Department of Mathematical Sciences

Tourism Demand Probabilistic Interval Forecasting Approach With Integrated Deep PatchTST‐GMM Model

ABSTRACT Tourism demand forecasting is an important guide for decision‐making in related industries, especially because interval forecasting can provide managers with more decision‐relevant information than a single point estimate. In order to better forecast tourism demand, this...

AI-generated books and collection development practices: a survey of librarians in Nigerian university libraries

This paper explored AI-generated books and collection development practices among librarians in federal university libraries in Southern Nigeria. The study was anchored on the Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI). A descriptive survey design was employed, and the study population...

Reviving, reproducing, and revisiting Axelrod’s second tournament

Abstract Direct reciprocity, typically studied using the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma ( IPD ), is central to explaining cooperation. In the 1980s Robert Axelrod ran two computer tournaments in which Tit for Tat ( TFT ) emerged as the winner. Yet the archival record is incomplete:...

Charting the future of auditing: a global latent Dirichlet allocation-based exploration (1988–2024)

Abstract This study aims to identify key themes and research trends in auditing through a comprehensive analysis of 5961 Scopus-indexed articles published from 1988 to 2024. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) was employed to uncover dominant themes and associated conceptual groupi...