With billions of triples in the Linked Open Data cloud, which continues to grow exponentially, challenging tasks start to emerge related to the exploitation and reasoning of Web data. A considerable amount of work has been done in the area of using Information Retrieval (IR) methods to address these problems. However, although applied models work on the Web scale, they downgrade the semantics c...

S OF PAPERS 191 The WS prevalence was above 90% in all groups. The prevalence of WS score 2 was 54.0, 81.2, 62.5 and 68.6% whereas the mean WS scores were 1.50, 1.79, 1.58 and 1.63, for C, Cox, V and VLE, respectively, being significant (P<0.001) the difference Cox vs C and V. The prevalence of WS grade 2 causes breast downgrade that results in economic losses, and the mean WS score was higher ...

Traditional economic and business forecasting about corporate credit has relied on statistics from government agencies, annual reports and financial statements. These statistics are often published with significant delay, which limits their usefulness for predicting changes in creditworthiness. Yet, a delay in responding to changes in a company’s credit rating can have significant financial and...

Distributed Denial of Service attacks is major threats these days over internet applications and web services. These attacks moving forward towards application layer to acquire and waste maximum CPU cycles. By requesting resources from web services in huge amount using rapid fire of requests, attacker automated programs utilizes all the capability of processing of single server application or d...

An argument for refusing to publicly disclose supervisory ratings of the safety and soundness of banks rests on the claim that such disclosure will reduce supervisory effectiveness. Specifically, some argue that public disclosure of supervisory ratings will reduce the likelihood that bank supervisors take adverse, but deserved, actions against a bank such as a rating downgrade. This argument ha...

We study the impact of negative returns on the health of a given financial portfolio. It is often the case that a series of significant negative returns trigger a credit event such as a downgrade in rating, or even a default of the portfolio owner. We focus our attention on a Weighted Average of Ordered Returns, which is a statistic that allows us to weight returns according to their relative a...

The traditional tit-for-tat philosophy in the food safety regulatory regime in most developing countries has been proven ineffective in most cases. Rather, starting with persuasion, advice, and then escalating to more severe punishments for the continuing non-compliance as suggested in the responsive regulation by Ayres and Braithwaite has been proved more effective in the food safety regulator...

This paper introduces an eecient adaptation of the branch-and-bound technique that solves real-world rostering problems for airline crews. The eeciency of the algorithm is based on the exploitation of rostering-speciic properties (e.g. variable selection, branching strategy and cutting-planes), an approach that shortens the solution process and outperforms standard techniques. Furthermore, we f...

We present a general unwinding framework for the definition of information flow security properties of concurrent programs, described in a simple imperative language enriched with parallelism and atomic statement constructors. We study different classes of programs obtained by instantiating the general framework and we prove that they entail the noninterference principle. Accurate proof techniq...

The automatic recognition of children’s speech is well known to be a challenge, and so is the influence of affect that is believed to downgrade performance of a speech recogniser. In this contribution, we investigate the combination of these phenomena: extensive test-runs are carried out for 1k vocabulary continuous speech recognition on spontaneous angry, motherese and emphatic children’s spee...