Keynote Speakers:

- Barkley Rosser (James Madison University, USA)
- Paul Wang (Duke University, USA)
- Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)

Aim and Purpose:

The purpose of our conference is to carry on the legacy of Herbert Simon, who broke down the conventional distinctions among economics, computer science and cognitive psychology, and initiated new interdisciplinary research field that we now refer to as computational information in economics. Since Year 2000, CIEF has prosperously become a world-wide forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and latest progress in two promising research areas - Computational Information (CI) and Object-Based Modeling and Simulation (OBMS). With the fast growth of these two research approaches, in depth, CIEF has now accommodated not only object-oriented computational economics (OCE) but also studies in econometrics, experimental economics, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and econophysics. In width, CIEF has extended the areas of interest from intelligent computing in economics and finance to management and social sciences.

Scope and Areas:

Special session proposals devoted to the above purpose are solicited. Papers describing new techniques and/or novel applications related to, but not limited to, the following topics are invited. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies applied to Economic or Finance are preferably welcomed.

Application Areas:

• Agent-Based Computational Economics
• Artificial Stock Markets
• Behavioral Finance
• Experimental Economics
• Simulation of Social Processes
• Evolutionary Game and Industrial Organization
• Financial Engineering
• Financial Data Mining
• Trading Strategies
• Hedging Strategies
• Portfolio Management
• Derivative Pricing
• Term Structure Models
• Financial Time Series Forecasting and Analysis

Techniques:

• Artificial Neural Networks
• Self-Organized Map
• Support Vector Machines
• Fuzzy Logic
• Evolutionary Strategies
• Evolutionary Programming
• Genetic Algorithms
• Genetic Programming
• Learning Classifier Systems
• Statistical Classifiers
• Cluster Analysis
• Decision Trees
• Inductive Logic Programming
• Reinforcement Learning
• Wavelets
• Ant Algorithms
• Independent Component Analysis
• Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
• State Space Models
• Grey Models
• Swarm Intelligence
• Hybrid Models
• Rough Sets
• Hybrid System
• Artificial Immune Systems
• Econometrics

Paper Submission and Review:

Special Session Proposal shall be submitted to the Program Chair and all papers must be prepared in LaTeX or Word format and submitted according to the instruction on the Conference website. The length of submitted papers must be no more than 7 pages including all figures, tables and bibliography. Each contributed paper will be reviewed by 3 independent Program Committee members and will be accepted if it receives at least 2 reviewers’ support. Some paper maybe selected for possible inclusion in Journal of Information Sciences, Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation, and a book volume published by an internationally renowned publisher.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: August 04, 2008 August 25, 2008
Special Session Proposal Deadline: August 04, 2008 August 25, 2008
Paper Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2008 October 1, 2008
Registration Deadline: October 13, 2008 October 31, 2008
Conference Dates: December 5-7, 2008

Sponsors:

AI-ECON Research Center, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Information Sciences Journal
New Mathematics and Natural Computation Journal
Kainan University, Taiwan
Society of Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance
Society for Mathematics of Uncertainty

Conference Chair:

Professor Shu-Heng Chen
AI-ECON Research Center
Department of Economics
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
E-mail: chchen@nccu.edu.tw

Program Chair:

Dr. Chung-ming Ou
Department of Information Management
Kainan University
E-mail: cou077@mail.knu.edu.tw