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Innovations in Derivatives Markets
by Kathrin Glau Zorana Grbac Matthias Scherer Rudi ZagstThis book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: * Modeling counterparty credit risk: credit valuation adjustment, debit valuation adjustment, funding valuation adjustment, and wrong way risk. * Pricing and hedging in fixed-income markets and multi-curve interest-rate modeling. * Recent developments concerning contingent convertible bonds, the measuring of basis spreads, and the modeling of implied correlations. The recent financial crisis has cast tremendous doubts on the classical view on derivative pricing. Now, counterparty credit risk and liquidity issues are integral aspects of a prudent valuation procedure and the reference interest rates are represented by a multitude of curves according to their different periods and maturities. A panel discussion included in the book (featuring Damiano Brigo, Christian Fries, John Hull, and Daniel Sommer) on the foundations of modeling and pricing in the presence of counterparty credit risk provides intriguing insights on the debate.
Innovations in Digital Economy: Third International Scientific Conference, SPBPU IDE 2021, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 14–15, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1619)
by Dmitrii Rodionov Tatiana Kudryavtseva Angi Skhvediani Mohammed Ali BerawiThis book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Third International Conference on Innovations in Digital Economy, SPBU IDE 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2021.The 23 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected for publication from 153 submissions. The papers are organized according the following topical sections: economic efficiency and social consequences of digital innovations implementation; regional innovation systems and clusters as drivers of the economic growth during the Fourth Industrial Revolution; industrial, service and agricultural digitalization; response of an educational system and labor market to the digital-driven changes in the economic system; digital transformation trends in the government and financial sector.
Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable Resources: Select Proceedings of IEMRE 2023 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1239)
by Madhumita Pal Josep M. Guerrero Pierluigi Siano Debapriya Das Swati ChowdhuriThis book offers insights into the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable Resources, IEMRE 2023. It focuses on various aspects of renewable energy, including solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and other renewable-based energy systems. Additionally, it covers energy storage and management, smart grid technologies, renewable energy expansion, and policymaking. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in energy management and renewable resources.
Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering
by Michael Felderer Felix Piazolo Wolfgang Ortner Lars Brehm Hans-Joachim HofThis volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the ERP Future 2015 conference held in Munich, Germany on November 16-17, 2015. The ERP Future 2015 Research conference is a scientific platform for research on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on core topics like business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Besides the scientific community the event also addresses businesses developing, implementing and using enterprise information systems. The 7 full papers and 5 short papers accepted for ERP were selected from 23 submissions. The papers consider topics in education in enterprise systems; business process management; enterprise systems and solution providers; and IT-trends. "
Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering
by Felix Piazolo Verena Geist Lars Brehm Rainer SchmidtThis book constitutes revised and peer reviewed contributions from the Research part of the ERP Future 2016 conference held in Hagenberg, Austria, in November 2016. The ERP Future Research conference is set up as a platform for scientific discussion on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, business intelligence (BI) systems, business process management (BPM) systems and information technology systems. The conference acts as a discussion and communication platform for business and technological topics covering ERP systems. The 7 full and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: introduction of enterprise systems; business processes; production processes; and IT-trends.
Innovations in European Rural Landscapes
by Hubert Wiggering Marina Pintar Hans-Peter Ende Andrea KnierimRural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards. The regional land use and the evolvement of landscapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers like infrastructural, energy or housing needs, globalised agricultural markets, and consumption habits. To face these challenges and to balance competitiveness with social cohesion, the "InnoLand research and development network" induces and accompanies promising land use innovations at the landscape scale in 10 European rural regions. Based on a common conceptual approach among the InnoLand partners, the development and implementation of new competitive strategies is conducted as a science-practice dialogue with strong commitment to the regional policy design for rural development. With this book, the network partners provide an overview and a comparative analysis of selected experimental regional approaches and give examples for the successful tackling of future opportunities and threats.
Innovations in Healthcare Management: Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solutions
by Vk Singh Paul LillrankAs developed economies enter a period of slower growth, emerging economies such as India have become prime examples of how more can be achieved with less. Bringing together experience and expertise from across the healthcare industry, this book examines innovations that can bring about real advances in the healthcare industry. Innovations in H
Innovations in Healthcare Technologies in India: An Initiative of ICMR-CIBioD (Centre for Innovation and Bio-Design)
by Varinder Garg Manoj Goyal Harish KumarThis book provides an overview of the futuristic healthcare ecosystem, covering numerous beneficial medical devices such as tele healthcare kiosks 101 and 201, JEE-1 (Automatic ambu-bag), medical rambler, surgical snorkel masks, metallo surfactants, etc., to improve the healthcare sector. It aids medical practitioners in understanding the advantages of accessible, affordable, and sustainable healthcare innovations, offering insights into groundbreaking technologies that can revolutionize healthcare. Each chapter addresses significant challenges in healthcare, also discussing the integration of technology and its potential benefits. The book also provides a deeper understanding of these transformative devices, exploring accessibility to ensure care for all, regardless of geographic or economic constraints. Additionally, it explains how sustainable devices can reduce environmental impact and cut long-term costs for healthcare institutions, providers and seekers.The book is relevant for medical practitioners, engineers, healthcare institutes, researchers, scientists, industry partners, students, and common people to understand the power of innovative devices for efficient patient care.
Innovations in Human Resource Management: Getting the Public's Work Done in the 21st Century (Transformational Trends In Governance And Democracy Ser.)
by Hannah S. Sistare Myra Howze Shiplett Terry F. BussHuman resource management is experiencing profound change, new challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainity. The public service has moved away from the old days of "personnel management" concerned mostly with processing "personal action" paperwork, to a system where public employees are managed as human capital to get the work of the government done more effectively and efficiently. This volume brings together the latest thinking on human resource management in the public service, presented by distinguished thought leaders in the field. While it focuses primarily on federal government policies and practices, the principles, conclusions, and recommendations translate readily to state and local government, and to the private sector as well.
Innovations in Industrial Engineering III (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Dagmar Cagáňová Filomena Soares Vitalii Ivanov Justyna Trojanowska Jose Machado Vijaya Kumar Manupati Alejandro Pereira Katarzyna AntoszThis book reports on innovations and engineering achievements of industrial relevance, with a special emphasis on industrial engineering developments aimed at improving the quality of processes and products in the context of a sustainable economy. It gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference “Innovation in Engineering”, ICIE 2024, held on June 26-28, 2024, in Povoação, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. All in all, this third volume of a three-volume set, provides engineering researchers and professionals with a timely snapshot of technologies and strategies that should help shaping different industrial sectors to improve production efficiency, industrial sustainability, and human well-being.
Innovations in Information and Communication Technologies: Proceedings of International Conference on ICRIHE - 2020, Delhi, India: IICT-2020 (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation)
by Pradeep Kumar Singh Zdzislaw Polkowski Sudeep Tanwar Sunil Kumar Pandey Gheorghe Matei Daniela PirvuThis edited book is comprised of original research that focuses on technological advancements for effective teaching with an emphasis on learning outcomes, ICT trends in higher education, sustainable developments and digital ecosystem in education, management and industries. The contents of the book are classified as; (i) Emerging ICT Trends in Education, Management and Innovations (ii) Digital Technologies for advancements in education, management and IT (iii) Emerging Technologies for Industries and Education, and (iv) ICT Technologies for Intelligent Applications. The book represents a useful tool for academics, researchers, industry professionals and policymakers to share and learn about the latest teaching and learning practices supported by ICT. It also covers innovative concepts applied in education, management and industries using ICT tools.
Innovations in Infrastructure: Proceedings of ICIIF 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #757)
by Dipankar Deb Valentina E. Balas Rajeeb DeyThe book covers innovative research and its applications in infrastructure development and related areas. This book discusses the state-of-art development, challenges and unsolved problems in the field of infrastructure/smart development, control engineering, power system infrastructure, smart infrastructure, waste management and renewable energy. The solutions discussed in this book encourage the researchers and IT professionals to put the methods into their practice.
Innovations in International and Cross-Cultural Management
by P. Christopher Earley Harbir SinghPresenting cross-cultural research on a wide range of organizational topics, this book ranges from the individual to the macro level. Among the issues examined are: organizational trust in international settings, HRM issues in international joint ventures, developing strategic advantage across borders, and social partnerships for sustainable growth.
Innovations in Knowledge Management
by Liana Razmerita Gloria Phillips-Wren Lakhmi C. JainThis book discusses emerging trends in the field of managing knowledge work due to technological innovations. The book is organized in 3 sections. The first section, entitled "Managing Knowledge, Projects and Networks", discusses knowledge processes and their use, reuse or generation in the context of an organization. The second section, entitled "Managing Knowledge using Social Media", focuses on factors influencing adoption and usage, the role of social media in managing knowledge, and factors that influence employees' acceptance and participation. The third section brings into discussion new approaches and technologies for acquiring knowledge. The book will be useful to both academics engaged in research in knowledge management and practitioners who are considering or implementing strategies for managing one of their most important resources.
Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance
by Paul Munro-Faure Clarissa Augustinus Stig Enemark Klaus DeiningerThe importance of good land governance to strengthen women's land rights, facilitate land-related investment, transfer land to better uses, use it as collateral, and allow effective decentralization through collection of property taxes has long been recognized. The challenges posed by recent global developments, especially urbanization, increased and more volatile food prices, and climate change have raised the profile of land and the need for countries to have appropriate land policies. However, efforts to improve country-level land governance are often frustrated by technical complexities, institutional fragmentation, vested interests, and lack of a shared vision on how to move towards good land governance and measure progress in concrete settings. Recent initiatives have recognized the important challenges this raises and the need for partners to act in a collaborative and coordinated fashion to address them. The breadth and depth of the papers included in this volume, all of which were presented at the World Bank's Annual Conference on Land Policy and Administration, illustrate the benefits from such collaboration. They are indicative not only of the diversity of issues related to land governance but, more importantly, highlight that, even though the topic is complex and politically challenging, there is a wealth of promising new approaches to improving land governance through innovative technologies, country-wide policy dialogue, and legal and administrative reforms. The publication is based on an on-going partnership between the World Bank, the International Federation of Surveyors, the Global Land Tool Network and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization provide tools that can help to address land governance in practice and at scale. It is our hope that this volume will be of use to increase awareness of and support to the successful implementation of innovative approaches that can help to not only improve land governance, but also thereby contribute to the well-being of the poorest and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Innovations in Land, Water and Energy for Vietnam’s Sustainable Development (UNIPA Springer Series)
by Mariano AnderleThis book presents recent innovative trends in land, water and energy management in Vietnam. Presenting the main projects and outcomes of a close collaboration between Italian and Vietnamese researchers in the last three years, the book is divided into three main sections: environment, climate change and land management in Vietnam; energy for Vietnam; and cities and utilities in Vietnam. The first section focuses on water systems, including rivers and seacoasts, and on new growing methods for more sustainable agriculture. The second section addresses energy and wastewater. The country’s rapid growth is a major challenge in terms of reinforcing the electrical infrastructures, and as such this section offers an overview of the government’s planned measures and their impact on the Vietnamese power system. The third section highlights cities and utilities in the context of increasing urbanization, exploring the urban morphology of the Vietnamese metropolis, particularly Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Innovations in Public Leadership Development (Transformational Trends In Governance And Democracy Ser.)
by Ricardo S. Morse Terry F. BussThis is the best single-source guide to leadership development in the public sector. It offers a wealth of advice for teachers, students, trainers, human resource officers, and established leaders. The all-original chapters include discussions of leadership frameworks, competencies for public leaders for the "new governance," and strategies for senior leaders in government.The book's wide-ranging coverage includes in-depth discussions of specific approaches to learning methods such as action learning and social artistry, as well as presentations of leader development models such as transformational stewardship and global leadership. The contributors present experiences from real-world leadership development programs, and the book situates leader development within the current trends of networks, collaboration, and boundary-crossing work in the public sector.
Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management
by Kathrin Glau Matthias Scherer Rudi ZagstQuantitative models are omnipresent -but often controversially discussed- in todays risk management practice. New regulations, innovative financial products, and advances in valuation techniques provide a continuous flow of challenging problems for financial engineers and risk managers alike. Designing a sound stochastic model requires finding a careful balance between parsimonious model assumptions, mathematical viability, and interpretability of the output. Moreover, data requirements and the end-user training are to be considered as well. The KPMG Center of Excellence in Risk Management conference Risk Management Reloaded and this proceedings volume contribute to bridging the gap between academia -providing methodological advances- and practice -having a firm understanding of the economic conditions in which a given model is used. Discussed fields of application range from asset management, credit risk, and energy to risk management issues in insurance. Methodologically, dependence modeling, multiple-curve interest rate-models, and model risk are addressed. Finally, regulatory developments and possible limits of mathematical modeling are discussed.
Innovations in Shipping
by Peter LorangeInnovations are dramatically changing the traditionally conservative global ocean shipping industry as it works to become more efficient and more sustainable. Academic and former shipping company owner Peter Lorange is best placed to make sense of how to approach and keep ahead of these changes. This book explains what the key innovations are, how to ensure a return on investment, the barriers to innovation and how to overcome them. Drawing on a number of specialist case studies, Lorange outlines the specific analytical and decision-making steps to consider and actions to take to arrive at a new strategic blueprint for modern shipping companies. This book is invaluable for practising shipping company executives, advanced students of shipping, logistics, port management and maritime economics and investors deciding whether to invest in a particular shipping firm.
Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 6: The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart City Applications (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #629)
by Mohamed Ben Ahmed Anouar Abdelhakim Boudhir Domingos Santos Rogerio Dionisio Nabil BenayaThis book highlights original research and recent advances in various fields related to smart cities and their applications. Bringing together new contributions by prominent researchers from around the globe, the book is a rich pedagogical tool and an inspiring research support for courses on computer science, electrical engineering, and urban sciences. The book gathers papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Smart City Applications (SCA 2022), held on October 19–21, 2022, in Castelo Branco, Portugal. The technical program of SCA 2022 consisted of 80 papers. The keynote speakers were Eng. Loide Monteiro (Foundation Smart City Cape Verde), Prof. Teodora Vuckovic (University of Novi Sad), Prof. Susana Sargento (University of Aveiro), Prof. Andy Van Den Dobblesteen (TU Delft), and Prof. Juan Corchado (University of Salamanca). SCA 2022 provided a good forum for all researchers to discuss all aspects of science and technology that are relevant to smart city applications.
Innovations in Social Finance: Transitioning Beyond Economic Value
by Thomas Walker Jane McGaughey Sherif Goubran Nadra WagdyOur world is experiencing increasingly complex social and environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance has attracted the attention of governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources and innovation with the goal of establishing effective long-term solutions. This edited collection summarizes, discusses, and analyzes new innovative trends in social finance. It features contributions that aim to highlight emerging trends (products, tools, and processes) in social finance, present a series of case studies related to the development, deployment, and scaling of social finance innovations, offer an understanding of how non-economic externalities are being incorporated, managed, and assessed in recent innovations, reveal the disruptive potential of social finance innovations by analyzing how they are redefining mainstream finance, analyze the scales – of operation and impact – of different innovations, and explore the complex relationship between social finance and social innovation. Featuring contributions from both the research and practitioner community as well as policy actors, the book provides more than a snapshot of the current social finance field by specifically highlighting the major challenges and difficulties that require the urgent attention of policymakers and social entrepreneurs.
Innovations in Social Marketing and Public Health Communication
by Walter WymerThis volume presents the most current theoretical advances in the fields of social marketing and public health communications. The volume is divided in two parts. Part 1 contains chapters pertaining to research and theory reflecting improvements and contributions to theories that help improving quality of life. It includes literature reviews, conceptual research and empirical studies on social marketing communications, models to understand individual's risky behaviors, and how to improve social interventions. The second part emphasizes applied research, consisting of best practices, applied experiments, and case studies on social marketing innovative practices with implications for quality of life.
Innovations in Tax Compliance: Building Trust, Navigating Politics, and Tailoring Reform
by Roel Dom Anna Custers Stephen Davenport PrichardRecent decades have witnessed important progress in strengthening tax systems in developing countries. Yet many areas of reform have remained stubbornly resistant to major improvements; overall revenue collection still falls short of what is needed to support effective governance and service delivery, while tax collection is too often characterized by high rates of evasion among large corporations and the rich and disproportionate, though often hidden, burdens on lower-income groups. As countries around the world deal with large COVID-19-induced debt burdens, a focus on strengthening tax systems is especially timely. Innovations in Tax Compliance draws on recent research and experience to present a new conceptual framework to guide more effective approaches to reform. Building on the achievements of recent decades, it argues for an expanded focus on the overlapping goals of building trust, navigating political resistance, and tailoring reform to unique local contexts through a focus on identifying the most binding constraints on reform. This focus, it argues, can lead not only to greater compliance, increased fairness, and higher revenues, but can also contribute to the building of state capacity, sustained political support for further reforms, and stronger fiscal contracts between citizens and governments.
Innovations in the Retail Banking Industry: The Impact of Organizational Structure and Environment on the Adoption Process (Financial Sector of the American Economy)
by Lisa M. SciulliThis research empirically validates a typology of innovations by examining the differential effects of organizational structure and environmental perceptions on the types of innovations adopted in an organization. Four types of innovations are depicted in the typology— incremental, product, process, and radical innovations.
Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture
by Stephen VerderberInnovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Aimed at architects and other professionals working across the disaster relief sector, it provides: An overview of the need for rapid response healthcare facilities; Global case studies which demonstrate real examples; Historical perspectives on redeployables used in past military and civilian contexts; Analysis of the advantages, challenges, and opportunities associated with offsite, premanufactured healthcare facilities and their component systems, for permanent installations or reuse on multiple sites; Planning and design considerations for transportable offsite-built healthcare architecture; State-of-the-art research on pop-up clinics, truck-based configurations, ISO container-based outpatient clinical and trauma care centres, and modularized facilities for contemporary military and civilian contexts. Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture will be an invaluable reference source for architects, disaster mitigation planners, design and engineering practitioners, non-governmental medical aid organizations (NGOs), governmental health ministries, and policy specialists across the spectrum of disciplines engaged in disaster mitigation and the provision of healthcare in medically underserved communities globally.