{"title":"Conceptual Framework of Agile Project Management, Affecting Project Performance, Key: Requirements and Challenges","authors":"Ahmed Muayad Younus, H. Younis","doi":"10.21276/IJIREM.2021.8.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21276/IJIREM.2021.8.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"There have been a few studies that have adequately compared the advantages and disadvantages of various types of agile techniques. This research study develops a conceptual model that enables top management team members, software developers, project managers, and researchers to gain insight and understanding of agile techniques and methods. Those involved in the project want to successfully complete projects on time and within budget while maintaining high quality standards and operating in a safe and environmentally conscious manner They also want to minimize the negative impact on the environment. When it comes to project execution, however, there are numerous constraints and risks that limit their ability to begin or progress operations, and which frequently have a significant negative impact on the overall performance of the project. After reviewing the literature, it was discovered that the Agile method is capable of accurately representing most factors. It is based on the findings of this research that this paper presents a conceptual model for the effect of agile project management on project performance in terms of timeliness, cost, and quality. factors are unpredictable and can have consequences that are difficult to undo without incurring significant costs in the process. As a result, it is more critical than ever to investigate their impact on project outcomes. The ability of countries to manage risks, control expenditures, exploit and benefit from opportunities is dependent on their ability to comprehend the impact of Agile methods on their respective organizations and cultures.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122012572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convolutional Neural Networks for Modeling and Forecasting Nonlinear Nonstationary Processes","authors":"A. Belas, P. Bidyuk","doi":"10.21303/2313-8416.2021.001924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21303/2313-8416.2021.001924","url":null,"abstract":"The object of research: The object of research is modeling and forecasting nonlinear nonstationary processes presented in the form of time-series data. Investigated problem: There are several popular approaches to solving the problems of adequate model constructing and forecasting nonlinear nonstationary processes, such as autoregressive models and recurrent neural networks. However, each of them has its advantages and drawbacks. Autoregressive models cannot deal with the nonlinear or combined influence of previous states or external factors. Recurrent neural networks are computationally expensive and cannot work with sequences of high length or frequency. The main scientific result: The model for forecasting nonlinear nonstationary processes presented in the form of the time series data was built using convolutional neural networks. The current study shows results in which convolutional networks are superior to recurrent ones in terms of both accuracy and complexity. It was possible to build a more accurate model with a much fewer number of parameters. It indicates that one-dimensional convolutional neural networks can be a quite reasonable choice for solving time series forecasting problems. The area of practical use of the research results: Forecasting dynamics of processes in economy, finances, ecology, healthcare, technical systems and other areas exhibiting the types of nonlinear nonstationary processes. Innovative technological product: Methodology of using convolutional neural networks for modeling and forecasting nonlinear nonstationary processes presented in the form of time-series data. Scope of the innovative technological product: Nonlinear nonstationary processes presented in the form of time-series data.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126110109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Product Complexity Index in 3D Models Using a Hybrid Feature Recognition Method with Rule-Based and Graph-Based Methods","authors":"H. D. Budiono, Finno Ariandiyudha Hadiwardoyo","doi":"10.15587/1729-4061.2021.227848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2021.227848","url":null,"abstract":"A machining process is very dependent on the model created. The more complicated the model, the greater the design difficulty and the greater the machining process. Reduced production costs can help a company increase profits. A focus on production cost can be achieved in a number of ways, the first of which is by replacing materials or changing the design. It is better to reduce product costs during the design stage than during the manufacturing stage. The main objective of this research is to develop an application that can recognize features in a CAD program and calculate the complexity index of shapes in real time. In this study, the prismatic features and slab features classified by Jong-Yun Jung were used. The feature recognition method applied in this study is a hybrid of the rule-based and graph-based methods, which uses the STL file developed by Sunil and Pande to obtain all the information needed. Then, the results are extracted from feature recognition data and are used to calculate the product complexity index of the model being studied. This study applied the product complexity index, following the model developed earlier by El Maraghy. Validation is performed by comparing the software count with the complexity index calculated with the STEP method by Hendri and Sholeh et al. This research develops a program that recognizes features in CAD software and calculates the index complexity of shapes in real time. This will allow designers to calculate the expected complexity value during the design process. As a result, the estimated production cost can be seen early on. Finally, this software is tested for calculating the index values for the complexity of a combined features model. The use of eight slots and eight pockets as a benchmark scoring for shape produces a more accurate product complexity index","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121863267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction and Analysis of Recurrent Depression Disorder: Deep Learning Approach","authors":"Anagha Pasalkar, D. Kalbande","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3857061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3857061","url":null,"abstract":"Mental illness, such as depression, is rampant and has been shown to affect a person’s physical health. With the growth in artificial intelligence (AI) various methods are introduced to assist mental health care providers, including psychiatrists to construct proper decisions based on patient’s chronicle information including sources like medical records, behavioral data, social media usage, etc. Many researchers have come up with various strategies that include various machine learning algorithms for data analysis of depression. Although there have been less attempts previously to perform the same task without making the use of pre-classified data and Word-Embedding optimization Approach. For these reasons, this study aims to identify the deep formation of the neural network among a few selected structures that will successfully complement natural language processing activities to analyze and predict depression.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127861506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A note on nonlinear least squares estimation of multivariate stochastic unit root models","authors":"Timofey Ginker","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3854968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3854968","url":null,"abstract":"This note provides corrections to some results in the recently published article by Lieberman and Phillips (2017). The limiting results in Theorems 7 and 8 are corrected. In addition, we propose some simple modifications which allow the consistent estimation of the parameters in Theorem 8.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128039466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Price Targeting","authors":"Adam Smith, Stephan Seiler, Ishant Aggarwal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3822459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3822459","url":null,"abstract":"The paper compares the profitability of personalized pricing policies that are generated from different models of demand and using different data inputs.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"82 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131626381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topological Features of Multivariate Distributions: Dependency on the Covariance Matrix","authors":"Lloyd L. Aromi, Yuri A. Katz, J. Vives","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3833492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3833492","url":null,"abstract":"Topological data analysis provides a new perspective on many problems in the domain of complex systems. Here, we establish the dependency of mean values of functional p-norms of ’persistence landscapes’ on a uniform scaling of the underlying multivariate distribution. Furthermore, we demonstrate that average values of p-norms are decreasing, when the covariance in a system is increasing. To illustrate the complex dependency of these topological features on changes in the variance-covariance matrix, we conduct numerical experiments utilizing bi-variate distributions with known statistical properties. Our results help to explain the puzzling behavior of p-norms derived from daily log-returns of major equity indices on European and US markets at the inception phase of the global financial meltdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116598596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining Dimensionality Reduction with Neural Networks for Realized Volatility Forecasting","authors":"Lidan He, Andrea Bucci, Zhi Liu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3824136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3824136","url":null,"abstract":"The application of artificial neural networks to finance has received a great deal of attention from both investors and researchers, especially as a forecasting method. When the number of predictors is high, these methods suffer from the so-called \"curse of dimensionality\" and produce biased forecasts. In this paper, we relied on dimensionality reduction methods to alleviate such issue when a wide set of financial and macroeconomic variables is considered in the prediction of stock market volatility. Specifically, we combined Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) with hybrid artificial neutral networks to forecast realized volatility. The results showed that reduced models were able to perform in a similar way or even outperforms the compared full models in terms of predictive accuracy.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121697821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Pruning based Probabilistic Approach to Minimize Redundancy Overhead for Performance Improvement in MANET","authors":"G. K. Pallai, M. Sankaran, A. Rath","doi":"10.5121/IJCNC.2021.13202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJCNC.2021.13202","url":null,"abstract":"The Broadcast storm problem causes severe interference, intense collision and channel contention, which greatly degrades the QoS performance metrics of the routing protocols. So, we suggest a neighbourhood coverage knowledge probabilistic broadcasting model (NCKPB) integrating with AODV protocol with knowledge on 2-hop neighbourhood coverage; a connectivity function to control a node’s forwarding probability of retransmission to alleviate significant overhead redundancy. Our objective is to minimize the broadcast RREQ overhead while ensuring fair retransmission bandwidth. We considered two more important measures called Saved Rebroadcast and Reachability. The outcomes of NCKPB, Fixed probability (FP) and Flooding (FL) routing schemes are examined under three major operating conditions, such as node density, mobility and traffic load. The NS-2 results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed NCKPB model by illustrating its performance superiority over all key metrics such as redundancy overhead, end to end latency, throughput, reachability, saved rebroadcast and collision contrast to FP and FL.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"120 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124292319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring the Benefits of Diversification Across Portfolios","authors":"D. Madan, King Wang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3813203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3813203","url":null,"abstract":"A portfolio diversification index is defined as the ratio of an equivalent number of independent assets to the number of assets. The equivalence is based on either attaining the same diversification benefit or spread reduction. The diversification benefit is the difference in value of a value maximizing portfolio and the maximum value of the components. The spread reduction is the percentage reduction attained by a spread minimizing portfolio relative to the smallest spread for the components. Asset values, bid and ask, are given by conservative valuation operators from the theory of two price economies. The diversification indices fall with the number of assets in the portfolio and it they are explained by a measure of concentration applied to normalized eigenvalues of the correlation matrix along with the average level of correlation. Diversification across global indices is not as strong as diversification across an equal number of domestic assets, but rises substantially for longer horizons of up to three years.","PeriodicalId":139983,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128228729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}