Prediction is very important in business planning. The ability to accurately predict the future is fundamental to many decision activities in sales, marketing, production, inventory control, personnel, and many other functional areas of business. Time series modeling approach is one of the major...

The financial crisis which started in Romania in October 2008, led to the entrance of over 200,000 companies into insolvency or into restructuring by continuing activity. In these conditions have increased the concern to identify a model that will provide the bankruptcy risk of a company. In the...

Human behaviors are governed by two main systems: one system of reward and punishment. Our behaviors followed by positive results tend to develop. Conversely, behaviors followed by negative results tend to diminish. What is usually overlooked is that the rewards of working extremely intense...

The term "poverty" is gradually replaced with the concept of "social exclusion", the latter involving, more social and economic phenomena, and is the opposite of social integration, which reflects the importance of perceived to be an integral part of society. The impact of exclusion to social...

In this paper we done a comparison between a Neural Network model and a Support Vector Machine model adapted to predict the exchange rate EUR-LEU. We emphasize the strengths and weakness of these two Artificial Intelligence paradigms and we compare the results of prediction obtained with those...

This paper explains how to build an adaptive enterprise that establishes a tight partnership between business and IT, and in turn delivers greater business agility. This paper highlights leadership in the areas of infrastructure technology, management software, and IT services and solutions—...