MCDM 2009 - Workshop on Applications of Decision Theory and Method to Financial Decision Making (or Decision Making in Finance, or Financial Decision Making) -the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision making

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Call for Papers
Workshop on Applications of Decision Theory and Method to Financial Decision Making (or Decision Making in Finance, or Financial Decision Making)
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The central goal of this workshop is to explore the potential and practice of applying decision theory and multiple criteria decision making methods to financial decision making.
The workshop is interested in, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Portfolio management
2. DEA and SFA in evaluation of financial institution efficiency
3. Credit scoring and evaluation
4. Financial systems engineering, including forecasting and decision making in macro- financial system
5. Decision making in banking, real estate and micro financial structure
6. Application of AI in finance
7. The behavioral aspects regarding financial decision
8. Agent-based experimental and computational finance

Authors should submit their paper via email: zengy-AT-uestc.edu.cn. All manuscripts for this workshop should be submitted electronically before December 15, 2008. Some important dates:

 Full papers submission: December 15, 2008
 Notification of workshop acceptance: January 1, 2009
 Camera-ready of accepted workshop papers: January 31, 2009
 Final advanced registration of workshop opens: January 31, 2009

Workshop papers will be published in a separate workshop proceeding in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Selected papers will be fast-track reviewed for special issues in:
 Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis
 Decision Support Systems (SCI-indexed),
 Annals of Operations Research (SCI-indexed)
 International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (SCI-indexed).

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the standards of Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems£¨http://www.mcdm2009.cn/default.html£©. Please, note that papers must not exceed eight pages in length, a paper without figures can be around 4500 words maximally.

Contact:
Prof Yong Zeng, Prof Yongkai Ma
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Email: zengy-AT-uestc.edu.cn