Over the past decades the complexity of financial decisions has increased rapidly, thus highlighting the importance of developing and implementing sophisticated and efficient quantitative analysis techniques for supporting and aiding financial decision making. Multicriteria decision aid (MCDA), an advanced branch of operations research, provides financial decision makers and analysts with a wid...

Over the past decades the complexity of financial decisions has increased rapidly, thus highlighting the importance of developing and implementing sophisticated and efficient quantitative analysis techniques for supporting and aiding financial decision making. Multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA), an advanced field of operations research, provides financial decision makers (DMs) and analysts a wi...

In this paper, an algorithm, called VB-FT-Mine (Vectors-Based Fault–Tolerant frequent patterns Mining), is proposed for mining fault-tolerant frequent patterns efficiently. In this approach, fault–tolerant appearing vectors are designed to represent the distribution that the candidate patterns contained in data sets with fault-tolerance. VB-FT-Mine algorithm applies depth-first pattern growing ...

Mining Fault-Tolerant (FT) Frequent Patterns in real world (dirty) databases is considered to be a fruitful direction for future data mining research. In last couple of years a number of different algorithms have been proposed on the basis of Apriori-FT frequent pattern mining concept. The main limitation of these existing FT frequent pattern mining algorithms is that, they try to find all FT f...

With the instigation of population screening strategies to reduce the burden of colorectal cancer, a cost effective approach remains an elusive goal. Genetic markers associated with colorectal cancer have the potential to be used for the early identification of patient groups at elevated risk of disease. The choice of genetic markers that can be used for screening purposes is population specifi...

The financial crisis has decreased the opportunities of small businesses to acquire financing through conventional financial actors, such as commercial banks. This credit constraint is partly the reason for the emergence of new alternatives of financing, in addition to the spreading opportunities for communication and secure financial transfer through Internet. One of the most interesting venue...

Inaccurate depth map discontinuities are an important source of artifact and distortion in multiview systems and applications requiring depth-based view rendering such as 3DTV or free-viewpoint video. Such errors along depth discontinuities frequently occur during depth estimation and/or depth map coding. In this paper we present a novel method for correcting inaccuracies on the discontinuities...