Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis

Preface. I: Stochastic Modelling in Finance Insurance and Economics. A Dynamic Stochastic ALM Model for Insurance Companies; J. Janssen. Expected Optimal Exercise Time of a Perpetual American Option: A Closed Form Solution; R. Yaksick. Immunization and the Optimal Structure of the Balance Sheet; Y. Machnes. Recursive Filtering for the Uhlenbeck Random Field: An Application to Image Restoring; M. D. Ruiz-Medina, M. Valderrama. Forecasting the Electricity Consumption by Applying Stochastic Modelling Techniques: The Case of Greece; A. Giovanis, C. H. Skiadas. Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis for Engineering Education; N. Koumotsos, C. H. Skiadas. II: Data Analysis and Economics. A Scientific View of Economic and Financial Data Analysis; C. A. Los. Variational Data Analysis versus Classical Data Analysis; P. Michaud. Characteristics of Meat Demand in Greece; M. Demoussis, P. Drakos. The Economic Development of the Greek Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives; K. Oustapassidis et al. Regression Models for Repeated Medical Random Counts; G. MacKenzie. III: Forecasting and Marketing. A Lagrangian Approach for the Selection of Growth Functions in Forecasting; C. H. Skiadas. Forecasting Agricultural Commodity Markets under Policy Constraints: A Retrospective Case Study; C. Ritson, A. Fearne. Transfer, Diffusion and Development of Technology of Petrochemical, Plastics and Elastomers in Greece: The Factors of the Successful Transfer (Absorption, Development, R&D); A. Ktenas. Forecasting the Consumption of Milk and Dairy Products in Greece; A. Xepapadeas, H. Habib. Data Analysis Methods Applied to Agricultural Marketing; N. F. Matsatsinis et al. IV: Multicriteria Decision Support Systems. Designing a Multicriteria Decision Support System for Portfolio Selection and Management; C. Zopounidis et al. Comparative Behavioral Analysis of the European Olive Oil Consumer; Y. Siskos et al. The Political Risk in the Foreign Investment Strategic Decisions; A. Chevalier et al. Consumer Behavioral Analysis Using Multicriteria Method; G. Baourakis et al. A Visual Approach to the Procedures of Multicriteria Intelligence Decision Aiding Systems; A. Spyridakos, D. Yannacopoulos. V: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Neural Networks. Using Typicality to Support Inference and Learning; V. S. Moustakis et al. Identification of Constrained Robot Dynamics Using Dynamic Neural Networks; E. B. Kosmatopoulos, M. A. Christodoulou. Conception of an Expert System of Control Filtering for Statistical Surveys; C. van Brussel, J. Troussart. Author Index.