Recent Patents on Computer Science - Volume 5, Issue 1, 2012

With an initial investment of $400 each, engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac founded Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) in 1956 on the principle that data, used intelligently, can improve business decisions. This extraordinary foresight has come to be known as Business Intelligence (BI), an umbrella term encompassing a wide range of activities and technologies involved in the process of collecting data, translating d Read More

This paper reviews some recent developments from the field of Artificial Intelligence aimed at the determination of credit scores of firms and individuals. Specifically, the academic research efforts which are reviewed are those that consist of hybrid systems. These systems combine two or more intelligent techniques in several forms to derive the advantages of all of them. There are four ways to elaborate a hybrid system: f Read More

Textures have been a research focus for many years in human perception, computer graphics and computer vision. Recently, research activities in this area emphasize on texture synthesis. Given one or more example textures, a texture synthesis algorithm generates a new one bearing the same visual characteristics. The synthesized texture can be made of arbitrary size specified by the user. It can be used in many fields su Read More

Agricultural product quality safety is one of the hot topics in the world. From the technical view, the agricultural production management and traceability are the key measurement for insuring the quality safety. The paper introduced the research progress of traceability systems, and also discussed relevant patents. From 2005 until now, based on long-term requirement investigation and analysis, we have been investigatin Read More

The existence and functionality of virtual environment at the Department of Computer Science and Educational Technology (KVD) of the University West Bohemia (UWB) in Pilsen are the current reality. The VMware ESX server has been in operation sinece 2007 at the KVD department. The software ESX 3.5.0 SP2 has been installed on the server Dell PE2900. Current status is as follows: about 10 virtual machines (VM) are us Read More

Commercial bank's primary business is credit management. For commercial banks, how to make a scientific and effective credit decision is very important. Therefore, study on credit risk evaluation modeling has become an issue of great practical significance. For imbalanced sample data problem and concept drift problem which emerged in bank credit sample data with time passing, this paper proposed the use of rolling t Read More

Time is coming to celebrate the 60th anniversary from the pioneering work of Markowitz on portfolio selection. His main contribution was to understand that investment decisions did not merely rely on which securities to own, but on how to divide the investor's wealth amongst securities, thus individuating in the portfolio diversification a key issue to focus on. This approach literally shivered the world of finance, and traced Read More

This study reports the design of a low-cost image-based mouth switch for the people with severe disabilities. Via this mouth switch and a communication aid, people with severe disabilities can manipulate computers and communicate with other people. Two experiments were conducted to test the performance of the mouth switch. Experimental results showed that this switch could help people manipulate com Read More

Stock market prediction is an important area of financial forecasting, which attracts great interest of stock investors, stock buyers/sellers, policy makers, applied researchers and many others who are involved in the capital market. This paper aims to develop an efficient model to predict the Dhaka Stock Market Index (DSPI) values using the appropriate forecasting model. It is widely believed that stock data are nonlinear, dyn Read More

The Patent s annotated in this section have been selected from various Patent databases. These recent Patent s are relevant to the articles published in this journal issue, categorized by different computation methods, bioinformatics, medical informatics, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, hardware architectures, software, theory and methods involved and related to computer science.