Artificial Economics is one of the fastest growing approaches to analyse complex socio-economic systems. In this paper we present our views on the distinguishing features of Artificial Economics and on its relation with Theoretical Economics - the field that in our opinion lies closest to...

Our research is aimed at finding the optimization of the service provided to citizens, in order to avoid breakdowns in certain administrative services compared to other services that have low levels of activity. The algorithm applied (Branch & Bound) detects what branches of the tree...

Present article is contextualized in an evolved market as the banking where there is a high level of competition that leads in many cases to the marketing of wide range of financial products based on limited information or untransparent, presence of surprise or unfair terms or other type of...

In some circumstances a decision maker, expert, in a group decision making problem cannot express his/her preferences with a unique linguistic fuzzy preference because he/she is dubious into some preferences. In this paper, we present a consensus model for group decision making problems with...

Insurance companies have to estimate reserves and provisions to cover the payment of either unreported claims or unsettled claims. In this paper, we apply the Chain-Ladder method to obtain a point estimate of reserves, and then we use the bootstrap technique to estimate the margin of error and...

The simulation has proved a particularly effective and powerful technique to evaluate different alternatives for solving problems, without being required actual experimentation. It is particularly useful for decision-making when you want to organize jobs in an organization where there are...

Manufacturing companies require radical changes to achieve the required quantity and quality of their products and respond to market needs quickly. This issue is essential for a correct selection of the planning and control of production. The practical application of a specific tool depends on...

Using the maximum likelihood method, in order to estimate Half-Normal stochastic frontier production models, entails several practical di±culties that, perhaps, have not been su±ciently emphasised. In employing FRONTIER software, we analyse the case in which the estimation obtained suggests...

The idea behind the methodology proposed in this paper is to show the utilities that it can offer, a software tool to make recommendations to the banking users when making a claim against a bad practice from their banks or wish to make an inquiry in order to ascertain the chances of a favorable...