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E-Commerce Security: Advice from Experts

Author: Khosrow Pour

Covering a wide range of existing e-commerce security issues, this book proposes solutions to security risks facing managers today. Experts in the field of e-commerce and e-commerce security offer insights into key issues such as the tactics of hackers, spamming, viruses, and future challenges facing e-commerce professionals. Strategies businesses can use to protect themselves from damages inflicted by hackers that attempt to locate vulnerabilities in an e-commerce system are described. How security architecture assists businesses in averting some forms of security troubles as well as how top management and e-commerce security professionals must continue to work toward protecting their e-commerce systems and clients from attack are explored in detail.

Author Biography: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour is the executive director of the Information Resources Management Association. He is also the editor of the Information Resources Management Journal, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, and Information Management. He serves on the editorial review boards of six other international information systems journals. He is the author or editor of 15 books and more than 30 articles published in journals such as Journal of Information Systems Management, Business Review, and Journal of Systems Management. He is a frequent speaker at many international meetings and organizations, such as the Association of Federal Information Resource Management, the Contract Management Association, the Financial Women Association, the National Association of States Information Resources Executives, and IBM. He lives in EDITOR: Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi

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Time Series: Applications to Finance

Author: Ngai Hang Chan

Elements of Financial Time Series fills a gap in the market in the area of financial time series analysis by giving both conceptual and practical illustrations. Examples and discussions in the later chapters of the book make recent developments in time series more accessible. Examples from finance are maximized as much as possible throughout the book.
* Full set of exercises is displayed at the end of each chapter.
* First seven chapters cover standard topics in time series at a high-intensity level.
* Recent and timely developments in nonstandard time series techniques are illustrated with real finance examples in detail.
* Examples are systemically illustrated with S-plus with codes and data available on an associated Web site.

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A graduate textbook developed for a quick course comprising six weeks of three-hour lectures. Students are expected to be well prepared either in finance or in such theoretical disciplines as pure mathematics or theoretical sciences. The goal is to balance theoretical background with examples of applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Probability Models	15
3	Autoregressive Moving Average Models	23
4	Estimation in the Time Domain	39
5	Examples in SPLUS	59
6	Forecasting	69
7	Spectral Analysis	79
8	Nonstationarity	93
9	Heteroskedasticity	101
10	Multivariate Time Series	117
11	State Space Models	137
12	Multivariate GARCH	153
13	Cointegrations and Common Trends	173
	References	195
	Index	201