Summary The paper aims at drawing attention to the potential that qualitative stability theory of stochastic programming bears for the study of asymptotic properties of statistical estimators. Stability theory of stochastic programming yields a unifying approach to convergence (almost surely,...

Summary In this paper we study the integer-valued autoregressive model, which belongs to the class of thinning models with count data.We mainly focus on the random coefficient integer-valued autoregressive (RCINAR) model and propose a conditional least absolute deviation (CL 1 ) method to...

Abstract In this paper, we study a credit risk (collateral) management scheme for the Canadian retail payment system designed to cover the exposure of a defaulting member. We estimate ex ante the size of a collateral pool large enough to cover exposure for a historical worst-case default...

Dimensionality reduction in large-scale image research plays an important role for their performance in different applications. In this paper, we explore Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as a dimensionality reduction method. For this purpose, first, the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)...

The features extraction is the main step in a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) design. Its goal is to create features easy to be interpreted in order to produce the most accurate control commands. For this end, these features must include all the original signal characteristics. The generated...

This article proposes an effective method for real-time banknote recognition, using digital image processing. The new Series 7 New Zealand banknotes are considered, as a case study, for intelligent real-time recognition. The composite feature of a banknote containing the elements of color and...

Talking about organ failure and people immediately recall kidney diseases. On the contrary, there is no such alertness about liver diseases and its failure despite the fact that this disease is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Therefore, an effective diagnosis and in time...

Mobile commerce can be a great potential to generate new streams of revenue for many established and new businesses. The penetration rates for mobile phone subscriptions in many countries show that there are significant opportunities to invest in and introduce mobile commerce services in many of...

The goal of this article is to look into the effectiveness of ODL on the level of economic development across fifteen major states in India, viz., Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh...

In the apparel manufacturing process, productivity and quality are somewhat determined by operator skill level. Predicting worker skill level is very important for effective production operation management. However, the current methods for ranking skill level in the manufacturing industry have...