Workshop on Complex Adaptive Economic Systems

European Conference on Artificial Life 2007

Lisbon, 10th September, 2007

Workshop description

Economic systems share many properties with the biological systems which are typically studied by ALife researchers. Both tend to involve large numbers of interacting agents subject to adaptive processes such that they give rise to emergent behaviours analysable on multiple levels. As a natural consequence of this the prominence of artificial life approaches within economics has grown rapidly in the last few years. Recently the mainstay techniques of artificial life such as multi-agent models, neural networks, genetic algorithms and cellular automata have all been used to make valuable contributions to economic research.

This workshop will provide a venue for the discussion of work at the interface between artificial life and economics. It aims to showcase work representing two kinds of interaction at this interface: the use of artificial life techniques to approach problems in economics, and the use of economic metaphors to solve problems in artificial life and computing more generally. In each case, the workshop's focus will be on issues central to artificial life: e.g., self-organisation, co-adaptive dynamics, emergence, environmental embedding and decentralised systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Program

14:00 Introduction
14:05 Evolution of Trust in Financial Systems Terry Bossomaier
14:45 Evolutionary Brand Competition with Consumers Interactions Danica Vukadinovi´c Greetham, Abhijit Sengupta, and Michael Spence
15:10 An Evolutionary Analysis of Innovation Policies in a Horizontally Related Agglomeration Klaus Wersching
15:35 Coffee Break
16:00 A unionized oligopoly with bounded rational agents Anna Goeddeke
16:25 Comparing Strategies in Evolving Collaborative Networks Pedro Campos, Pavel Brazdil, and Kaustubh Patil1
16:50 Group selection vs individual selection and the evolution of cooperation in business networks Ian Wilkinson and Louise Young
17:15 Close

Important Dates

Papers submission deadline April 9, 2007 April 16, 2007
Notification of acceptance May 14, 2007
Camera ready submissions May 31, 2007
Complex Adaptive Economic Systems Workshop September 10, 2007

Submission and Publication

Papers must be formatted in accordance with the instructions to authors provided by ECAL 2007 and should be emailed to caes@comp.leeds.ac.uk.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.

Organisers

Dan Ladley Seth Bullock Dave Cliff
Leeds University Business School School of Electronics and Computer Science School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Leeds University of Southampton University of Southampton
Leeds Southampton Southampton
LS2 9JT SO17 1BJ SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom United Kingdom United Kingdom
Email: danl@comp.leeds.ac.uk Email: sgb@ecs.soton.ac.uk Email: dc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Program Committee