FYI

From: Serguieva, Antoaneta [mailto:a.serguieva@ucl.ac.uk]

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Dear Colleague,

You are kindly invited to the following conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS 

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IEEE CIFEr, London, March 27-28, 2014

Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics 2014 www.ieee-cifer.org

Submission Deadline: November 10, 2013

We invite you to submit your paper or extended abstract. Each accepted paper will be presented orally or as a poster at the conference and is eligible for publication in a special issue of Computational Management Science (Springer) and the IEEE Transactions of the Computational Intelligence Society.

The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering and economics.

Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to,

* Financial Engineering & Economics Applications:

   . Risk Management

   . Pricing of Structured Securities

   . Asset Allocation

   . Trading Systems

   . Forecasting

   . Hedging Strategies

   . Risk Arbitrage

   . Behavioral Finance

   . Exotic Options

   . Portfolio Optimization

   . Front/Back Office Operations

   . Algorithmic Trading

   . Agent-based Computational Economics

   . Artificial Markets

   . Operations Research and the Management Sciences

   . Electricity/Energy Markets

   . Testing, Benchmarking, Robustness Checks

* Computer & Engineering Applications and Models:

   . Neural Networks

   . Probabilistic Modeling/Inference

   . Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets, & Granular Computing

   . Intelligent Trading Agents

   . Time Series Analysis

   . Non-linear Dynamics

   . Financial Data Mining

   . Evolutionary Computational

   . Rules and XBRL for Financial Engineering Applications

   . Semantic Web and Linked Data for Computer & Engineering Applications & Models

   . Financial sentiment analysis/emotion mining

   . Machine Learning, Big Data, and Data Sciences

Instructions for authors can be found on the conference website, http://www.ieee-cifer.org/authorinf.html

Students:

   * IEEE CIS Travel grants

   * Best student paper award

Important dates:

   * submission deadline: November 10, 2013

   * notification of acceptance: January 7, 2014

   * final paper submission: February 7, 2014

   * conference: March 27-28, 2014

Kind regards,

Antoaneta Serguieva

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Dr Antoaneta Serguieva, Senior Fellow

Convenor, Research Seminars in Financial Computing

Admissions Tutor, MSc Financial Computing / MSc Computer Science

Manager, Thomson Reuters Virtual Trading Floor

UCL, Department of Computer Science

Phone: +44 (0)20 3108 1063

Mobile: +44 (0)75 1527 8175