Nowadays, to enter the stock market, company selection (fundamental analysis) and evaluation based on stock price (technical analysis) are significant parts of the preparation for a rational investor. Since there are multiple ways to do the stock analysis and stochastic elements in stock...

Stock market time series are inherently noisy. Although support vector machine has the noise-tolerant property, the noised data still affect the accuracy of classification. Compared with other studies only classify the movements of stock market into up-trend and down-trend which does not concern...

The ability of blockchain technology to record transactions on distributed ledgers offers new opportunities for governments to improve transparency, prevent fraud, and establish trust in the public sector. However, blockchain adoption and use in the context of e-Government is rather unexplored...

Occupational accidents are a serious threat to any organization. Occupational accidents in steel industry sector remain a threat as workforce is exposed to different kinds of hazards due to the workplace characteristics. In this study, a unique method is proposed by developing a text mining...

A new area of research involves the use of Google data, which has been normalized and scaled to predict economic activity. This new source of data holds both many advantages as well as disadvantages, which are discussed through the use of daily and weekly data. Daily and weekly data are employed...

A new area of research involves the use of Google data, which has been normalized and scaled to predict economic activity. In this paper, Poisson regressions are used to explore the relationship between the online traffic to a specific website and the search volumes for certain keyword search...

A new area of research involves the use of Google data, which has been normalized and scaled to predict economic activity. This new source of data holds both many advantages as well as disadvantages, which are discussed through the use of daily and weekly data. Daily and weekly data are employed...

A new area of research involves the use of normalized and scaled Google search volume data to predict economic activity. This new source of data holds both many advantages as well as disadvantages. Daily and weekly data are employed to show the effect of aggregation in Google data, which can...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the seven articles on festival and events research in this special issue of IJCTHR . Design/methodology/approach – The article gives summary information and perspectives on the articles that appear in the issue. Findings – This paper...