IntroductionProlific news media such as Bloomberg, Forbes and the Financial Times have increasingly warned about rise of “surveillance state” that “aims at preventive mass surveillance on [an] everyday basis” is connected with potentially coercive use control against specific people or groups a political other basis (Lemieux, 2020). Although Clark (2016)

In this paper, an IT artifact instantiation (i.e. software prototype) to support decision making in the field of financial market surveillance, is presented and evaluated. This artifact utilizes a qualitative multi-attribute model to identify situations in which prices of single stocks are affected by fraudsters who aggressively advertise the stock. A quantitative evaluation of the instantiated...

In this paper, an IT artifact instantiation to support decision making in the field of financial market surveillance, is presented. This artifact utilizes a qualitative multi-attribute decision model to identify situations in which prices of single stocks are affected by fraudsters who aggressively advertise the stock. A quantitative evaluation of the implemented system prototype, based on volu...

The application of control charts for monitoring financial processes has received a greater focus after recent global crisis. The Generelized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) time series model is widely applied for modelling financial processes. Therefore, traditional Shewhart control chart is developed to monitor GARCH processes. There are some difficulties in financial su...

despite  impressive  advancements  in  diagnostic  and  treatment technologies,  infectious  diseases  still  cause  a  significant  amount  of mortality and morbidity throughout the world due to the unpredictable and inevitable  rise  of  new  or  previously  dormant  pathogens.  emerging infectious disease (eid) outbreaks are mainly associated with changes in physical environment and human be...

Wild birds play a major role in the evolution, maintenance, and spread of avian influenza viruses. However, surveillance for these viruses in wild birds is sporadic, geographically biased, and often limited to the last outbreak virus. To identify opportunities to optimize wild bird surveillance for understanding viral diversity, we reviewed responses to a World Organisation for Animal Health-ad...