in paper (2004) chang studied an inventory model under a situation in which the supplier provides the purchaser with a permissible delay of payments if the purchaser orders a large quantity. tripathi (2011) also studied an inventory model with time dependent demand rate under which the supplier provides the purchaser with a permissible delay in payments. this paper is motivated by chang (2004) ...

Many of the papers in this special issue were initially presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance (PDCoF) held in conjunction with The 23rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). The papers were significantly revised, extended for consideration in this special issue. The purpose of this special issue is to bring to...

Despite comprehensive reform (Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act) and recent review (Phillips Review in 2007) of party finance in Britain, public opinion of party finance remains plagued by perceptions of corruption, undue influence from wealthy donors, carefree and wasteful spending and, more generally, from the perception that there is just ‘too much money’ in politics. In this ...