This book is a valuable resource for those engaged with mathematical modeling. The six chapters of this book discuss the recent trends in applied and associated mathematical sciences, focusing on techniques and modeling, based on real problems. With the appropriate mathematical models and interpretation of numerical results, this book provides useful information and guidance to understand real problems. This book will be useful for new and young researchers from different disciplines to link mathematics to real world applications.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2008 Conference on Frontiers of Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM'08), held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), May 19?21, 2008. The papers reflect the conference themes of mathematical biology, mathematical fluid dynamics, applied statistics and biostatistics, and waves and electromagnetics. Some of the world's most distinguished experts in the conference focus areas provide a unique and timely perspective on leading-edge research, research trends, and important open problems in several fields, making it a ?must read? for active mathematical scientists. Included are major new contributions by a distinguished trio of plenary speakers: Frank Hoppensteadt contributes a thought-provoking paper on the evolving relationship between applied mathematics and the computer; Pranab Sen explores exciting new trends in computational biology and informatics; and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck describes his recent research on 3D free surface flows. There are also many innovative contributions by a prestigious group of invited mini-symposium speakers, making this an indispensable collection for professionals and graduate students in the mathematical sciences and related fields.Finally, the 75th birthday dedication to Daljit S Ahluwalia ? for his many contributions to building a world-class mathematical sciences department at NJIT ? adds to making this a one-of-a-kind volume.

This book is a guide for researchers who are involved in statistical, mathematical, information technology and decision science analyses. The purpose of the book is to allow readers to get research ideas on a wide range of topics, such as sampling plans, capital budgeting, completion time in production line, searching pattern for mobile cache replacement policy, home security system with biometric finger print and web service technology. The analyses in each chapter are explained in detail with samples of real applications in daily life to assist readers to appreciate theoretical, algorithm and mathematical formulations. Prior to reading this book, readers are advised to have some basic foundation in statistical sampling, tabu search approach, neural network, algorithms, and mathematical formulation. This book will be beneficial to students and researchers who are looking for research topic of the research and how problems can be solved using an applied method.

Malaysia is ahead of other countries having introduced legislation and guidelines to promote the stability and growth of Islamic finance in the country. Islamic Financial Services Act (IFSA) was introduced in 2013 to coordinate some good deed by adding a number of provisions, including the Takaful Act. Among the guidelines that have been introduced or enhanced by the Malaysian authorities that impact directly on Takaful is a Risk-based Framework for Takaful Operators, Guidelines on Takaful Operational Framework and Syariah Governance Framework for Islamic Financial institutions. Takaful industry is expected to continue its growth in the future with the emergence of new markets in certain countries. This book aims to answer some key questions are often raised about the takaful business based on current market practice and as a quick reference source for anyone interested. The discussion in this book revolves around the issues that have been raised by civil society and the individual directly or indirectly when dealing with Takaful. The author attempts to answer these questions in a style and language that is easily understood by all parties.

Bibliometric analysis means measuring the properties of all kinds of documents, including journal articles, conference proceedings, books, etc. These properties can easily be obtained from academic databases such as Scopus. Unlike other qualitative studies, the bibliometric study requires minimal effort to get the data before it can be analysed. It will take less than five minutes to obtain the dataset if the author understands the concept. While this study initially comes from the library and information science field, it has now become popular among scholars regardless of their areas of interest. This study is suitable for anyone who wants to explore the current state of the art of the literature of any field of study. Analysis can easily be conducted using several freely available tools, such as Harzing’s Publish or Perish and VOSviewer. Unlike systematic literature review, content analysis, or meta-analysis studies, bibliometric research does not require you to download or even read the full content of the data to be analysed. This book is suitable for anyone who wants to write and publish their first paper using bibliometric analysis.

Design research is grounded on the iterative Triangulation Methodology (ITM), where theoretical, development and empirical research approaches are triangulated to accomplish the design research objectives. Constructing and associating research gaps, questions, objectives, methods and outcomes are imperative in a research. However, not linking all these and choosing the wrong and poorly designed methods are common especially among inexperienced researchers and students. Therefore, researchers should practice strategies in identifying the right methods to collect data or perform experiment that can meet the predefined objectives and determined research problems. This book is aimed at providing some of the likely strategies. It contains personalized strategies and examples that are useful for starting a design research in any field particularly in software and application development. The examples described are real studies that we conducted together with our research team members.

This book is organized to make it easier for students to understand its contents, which is based on nearly 20 years of teaching experience in economics. It is presented in a simple and yet in-depth format to benefit readers, especially students studying, Principles of Economics. The book provides appropriate examples in understanding issues and questions on economic studies. There are also discussion questions to reinforce the reader’s understanding.