Das Auslaufen der EU-Milchgarantiemengenregelung (im Folgenden: Milchquotenregelung) im Jahr 2015 erfordert von den Milcherzeugern Anpassungsmaßnahmen. Vermutlich werden diese Anpassungsmaßnahmen zu strukturellen Veränderungen sowohl auf regionaler als auch auf betrieblicher Ebene führen. Im...

This paper introduces a neural-net approach to perform discriminant analysis in business research. A neural net represents a nonlinear discriminant function as a pattern of connections between its processing units. Using bank default data, the neural-net approach is compared with linear...

This paper proposes a genetic-based hybrid approach to predict the possibility of corporate failure. We use Genetic Algorithm (GA) to select the critical variables set and optimise the weight of each classifier for integrating the best features of several classification approaches (such as...

Academic failure among first-year university students has long fuelled a large number of debates. Many educational psychologists have tried to understand and then explain it. Many statisticians have tried to foresee it. Our research aims to classify, as early in the academic year as possible,...

This paper proposes a genetic-based hybrid approach to predict the possibility of corporate failure. We use Genetic Algorithm (GA) to select the critical variables set and optimise the weight of each classifier for integrating the best features of several classification approaches (such as...

Academic failure among first-year university students has long fuelled a large number of debates. Many educational psychologists have tried to understand and then explain it. Many statisticians have tried to foresee it. Our research aims to be able to classify, as early in the academic year as...

This paper presents two approaches to modeling the use of IMF resources in order to gauge whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or a permanent phenomenon. The two approaches-the time series behavior of credit outstanding and a two-stage program selection and access...

Mexico’s main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means...

Home and foreign experience of diagnostics of bankruptcy of enterprises is Considered, the method of fuzzy sets is adapted for the estimation of probability of bankruptcy STALEMATE the "Kharkov tiled plant".