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Welcome to CCFEA

The Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) is an innovative, interdisciplinary and laboratory based teaching and research Centre which is a showcase for cutting edge computational and evolutionary methods to simulate markets with artificially intelligent agents and to design real time trading and risk management systems. CCFEA hosts advanced workshops and seminars by experts in the area of Computational Finance and Economics. The centre currently has over 50 Masters and PhD students.

The Centre with its innovative MSc Computational FinanceMSc High-Frequency Finance and Trading, MSc Financial Software Engineering, Integrated PhD Computational Finance and Integrated PhD Computational Economics - can be considered to be the first to offer such a PG curriculum in the UK.  CCFEA will remain committed to being a pioneer at the leading edge of IT and Artificial intelligence based modelling of markets with operationally relevant features. To this end, in addition to the pursuit of theoretical aspects of the subject, strong industry links are sought via its City Associates Board.  A number of CCFEA PhD students have industry internships.  CCFEA is currently "defining the subject area" by its multi agent simulators and modelling work  which is disseminated  via the web, research papers, journal articles, books and invited talks by CCFEA faculty members at high profile academic and industry workshops and conferences.

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Last modified: 29 March 2010