This paper reports a UK Economic and Social Research Council project that is exploring the use of Grid technologies to manage distributed data and act as a secure infrastructure for the delivery of computing power to distributed teams. The application focus used to test this infrastructure is...

The motivation for the research presented in this thesis stems from the recentavailability of high frequency limit order book data, relative scarcity of studiesemploying such data, economic significance of transaction costs management, anda perceived potential of data mining for uncovering...

Financial institutions make use of a variety of delivery channels for servicing their customers. The primary channel utilised as a means of acquiring new customers and increasing market share is through the retail branch network. The 1990s saw the Internet explosion and with it a threat to...

Applying modelling techniques for getting acquainted with customer behaviour, predicting the customers’ next step is neccessary to keep in competition, by decreasing the capital requirement (Basel II - IRB) or making the portfolio more profitable. According to the easily implementable...

Currently, many organizations are trying to capitalize on the Web channel by integrating the Internet in their corporate strategies to respond to their customers’ wishes and demands more precisely. New technological options boost customer relationships and improve their chances in winning over...

Die Messung des wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs von transaktionsorientierten Websites ist guterforscht und findet breite Anwendung. Dahingegen ist eine Aussage über den Erfolg vonWebsites, die lediglich Informationen anbieten, nur sehr eingeschränkt möglich. Beitransaktionsorientierten Websites wird...

85 p. This paper was completed as part of the final research component in the University of Oregon Applied Information Management Master's Degree Program [see htpp://aim.uoregon.edu].

There are many techniques for electricity market price forecasting. However, most of them are designed for expected price analysis rather than price spike forecasting. An effective method of predicting the occurrence of spikes has not yet been observed in the literature so far. In this paper, a...

Sharing data among organizations often leads to mutual benefit. Recent technology in data mining has enabled efficient extraction of knowledge from large databases. This, however, increases risks of disclosing the sensitive knowledge when the database is released to other parties. To address...

Electricity market price forecast is a changeling yet very important task for electricity market managers and participants. Due to the complexity and uncertainties in the power grid, electricity prices are highly volatile and normally carry with spikes. which may be (ens or even hundreds of...