The given work examines distributive approach for automatic generation of the associative thesauri of a definite domain. Distributive approach is based on assumption that presence of associative link among terms of the domain is defined by the statistics of their co-occurence in thematically...

Batch processors processes a number of jobs simultaneously as a batch. Examples of batch processors include oven, shuttle bus, amusement park rides, and so on. When a batch processor completes its task and has some near-future job arrival information, a loading decision should be made whether to...

Large corporations may be composed of multiple strategic business units (SBUs), each of which is responsible for its own profitability. Innovation performance management of SBUs boosts corporation business results. In the present work, SBU ranking based on innovation performance was addressed....

Databases are widely used in data processes and each day their sizes are getting larger. In order to access to the data stored in growing databases and to use them, new techniques are developed to discover the knowledge automatically. Data mining techniques may be used to find the useful...

The main objective of this study is to analyze automotive industry, and to identify the important auto parts logistics requirements, and supply chain management (SCM) strategies. For product or service development, quality function deployment (QFD) is a useful approach to maximize customer...

Social and economic inequality is inherent in any society. During the Soviet period it was manifested in social status and prestige that defined social privileges rather than in income differentiation. The formation of the market relations in Russian society was accompanied by a considerable...

The Natural rate of unemployment indicates such a level of unemployment at which the inflation rate is constant (Estrada, Hernando a Lopez-Salido, 2000). This concept is called Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). NAIRU is an unobservable variable (Boone, 2000). Richardson,...

Microfinance bridges the credit gaps that formal financial institutions, like banks, are unable to meet for the rural populations. Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) like Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Bank Rakyat Indonesia and BancoSol in Bolivia have brought small credit, savings and other...

Risk assessment is one of the major challenges that must be addressed by each insurance company. To assess risk we need to know the value of losses as well as the probability of losses, since the risk cost is the basic component in evaluating the insurance indemnity. Statistical methods should...

Longitudinal count data with excessive zeros frequently occurs in social, biological, medical and health research. To model zero-inflated longitudinal count data, in literature, zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) models are commonly used after separating zero and positive responses. As longitudinal...