To evaluate the financial impact of supermarket sales promotions, managers must estimate
how much new demand comes from cannibalizing the base product compared with other …

We propose an interest rate model driven by a particular Lévy Process, the normal inverse
Gaussian (NIG) process, in which the SDE chosen to govern the evolution of the short term …

A program to improve the sewer maintenance activities in a suburb of Paris, France, includes
an expert system to diagnose the need for sewer repairs. Organizational constraints (eg, …

This paper revisits the problem of the strategic asset allocation between stocks and bonds.
The novelty of our approach is to model the influence of economic cycles on the marginal …

This paper builds an abductive argument for the existence of a working model personal to
each knowledge worker which it bases on long-established cybernetic principles of control …

The idea of writing a short essay, comparing the English and French schools of engineering,
largely owes its genesis to a conversation with Professor Sir Alan J. Harris of Imperial …

We are analysing the data on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings of over
5,000 companies from the MSCI data base for the year 2012 constructing a Bayesian belief …

The very nature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has brought about the need for
common tools which can be used to represent, test and synthesize knowledge and beliefs from …

Inhaltsangabe: Summary: This study examines what factors determine the choice of governance
structure made by alliance partners in the ICT-industry. First, the explanatory power of …