Abstract The classical credibility theory is a cornerstone of experience rating, especially in the field property and casualty insurance. An obstacle to putting into practice conversion available prior information precise choice crucial hyperparameters. In most real-world applications, necessary justify lacking, so we propose an imprecise estimator that honestly acknowledges imprecision hyperpa...

Research assigns significant share price relevance to linguistic tone in earnings conference calls. Tone is, however, only one facet the mosaic of soft information that is disseminated interactive call setting. We argue investors exploit further aspects this simultaneously assess tone’s credibility. Drawing on communication literature, we focus role perceived sender and message credibility call...

the main purpose of this research is to evaluate the effect of commercial brands on customers’ loyalty and behavior to hygienic products. here a commercial brand is under assessment about its credibility among consumers in relation to customers’ loyalty and behaviour. in this research the model presented by sweeny and swait consumers and its relationship with customers’ loyalty and behaviour. i...

With the rapid increasing of Web data volume, it has been a hot issue to find competitive intelligence from Web. However, previous studies in this direction focused on the extracting algorithms for Web-based competitive intelligence, and little work has been done in the credibility evaluation of Web-based competitive intelligence. The credibility of Web-based competitive intelligence plays crit...

We are concerned with the problem of introducing credibility type information into reasoning systems. The concept of credibility allows us to discount information provided by agents. An important characteristic of this kind of procedure is that a complete lack of credibility rather than resulting in the negation of the information provided results in the nullification of the information provide...

The software is essentially replacing human beings to carry out some certain behavior and software credibility is mainly represented by its credible behavior, so it will be more direct and reliable to assess software credibility according to the information of software runtime behavior. The concept of behavior pattern is abstracted from the software observable behavior and the pattern’s descrip...

This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is hypothesized that the degree of delegation to international organizations can improve the credibility of n...