Journal: IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry

Found 203 papers in total
Stochastic modelling of long-term investment risks
1995,
There are many risks that individuals, firms, and societies have to face, and among...
Developing a risk-assessment methodology in the UK defence industry
1995,
As a leading defence equipment company, the Dynamics Division of British Aeropsace...
Lagrangian relaxation and its application to the unit-commitment–economic-dispatch problem
1992,
This study is concerned with the optimal scheduling of an electricity power system...
Data partitioning heuristics for unrelated parallel machine scheduling
1993,
In this paper we consider a hybrid heuristic approach to a class of problems of...
Scheduling two-phase jobs with arbitrary time lags in a single-server system
1993,
In many practical systems, delays in handling, transportation, and transmission, or...
New directions in food research: The role of mathematical models in food processing
1995,
Historically, the food industry has had a qualitative rather than a quantitative...
Some mathematical aspects of security in the automated business environment
1992,
In the automated business world, personal contact and paper-based transactions are...
Optimal hydropower generation scheduling for a cascade
1993,
This paper presents a method for short-term generation scheduling in a...
Rule-based procedures in short-term electricity load forecasting
1993,
A short-term load-forecasting system has been developed to predict load demand for the...
Development and use of credit profit measures for account management
1992,
Improved measures of account profitability can lead to increased portfolio...
Dividing credit-card costs fairly
1992,
Major changes have occurred in the UK in the distribution of the costs associated with...
The economic value of score-splitting accept–reject policies
1992,
Individuals apply to a company (banking, insurance, mortgage) for credit. Based on an...
Machine-learning algorithms for credit-card applications
1992,
Credit assessment involves predicting applicant reliability and profitability. The...
Developing rule-based systems for credit-card applications from data with the genetic algorithm
1992,
Learning a set of rules from data is basically a problem of classifying the fields of...
The benefit to consumers from generic scoring models based on credit reports
1992,
The benefit to consumers from the use of informative credit reports is demonstrated by...
The assignment of credit limits with a behaviour-scoring system
1992,
Behaviour-scoring systems for authorizations enable the risk of a customer defaulting...
An application of cluster analysis in credit control
1992,
Cluster analysis has existed as a statistical tool for some time, although its entry...
Credit-scoring models for the evaluation of small-business loan applications
1992,
In this paper, the decision process of commercial loan officers is modelled....
The flat-maximum effect and generic linear scoring models: A test
1992,
Predicting human behaviour patterns with linear correlation models has absorbed...
The degradation of the scorecard over the business cycle
1992,
The published literature on credit scoring has not compared the characteristics of...
Reject inference applied to logistic regression for credit scoring
1993,
Using logistic regression to model probabilities of group membership applied to credit...
Can reject inference ever work?
1993,
The true good/bad status of applicants accepted for credit is ultimately known....
Evolving Bayesian classifiers for credit control – a comparison with other machine-learning methods
1993,
A machine-learning approach that uses the genetic algorithm to optimize a Bayesian...
Forecasting white goods in a recession
1995,
The forecasting models discussed in this paper deal with the sales prospects of three...
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