The evolution and development of human society leads towards an environment of information and knowledge. Therefore, the performance must be based, at least partly, on the proper management of information. This section of management is helped in a great measure by the advance in electronic...

The globalization led to the reengineering of security-related aspects and concepts, calling forward the need to develop and conceptualize a new paradigm for security. Furthermore, the typology of conflicts has changed. History offers enough examples that failure to cope with the caracteristics...

The techniques of statistical analysis have been for long either unknown or achieved in an approximate manner. The coming out of the risk concept is identified with the coming into being of the probabilities theories (the mathematic theory of probabilities). For the analysis developed in this...

Considering as starting point the theory developed by H. Markowitz in the years '50, J. Treynor (1962), W. Sharpe (1964), J. Lintner (1965) and J. Moshin (1966) have elaborated the famous model for evaluating the financial assets, CAPM. This model is utilized in order to set up the expected...