Parallel machine scheduling problems are classified as NP-hard problems. The direct solutions for these problems are not available and meta-heuristic algorithms are required to be used to find near-optimal solutions. In this paper, the formulations of multi-objective Artificial Bee Colony...

Purpose: The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (the PMLA/the Act) was enacted in India in 2002. Since then, Indian courts have had to deal with two interconnected issues owing to the nature of the offence of money laundering (ML) as conceived in the Act itself. The first issue relates to the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of creating hedge funds “clones” using liquid exchange traded instruments. Design/methodology/approach – Authors analyze the performance of fixed weight and extended Kalman filter generated clone portfolios (EKF) for 14...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of creating hedge funds “clones” using liquid exchange traded instruments. Design/methodology/approach – Authors analyze the performance of fixed weight and extended Kalman filter generated clone portfolios (EKF) for 14...

The last mile in decentralization was done by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) using ideas developed by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, Walter Stohr and James Fishkin. Sanitation, public facility maintenance and street light maintenance were decentralized to the last mile

This narrative describes the assistance given to victims of a sudden, calamitous and freak cyclone that seriously disrupted the functioning of normal life and caused human, material and economic hardship to the people. The account is about the rescue operations and stabilization of the physical...

The purpose of the off-site real-time (OSRT) system designed and developed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was to provide 360-degree accountability in public health and urban planning. The little used camera of the ubiquitous, easy-to-use mobile phone was transformed as an...