Mary Hardy: Investment Guarantees: Modelling and risk management for equity-linked life insurance. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-39290-1, 2003.

Fuzzy control systems design and analysis: a linear matrix inequality approach: Kazuo Tanaka and Hua O. Wang; Copyright John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001, ISBN: 0-471-32324-1

In this chapter, a class of nonlinear time-delay systems based on the TakagiŽ . w x Sugeno T-S fuzzy model is defined 1 . We investigate the delay-independent stability of this model. A model-based fuzzy stabilization design utilizing Ž . the concept of parallel distributed compensation PDC is employed. The main idea of the controller design is to derive each control rule to compensate each rul...

Risk Management of Policyholder Behavior in Equity-Linked Life Insurance

The financial guarantees embedded in variable annuity (VA) contracts expose insurers to a wide range of risks, lapse risk being one of them. When policyholders’ lapse behavior differs from the assumptions used to hedge VA contracts, the effectiveness of dynamic hedging strategies can be significantly impaired. By studying how the fee structure and surrender charges affect surrender incentives, ...

Errata Corrige “Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Communication-Theoretic Perspective” John Wiley & Sons, 2006. ISBN: 0-470-09110-X

Modelling Scale in Geographical Information Science. Edited by Nicholas J. Tate and Peter M. Atkinson (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). [Pp xv+277]. ISBN 0-471-98546-5. Hardback

The way we perceive, measure, and construct geographic reality is inextricably linked to the spatial and temporal scale at which we observe that reality. This has led many to search for a better understanding and description of the influences of scale on geographic processes, with the ultimate goal of obtaining a scale-independent description of reality. It is in this context that Modelling Sca...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...