For over 30 years academics and practitioners have been debating the merits of the CAPM. One of the characteristics of this model is that it measures risk by beta, which follows from an equilibrium in which investors display mean-variance behavior. In that framework, risk is assessed by the variance of returns, a questionable and restrictive measure of risk. The semivariance of returns is a mor...

Honesty-Humility, one of the six major personality dimensions included in the HEXACO model of personality structure, has previously been found to show negative correlations with workplace deviance. In this study, we hypothesised that Extraversion would moderate the relationship between Honesty-Humility and workplace deviance. In particular, we posited that the relation between Honesty-Humility ...

.......................................................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................... 1 1.1 Narrative for Conceptual Framework ........................................................................................... 4 1.2 Justification .....

Context: There is the need to identify automated methodologies for supporting the systematic review process. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature searching for automated approaches used by researchers to support the systematic review process. Method: We undertook a systematic review following the guidelines set out in Kitchenham and Charters’, analyzed the relevant studi...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, evaluation of suppliers is the prime function of the purchasing department of the organization. It is due to the fact that high percentage of the material cost for manufacturing of a product is involved. Identification of decision criteria and methods for supplier evaluation are appearing to be the important research area in the literature. In...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14101 “Preference Learning”. Preferences have recently received considerable attention in disciplines such as machine learning, knowledge discovery, information retrieval, statistics, social choice theory, multiple criteria decision making, decision under risk and uncertainty, operations research, and others. The motivation ...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14101 “Preference Learning”. Preferences have recently received considerable attention in disciplines such as machine learning, knowledge discovery, information retrieval, statistics, social choice theory, multiple criteria decision making, decision under risk and uncertainty, operations research, and others. The motivation ...

In this paper, we discuss the oscillatory behavior of first order delay differential equations of the form: y′(t) + p(t)y(τ(t)) = 0, t ≥ T, where p and T are continuous functions defined on [T,∞), p(t) > 0, τ(t) < t for t ≥ T, τ(t) is nondecreasing and lim t→∞ τ(t) = ∞. We present best possible conditions for the oscillation of all solutions for this equation.

Early use of applying the Common Criteria for specifying and acquiring large-scale telecommunications services is described. Lessons learned and examples are described.