Extreme value theory has emerged as one of the most important statistical disciplines for the applied sciences. Extreme value techniques are also becoming widely used in many other disciplines. For example, for portfolio adjustment in the insurance industry; for risk assessment on financial markets; and for traffic prediction in telecommunications. Here we do some basic data analysis in extreme...

Modular construction has been in the UK since the late 1970s but its rapid increase in recent years has occurred due to client demands in various well-defined sectors. There are five major manufacturers of modular units in the UK. A strong infrastructure of design, manufacture and supply exists, which has expanded to meet the increasing demand of the late 1990s. The motivation for using modular...

E-Government (e-Gov) is becoming an important means to produce value for citizens by using innovative technologies in the delivery of more advanced, efficient and personalized services. In this paper, we propose a model for the assessment of the service value defined as the trade-off between benefits and sacrifices perceived by citizens according to their service usage experience. Since human p...