Financial services: Broad support for a difficult task

The VITA Financial Services Sales Support Environment

Knowledge-based recommender technologies support customers and sales representatives in the identification of appropriate products and services. These technologies are especially useful for complex and high involvement products such as cars, computers, or financial services. In this paper we present the VITA (Virtualis Tanacsado) financial services recommendation environment which has been depl...

A strategy modelling technique for financial services

Strategy planning processes often suffer from a lack of conceptual models that can be used to represent business strategies in a structured and standardized form. If natural language is replaced by an at least semi-formal model, the completeness, consistency, and clarity of strategy descriptions can be drastically improved. A strategy modelling technique is proposed that is based on an analysis...

Defeating dengue: a difficult task ahead.

Flavobacterium psychrophilum vaccine development: a difficult task

Bacterial cold water disease (BCWD) is a globally distributed freshwater fish disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum. It is a particularly devastating infection in fry salmonids and may lead to high levels of mortality. In spite of its economic impact on fish farms, neither the biology of the bacterium nor the bacterium-host interactions are well understood. ...

Learning to count: a difficult task?

This article is concerned with the acquisition of counting skills in pupils with Down syndrome. Data from a larger survey of pupils with severe learning difficulties is explored to investigate the types of errors children make at the earliest stages of learning to count. The pattern of responding was consistent with the view that children with Down syndrome have particular difficulties in tasks...