Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at CMDM 2017: The Second Work-
shop on Computer Modelling in Decision Making held on November 9–10, 2017
in Saratov.
    The CMDM 2017 workshop brought together researchers, postgraduate stu-
dents and academics interested in computer and mathematical modelling in de-
cision making in different areas. The CMDM 2017 workshop’s main topic was
computer and mathematical modelling in decision making in finance, insurance,
banking, economic forecasting, investment and financial analysis. The workshop
took place in Saratov State University (Saratov, Russia) on the 9th and 10th
of November 2017 and was co-organized with the Central Bank of the Russian
Federation and the Department of Statistics and Data Analysis of Higher School
of Economics (Moscow, Russia).
    The workshop was co-located with the VI International Youth Research and
Practice Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modelling in Economics,
Insurance and Risk Management, Saratov, Russia, November 9–10, 2017. Thirty
one papers were submitted and twenty papers were accepted for presentation
at the workshop after a careful peer reviewing process with discussions among
reviewers and members of the program committee. Each paper was reviewed by
at least two reviewers or members of the program committee. We would like to
thank all reviewers for their helpful efforts.
    The EasyChair system was used to manage the submissions, reviewing, and
proceedings production and we would like to express our gratitude to the staff
of EasyChair system for support.


November 17, 2017                                      Abraham Althonayan
Saratov                                                  Tatiana A. Belkina
                                                     Vladimir S. Mkhitaryan
                                                             Dmitry Pavluk
                                                           Sergei P. Sidorov