In this paper, we describe the design of a profile generator toolkit, which aims to automatically create realistic user profiles for a mobile personalized portal service. These profiles simulate actual user behavior and are utilized to experiment with a personalized crawling system, called eRACE. With the help of this tool, we will assess the performance and scalability of the eRACE system by c...

This paper proposes the view that financial development and economic growth are linked through the characteristics of technology. Perhaps the most obvious connection between technology and financial innovation emerges through risk-sharing. Technology is modeled as a distribution function over output values. While progress allows higher output values to be attained, it also changes the risk prof...

The present study is based on preliminary information carried under socio- economic survey to assess the important regarding agronomic practices, status and livestock production of farmers from SAS Nagar district Punjab. Study was conducted basis proper questionnaire different villages. Nearly two hundred were interviewed for assessing their socio-economic respondent farmers. In this, we had pr...

Along with economic growth of countries which leads to their increased energy requirements,the problem of power quality and reliability of the networks have been more considered andin recent decades, we witnessed a noticeable growing trend of distributed generation sources(DG) in distribution networks. Occurrence of DG in distribution systems, in addition tochanging the utilization of these sys...

Through historical reviews and case studies, this research seeks to understand why some initially successful entrepreneurs failed in the economic boom of past decades. Among various factors contributed to their downfalls are a unique political and business environment, fragile financial systems, traditional cultural influences and personal characteristics. Notwithstanding that these factors sho...

The author builds an agent-based model wherein the societal corruption level is derived from individual corruption levels optimally chosen by heterogeneous agents with different risk aversion and human capital. The societal corruption level, in turn, affects the risk-return profile of corruption for the individual agents. Simulating a multi-generational economy with heterogeneous agents, the au...