A Report to the 1 st Annual Meeting of the Society of CIEF (SCIEF)

1. A Report to the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society of CIEF (SCIEF) Shu-Heng Chen, CIEF’2006 Conference Chair Ping-ChenLin, CIEF’2006 Program Chair

2. Welcome Address A Retrospective View CIEF Conference CIEF Society CIEF’2007 at Salt Lake City CIEF Society’s Agenda

3. What we did over the past CIEF Series of Conferences Post-Conference Publications Journals: Special Issues Book Volumes

4. CIEF Conferences • CIEF’2000 (Atlantic City, PA) • CIEF’2002 (Research Triangle Park, NA) • CIEF’2003 (Carry, NA) • CIEF’2005 (Salt Lake City, Utah) • CIEF’2006 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) • CIEF’2007 (Salt Lake City, Utah)

5. Journal Publications

6. Book Volumes

7. Post Conference Publications CIEF 2000: special issue, Information Sciences, Vol. 170, 2005. CIEF 2000, 2002: book volume, Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, Springer, 2003 CIEF 2003: book volume, Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence, IDEA Group Publishing, 2006 CIEF 2003: special issue, Information Sciences, forthcoming. CIEF 2005: special issue, International Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NM&NC), World Scientific, forthcoming (Nov., 2006). CIEF 2005: special issue, Information Sciences, under processing, CIEF 2005: book volume, Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, Vol. 2, Springer, under processing.

8. Post Conference Publications • A special issue on Information Sciences • A special issue on New Mathematics and Natural Computation • A Book Volume (Springer, CIEF, Vol. 3?)

9. Evolution of CIEF • The CIEF workshop is mainly composed of two young but promising research areas, namely, • Computational Intelligence (CI) • Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS). • While these two areas can be treated independently, they are put together as a coherent framework in this conference because in our vision, or in a legacy of Herbert Simon, the former is actually the foundation of the latter. • More specifically, it is the tools from CI which help us to characterize the autonomous agents in a complex heterogeneous interacting environment.

10. Evolution of CIEF • However, like many other conferences which are associated with a fast growing field, CIEF quickly notices that there is no clear-cut boundary for both of these two areas. • CI, as a new quantitative approach, inevitably has to be compared with other conventional approaches, such as statistics or econometrics. • In order to enhance the interaction between the traditional statistical approach and the newly-arising CI approach, CIEF also accommodates studies on econometrics.

11. Evolution of CIEF Computational Intelligence Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Econometrics, Statistics

12. Evolution of CIEF • Agent-based computational modeling is not just confined to economics; in fact, it is a new plat form which can demolish the long-existing ad hoc walls among all branches of the social sciences. • The field known as agent-based computational social sciences reflects the already on-going interdisciplinary activities. • To avoid the unnecessary isolation, CIEF has extended the areas of interest from agent-based computational economics and finance to management, and further to the social sciences in general.

13. Evolution of CIEF Computational Intelligence Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Agent-Based Computational Economics Econometrics, Statistics Agent-Based Computational Social Sciences

14. Evolution of CIEF • Furthermore, within the area of economics itself, ACE with its models of software agents matches well with experimental economics and behavioral economics as models of human agents. • By acknowledging the important connection, CIEF would like to be characterized as the first economic conference on agents, and accept submissions from experimental economics and behavioral economics.

15. Evolution of CIEF Computational Intelligence Agent-Based Computational Social Sciences Econometrics, Statistics Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Agent-Based Computational Economics Behavioral Economics Experimental Economics

16. Evolution of CIEF • Simulation, partially due to the lack of rigorousness, is still not regarded as a science by many scientists. • There are two theoretical frameworks that exist for the study of agents, which may also facilitate the work of connecting software agents and human agents. • One is game theory, and the other is statistical physics, or, more precisely, econophysics.

17. Evolution of CIEF Computational Intelligence Agent-Based Computational Social Sciences Econometrics, Statistics Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Agent-Based Computational Economics Experimental Economics Behavioral Economics Game Theory Econophysics

18. Evolution of CIEF • This roughly sketches the origin and the evolution of CIEF. • Needless to say, the evolution will not stop here. • The PC in the future will decide how it continues to evolve. • e.g. Neural Economics

19. CIEF Society • Membership fee: US$70 • Steering committee members’ election: • Election Organizers: • Dr. Ping Chen Lin & Dr. Po-Chang Ko • CIEF2007 chairs: • Conference chair: TBA • Program chair: Dr. Douglas Wang • Conference manager: Connie Wang, CPA

20. CIEF2007 Important Dates (Tentative) • Call for Paper: Nov. 1, 2006 • Full paper submission due: Feb. 1, 2007 • Paper acceptance notification date: Mar. 30, 2007 • Invited papers due: Apr. 15, 2007 • Camera-ready (Including special session’s paper) and early registration due: May 15, 2007 • Conference date: July, 2007, US Salt Lake City

21. We Solicit your Participation • CIEF2007 special session chair volunteers • CIEF2007 tutorial speaker volunteers • Please directly contact Douglas Wang about your ideas or proposals • Douglas Wang <dougwang@csu.edu.tw>