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by Liew-Kee Kor (Editor), Abd-Razak Ahmad (Editor), Zanariah Idrus (Editor)
This book is a product of the Third International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2017) to be held in Langkawi in November 2017. It is divided into four sections according to the thrust areas: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Multidisciplinary Applications. All sections sought to confront current issues that society faces today. The book brings collectively quantitative, as well as qualitative, research methods that are also suitable for future research undertakings. Researchers in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics can use this book as a sourcebook to enrich their research works.
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This book is a product of the Third International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2017) to be held in Langkawi in November 2017. It is divided into four sections according to the thrust areas: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Multidisciplinary Applications. All sections sought to confront current issues that society faces today. The book brings collectively quantitative, as well as qualitative, research methods that are also suitable for future research undertakings. Researchers in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics can use this book as a sourcebook to enrich their research works.
Author Biography
Associate Professor Dr Liew-Kee Kor is a PhD graduate in Mathematics education. Her PhD project on the use of graphics calculator had won an award in the USM Graduate Research Exposition 2004. Since then, she has been actively researching and publishing articles on technology in mathematics education. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and has written journal articles pertaining to the use of educational technology in the teaching of mathematics. She is also actively involved in reviewing papers for journals and conferences. She has co-authored papers published in The Encyclopedia of the Science of Learning, Cases of Mathematics Professional Development in East Asian Countries, and the ZDM Mathematics Education. She was also a regional editor and contributing author in B. Sriraman (Ed.) The first Sourcebook on Asia Research in Mathematics Education: China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and India. She has contributed a book chapter in the Student-Driven Learning Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom published by the IGI Global. She is also one of the Editors in the Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2015) - Bridging Research Endeavor in Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, published by Springer.
Abd-Razak Ahmad is an Associate Professor at Universiti Teknologi MARA. He obtained his PhD in Corporate Failure Modeling from Leeds University, United Kingdom. He received his bachelor's degree in Economics/Mathematics from Macalester College and a master's degree in Mathematics from Eastern Michigan University, both in the United States. His main research interest is on credit risk and financial modeling and his current works involve building separate credit risk models for Malaysian public firms using Black-Scholes-Merton based model and building Partial Least Square based bankruptcy models for small and medium enterprises. Using analytic hierarchy process, he works on ethics based corporate social responsibility efficiency and performance models for Islamic financial institutions which include Islamic banks. He is also working on the performance efficiency of Takaful firms using data enveloping analysis. He is also one of the Editors in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Statistics (iCMS2015) - Bridging Research Endeavor in Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, published by Springer.
