„h Contrary to common perceptions, most Australian businesses survive for a considerable time ¡V for example, around two¡Vthirds of businesses are still operating after five years and almost one¡Vhalf are still operating after ten years. „h Around 7.5 per cent of businesses exit each year...

This paper intends to identify empirically the common characteristics of bankrupting firms from accounting and financial data. It provides not only ways of predicting firms headed for bankruptcy, but also identifying the pattern of failing firms over time. The Adaptive Learning Network (ALN), an...

Motivated from the charting analysis in the financial industry, Chen and He (2003) are the first to use self-organizing maps to search for and identify price patterns. Such a model is referred to as the trajectory-domain model (TDM). Chen and Tsao (2003) apply the TDMs to three American stock...

The use of multivariate analysis techniques for exploratory spatial study of rural geospatial data has being useful in territorial characterization and typology. Connectionist approach is a very efficient computational method for these tasks, mainly the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). Through the use...

This paper highlights the ‘magic of diasporas’ − as a source of progress in a globalizing world − with special attention for migrant (or ethnic) entrepreneurship. The present study aims to identify and examine the critical critical success factors of migrant enterprises and their...

We forecast hourly solar irradiance time series using a novel hybrid model based on SOM (self-organizing maps), SVR (support vector regression) and PSO (particle swarm optimization). In order to solve the noise and stationarity problems in the statistical time series forecasting modelling...

By means of Self-Organizing Maps we cluster fourteen European countries according to the most suitable way to model their agents’ expectations. Using the financial crisis of 2008 as a benchmark, we distinguish between those countries that show a progressive anticipation of the crisis and those...

The present study uses an original dataset on four large energy-efficient appliances and provides a methodology for: i) mapping components related to energy efficiency improvements; ii) mapping their evolution over time; iii) testing the technological fungibility of these components. Our analysis...