Computational Economics A Perspective from Computational Intelligence

The Computational Intelligence and its Applications Series publishes academic work based either on one of the computational intelligence techniques or on applications of these techniques to a field of human endeavor. The books may be single author monographs, multiple author editions, conference proceedings, handbooks, or edited volumes by leading researchers with chapters contributed by researchers in the field. Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence is a part of this series. Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence provides models of various economic and financial issues while using computational intelligence as a foundation. The scope of this volume comprises finance, economics, management, organizational theory and public policies. It explains the ongoing and novel research in this field, and displays the power of these computational methods in coping with difficult problems with methods from traditional perspectives. By encouraging the discussion of different views, this book serves as an introductory and inspiring volume that helps to flourish studies in computational economics.

Dr. Shu-Heng Chen is a professor in the Department of Economics of the National Chengchi University. He now serves as the Director of the AI-ECON Research Center, National Chengchi University, the editor- in-chief of the journal of New Mathematics and Natural Compution (World Scientific), the associate editor of the journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management and Economics. Dr. Chen holds a M.A. degree in mathematics and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has more than 150 publications in international journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. He has been invited to give keynote speeches and plenary talks on many international conferences. His research interests are mainly on the applications of computational intelligence to the agent-based computational economics and finance. Lakhmi C. Jain, M.E., Ph.D., is Director/Founder of the Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES) Centre, located in the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. He has initiated a postgraduate stream by research in the Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering systems area. Dr. Jain was the Technical Chair of the ETD2000 International Conference in 1995 and Publications Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems in 1996.He also initiated the first International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems in 1997.This is now an annual event. His interests focus on the use of novel techniques such as knowledge-based systems, artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, and genetic algorithms and the application of these techniques. Chung-Ching Tai is currently a Ph.D. student in Department of Economics, National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He is currently a member of AI-ECON research center. He finished his master thesis in 2001. His research interests are agent-based modeling, double auction markets, and experimental economics.