How did Capital One and Uber implement nearly identical business models, focusing on customers that are most profitable to serve? Why are Google and Amazon so valuable to us? Why are Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon so difficult for competitors to displace? And why can Google charge almost...

In this paper, we present a novel machine learning based forecasting system of the EUR/USD exchange rate directional changes. Specifically, we feed an overcomplete variable set to a Support Vector Machines (SVM) model and refine it through a Sensitivity Analysis process. The dataset spans from...

In der Planung und Wissenschaft werden zur Modellierung von Prozessen kleinräumige Informationen zum Gebäudebestand (Gebäudetyp, Verteilung, Baualter, etc.) benötigt. In den Geodaten, Karten und Diensten der Vermessungsverwaltungen sind die Gebäude in ihrem Grundriss modelliert, enthalten...

This paper examines the efficiency of various approaches on the classification and prediction of economic expansion and recession periods in United Kingdom. Four approaches are applied. The first is discrete choice models using Logit and Probit regressions, while the second approach is a Markov...