a r t i c l e i n f o In setting up, and bidding in online auctions, people face difficult strategic decisions. In this study, a Borrower Decision Aid is introduced, which will help formalize the decision making process of the sellers, or borrowers in this case, in one particular P2P loan auction site, Prosper.com. The vast amount of real-life bidding data available in this online auction enabl...

A lot of people who live with a loss of autonomy related to ageing or disease benefit from the daily support of some of their relatives in order to perform their day-to-day duties (waking up in the morning, shopping, cooking). Family caregivers are strongly committed to the support relationship with their ailing relative. The assistance they provide takes up a large part of their time and energ...

Nowadays new peer to peer (P2P) traffic with dynamic port and encrypted technology makes the identification of P2P traffic become more and more difficult. As one of the optimal classifiers, support vector machine (SVM) has special advantages with avoiding local optimum, overcoming dimension disaster, resolving small samples and high dimension for P2P classification problems. However, to employ ...