In an earlier paper [Rational choice andAGMbelief revision, Artificial Intelligence, 2009] a correspondence was established between the choice structures of revealed-preference theory (developed in economics) and the syntactic belief revision functions of the AGM theory (developed in philosophy...

Purpose - Personal bankruptcy is on the rise in Malaysia. The Insolvency Department of Malaysia reported that personal bankruptcy has increased since 2007, and the total accumulated personal bankruptcy cases stood at 131,282 in 2014. This is indeed an alarming issue because the increasing number...

Credit risk is a critical issue that affects banks and companies on a global scale. Possessing the ability to accurately predict the level of credit risk has the potential to help the lender and borrower. This is achieved by alleviating the number of loans provided to borrowers with poor...

Low-visibility conditions at airports can lead to capacity reductions and therefore to delays or cancelations of arriving and departing flights. Accurate visibility forecasts are required to keep the airport capacity as high as possible. We generate probabilistic nowcasts of low-visibility...

Background: Given the importance of customers as the most valuable assets of organizations, customer retention seems to be an essential, basic requirement for any organization. Banks are no exception to this rule. The competitive atmosphere within which electronic banking services are provided...

The paper describes an empirical analysis to understand the main drivers of economic growth in the European Union (EU) regions in the past decade. The analysis maintains the traditional factors of growth used in the literature on regional growth - stage of development, population agglomeration,...

Insolvenzprognosen und Ratings sind wichtige Aufgaben der Finanzbranche und dienen der Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung von Unternehmen. Eine Möglichkeit dieses Aufgabenfeld anzugehen, ist maschinelles Lernen. Dabei werden Vorhersagemodelle aufgrund von Beispieldaten aufgestellt. Methoden aus diesem...

The objective of this paper is to classify a group of EMU countries according to the main determinants of long-term sovereign bond yields. We apply the Classification and Regression Tree method (CART). According to the findings, countries with lower inflation, a lower debt to GDP ratio, a lower...

There is a perpetual elevation in demand for higher education in the last decade all over the world; therefore, the need for improving the education system is imminent. Educational data mining is a newly-visible area in the field of data mining and it can be applied to better understanding the...

Alós-Ferrer and Ritzberger (2013) specify each node in a game tree as the set of outcomes that yet remain conceivable. In contrast, Streufert (2015a) specifies each node as the set of choices that have already been made. This symmetry suggests that the two formulations are "dual" in some sense....

Osborne and Rubinstein (1994) specify each node in a game tree as a sequence of actions. It is well-known that such actions can be replaced by choices (i.e. agent-specific actions) without loss of generality. I find that this sequential formulation is redundant in the sense that nodes can be...

Im Zeitalter von Big Data werden immense Informationsbestände aus unterschiedlichen Quellen gesammelt. Die Daten sind häufig unvollständig, unsicher und ungenau. Ein Beispiel hierfür ist das OpenStreetmap Projekt, bei dem Nutzer auf der ganzen Welt einmal mehr und einmal weniger "sauber"...

Die Berücksichtigung mehrerer Unsicherheitsformen zu verschiedenen Entscheidungszeitpunkten ist ein Schritt zur Erhöhung der Realitätsnähe bei der Flexibilitätsbewertung hybrider Leistungsbündel. Die in diesem Beitrag dargestellten Unsicherheitsformen wurden mit Hilfe von quadranomialen...

Financial indicators (ratios) are calculated from the data found in basic financial statements. Balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements are used in making different analyses for different information users. These indicators can be used to make inferences about a company's...