This book addresses a broad range of problems commonly encountered in the fields of financial
analysis logistics and supply chain management such as the use of big data analytics in the
banking sector. Divided into twenty chapters some of the contemporary topics discussed in the
book are co-operative non-cooperative supply chain models for imperfect quality items with
trade-credit financing a non-dominated sorting water cycle algorithm for the cardinality
constrained portfolio problem and determining initial basic and feasible solutions for
transportation problems by means of the supply demand reparation method and continuous
allocation method. In addition the book delves into a comparison study on exponential
smoothing and the Arima model for fuel prices optimal policy for Weibull distributed
deteriorating items varying with ramp type demand rate and shortages an inventory model with
shortages and deterioration for three different demand rates outlier labeling methods for
medical data a garbage disposal plant as a validated model of a fault-tolerant system and the
design of a least cost ration formulation application for cattle a preservation technology
model for deteriorating items with advertisement dependent demand and trade credit a time
series model for stock price forecasting in India and asset pricing using capital market
curves.The book offers a valuable asset for all researchers and industry practitioners working
in these areas giving them a feel for the latest developments and encouraging them to pursue
further research in this direction.
