Description: Discusses some of the more common software-design issues that can reduce the productivity of the software-development team and the software's adaptability to competitive market and statutory requirements.

Description: Discusses the RAND function in Excel and alternatives for generating random numbers.

Description: Discusses the memory management features of the computer language R.

Description: Comments from the departing chairperson of the Technology Section. Highlights and initiatives of the current and coming year are discussed.

Description: This article is the second in a four-part series about eliminating the confusion with using data terminology. Part one discussed data governance. This second part will discuss data analysis and database management.

Description: The P versus NP millennium problem considers a grouping of programs based on a formula for how long at most it takes to process an input string of length n. This article discusses building computer models to solve such problems and generalizes this to business applications.

Description: A description of how IoT can benefit life insurance companies.

Description: Producing a crystal-clear balance roll-forward on time, obtaining a fresh model output the first time or providing model results for your business partners with a tight turnaround all depend on one thing: how fast the model engine runs. Authors explored various reasons behind significant computational power consumption, and discussed different ways to speed the computational process such as in-force population compression, model use case consolidation, code simplification and streamlining, and infrastructure automation, etc.