In the context of the current financial crisis, when more companies are facing bankruptcy or insolvency, the paper aims to find methods to identify distressed firms by using finan...
Recently, the mobile industry has experienced an extreme increment in number of its users. The GSM network with the greatest worldwide number of users succumbs to several security...
We propose to use MapReduce to quickly test new retrieval approaches on a cluster of machines by sequentially scanning all documents. We present a small case study in which we use...
In this paper, we build an interpreter by reusing host language functions instead of recoding mechanisms of function application that are already available in the host language (t...
We study the problem of gambling in horse races with causal side information and show that Massey's directed information characterizes the increment in the maximum achievable ...