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Introduction; Chapter 2. What Is Project Finance?; 2.1 Development of Project Finance; 2.2 Features of Project Finance; 2.3 Project Finance and Privatization; 2.4 Project Finance and Structured Finance; 2.5 Why Use Project Finance?; Chapter 3. The Project Finance Markets; 3.1 Commercial Banks; 3.2 Bond Issues; 3.3 Mezzanine and Subordinated Debt; 3.4 Lease Finance; 3.5 Vendor Finance; 3.6 Public-Sector Finance; Chapter 4. Project Development and Management; 4.1 Sponsors and Other Investors 327 $a4.2 Project Development 4.3 The Role of Advisers; 4.4 Joint-Venture Issues; 4.5 The Project Company; 4.6 Public Procurement; Chapter 5. Working with Lenders; 5.1 Commercial Banks; 5.2 Bond Issues; 5.3 Loans versus Bonds; 5.4 The Roles of the Lenders' Advisers; Chapter 6. Project Contracts: (1) The Project Agreement; 6.1 Off take Contract; 6.2 Concession Agreement; 6.3 Term of Project Agreement; 6.4 Control of Project Design and Construction, Contracts, and Financing; 6.5 Compensation for Additional Costs; 6.6 Force Majeure; 6.7 Step-in by the Off taker or Contracting Authority 327 $a6.8 Termination of the Project Agreement 6.9 Effect of Debt Refinancing or Equity Resale on the Project Agreement; Chapter 7. Project Contracts: (2) Ancillary Contracts; 7.1 EPC Contract; 7.2 Operation and Maintenance Contract(s); 7.3 Fuel or Other Input Supply Contract; 7.4 Permits and Other Rights; 7.5 Government Support Agreement; 7.6 Insurance; 7.7 Direct Agreements; Chapter 8. Commercial Risks; 8.1 Categories of Project Finance Risk; 8.2 Risk Evaluation and Allocation; 8.3 Analysis of Commercial Risks; 8.4 Commercial Viability; 8.5 Completion Risks; 8.6 Environmental Risks 327 $a8.7 Operating Risks 8.8 Revenue Risks; 8.9 Input Supply Risks; 8.10 Force Majeure; 8.11 Contract Mismatch; 8.12 Recourse to the Sponsors; Chapter 9. Macroeconomic Risks; 9.1 Inflation; 9.2 Interest Rate Risks; 9.3 Exchange Rate Risks; Chapter 10. Political Risks; 10.1 Projects and Politics; 10.2 Classification of Political Risk; 10.3 Currency Convertibility and Transfer; 10.4 Expropriation; 10.5 War and Civil Disturbance; 10.6 Change of Law; 10.7 Quasi-political Risks; Chapter 11. Political Risk Guarantees, Insurance, and Finance; 11.1 Mitigation of Political Risks 327 $a11.2 Export Credit Agencies 11.3 Export Credits; 11.4 Untied Cover and Financing; 11.5 ECA Structures and Products; 11.6 International Financing Institutions; 11.7 Private-Sector Insurance; Chapter 12. Financial Modeling and Evaluation; 12.1 Model Inputs; 12.2 Model Outputs; 12.3 Macroeconomic Assumptions; 12.4 Project Costs and Funding; 12.5 Operating Revenues and Costs; 12.6 Loan Drawings and Debt Service; 12.7 Accounting and Taxation Issues; 12.8 Equity Returns; 12.9 Debt Cover Ratios; 12.10 The Base Case and Changes in Assumptions; 12.11 Sensitivity Analysis 327 $a12.12 Investors' Analysis 330 $aThis introduction for practitioners offers a balanced view of project financing, integrating legal, contractual, scheduling, and other areas that participate in large multiparty projects, large single-asset purchases, and broad-based financing programs for fleets of assets. It mixes theories and case studies but avoids becoming too oriented toward applications in any one particular industry. It focuses on the concepts and techniques required by project finance people without being overly academic or beset by case studies. 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Variational Granularity Language Sets in Interactive Genetic Algorithms -- Linked PARAFAC/CP Tensor Decomposition and Its Fast Implementation for Multi-block Tensor Analysis -- A Human-Simulated Immune Evolutionary Computation Approach -- A STPHD-Based Multi-sensor Fusion Method -- Group Sparse Inverse Covariance Selection with a Dual Augmented Lagrangian Method -- Multiple Outlooks Learning with Support Vector Machines -- Multi-Task Learning Using Shared and Task Specific Information -- Learning Attentive Fusion of Multiple Bayesian Network Classifiers -- Multiclass Penalized Likelihood Pattern Classification Algorithm -- Self-Organising Maps for Classification with Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm for Supervision -- Decoupled 2-D DOA Estimation Algorithm Based on Cross-Correlation Matrix for Coherently Distributed Source -- Feature Extraction by Nonnegative Tucker Decomposition from EEG Data Including Testing and Training Observations -- A New Approach for a Priori Client Threshold Estimation in Biometric Signature Recognition Based on Multiple Linear Regression -- Deterministic Annealing Multi-Sphere Support Vector Data Description,- Maximal Margin Approach to Kernel Generalised Learning Vector Quantisation for Brain-Computer Interface -- A Basic Study on Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Chaotic Spike Oscillator Dynamics -- On the Objective Function and Learning Algorithm for Concurrent Open Node Fault.- Evolutionary Extreme Learning Machine for Ordinal Regression -- Biclustering and Subspace Learning with Regularization for Financial Risk Analysis -- Emotion Understanding in Movie Clips Based on EEG Signal Analysis -- A Distributed Q-Learning Approach for Variable Attention to Multiple Critics.- A Hybrid Approach for Adaptive Car Navigation -- Low Complexity Classification System for Glove-Based Arabic Sign Language Recognition -- Transductive Cartoon Retrieval by Multiple Hypergraph Learning -- Adaptive Multiplicative Updates for Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization -- Online Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Large Datasets -- Optimization of Fuzzy Systems Using Group-Based Evolutionary Algorithm -- Gabor-Based Novel Local, Shape and Color Features for Image Classification -- A Hybrid KNN-Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Prototype Selection -- Energy-Efficient Virtual Machine Placement in Data Centers by Genetic Algorithm -- A Contextual-Bandit Algorithm for Mobile Context-Aware Recommender System -- Multi-source Transfer Learning with Multi-view Adaboost -- Semi-supervised Multitask Learning via Self-training and Maximum Entropy Discrimination -- Tracking Property of UMDA in Dynamic Environment by Landscape Framework -- Computation of Joint Spectral Radius for Network Model Associated with Rank-One Matrix Set -- Novelty Detection Using a New Group Outlier Factor -- Hierarchical K-Means Algorithm for Modeling Visual Area V2 Neurons -- Feature Selection for Unsupervised Learning -- Recursive Similarity-Based Algorithm for Deep Learning -- A Fast Edge-Directed Interpolation Algorithm -- Real-Valued Constraint Optimization with ICHEA.- Modeling Post-training Memory Transfer in Cerebellar Motor Learning.- Surface-Based Construction of Curvature Selectivity from the Integration of Local Orientations -- Solving Dynamic Constraint Optimization Problems Using ICHEA -- An Incremental Approach to Solving Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Using a Quantum Behaved Particle Swarm -- Learning from Positive and Unlabelled Examples Using Maximum Margin Clustering -- Novel Robust Stability Criteria for Stochastic Hopfield Neural Network with Time-Varying Delays -- RST-DCA: A Dendritic Cell Algorithm Based on Rough Set Theory -- A Meta-Learning Approach to Select Meta-Heuristics for the Traveling Salesman Problem Using MLP-Based Label Ranking -- Modified Particle Swarm Optimization for Pattern Clustering -- A Weighted Learning Vector Quantization Approach for Interval Data -- A Genetic Algorithm Solution for the Operation of Green LTE Networks with Energy and Environment Considerations -- Robust Hypersurface Fitting Based on Random Sampling Approximations -- Manifold Regularized Multi-Task Learning -- Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning System Using Attention Degree -- Basic Study on Particle Swarm Optimization with Hierarchical Structure for Constrained Optimization Problems -- A New Probabilistic Approach to Independent Component Analysis Suitable for On-Line Learning in Artificial Neural Networks -- Immune Algorithm for Bitmap Join Indexes -- Data Driven System Identification Using Evolutionary Algorithms -- A Possibilistic Density Based Clustering for Discovering Clusters of Arbitrary Shapes and Densities in High Dimensional Data -- A Knowledge-Driven Bi-clustering Method for Mining Noisy Datasets -- Robust Active Learning for Linear Regression via Density Power Divergence -- Adaptive Probabilistic Policy Reuse -- Adaptive Classifier Selection in Large-Scale Hierarchical Classification -- An Efficient Algorithm for Anomaly Detection in a Flight System Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks.- A Novel Road Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition Approach by Introducing CCM and LESH -- On the Application of Bio-inspired Algorithms in Timetabling Problem -- A Bio Inspired Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Global Optimization -- Managing Qualitative Preferences with Constraints.-  Inspired Fuzzy K-Modes Clustring Algorithm -- Evaluating SPAN Incremental Learning for Handwritten Digit Recognition -- DPSO Based on Random Particle Priority Value and Decomposition Procedure as a Searching Strategy for the Evacuation Vehicle Routing Problem -- A Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm for Optimization Numerical Problems -- Are You a Social Conformer.- Canonical Duality Theory and Algorithm for Solving Challenging Problems in Network Optimisation. 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