Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis Book

	Preface
	A Dynamic Stochastic ALM Model for Insurance Companies	3
	Expected Optimal Exercise Time of a Perpetual American Option: A Closed Form Solution	29
	Immunization and the Optimal Structure of the Balance Sheet	57
	Recursive Filtering for the Uhlenbeck Random Field: An Application to Image Restoring	74
	Forecasting the Electricity Consumption by Applying Stochastic Modelling Techniques: The Case of Greece	85
	Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis for Engineering Education	101
	A Scientific View of Economic and Financial Data Analysis	111
	Variational Data Analysis Versus Classical Data Analysis	128
	Characteristics of Meat Demand in Greece	159
	The Economic Development of the Greek Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives	168
	Regression Models for Repeated Medical Random Counts	177
	A Lagrangian Approach for the Selection of Growth Functions in Forecasting	189
	Forecasting Agricultural Commodity Markets Under Policy Constraints. A Retrospective Case Study	195
	Transfer, Diffusion and Development of Technology of Petrochemical, Plastics and Elastomers in Greece: The factors of the successful transfer (Absorption, development, R&D)	207
	Forecasting the Consumption of Milk and Dairy Products in Greece	217
	Data Analysis Methods Applied to Agricultural Marketing	244
	Designing a Multicriteria Desision Support System for Portfolio Selection and Management	261
	Comparative Behavioural Analysis of the European Olive Oil Consumer	293
	The Political Risk in the Foreign Investment Strategic Decisions	311
	Consumer Behavioural Analysis Using Multicriteria Method	328
	A Visual Approach to the Procedures of Multicriteria Intelligence Decision Aiding Systems	339
	Using Typicality to Support Inference and Learning	357
	Identification of Constrained Robot Dynamics Using Dynamic Neural Networks	384
	Conception of an Expert System of Control Filtering for Statistical Surveys	413
	Author Index	427