Online Communities and Social Media -- Stock BBS Factor Model Using Principal Component Score -- How Consumer-Generated Advertising Works: An Empirical Agent-Based Simulation -- Understanding Citizens’ Channel Choice of Public Service Delivery: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach -- Cyclical...

This book provides models of various economic and financial issues while using computational intelligence as a foundation. The scope of this volume comprises finance, economics, management, organizational theory and public policies. It explains the ongoing and novel research in this field, and...

Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emerging field that uses bottom-up and experimental analysis in the social sciences. Selected research from that presented at the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems 2004, held in May 2004 in Kyoto,...

Part1: Conflict, Human, and Culture (Ch1 Topos Modeling of Social Conflict: Theory and Methods -- Ch2 Emergence of Peace Resulting from TFT Strategy Observing a Limited Number of Agents -- Ch3 Exploring the origins of prejudice with agent-based modeling -- Ch4 Human Development Dynamics: Change...

This chapter proposes an alternative doctrine, christened as the meaning maximization doctrine, to the lifetime utility maximization doctrine. While the meaning of life is a familiar pursuit, given that modernity, to a great extent, is characterized by it, the formulation of our doctrine is...

After a decade of development, genetic algorithms and genetic programming have become a widely accepted toolkit for computational finance. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Computational Finance is a pioneering volume devoted entirely to a systematic and comprehensive review of this...