The Basel II accord emphasizes risk sensitiveness for the capital of commercial banks. It recommends two methods, standardized approach and internal rating based (IRB) approach, for the estimation of risk capital requirements. Whereas, the former approach is based on external credit ratings, the...

Achieving consistency of growth pattern for commercial yeast fermentation over batches through addition of water, molasses and other chemicals is often very complex in nature due to its bio-chemical reactions in operation. Regression models in statistical methods play a very important role in...

Various continuous ant colony optimization (CACO) strategies are proposed by researchers to resolve continuous single response optimization problems. However, no such work is reported which also verifies suitability of CACO in case of both single and multiple response situations. In addition, as...

Since 1995 with the increasing importance of the service sector, liberalization policy and information technology revolution, the banking sector as a whole had undergone significant changes in India. The case presents a brief outline of the developments which happened in the Indian banking...