The purpose of this study is twofold. First, causal mechanisms underlying the effect of changing attitudes on behavioral change are investigated. Second, recommendations are presented to improve the understanding of how attitudes and behavioral patterns of energy consumption in the residential...

As the Internet is rising at a rapid pace, cyber attacks have also increased as a result. There is a rapid rise in the form and rate of incidence of these attacks. There are several conventional security solutions that exist, but in the case of big data, these solutions do not work well. Instead...

For easy payment and classless Credit card payment has become very popular these days. From our bank account we can directly pay the amount online. In spite of this easy payment method it has the disadvantage of having frauds. The unauthorized person accessing the bank details of other person is...

We propose a hybrid classical-quantum approach for modeling transition probabilities in health and disability insurance. The modeling of logistic disability inception probabilities is formulated as a support vector regression problem. Using a quantum feature map, the data are mapped to quantum...

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger (2016, European Journal of Political Economy). Four improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a...