Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods

Tshilidzi Marwala, born in Venda (Limpopo, South Africa), is the Dean of Engineering at the University of Johannesburg. He is a senior member of the IEEE and distinguished member of the ACM. He is the youngest recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe and was awarded the President Award by the National Research Foundation. His research interests include the applications of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine.In addition to Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods, he has previously published 3 books with Springer: Condition Monitoring Using Computational Intelligence Methods (2012), Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence Techniques (2011); and Finite Element Model Updating Using Computational Intelligence Techniques (2010).

• Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction to Economic Modeling.- Techniques for Economic Modeling: Unlocking the Character of Data.- Automatic Relevance Determination in Economic Modeling.- Neural Approaches to Economic Modeling.- Bayesian Support Vector Machines for Economic Modeling: Application to Option Pricing.- Rough Sets Approach to Economic Modeling: Unlocking Knowledge in Financial Data.- Missing Data Approaches to Economic Modeling: Optimization Approach.- Correlations versus Causality Approaches to Economic Modeling.- Evolutionary Approaches to Computational Economics: Application to Portfolio Optimization.- Real-time Approaches to Computational Economics: Self Adaptive Economic Systems.- Multi-Agent Approaches to Economic Modeling: Game Theory, Ensembles, Evolution and the Stock Market.- Control Approaches to Economic Modeling: Application to Inflation Targeting.- Modeling Interstate Conflict: The Role of Economic Interdependency for Maintaining Peace.- Conclusions and Further Work.- Index.

From the reviews: "The book explores the application of artificial intelligence methods to economic data modelling. ... the book is well addressed to graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners in the field of finance and economics." (Vangelis Grigoroudis, zbMATH, Vol. 1269, 2013)