[Statlist] One day seminar on "Computational Economics and Finance"

[Cristian Gatu]

The one day seminar on "Computational Economics and Finance"
will take place on Friday, the 24th of November 2006 at the
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
URL: http://iiun.unine.ch/matrix/seminars/cef3eme/

The seminar is organized by the 3ème Cycle Romand d'Informatique and
the Computer Science Institute, University of Neuchâtel.

Programme:

08:30-10:00 - Peter Winker (Univ. of Giessen, Germany)
    Heuristic Optimization in Econometric Modelling - Model Selection
    using the Threshold Accepting Heuristic.

10:00-10:30 - Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 - Michele La Rocca (Univ. of Salerno, Italy)
    Artificial Neural Networks in Nonlinear Time Series Analysis.

12:00-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-15:00 - Renato Coppi (Univ. of Rome I, Italy)
    Data Analysis Techniques in a Fuzzy Setting.

15:00-16:15 - Manfred Gilli (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
    Optimization heuristics: Overview, Classification and Application.

16:15-16:45 - Coffee Break

16:45-17:30 - Erricos Kontoghiorghes (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
    Block-recursive estimation of the general linear model.