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CCFEA: centre for excellence

CCFEA has recently received national and international acclaim:

• CCFEA lecturer Dietmar Maringer published a book on Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization with Springer.
• Sheri Markose invited to present Smart Market Modelling for Congestion Pricing at the Treasury and Dft TreasurySMPRT.ppt 
  • Paper
• Kyriakos Chourdakis (lecturer) speeds up an option pricing algorithm in a recent Journal of Computational Finance article
• Sheri Markose (Director), has addressed the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and the Bank of England's Expert Forum on Payment Systems.
• Dr Markose is the lead researcher on the 2005 Foresight Intelligent Infrastructure System (IIS) Project on a Smart Market for Congestion.
  • Press release 25 January 2006
    • Final Report :Intelligent Charging: Smart Market Protocols for Road Transport (PDF) 
    • Full paper
• In 2005 CCFEA hosted the 10th Anniversary Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA), which attracted prominent researchers from around the world.
• For the second year running, Professor Edward Tsang, Director of CCFEA, was elected Chair of the Technical Committee in Computational Finance and Economics, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.