The ongoing financial and economic crisis throughout the industrialised world has spotlighted a number of significant deficiencies in corporate governance and management. The strength and composition of the management team along with effective corporate governance policy should play an important...

This paper reports a basic assessment of the usage of a knowledge repository called "XYZ Knowledge Repository", maintained by a company PQR for its client XYZ. Subsequently, a data mining method for finding sequential patterns in the web usage of the users was used. This captures the level of...

Nowadays, using data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web log files has became a necessity. The behavior of Internet users can be found in the log files stored on Internet servers. Analyzing data obtained from web server logs is rapidly becoming one of the most important activities...

Data collected from Web in the first stage of data mining are usually diverse and voluminous. These data must be assembled into a consistent, integrated and comprehensive view, in order to be used for pattern discovery. Like in most applications of data mining, data preprocessing involves...

The ability of classical methods for capital budgeting to judge the profitability of investments is limited by several constraints. Some of them can be overridden by an integration of decision trees and simulation, using Grob’s Financial Plans (‘‘Vollständige Finanzpläne’’, a special...

This paper employed two classical, popular decision-tree algorithms (C5.0 and CART), and traditional Regression to deal with reservoir operations regarding decision of the releases from a reservoir system during floods. The experiment site was in Shihmen Reservoir, located in northern Taiwan. In...

[ES] Cada vez son más numerosos los programas de fidelización que ofrecen al titular la posibilidad de comprar puntos o conseguir premios, viajes o billetes aéreos pagando una parte de los mismos con dinero. Dicha característica, unida a la propia estructura y dinámica de los programas de...

In selecting the preferred course of action, decision makers are often uncertain about one or more probabilities of interest. The experimental literature has ascertained that this uncertainty (ambiguity) might affect decision makers’ preferences. Then, the decision maker might wish to...

In this paper a Decision Support System Architecture is proposed for the heart sound diagnosis problem, and in general for complex medical diagnosis problems. It is based on the division of a complex diagnostic problem into simpler sub-problems; each of them is handled by a specialized decision...