The paper presents the results of a survey on the current and future role of web services technologies in banking and financial services organizations. The survey asked financial experts to express their views about the importance of web services for banks in the next five to ten years. In addition the paper presents the results of interviews with two international banks about their current uti...

A PC based system called CASH MANAGER is presented. It is a knowledge-based decision support system designed for financial managers. The system contains financial manager knowledge and management science expertise. It is designed to support decisions made by financial managers, who are not management science experts, yet desire to employ the capabilities of management science tools. CASH MANAGE...

This paper presents a text mining methodology to extract outlying knowledge from a collection of financial statements. The main idea is to extract relevant financial performance indicators and discover implicit textual description of the indicators. The extracted information was represented using a network language i.e. conceptual graph. Outlier mining was performed on the conceptual graph repr...

This paper focuses on the optimistic and confirmation biases of experts with respect to major IT investments and their interaction with financial analysts' competencies in finance and information technology. We used an experimental design that involved asking subjects to predict the financial market's reaction to major IT investment announcements. Drawing on the literature on optimistic biases,...

We measure the contextual dependence of expertise by observing experts perform a task conceptually identical to—but contextually distinct from—the task in which they are experienced. We find that these experts fail to apply their expertise in the decontextualized environment, indicating that unfamiliarity restricts the portability of expertise. However, we also find that the experts improve wit...

INTRODUCTION The process of design and adoption of electronic health records may face a number of barriers. This study aimed to compare the importance of the main barriers from the experts' point of views in Iran. METHODS This survey study was completed in 2011. The potential participants (62 experts) included faculty members who worked in departments of health information technology and indi...

This paper presents an application of knowledge discovery via rough sets to a real life case study of global investing risk in 52 countries using 27 indicator variables. The aim is explanation of the classification of the countries according to financial risks assessed by Wall Street Journal international experts and knowledge discovery from data via decision rule mining, rather than prediction...

The paper presents an application of Influence Nets (INs) in the field of financial informatics. Influence Nets have primarily been used in war games to model effects based operations but, as shown in this paper, they can prove to be equally useful in other domains requiring decision making under uncertain situations. The primary advantage of INs lies in their ability to acquire knowledge from ...

the present study examined the role of social capital on financial performance of farming cooperatives in khouzestan province. the method of research was descriptive- correlative. the population consisted of 3273 members of farming cooperatives. based on cochran formula, 213 persons were selected. the survey was conducted using a questionnaire. content validity of the questionnaire was determin...