The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a situation is a far cry from the optimism and grand vision that marked its launch. This...

We propose a robust fuzzy clustering model for classifying time series, considering the autoregressive metric based. In particular, we suggest a clustering procedure which: 1) considers an autoregressive parameterization of the time series, capable of representing a large class of time series;...