As part of the regulatory response to the recent global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) announced a new international regulatory framework for banks, known as Basel III. One important component of Basel III is the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which aims to ensure that banks hold a more liquid portfolio of assets and rely on the central bank for funding onl...

The ability of sequential and parallel Prologs to implement don’t know non-determinism in resolution efficiently makes them apt for supporting a knowledge base querying capability. On the other hand their search based execution model and their trial use of bindings makes them unsuitable for systems programming. Conversely the use by concurrent logic programming or CLP languages of committed bin...

Abstract The homicides committed by women make up between 5 and 15% of the total number recorded in world. Studies based on gender perpetrator have been uncommon due to low level prevalence female homicide offenders, but this tendency is currently undergoing a change. Nonetheless, general, there still limited knowledge role serious crime, which makes task criminal policy more difficult. Therefo...