July 21 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Agent-Based Modeling of Financial Markets
Avalanche Dynamics of the Financial Market (CIEF-57)
Pei-Ling Zhou, Chun-Xia Yang, Tao Zhou, Min Xu, Jun Liu, Bing-Hong Wang

Learning Foreign Exchange Intervention Policies with an Artificial Market (CIEF-78)
Hiroki Matsui, Kiyoshi Izumi, Satoshi Tojo

Interactive Estimation of Agent-Based Financial Markets Models (CIEF-32)
Ihsan Ecemis, Eric Bonabeau, Trent Ashburn

Market Efficiency and Rational Expectation under Asymmetric Information and Uncertainty in Price Prediction (CIEF-22)
Takuya Kato, Hideyuki Tanaka, Yu Chen, Hirotada Ohashi

What Causes Persistence of Stock Return Volatility? One Possible Explanation with an Artificial Stock Market (CIEF-62)
Ryuichi Yamamoto

A multi-period CAPM with heterogeneous beliefs (CIEF-63)
Hendri Adriaens, Bas Donkers, Bertrand Melenberg
July 21 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Neural Networks (I)
Examining the Internal Complexity of a Neural Network Trained with Divisia Component Data (CIEF-64)
Vincent A. Schmidt, Jane M. Binner

Evaluating the Performance of a EuroDivisia Index Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques (CIEF-47)
JM Binner, AM Gazely, G Kendall

An Exploratory Study for Neural Net Forecasting of Retail Sales Trends Using Economic Indicators (CIEF-18)
Mike Orra, Gursel Serpen

Forecasting Exchange Rates with Nonlinear Models (CIEF-54)
André Alves Portela Santos, Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Newton C. A. da Costa Jr.

Predicting Exchange Rate Direction with Leading Indicators via Neural Network Model (CIEF-67)
Fu-Ming Lee, Li-Hua Li, Chia-Yang Lin

The Self-Referential Construction for Computational Intelligence Processing in Economics and Finance (CIEF-60)
Jishou Ruan, Yalou Huang
July 21 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Wavelet Analysis
The Fractal Behaviour of CAC 40 Returns Examined in the Time-Frequency Domain (CIEF-82)
Serge Hayward

Second Generation Wavelet Transforms of Yield Curve Shifts (CIEF-75)
Joel R. Barber, Mark L. Copper

Multiscale Time Series Analysis of the Taiwan Stock Market: A Wavelet-Based Approach (CIEF-119)
Chueh-Yung Tsao, Chun-Ru Lin

Computational Forecasting of Two Exchange Rates (CIEF-10)
Mak Kaboudan
July 22 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Tutorial (I):
Setup and Use of a Non-dedicated Cluster for Parallel Computing, with Examples
Michael Creel
July 22 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Neural Networks (II)
Radial Basis Function Techniques for Regression Analysis of Economic Trends (CIEF-9)
Marcus L. Roberts, Steven C. Gustafson

Investment Analysis of Real Estate by Using Radial Basis Probabilistic Neural Networks (CIEF-5)
X.-G. Wang, Y.-S. Ding, X.-F. Zhang, Y.-Q. You, S.-H. Shao

Neural Networks for Extracting Implied Risk-Neutral Probability Density Surface of Stock Index Options (CIEF-39)
Ing-ChyuanWu

Correlation Prediction between Foreign Stock Exchanges (CIEF-4)
Chiu-Che Tseng, Han-Chiu Huang, I-Wan Wang

Bayesian Analysis of Neural Network Models for Conditional Return Distribution (CIEF-37)
Tatiana Miazhynskaia, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Georg Dorffner

Stock Prediction Based on Evolutionary Neural Network (CIEF-86)
W. Gao
July 22 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Fuzzy Logic & Rough Sets
Analysis on Reciprocal Community Currency Using Fuzzy Measure Theory (CIEF-65)
Masayuki Kokabu, Takafumi Ikeda, Osamu Katai, Takayuki Shiose, Hiroshi Kawakami

Ranking Stocks Using FMCDM (CIEF-2)
Chung-Tsen Tsao

An Overview of Insurance Uses of Fuzzy Logic (CIEF-35)
Arnold F. Shapiro

Time-Series Data Analysis with Rough Sets (CIEF-51)
Joseph Herbert JingTao Yao
July 23 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Neural Networks (III)
The Consistency of Self-Declared Hedge Fund Styles: A Return-Based Analysis with Self-Organizing Maps (CIEF-36)
Ramin Baghai-Wadji, Rami El-Berry, Stefan Klocker, Markus Schwaiger

An Application of Kohonen's SOM for the Management of Benchmarking Policies (CIEF-40)
Raquel Florez-Lopez

Estimating Female Labor Force Participation through Statistical and Machine Learning Methods: A Comparison (CIEF-15)
Omar Zambranoa, Claudio M. Rocco S.b, Marco Musellic

An Application of One-Class Support Vector Machine for Currency Crises Discrimination (CIEF-16)
Claudio M. Rocco S.

Detection and Prediction of Relative Clustered Volatility in Financial Markets (CIEF-48)
Karen Hovsepian, Peter C. Anselmo, Subhasish Mazumdar
July 23 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Agent-Based Modeling: Learning & Games
On Variant Evolution of Party Competition (CIEF-69)
Jie-Shin Lin

Efficiency and Traps of Social Learning: Some Computational Experiments (CIEF-14)
Yuya Sasaki

Achieving Cooperation Using Artificial Immune Systems (CIEF-24)
Tzai-Der Wang, Colin Fyfe

Self-organized Boolean Game on Networks (CIEF-70)
Tao Zhou, Bing-Hong Wang, Pei-Ling Zhou, Chun-Xia Yang, Bo Hu

Choosing Multi-Issue Negotiating Object Based on K-Armed Bandit Problem (CIEF-11)
Liming Wang, Yumei Chai, Houkuan Huang
July 23 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Evolutionary Methods
<A Genetic Algorithm for the Structural Estimation of Games: A First Report (CIEF-61)
Victor Aguirregabiria, Pedro Mira

Using Fractal's Addition and GP for N-Steps Ahead Forecasting (CIEF-34)
Chao-Fu Hong, Chi-Liang Yang

Using GAs to Minimise the Bullwhip Effect in a Supply Chain (CIEF-30)
T. O'Donnell, L. Maguire, R. McIvor, P. Humphreys

Volatility Forecast by Discrete Stochastic Optimization and Genetic Algorithms (CIEF-68)
Irwin Ma, Tony Wong, Thiagas Sankar, Lisa Li
July 23 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Economic Systems: Theoretical Approach
Properties of a Renewal Process Approximation for a Spin Market Model (CIEF-43)
Muffasir Badshah, Robert Boyer, Theodore Theodosopoulos

Dynamic Pricing on Commercial Websites: A Computationally Intensive Approach (CIEF-79)
Patrick Mullen, Kevin Seppi, Sean Warnick

Predicting Uncertain Outcomes Using Information Markets (CIEF-53)
Yiling Chen, Tracy Mullen, Chao-Hsien Chu

Escape Dynamics: A Continuous Time Approach (CIEF-72)
Dmitri Kolyuzhnov, Anna Bogomolova, Sergey Slobodyan
July 23 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Financial Date Mining: Multi-Model Approach
Applying the Genetic-based Neural Networks to Volatility Trading (CIEF-84)
Shinn-Wen Wang

Forecasting Agricultural Commodity Prices Using Hybrid Neural Networks (CIEF-8)
Tamer Shahwan, Martin Odening

Evolutionary Method for Real-Word Times Series Prediction (CIEF-73)
Tiago A. E. Ferreira, Germano C. Vasoncelos, Paulo J. L. Adeodato

Forecasting High-Frequency Financial Data Volatility via Nonparametric Algorithms: Evidence from Taiwan Financial Market (CIEF-99)
Wo-Chiang Lee

Time Series Financial Data Mining (CIEF-31)
Chiu-Che Tseng, Ching-Tsai Kang
July 23 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Forecasting Volatility in Financial Market (I)
A New Model in Forecasting Dynamic Correlations (CIEF-83)
Ray Y Chou, Nathan Liu, Chun-Chou Wu

Measuring the Connection Strengths between Markets Using Artificial Neural Networks (CIEF-107)
Mona R. El Shazly

An Empirical Approach toward Realistic Modeling of Capital Market Volatility (CIEF-110)
Nan-Jye Wang, Kelu Wang, Jenher Jeng

Boosting Frameworks in Financial Applications: >From Volatility Forecasting to Portfolio Strategy Optimization (CIEF-113)
Valeriy V. Gavrishchaka

Trading Strategy Based on Grey Clustering in Financial Bear Market (CIEF-95)
Yen-Tseng Hsu, Hui-Fen Hung, Ming-Chung Liu, Chin-Tu Huang, Po-Tsang Yu
July 24 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Tutorial (II):
Genetic Programming in Finance
Colin Frayn
July 24 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Financial Markets: Theoretical Approach
Financial Modelling of Customer Value (CIEF-66)
David Collings, Nicola Baxter

Prospect Theory and the Irrational Herding in Stock Markets (CIEF-97)
Len-Kuo Hu, Ching-Mann Huang, Yu-Shiu Lin

Options with Underlying Asset Driven by a Fractional Brownian Motion: Crossing Barriers Estimates (CIEF-25)
Roy Cerqueti, Giulia Rotundo

Financial Risk Assessment: A Property Investment Case Study (CIEF-52)
Enda J. Cummins
July 24 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Integrating Human and Computational Intelligence in Commercial Product Designs
Entrusting Users in Interactive Evolutionary Computation Directly Select Chromosomes for Evolving: A Case Study of Designing Mineral Water Bottles (CIEF-111)
Fang-Cheng Hsu, Ming-Hsiang Hung

Creative Design by Social Affiliation Based Interactive Evolutionary Computation (CIEF-115)
Hsiao-Fang Yang, Mu-Hua Lin, Chao-Fu Hong

A Comparison of Three Fitness Prediction Strategies for Interactive Genetic Algorithms (CIEF-105)
Leuo-hong Wang, Jun-de Liao

Evolutionary Interactive Genetic Algorithms: A Special Breed of Interactive Genetic Algorithms (CIEF-109)
Chien-Jen Huang, Chao-Fu Hong

Using Interactive Genetic Algorithm for Bundle Design (CIEF-124)
Wen-Shiu Lin and Hsin-Yi Wang

The Study of Idea Generation and New Product Design Based on Human-Based Genetic Algorithm (CIEF-123)
Wen-Shiu Lin, Lan-Ying Chan
July 24 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Classifier Systems
Hybrid-agent Organization Modeling: A Logical-heuristic Approach (CIEF-87)
Ana Marostica, Cesar Briano, Ernesto Chinkes

Application of an Instance Based Learning Algorithm for Predicting Stock Market Index (CIEF-7)
Ruppa K. Thulasiram and Adenike Y. Bamgbade

FD prediction using the Bayes classifier with MFA (CIEF-21)
Jigang Xie, Zhengding Qiu, Yanjun Han

The Application of EBO Model to Forecast Financial Distressed Companies (CIEF-23)
Kunhuang Huarng, Hui-Kuang Yu, Chong-Jiang Chen
July 25 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Forecasting Volatility in Financial Market (II)
Portfolio Value-at-Risk Forecasting with GA-based Extreme Value Theory (CIEF-116)
Ping-Chen Lin

Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Approaches for ARCH Models Considering Brazilian Financial Series (CIEF-117)
Marinho G. Andrade

Pricing and Hedging Derivative Securities Based on Neural Network Coefficient Model (CIEF-121)
Po-Chang Ko

Adaptive Portfolios Insurance Model with VaR ¡XCase Studies in Pan Pacific Markets (CIEF-108)
Shinn-Wen Wang
July 25 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Financial Markets: Econometric Approach
The Impact of Credit Risk on Equity Liquidity when Expected Financial Distress Costs Are Extreme (CIEF-50)
Huimin Chung

Investor Sentiment and Excess Returns-Empirical Evidences from Taiwan Stock Market (CIEF-76)
Wen-Chen Lo, Ku-Jun Lin

Market Microstructure: Time Series Analysis (CIEF-59)
Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Katia Sycara

Using Data Mining Techniques for Detecting Noises and Pre-Processing Financial Time Series (CIEF-6)
Carson K.-S. Leung, Ruppa K. Thulasiram, Dmitri A. Bondarenko
July 25 3:00-4:50 p.m.
Forecasting Volatility in Financial Market (III)
Consolidation Strategies Based on Fuzzy Clustering (CIEF-94)
Yen-Tseng Hsu, Ming-Chung Liu, Hui-Fen Hung, Chin-Tu Huang, Dian-Lin Wu

Use the £n-Steps Ahead Predicting to Discover the Trading Signal (CIEF-118)
Chao-Fu Hong, Chi-Liang Yang

Volatility Forecasting with Sparse Bayesian Kernel Models (CIEF-80)
P. Tino, N. Nikolaev, X. Yao

Evaluating Efficiency of Index Fund Selections over the Fund's Future (CIEF-112)
Yukiko Orito
July 25 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Agent-Based Modeling: Policies & Industrial Economics
On Normative and Liberal Pension Policy in Model Economy with Genetic Learning (CIEF-33)
Lukas Pichl

New Mexico Tech Currency Markets Modeling Project (CIEF-49)
Peter C. Anselmo, Karen Hovsepian, Carlos Ulibarri, Mauro X. Trabatti

Co-Evolving Business Models: A Case Study with the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Industry (CIEF-58)
Ian Fenty, Eric Bonabeau, Juergen Branke

Lottery Markets--Design, Micro-Structure, and Macro-Behavior: An Agent-Based Computational Approach (CIEF-103)
Shu-Heng Chen, Bin-Tzong Chie, Chia-Wei Lee

Lottery Sales and Income Distribution (CIEF-104)
Shu-Heng Chen, Bin-Tzong Chie, Huei-Feng Fan