Authors:Massimo Salzano, Alan Kirman,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: windows, economic, new, economics, complex
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2005-12-22
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 8847002796
ISBN-13: 9788847002791

This volume contains papers that provide an analysis of topics in the following areas: Agent Based Models, Non-linear Time Series Analysis, Financial Market Dynamics, Econo-physics, Deterministic Chaos, Macroeconomic Dynamics. Economics: Complex Windows, does not present contributions to the sterile debate as to the merits of the different grand, or potentially grand paradigms of economics. Rather it offers a balanced collection of methodological advances which can be applied to concrete economic problems. Starting with a presentation of the

Authors:R. Bhar, Shigeyuki Hamori,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, theoretical, applied, econometrics, advanced, economics, markov, models, applications, financial, hidden
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-07-20
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1402078994
ISBN-13: 9781402078996

Markov chains have increasingly become useful way of capturing stochastic nature of many economic and financial variables. Although the hidden Markov processes have been widely employed for some time in many engineering applications e.g. speech recognition, its effectiveness has now been recognized in areas of social science research as well. The main aim of Hidden Markov Models: Applications to Financial Economics is to make such techniques available to more researchers in financial economics. As such we only cover the necessary theoretical aspects in each chapter while focusing on real life

Author: Sudhi Seshadri
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: designs, policy, principles, strategy, sourcing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387251820
ISBN-13: 9780387251820

Sourcing Strategy is about sourcing as a long term strategic activity. Myopic purchasing management stops short with describing functional procedures and procedural innovations such as online order processing. The goal of this book is not merely to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the tools to determine it. Therefore, rather than merely describe common sourcing processes, the book takes a normative approach to sourcing strategy. It argues for a rational, complete and integrated process view. It supports its recommendations with logical arguments from an interdisciplinary and analyti

Author: Abraham C.-L. Chian
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, notes, economics, mathematical, lecture, dynamics, approach, economic, complex
Number of Pages: 101
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3540397523
ISBN-13: 9783540397526

Economic Systems exhibit complex dynamics evidenced by large-amplitude and aperiodic fluctuations in economic variables, such as foreign exchange rates and stock market prices, indicating that these systems are driven far from the equilibrium. Characterization of the complex behavior of economic cycles, by identifying regular and irregular patterns and regime switching in economic time series, is the key for pattern recognition and forecasting of economic cycles. Statistical analysis of stock markets and foreign exchange markets has demonstrated the intermittent nature of economic time series.

Author: Alan Kirman
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: economics, memory
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-09-14
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 354022694X
ISBN-13: 9783540226949

When applying the statistical theory of long range dependent (LRD) processes to economics, the strong complexity of macroeconomic and financial variables, compared to standard LRD processes, becomes apparent. In order to get a better understanding of the behaviour of some economic variables, the book assembles three different strands of long memory analysis: statistical literature on the properties of, and tests for, LRD processes; mathematical literature on the stochastic processes involved; models from economic theory providing plausible micro foundations for the occurence of long memory in

Author: Nick Knight
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mao, zedong, qiubai, china, philosophy, marxist
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1402038054
ISBN-13: 9781402038051

This book examines the introduction of Marxist philosophy to China from the early 1920s to the mid 1940s. It does this through an examination of the philosophical activities and writings of four Chinese Marxist philosophers central to this process. These are Qu Qiubai, Ai Siqi, Li Da and Mao Zedong. The book sets the philosophical writings of these philosophers in the context of the development of Marxist philosophy internationally, and examines particularly the influence on these philosophers of Soviet Marxist philosophy. It argues that these Chinese Marxist philosophers’ interpretatio

Authors:Shengxiang Yang, Yew-soon Ong, Yaochu Jin,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, computational, intelligence, environments, uncertain, computation, dynamic, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 605
Published: 2007-03-27
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 3540497722
ISBN-13: 9783540497721

This book provides a compilation on the state-of-the-art and recent advances of evolutionary algorithms in dynamic and uncertain environments within a unified framework. The motivation for this book arises from the fact that some degree of uncertainty in characterizing any realistic engineering systems is inevitable. Representative methods for addressing major sources of uncertainties in evolutionary computation, including handle of noisy fitness functions, use of approximate fitness functions, search for robust solutions, and tracking moving optimums, are presented. "Evolutionary Computation