each assigned a category (factor score) of Low, Medium, or High by the expert entity. A principal component analysis...

Property complex is considered by the authors as a key component of socio-economic system of company. Strategic management of property complex enables to ensure sustainability of company and growth of the market value. Based on the analysis of different points of view on the nature of the...

In this report we provide an informal mathematical introduction to the use of some methods from graph theory for the data analysis of non-standard time series. By this we mean information from a channel that is not presented to us in the usual format as a regular sequence of numbers. In...

In this report we provide an informal mathematical introduction to the use of some methods from graph theory for the data analysis of non-standard time series. By this we mean information from a channel that is not presented to us in the usual format as a regular sequence of numbers. In...