The papers in these two volumes are focused on the following fields: real life problems and theoretical results in stochastic modelling and data analysis, interactions between applied stochastic models, data analysis and artificial intelligence (including neural networks), probabilistic and statistical computation and forecasting, database management and knowledge acquisition, expert systems, computer-aided decision support systems and neural computing. In particular, results and applications in economics, finance and insurance, management, marketing, health sciences, production and engineering are presented. The main objective is to publish papers, both technical and practical, presenting new results which have potential for solving real-life problems.

The papers in these two volumes are focused on the following fields: real life problems and theoretical results in stochastic modelling and data analysis, interactions between applied stochastic models, data analysis and artificial intelligence (including neural networks), probabilistic and statistical computation and forecasting, database management and knowledge acquisition, expert systems, computer-aided decision support systems and neural computing. In particular, results and applications in economics, finance and insurance, management, marketing, health sciences, production and engineering are presented. The main objective is to publish papers, both technical and practical, presenting new results which have potential for solving real-life problems.