In earnings conference calls, management releases new information, and financial analysts on the call immediately respond and question management. The linguistic tone of analyst comments moves the stock price almost instantly in a manner that suggests that analyst assessment of management disclosures contains information not present in the disclosures themselves. Additional findings suggest tha...

This study examines whether institutional investors’ voting for All-Star financial analysts is affected by analyst beauty. Using a sample of 1,135 U.S. analysts and controlling for analyst performance, we document that beauty, on average, does not affect the outcome of All-Star analyst voting. However, a beauty premium emerges in those sectors where there is high information asymmetry on analys...

The explosive growth of malicious activities on worldwide communication networks, such as the Internet, has highlighted the need for efficient intrusion detection systems. The efficiency of traditional intrusion detection systems is limited by their inability to effectively relay relevant information due to their lack of interactive/immersive technologies. In this paper, we explore several netw...

We describe enabling technology for a system to actively support intelligence analysis tasks by (1) helping an analyst identify, structure, aggregate and visualize task-relevant information; (2) enabling an analyst to construct explicit models of alternative hypotheses (scenarios, relationships, causality, etc.); and (3) actively assist an analyst in analytical reasoning such as hypothesis refi...

Background. Visualization tools have been developed for various network analysis tasks for Computer Network Defense (CND) analysts, yet there are few empirical studies in the domain of cyber security that validate the efficacy of various graphical constructions with respect to enhancing analysts’ situation awareness. Aim. The aim of this study is to empirically evaluate the utility of graphical...

That the implementation of automation is a systems problem and must involve a multidisciplinary approach has been stressed many times in this journal. The skills required to achieve effective automation inlude electronics, statistics, computer expertise, combined with business and organis-ational acumen. Indeed, there may, in the past, have been too much input from the experts in mini and micro...