The introduction of mobile communications has undoubtedly altered our physical and social world. Like the Internet, it has changed the way we interact with each other allowing for communication using a variety of communication mediums by means of a magnitude of interactive mobile devices. The...

In the year 2008, world markets suffered a huge economic crisis. The extent of the economic crisis has been so severe and has had a global impact. As a contingency strategy, governments of wealthy nations have resorted to extensive bailouts and rescue packages to stop organisations from going...

Data mining has become a commonly used method for the analysis of organisationaldata, for purposes of summarizing data in useful ways and identifying non-trivialpatterns and relationships in the data. Given the large volumes of data that arecollected by business, government, non-government and...

Computational Intelligence has found a challenging testbed for various paradigms inthe financial sector. Extensive research has resulted in numerous financial applicationsusing neural networks and evolutionary computation, mainly genetic algorithms andgenetic programming. More recent advances in...

Many scientific, engineering and economic problems involve the optimisation of a set of parameters. These problems include examples like minimising the losses in a power grid by finding the optimal configuration of the components, or training a neural network to recognise images of people's...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2009. Major: Computer Science. Advisor: David Lilja. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 108 pages, appendix A. Includes Vita page 106.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2010. Major: Computer science. Advisor: Dr. Mats P.E. Heimdahl. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 129 pages, appendices A. Ill. (some col.)

In many practical situations, we perform statistical analysis of data about human objects. For example, the main purpose of a census is to enable us to get statistical information about the population: how fast does it grow, what are the trends in population and income change, etc. These trends...

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This Dissertation is a qualitative case study that examines transformative technical adaptations and organizational process changes in the context of a new product deployment in a large Telecommunications Corporation. The dissertation advances the existing body of knowledge and understanding of...