This book describes recently developed mathematical models, methodologies, and case studies in diverse areas, including stock market analysis, portfolio optimization, classification techniques in economics, supply chain optimization, development of e-commerce applications, etc. It will be of interest to both theoreticians and practitioners working in economics and finance.Contents:Network-Based Techniques in the Analysis of the Stock Market (V Boginski et al.)Assessing Country Risk Using Multicriteria Classification Approaches (E Gjonca et al.)Stacked Generalization Framework for the Prediction of Corporate Acquisitions (E Tartari et al.)Measuring Production Efficiency in the Greek Food Industry (A Karakitsiou et al.)Brand Management in the Fruit Juice Industry (G Baourakis & G Baltas)Portfolio Optimization with Drawdown Constraints (A Chekhlov et al.)A New Algorithm for the Triangulation of Input-Output Tables in Economics (B H Chiarini et al.)Mining Encrypted Data (B Boutsinas et al.)Network Flow Problems with Step Cost Functions (R Yang & P M Pardalos)and other articlesReadership: Researchers, industrialists and graduate students in economics and finance.