This title brings together frontier research on complex economic systems, heterogeneous interacting agents, bounded rationality, and nonlinear dynamics in economics. The book contains the proceedings of the CEF2015 (21st Computing in Economics in Finance), held 20-22 June 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan,...

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...

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...