There has been a lot of research on the application of data mining and knowledge discovery technologies into financial market prediction area. However, most of the existing research focused on mining structured or numeric data such as financial reports, historical quotes, etc. Another kind of data source – unstructured data such as financial news articles, comments on financial markets by exper...

The emergence of online financial information channels, such as web portals and financial blogs, eases the challenge process for scammers of publishing fraudulent contents in order to manipulate share prices. To maintain market integrity, financial market surveillance authorities monitor these different information channels to detect suspicious behaviour. However, as the available amount of onl...

Data warehouses increasingly play important roles in the information technology landscape of the financial industry. However, semantic heterogeneity is high in banking – data is defined differently by different banks, business units, and users. Therefore data integration in financial data warehouse development projects relies on the knowledge, know-how, and judgment of human experts. Up to now,...

As a rapidly growing global consumer base appreciates the pleasures of coffee and chocolate and health warnings are being replaced by more encouraging sounds from medical experts, their supply is under threat from climate change, pests and financial problems. Coffee farmers in Central America, in particular, are highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, made worse by financial insecuri...

the main purpose of this study is to identify the share of public sector accounting in accounting papers as well as its research areas. in addition, this study seeks to present more clear directions about the research opportunities of public sector accounting based on iran’s situation. in this study, research based journals are reviewed from 1992 to 2014. they are analyzed and categorized based...