Due to the ability to handle specific characteristics of economics and finance forecasting problems like e.g. non-linear relationships, behavioral changes, or knowledge-based domain segmentation, we have recently witnessed a phenomenal growth of the application of computational intelligence methodologies in this field.In this volume, Chen and Wang collected not just works on traditional computational intelligence approaches like fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithms, but also examples for more recent technologies like e.g. rough sets, support vector machines, wavelets, or ant algorithms. After an introductory chapter with a structural description of all the methodologies, the subsequent parts describe novel applications of these to typical economics and finance problems like business forecasting, currency crisis discrimination, foreign exchange markets, or stock markets behavior.

Part I Introduction: Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance.- Part II Fuzzy Logic and Rough Sets: Intelligent System to Support Judgemental Business Forecasting: The Case of Estimating Hotel Room Demand
Fuzzy Investment Analysis Using Capital Budgeting and Dynamic Programming Techniques
Rough Sets Theory and Multivariate Data Analysis in Classification Problems.- Part III Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines: Foreasting the Opening Cash Price Index in Integrating Grey Forecasting and Neural Networks
A Support Vector Machine Model for Currency Crises Discrimination
Saliency Analysis of Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection in Financial Time Series Forecasting.- Part IV Self-Organizing Maps and Wavelets: Searching Financial Patterns with Self-Organizing Maps
Effective Position of European Firms in the Face of Monetary Integration Using Kohonen's SOFM
Financial Applications of Wavelets and Self-Organizing Maps.- Part V Sequence Matching and Feature-Based Time Series Models: Pattern Matching in Multidimensional Time Series
Structural Pattern Discovery in Time Series Databases
Are Efficient Markets Really Efficient?
Can Financial Econometric Tests Convince Machine-Learning People?
Nearest-Neighbour Predictions in Foreign Exchange Markets.- Part VI - Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence and Simulated Annealing: Discovering Hidden Patterns with Genetic Programming
Numerical Solutions to Stochastic Growth Model Based on the Evolution of Radial Basis Network
Evolutionary Strategies versus Neural Networks: An Inflation Forecasting Experiment
Business Failure Prediction Using Modified Ants Algorithm
Towards Automated Optimal Equity Portfolios Discovery in a Financial Knowledge Management System.- Part VII State Space Modeling of Time Series: White Noise Tests and Synthesis of APT Electronic Factors Using TFA
Learning and Monetary Policy in a Spectral Analysis Representation
International Transmission Business Cycles: A Self-Organizing Markov-Switching State-Space Model.- Part VIII Agent-Based Models: How Information Technology Creates Business Value in the Past and in the Current EC Area.