This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK. Compared to earlier studies, it uses a much larger sample including 30 years of data for 515 firms, and also considers a much wider set of possible determinants of credit risk. The empirical results suggest that macroeconomic and firm-specific factors both play important roles...

This paper presents basic concepts, architectural principles and algorithms for efficient resource and security management in cluster computing environments and the Grid. The work presented in this paper is funded by BTExacT and the EPSRC project SO-GRM (GR/S21939).

This document provides an overall description of the GORDA Management System and details the various modules that have been developed to configure and deploy, monitor, recover and optimize a GORDA database cluster.

Today, vast amounts of system status and health information are stored in logfiles. Therefore, mining patterns from logfiles is an important system management task. This paper presents a novel clustering algorithm for logfile data sets which helps one to detect frequent patterns from logfiles, to build logfile models, and to identify anomalous logfile lines.

The article seeks to explore best practices of integrated cluster management in the EU countries. It is noted that modern business realia and process internationalization have significantly raised importance partnerships across European Union member states. Given factor global competitiveness, Commission has begun pay greater attention development innovation capacity, primarily through closer i...

We have proposed an Autonomous Disks for the advanced data management. The Autonomous Disks provide data distribution and high reliability. The Autonomous Disks configure a cluster and handle access from host in the cluster. In this paper, we propose dynamic reconfiguration algorithms allowing the usual operations dulling the reconfiguration, and implement them on an experimental system using J...