Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Patterns for e-business and pattern approaches -- 1.1 Introduction to Patterns for e-business -- 1.2 The Patterns for e-business layered asset model...

In this paper, we describe a method for clustering financial time series which is based on community analysis, a recently developed approach for partitioning the nodes of a network (graph). A network with N nodes is associated to the set of N time series. The weight of the link (i; j), which...

Cycles in the behavior of stock markets have been widely documented. There is an increasing body of literature on whether stock markets anticipate business cycles or its turning points. Several recent studies assert that financial integration impacts positively on business cycle comovements of...