Leptokurtic distributions can be generated by applying certainnon-linear transformations to a standard normal random variable. Withinthis work we derive general conditions for these transformations which guaranteethat the generated distributions are ordered with respect to the partialordering of...

Many software reliability growth models assume that the time to next failure may be infinite; i.e., there is a chance that no failure will occur at all. For most software products this is too good to be true even after the testing phase. Moreover, if a non-zero probability is assigned to an...

We analyse an empirical case study of an inter-organizational information system (IOIS) in theAustralian pharmaceutical distribution industry, using a theoretical data coding approach, toprovide a concise grounded account of changes in the material, normative and ideationalstructures within the...

Parallel programming of MIMD machines with distributed memory is typically based on standardmessage passing libraries such as MPI [1], which leads to platform independent and efficientsoftware. However, the programming level is rather low, and the development of a parallel applicationcan be a...

Economic crises such as those that recently hit Argentina and Venezuela inflict damage on the insurance industry in the form of declining premiums and profits and even bankruptcies. As Swiss Re's new sigma study 'Emerging insurance markets: lessons learned from financial crises' shows, insurers...

The first stages of any data analysis are to get to know the aims of the studyand to get to know the data. In this study the main goal is to predict acompany´s chances of going bankrupt based on its recent financial returns...