Farmland: Is It Currently Priced as an Attractive Investment?

Multimodal Mediators to the World as it is Currently Designed

Information technology should be accessible to all users. Above all disabled persons in a public environment depend on such accessibility to today’s information technology (e.g. cash dispensers, ticket selling machines, etc.). In this article we show how multimodality can be used to provide universal accessibility to public kiosk systems making assistive technology applicable in the public spac...

IT/IS Investment Justification : An Interpretivist Case Study

The Justification of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) is inherently complex, since there are a large range of benefits that are intangible and non-financial. However, it is not only the benefits of IT/IS that present this difficulty but also the range of indirect costs associated with an IT/IS deployment. Therefore, many justification processes are exclusively based on t...

Reducing the debt: is it optimal to outsource an investment?

We deal with the problem of outsourcing the debt for a big investment, according two situations: either the firm outsources both the investment (and the associated debt) and the exploitation to a private consortium, or the firm supports the debt and the investment but outsources the exploitation. We prove the existence of Stackelberg and Nash equilibria between the firm and the private consorti...

An Expert System Approach in Stock Selection Attractive for Investment

Expert systems are the most important part in the field of artificial intelligence. This universal technology for representation expert knowledge into valuable computer program may be implemented in different scientific fields such as engineering, law, economy etc. Knowledge engineering has to elicit knowledge from domain expert and transform it in shape applicable for languages of artificial i...

Has ethics changed or is it currently not being applied?