Our research focuses on the use of visual analysis tools. In this paper, we examine the differences between expert and novice financial analysts using a visual analytics tool. Our formal study involving 10 experts and 10 novices indicates there are significant differences in usage patterns between the two groups that potentially impact the design of tools to aid in analysis and sensemaking.

The core of our paperwork consists in determining a classification of qualitative and quantitative causes that are influencing service companies’ performance and financial health based on grey systems theory and fuzzy sub-sets. The quantitative causes of firms’ performance are mainly financial causes and can be represented by the financial changes, structural changes and by macroeconomic change...

The task of measuring market risk requires to make use of a probabilistic model that captures the statistical properties of price variations in financial assets. The most important of these properties are autocorrelations, time-dependent volatility and extreme events. GARCH processes are financial models that can successfully account for the time-dependent volatility. However, they assume Gauss...

OBJECTIVES Pharmaceutical supply chain is a significant component of the health system in supplying medicines, particularly in countries where main drugs are provided by local pharmaceutical companies. No previous studies exist assessing risks and disruptions in pharmaceutical companies while assessing the pharmaceutical supply chain. Any risks affecting the pharmaceutical companies could disru...

Numerous studies on bankruptcy prediction have widely applied data mining techniques to finding out the useful knowledge automatically from financial databases, while few studies have proposed qualitative data mining approaches capable of eliciting and representing experts’ problem-solving knowledge from experts’ qualitative decisions. In an actual risk assessment process, the discovery of bank...

The shuttle service in tourism depends on physical accessibility of a destination, on movement within the destination and the transport itself. In today’s world, transport is not just the act of getting to a wanted destination. Moreover, travelling by a certain vehicle can be a tourist attraction, if the transportation means is designed to arouse the feeling of joy and excitement. The purpose o...

in the information and communication era, management information systems play an undeniable role in organizations.  bank parsian is a iranian banking and financial services company, which has a network of 273 banking branch, known as the largest iranian private bank. this research examines the gaps in customer relationships systems in bank parsian based on characteristics of management informat...