The need for better techniques, tools and practices to analyse ecological and economic systems in an integrated framework has never been so great. Self-organising map (SOM) methods are utilised for this purpose with two examples using regional and global data (ecological and economic) compiled by state and international institutions i.e. Waikato Regional Council and the World Bank. Sustainable ...

This paper presents an integrated model that incorporates strategic, tactical, and operational decisions for a cash transfer management system of a bank. The aim of the model is to decide on the location of cash management centers, number and routes of vehicles, and the cash inventory management policies to minimize the cost of owning and operating a cash transfer system while maintaining a pre...

The purpose of this study is the feasibility of customer relationship management implementation from employees and managers' perspective of Melli bank in Esfahan city by using structural equation modeling (SEM). This study is applicable in terms of purpose and descriptive –survey in terms of method. The sample population of this study was employees and managers of Melli bank in Esfahan city in ...

A core ontology is a mid-level ontology which bridges the gap between an upper ontology and a domain ontology. Automatic Chinese core ontology construction can help quickly model domain knowledge. A graph based core ontology construction algorithm (COCA) is proposed to automatically construct a core ontology from an English-Chinese bilingual term bank. This algorithm computes the mapping streng...

Business process integration and management (BPIM) is a critical element in enterprise business transformation. Small and medium-sized businesses have their own requirements for BPIM solutions: The engagement methodology should be fast and efficient; a reusable and robust framework is required to reduce cost; and the whole platform should be lightweight so that one can easily revise, develop, a...

this study aimed to assess the factors affecting electronic banking acceptance among customers using the technology acceptance model has been made. methods used, descriptive survey - correlation. the studies of those customers are people who have bank accounts and bank electronic banking services people have used. research model with a sample consisting of 384 bank customers were people in tehr...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the timing of bank failure/merger in 10 Asian countries over the period of 1999-2007 using a multivariate logit model and a split population duration analysis. Apart from bank-specific information, we also focus on the effects of macroeconomic and financial characteristics. The following empirical findings are obtained. First, the resu...

Didier Guillevic Ching Y. Suen CENPARMI, Suite GM-606 Concordia University Montr eal, QC, H3G 1M8 Contact: [email protected] Abstract We describe a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based word recognition engine currently being developed to be integrated with the CENPARMI Bank Cheque Processing System. The various modules are described in detail, and preliminary results are compared with our...

We present a novel approach to solve the problem of single channel source separation (SCSS) based on filterbank technique and sparse non-negative matrix two dimensional deconvolution (SNMF2D). The proposed approach does not require training information of the sources and therefore, it is highly suited for practicality of SCSS. The major problem of most existing SCSS algorithms lies in their ina...

In this paper transitional speech segments modeling by matching pursuit is proposed. The dictionary for matching pursuit is composed of wavelet functions that implement of psychoacoustic adaptive wavelet filter bank. Psychoacoustically motivated entropy based cost functions allow to greatly minimizing a number of time-frequency atoms in wavelet packet (WP) dictionary. The given transient modeli...