Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest) ---------------------------------------------------- ______ Monday, November 16, 1992 Issue No. 3 ____ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Send contributions to: IE-list@cs.ucl.ac.uk Send administrative requests to: IE-list-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk (For users in the UK, IE-list-request@uk.ac.ucl.cs IE-list@uk.ac.ucl.cs) To access anonymous ftp archive: %ftp cs.ucl.ac.uk (128.16.5.31) cd ie List Maintainer: Suran Goonatilake Dept. of Computer Science University College London -------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: - Qualitative reasoning and modelling in Economics - Call for papers The Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management - Call for Papers Special issue on Qualitative Reasoning in Business, Finance, and Economics - Request for journal names - Article on the official UK Treasury Model ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DANIELS@nl.KUB Subject: Re: IE Digest Issue No. 2 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 12:37:00 +0000 About qualitative reasoning and modelling in Economics.... Concerning this topic I would like to mention some pointers to recent literature; e.g. Issues of the Journal Computer Science in Ec. and Manag. (Kluwer Academic Publ.) Qualitative reasoning and Knowledge Representation in Economic Models, Ph.D thesis of Ron Berndsen, available at Dutch Central Bank, Studie Dienst, Westeinde 1, 1017 ZN Amsterdam, Netherlands Knowledge Based Financial Processing, Pau & Gianotti, Springer Verlag. Hennie Daniels Tilburg University DANIELS@KUB.NL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIEM3 Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management ----------------------------------------------------------------- August 25-27, 1993 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Sponsors: Regional Co-Sponsors: In Cooperation With: IFAC, IFORS AACC AAAI, SEDC Sponsoring IFAC Committee: Organized by: EMSCOM Portland State University Department of Economics and School of Business Administration ================================================================= The Workshop will address issues relevant to the use of AI technology in economics and management communities. Topics for the Workshop will cover both technology and applications. The technologies of interest include but not limited to: knowledge representation and acquisition (knowledge-based decision support systems, expert systems), problem solving paradigm (qualitative reasoning, fuzzy logic, neural networks), human-machine interface (natural language, machine learning, hypertext and multi-media). AI applications in areas of accounting, banking, economics, finance, manufacturing, and management will be emphasized in the Workshop. The Workshop will have sessions on contributed research papers and application case studies. There will be separate tutorials on the use of AI technology on August 23 and 24. Language: Throughout the Workshop, English will be the official language. Translation facilities will not be available. Proceedings: Proceedings will be published after the Workshop, with K.-P. Lin and L. F. Pau as editors. Proceedings publisher will be the IFAC publisher, Pergamon Press or another IFAC approved publisher. Copyrights for accepted papers are thus transferred to the publishers. Registration Fees: US $200 for Workshop (full-time students: US $75, limited places only). US $200 for Tutorials. US $300 for the complete Workshop and Tutorials. Registration Deadline: July 1, 1993 Registration after deadline must add a late fee of U.S. $50 for workshop and/or tutorials. Please make checks payable to AIEM3. Check must be in USD drawn on US bank. Major credit cards accepted. For further information write: Dale Anderson: AIEM3, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Oregon 97207-0751, USA. Tel: 503-725-4728 (Dale Anderson) FAX: 503-725-5850 E-mail: aiem3@PSUORVM.bitnet PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ================================================================= Abstract Submission Procedure: Authors should submit 700-word extended abstracts, typed with double-line spacing, in 3 copies before December 31, 1992 to: Professor Kuan-Pin Lin or Dr. L. F. Pau Department of Economics Digital Equipment Europe Portland State University P.O. Box 27 P.O. Box 751 F 06561 Sophia Antipolis Portland, OR 97207 France U.S.A. Each abstract should include full address of all authors, and references in numerical order. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by March 1, 1993, and will be requested to submit full length papers by May 1, 1993. Papers not received in full by this date will not be included for presentation. Full papers must be original and must be presented according to guidelines set by the proceedings publishers. All papers must be in English. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Software Submission Procedure: Authors not willing to submit a paper, but ready to demonstrate an artificial intelligence software program, are encouraged to do so. The submission procedure is the same as for papers. The host computers, operation systems, utilities and interfaces must be specified exactly, as well as the architecture and principles underlying the program. Authors will have to be responsible for all logistics, including supply of hardware etc. All authors of accepted papers or of accepted software demonstrations, are expected to present their work in person. Failure to do so will result in the corresponding paper not appearing in the workshop proceedings. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibits: Companies interested in exhibiting publications, equipment or software falling within the scope of the Workshop, should contact theorganizing committee. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Important Deadlines December 31, 1992 Submission of Extended Abstract March 1, 1993 Notification of Acceptance May 1, 1993 Camera Ready Papers Due TECHNICAL PROGRAM ================================================================= International Program Committee Workshop Co-Chairs: Kuan-Pin Lin L. F. Pau Portland State University Digital Equipment Europe USA France International Program Committee Members: Chidanand Apte Jason Catlett IBM, USA AT&T Bell Lab, USA H.A.M. Daniels Phillip Ein-Dor Tilburg University, Netherlands Tel-Aviv University, Israel Arthur M. Farley Claudio Gianotti University of Oregon, USA Politecnico di Milano, Italy David Kendrick John Kingston University of Texas at Austin University of Edinburgh, UK USA Ramayya Krishnan Peter Mertens Carnegie Mellon University, USA Universitat Erlangen, Germany Ross M. Miller Vijay Mital GE, USA Brunel University, UK Juzar Motiwalla Jean-Claude Rault NUS, Singapore EC2, France Jean Roy Andrew B. Whinston Ecole des Hautes Etudes University of Texas at Austin Commerciales USA Montreal, Canada Local Organizing Committee (Tentative): John S. Oh, Chairman Roy W. Koch Dale H. Anderson, Secretary Systems Science Ph.D Program Henry D. Crockett Portland State University William A. Manning School of Business Adm. Thomas Detrich Portland State University Department of Computer Science Oregon State University Leonard Shapiro Department of Computer Science Stan Curtis Portland State University Anderson Consulting Thomas M. Potiowsky Joe Brandenberg Department of Economics Intel Scientific Computing Portland State University Richard Deckro Michael Freiling Dundar F. Kocaoglu Hulya Yazici Engineering Management Program Portland State University Beatrice T. Oshika Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Special issue on Qualitative Reasoning in Business, Finance, and Economics Decision Support Systems is seeking papers for a special issue on Qualitative Reasoning in Business, Finance, and Economics. Reasoning tasks in financial domains often require using knowledge that cannot be formulated quantitatively with precision. Qualitative reasoning has been shown to be a useful technique in Artificial Intelligence programs for formulating and solving physics problems in which information is imprecise. These techniques show promise in dealing with similar challenging problems in applications to intelligent decision systems for business, finance, and economics. Papers for the special issue are solicited dealing with tasks such as analysis, explanation, diagnosis, and design. Task domains of interest include, but are not limited to, financial assessment, auditing, going-concern evaluation, risk assessment, trading, marketing, microeconomics, and financial planning. All papers will be reviewed according to the usual procedures followed by Decision Support Systems. Deadline for submission of papers is July 1, 1993. Submit five copies of each manuscript to one of the following guest editors: Dr. Walter Hamscher Price Waterhouse Technology Centre Tel: (415) 688-6669 68 Willow Road FAX: (415) 321-5543 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Net: hamscher@tc.pw.com Professor Melody Y. Kiang Tel: (602) 965-0724 Department of Decision and FAX: (602) 965-5539 Information Systems Bitnet: ATMEL@ASUACAD College of Business Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-4206 Reiner Lang Department of Management Science and Information Systems Graduate School of Business CBA 5.202 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1175 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rogene Eichler Subject: request for journal names Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:10:48 CST Hello! I do not know the literature in the area of economic modeling. I am looking for the names of journals that would be publishing articles of this type. Specifically, I am looking for models that use connectionist or cellular automata constructs to develop their work. If you could send the journal name, as well as the publisher or some method by which to contact them for a subscription, I would appreciate it! Cheers! - R ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ashok Gupta Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:59:49 GMT Subject: The official UK Treasury Model ... ... is discussed by Robert Chote in "The New Scientist", issue dated 31 Oct 1992, pages 26 to 31 inclusive. It's a very readable paper, more like an article really, and I recommend it to anyone interested in getting a foothold in issues such as :- o is economics a science or an art ? o why can't even sophisticated models not adequately model human (i.e. consumer) behaviour ? It also introduces BVAR (Bayesian Vector Auto Regressive). Ashok Gupta Philips Research Labs, Crossoak Lane, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 5HA, U.K. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****************** End of IE-Digest ********************************