12Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications, Muthayammal College of Arts & Science, Namakkal, Tamilnadu, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The computational grid is rapidly evolving into a service-oriented computing infrastructure that facilitates resource sha...

Web services are emerging as a major technology for building service-oriented distributed systems. Potentially, various resources on the Internet can be virtualized as Web services for a wider use by their communities. Service discovery becomes an issue of vital importance for Web services applications. This article presents ROSSE, a Rough Sets based Search Engine for Web service discovery. One...

Assessing the Impact of Horizontal Integration on Competition in Iran’s Banking Sector: The Panzar-Rosse Approach

T HE PELGER-HU1 T ( P-H ) anomaly of leukocytes is a benign, dominant hereditary trait which primarily affects the granulocytic leukocytes. Poor segmentation and abnormal condensation of nuclear chromatin are characteristic of this anomaly, which has been described in humans,1’2 rabbits3 and more recently in the dog.4 Klein et al.5 have extensively reviewed the literature prior to 1955. Skendze...

The aim of this study is to provide an empirical methodology for the estimation of market power of individual banks. The new method employs the well-known model of Panzar and Rosse (1987) and proposes its estimation using the local regression technique. Thus, a number of restrictive assumptions regarding the properties of the production function of banks are relaxed, while the method proves suc...