* Einladung zum Forschungsseminar *

3840 Janko/Otruba/Mitloehner: Artificial Financial Life SE 2, Tuesday 17.00-19.00, S. 2.19 (A), Begin October 8, 1996.

Interdisciplinary research seminar in connection with the SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science. There are two areas of work planned for this term:

Analysis package: participants develop analysis instruments for financial time series, based on selected literature. This group should consist of participants with economics and computer science background. The tools - based on well-documented economic and statistical concepts - will be employed in future work in SFB projects.

Financial robot competition: financial agents created by the participants compete against each other on an artificial electronic market. These robots should employ some form of adaptive behaviour. We aim to explore how even a population of very simple agents can show complex dynamic behaviour.

The programming language C++ will be used for implementations. In preparation for the work within the SFB the seminar language will be English. The participants will work on projects in small groups and present their work in the seminar. Well-documented projects and good presentation will earn the students a seminar certificate for the SBWL Informationswirtschaft or VWL.

Organized by Leopold.Soegner@wu-wien.ac.at (Dep. of Economics/Prof. Otruba) and Johann.Mitloehner@wu-wien.ac.at (Dep. of Applied Computer Science/Prof. Janko) On the web as http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/ai/mitloehn/se/w96

Auf Ihre Teilnahme freuen sich Leopold Soegner & Johann Mitloehner

Johann.Mitloehner@wu-wien.ac.at, Abt. Angewandte Informatik A-1090 Wien, Augasse 2-6, Tel: (+431) 31336-5202, Fax: -739 http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/ai/mitloehn