Four years ago was the last time the ISBSG database was used to compare the effort prediction accuracy between cross-company and within-company cost models. Since then more than 2,000 projects have been volunteered to this database, which may have changed the trends previously observed. This...

Financial time series data is characterized by non-linearities, discontinuities and high frequency, multi-polynomial components. Not surprisingly, conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have difficulty in modelling such complex data. A more appropriate approach is to apply Higher-Order...