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Book Combining Belief Functions and Neural Networks to Assess the Likelihood of Fraud

Download or read book Combining Belief Functions and Neural Networks to Assess the Likelihood of Fraud written by Mohamed M. El-Dyasty and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When assessing the likelihood of fraud in commercial banks, an auditor is faced with two related issues: determining significant red flags in the commercial banking industry, and combining red flags in a model (Decision Aid) based on weights (Values of uncertainties) assigned to them. Prior research largely ignores the first issue. Also, models developed in previous studies fail to provide objective methods to assign weights to red flags and to combine them. This study has two main objectives. The first objective is to identify red flags in the commercial banks context. The second objective is to develop a decision aid to assess the likelihood of fraud in commercial bank audits. To achieve the first objective, a questionnaire was directed to auditors in two big accounting firms in United States. Forty-four red flags were found to be valid. To achieve the second objective, a model combining belief functions and neural networks has been developed. This model is consistent with SAS No. 82, which requires the auditor to assess the likelihood of fraud as a cumulative process that should made throughout the audit.

Book Belief Functions  Theory and Applications

Download or read book Belief Functions Theory and Applications written by Fabio Cuzzolin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Belief Functions, BELIEF 2014, held in Oxford, UK, in September 2014. The 47 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 56 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on belief combination; machine learning; applications; theory; networks; information fusion; data association; and geometry.

Book Belief Functions  Theory and Applications

Download or read book Belief Functions Theory and Applications written by Yaxin Bi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belief Functions in Business Decisions

Download or read book Belief Functions in Business Decisions written by Rajendra P. Srivastava and published by Physica. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on applications of belief functions to business decisions. Section I introduces the intuitive, conceptual and historical development of belief functions. Three different interpretations (the marginally correct approximation, the qualitative model, and the quantitative model) of belief functions are investigated, and rough set theory and structured query language (SQL) are used to express belief function semantics. Section II presents applications of belief functions in information systems and auditing. Included are discussions on how a belief-function framework provides a more efficient and effective audit methodology and also the appropriateness of belief functions to represent uncertainties in audit evidence. The third section deals with applications of belief functions to mergers and acquisitions; financial analysis of engineering enterprises; forecast demand for mobile satellite services; modeling financial portfolios; and economics.

Book Belief Functions  Theory and Applications

Download or read book Belief Functions Theory and Applications written by Thierry Denoeux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of belief functions, also known as evidence theory or Dempster-Shafer theory, was first introduced by Arthur P. Dempster in the context of statistical inference, and was later developed by Glenn Shafer as a general framework for modeling epistemic uncertainty. These early contributions have been the starting points of many important developments, including the Transferable Belief Model and the Theory of Hints. The theory of belief functions is now well established as a general framework for reasoning with uncertainty, and has well understood connections to other frameworks such as probability, possibility and imprecise probability theories. This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Belief Functions that was held in Compiègne, France on 9-11 May 2012. It gathers 51 contributions describing recent developments both on theoretical issues (including approximation methods, combination rules, continuous belief functions, graphical models and independence concepts) and applications in various areas including classification, image processing, statistics and intelligent vehicles.

Book Advances in Neural Networks   ISNN 2005

Download or read book Advances in Neural Networks ISNN 2005 written by Jun Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book and its sister volumes constitute the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2005). ISNN 2005 was held in the beautiful mountain city Chongqing by the upper Yangtze River in southwestern China during May 30–June 1, 2005, as a sequel of ISNN 2004 successfully held in Dalian, China. ISNN emerged as a leading conference on neural computation in the region with - creasing global recognition and impact. ISNN 2005 received 1425 submissions from authors on ?ve continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oc- nia), 33 countries and regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, India, Nepal, Iran, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Portugal, UK, USA, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand). Based on rigorous reviews, 483 high-quality papers were selected by the Program Committee for presentation at ISNN 2005 and publication in the proce- ings, with an acceptance rate of less than 34%. In addition to the numerous contributed papers, 10 distinguished scholars were invited to give plenary speeches and tutorials at ISNN 2005.

Book Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation

Download or read book Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation written by Henk Zijm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume presents state-of-the-art advances in logistics theory in various fields as well as case studies. The book reports on a number of recently conducted studies in the Dinalog and the EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr, thus bridging the gap between different perspectives of theoretical and applied research. A selection of theoretical topics, practical examples, case studies and project reports is presented in this volume. The editors carefully selected contributions from a wide variety of projects, which were carried out in both the Dinalog cluster and the Effizienzcluster LogistikRuhr. The contributions are grouped in five main sections, each representing key domains in the evolution of logistics and supply chain management: sustainability, urban logistics, value chain management, IT-based innovation, knowledge management. This book is intended for both researchers and practitioners in the field of logistics and supply chain management, to serve as an important source of information for further research as well as to stimulate further innovation.

Book Intelligent Techniques in Engineering Management

Download or read book Intelligent Techniques in Engineering Management written by Cengiz Kahraman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recently developed intelligent techniques with applications and theory in the area of engineering management. The involved applications of intelligent techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy sets, Tabu search, genetic algorithms, etc. will be useful for engineering managers, postgraduate students, researchers, and lecturers. The book has been written considering the contents of a classical engineering management book but intelligent techniques are used for handling the engineering management problem areas. This comprehensive characteristics of the book makes it an excellent reference for the solution of complex problems of engineering management. The authors of the chapters are well-known researchers with their previous works in the area of engineering management.

Book Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing  Knowledge Graph Empowers Artificial General Intelligence

Download or read book Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing Knowledge Graph Empowers Artificial General Intelligence written by Haofen Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers Artificial General Intelligence, CCKS 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 24–27, 2023. The 28 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ​knowledge representation and knowledge graph reasoning; knowledge acquisition and knowledge base construction; knowledge integration and knowledge graph management; natural language understanding and semantic computing; knowledge graph applications; knowledge graph open resources; and evaluations.

Book The Internet Encyclopedia  Volume 1  A   F

Download or read book The Internet Encyclopedia Volume 1 A F written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet Encyclopedia in a 3-volume reference work on the internet as a business tool, IT platform, and communications and commerce medium.

Book Graph Representation Learning

Download or read book Graph Representation Learning written by William L. William L. Hamilton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graph-structured data is ubiquitous throughout the natural and social sciences, from telecommunication networks to quantum chemistry. Building relational inductive biases into deep learning architectures is crucial for creating systems that can learn, reason, and generalize from this kind of data. Recent years have seen a surge in research on graph representation learning, including techniques for deep graph embeddings, generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and neural message-passing approaches inspired by belief propagation. These advances in graph representation learning have led to new state-of-the-art results in numerous domains, including chemical synthesis, 3D vision, recommender systems, question answering, and social network analysis. This book provides a synthesis and overview of graph representation learning. It begins with a discussion of the goals of graph representation learning as well as key methodological foundations in graph theory and network analysis. Following this, the book introduces and reviews methods for learning node embeddings, including random-walk-based methods and applications to knowledge graphs. It then provides a technical synthesis and introduction to the highly successful graph neural network (GNN) formalism, which has become a dominant and fast-growing paradigm for deep learning with graph data. The book concludes with a synthesis of recent advancements in deep generative models for graphs—a nascent but quickly growing subset of graph representation learning.

Book The Internet Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Internet Encyclopedia written by Hossein Bidgoli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Understanding Machine Learning

Download or read book Understanding Machine Learning written by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces machine learning and its algorithmic paradigms, explaining the principles behind automated learning approaches and the considerations underlying their usage.

Book Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management written by Söhnke M. Bartram and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown in presence in asset management and has revolutionized the sector in many ways. It has improved portfolio management, trading, and risk management practices by increasing efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. In particular, AI techniques help construct portfolios based on more accurate risk and return forecasts and more complex constraints. Trading algorithms use AI to devise novel trading signals and execute trades with lower transaction costs. AI also improves risk modeling and forecasting by generating insights from new data sources. Finally, robo-advisors owe a large part of their success to AI techniques. Yet the use of AI can also create new risks and challenges, such as those resulting from model opacity, complexity, and reliance on data integrity.

Book Data Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vijay Kotu
  • Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
  • Release : 2018-11-27
  • ISBN : 0128147628
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book Data Science written by Vijay Kotu and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the basics of Data Science through an easy to understand conceptual framework and immediately practice using RapidMiner platform. Whether you are brand new to data science or working on your tenth project, this book will show you how to analyze data, uncover hidden patterns and relationships to aid important decisions and predictions. Data Science has become an essential tool to extract value from data for any organization that collects, stores and processes data as part of its operations. This book is ideal for business users, data analysts, business analysts, engineers, and analytics professionals and for anyone who works with data. You'll be able to: - Gain the necessary knowledge of different data science techniques to extract value from data. - Master the concepts and inner workings of 30 commonly used powerful data science algorithms. - Implement step-by-step data science process using using RapidMiner, an open source GUI based data science platform Data Science techniques covered: Exploratory data analysis, Visualization, Decision trees, Rule induction, k-nearest neighbors, Naïve Bayesian classifiers, Artificial neural networks, Deep learning, Support vector machines, Ensemble models, Random forests, Regression, Recommendation engines, Association analysis, K-Means and Density based clustering, Self organizing maps, Text mining, Time series forecasting, Anomaly detection, Feature selection and more... - Contains fully updated content on data science, including tactics on how to mine business data for information - Presents simple explanations for over twenty powerful data science techniques - Enables the practical use of data science algorithms without the need for programming - Demonstrates processes with practical use cases - Introduces each algorithm or technique and explains the workings of a data science algorithm in plain language - Describes the commonly used setup options for the open source tool RapidMiner

Book Bayesian Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivier Pourret
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-30
  • ISBN : 9780470994542
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Bayesian Networks written by Olivier Pourret and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis. This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks, defining and illustrating the basic concepts with pedagogical examples and twenty real-life case studies drawn from a range of fields including medicine, computing, natural sciences and engineering. Designed to help analysts, engineers, scientists and professionals taking part in complex decision processes to successfully implement Bayesian networks, this book equips readers with proven methods to generate, calibrate, evaluate and validate Bayesian networks. The book: Provides the tools to overcome common practical challenges such as the treatment of missing input data, interaction with experts and decision makers, determination of the optimal granularity and size of the model. Highlights the strengths of Bayesian networks whilst also presenting a discussion of their limitations. Compares Bayesian networks with other modelling techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy logic and fault trees. Describes, for ease of comparison, the main features of the major Bayesian network software packages: Netica, Hugin, Elvira and Discoverer, from the point of view of the user. Offers a historical perspective on the subject and analyses future directions for research. Written by leading experts with practical experience of applying Bayesian networks in finance, banking, medicine, robotics, civil engineering, geology, geography, genetics, forensic science, ecology, and industry, the book has much to offer both practitioners and researchers involved in statistical analysis or modelling in any of these fields.