Purpose – The threat environment countries face is a dynamic one, with many emerging technologies. This paper presents unique challenges as countries evaluate which technologies to pursue in support of national security. Rather than addressing a broad range of strategic options, this paper...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the presence, expertise, independence, size and meetings of the audit committee (AC) have an effect on corporate insolvency. Design/methodology/approach The authors use 1,835 firm-year observations for 98 insolvent and 269 solvent UK-listed...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine analyst followings of firms starting from one year prior to their filing for Chapter 11 and as the firms progress through bankruptcy proceedings with a focus on firms receiving “Hold” or better recommendations. The authors attempt to answer...

Abstract Learning about the relationship between distance to landmarks and events and phenomena of interest is a multi-faceted problem, as it may require taking into account multiple dimensions, including: spatial position of landmarks, timing of events taking place over time, and attributes of...

Abstract In this paper, we investigated the utility of data mining to classify individuals into predefined categories of a target variable, based on their social and political attitude. Data collected for a social psychology study conducted in Greece in 1994 were used for this purpose. We...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine a comprehensive model of millennial usage of interactive technologies in the current marketing environment based upon actual behavior. Design/methodology/approach – A data mining approach using decision tree analysis (DTA ) generates two...

Purpose – Condition‐based maintenance (CBM) has increasingly drawn attention in industry because of its many benefits. The CBM problem is a kind of state‐dependent scheduling problem, and is very hard to solve within the conventional Markov decision process framework. The purpose of this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze medium‐term risks faced by electrical generation companies in competitive environments. Market risks faced by generation companies are caused by several variables subject to uncertainty. Hydro conditions, fuel (coal and natural gas) prices,...

Purpose – Data mining (DM) is used to improve the performance of manufacturing quality control activity, and reduces productivity loss. The purpose of this paper is to discover useful hidden patterns from fabric data to reduce the amount of defective goods and increase overall quality....

Explores approaches to the assessment of capital investment proposals, and proposes a systematic investment analysis model to classify projects, and to show the relationship between factors influencing an analysis as well as to indicate the range of information ecessary for a satisfactory...