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In this paper, behavioral construct of suitability is used to develop a multi-criteria decision making framework for portfolio selection. To achieve this purpose, we rely on multiple methodologies. Analytical hierarchy process technique is used to model the suitability considerations with a view to obtaining the suitability performance score in respect of each asset. A fuzzy multiple criteria d...

After 1 July 2006, a major challenge that the manufacturing industry has to confront now is the effect of the lead-free equipment system selection process on companies’ capital expenditure decision. With capital investment, the criteria may be financial (e.g. expected cash flows) and non-financial (e.g. product quality). We use a systems approach with the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP)...

Traditional backpropagation neural networks training criterion is based on goodness-of-fit which is also the most popular criterion forecasting. How ever, in the context of financial time series forecasting, we are not only concerned at how good the forecasts fit their target. In order to increase the forecastability in terms of profit earning, we propose a profit based adjusted weight factor f...

Since the World Wide Web became a medium for commercial activities in 1993, a tremendous number of companies joined in. Companies want to reach new markets through this low cost and massive computer network. The financial services industry is one of the early players. Since the nature of this delivery channel is very different from the traditional ones, banks are faced with competition from tra...

Background and Objectives: Outsourcing has been considered by hospital managers as a model to reduce the financial burden and modify the financial system. The external suppliers must be qualified for the services they ought to provide to the hospitals. The use of the Balance Scorecard and the Analysis of Hierarchical Process can help assessing suppliers' capability to solve exi...