This paper focuses on a generalization of the notion of electronic trade procedures. Instead of designing specific trade procedures for each possible variation of a transaction, we develop a generative grammar formalism that defines entire families of related trade procedures. Since trade...

The subject, importance, application, origin and discipline of accounting is grossly misunderstood in this modern age especially as the development and application of the computer and the internet seemed to have obscured the function and contributions of accountants or so it seemed to some....

The main goal of this research is to compare and contrast two methodologies that exist within the multi-criteria decision making field. After presenting Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Multi-Dimensional Scaling approach (Co-plot), the two techniques are evaluated and compared against...

Any mortality analysis is faced with the difficulty of dealing with large quantities of noisy data. Pragmatic approaches have ever relied on graphical analysis of mortality contour maps in order to identify age, period and cohort effects. We adapt and apply suitable methods of image processing...