The Third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2003) will be held as a part of the Seventh Joint Conference on Information Sciences. Computational intelligence, usually known as a collection of techniques, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, etc., is one of the most important tools in computational economics and finance. Over the last decade, computatonal intelligence has been widely used in various economical and financial modeling, prediction, and analysis. The most noticeable application of computational intelligence is in financial data mining.
In addition to financial data mining, computational intelligence has also been intensively used in the research area known as agent-based computational economics where global regularities aries from the bottom up, through repeated local interactions of autonomous agents. Computational intelligence provides a tool to model these autonomous agents and their interactions. Issues addressed included the behavior, cognitive and psychological foundations of agent engineering, constructive communications among the field and panel study, the experimental economics, behavior economics, econometrics, and agent-based economic models, the micro-macro economic relation, economics as a science of emergence. In addition, as one of its distinguishing features, CIEF'03 also solicits studies applying agent-based models to simulating the evolution of preferences, commodities, technology, organization, human capital, and behavior and strategies. Papers which do not explicitly use CI but may highlight promising new applications of CI to economics and finance are also welcome.
