As a multidisciplinary field, financial engineering is becoming increasingly important in today’s economic and financial world, especially in areas such as portfolio management, asset valuation and prediction, fraud detection, and credit risk management. For example, in a credit risk context, the recently approved Basel II guidelines advise financial institutions to build comprehensible credit ...

Many authors have suggested that SP (symbol processing) and CN (connectionist network) models offer radically, or even fundamentally, different paradigms for modeling intelligent behavior (see Schneider, 1987) and the design of intelligent systems. Others have argued that CN models have little to contribute to our efforts to understand intelligence (Fodor & Pylyshyn, 1988). A critical examinati...

the ability to discover services in mobile ad hoc network (manet) is a major prerequisite. cluster basedcross layer intelligent service discovery for manet (cbisd) is cluster based architecture, caching ofsemantic details of services and intelligent forwarding using network layer mechanisms. the cluster basedarchitecture using semantic knowledge provides scalability and accuracy. also, the mini...

one of the most important aspects of software project management is the estimation of cost and time required for running information system. therefore, software managers try to carry estimation based on behavior, properties, and project restrictions. software cost estimation refers to the process of development requirement prediction of software system. various kinds of effort estimation patter...