WEHIA 2005

10th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2005)

June 13-15, 2005 at the University of Essex, United Kingdom

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The 10th Anniversary of WEHIA, the pre-eminent international Interacting and Evolving Economic Agents Conference, will be hosted by the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) at the University of Essex, UK. To mark the 10th anniversary of WEHIA, seven special sessions are being organised with world renowned experts and pioneers in the field to give keynote lectures. This includes a special tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot for his seminal contributions to the theory of fractals, scaling and power laws - applications of which range from coast lines, stock markets and other complex phenomena.


Keynote Speakers:  Peter Allen (Cranfield), Phil Blythe (Newcastle), Rama Cont (Ecole Polytechnique),
                                   Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld), Sanjeev Goyal (Essex), Cars Hommes (Amsterdam),
                                  John Ledyard (Caltech),  Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale), Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser), 
                                 Shyam Sunder  (Yale),
Jing Yang (Bank of England)
                                

Also   Perspectives from  Interactive Games and Virtual Commerce :  Richard Bartle (Co-creator of Multi-User Dungeons (MUDS)) and Dave Birch (Director Consult Hyperion)


Call for Papers

 

In addition to the special sessions there will be parallel sessions for oral and poster presentations of high quality. Subject to a rigorous refereeing process, the 10th  anniversary WEHIA papers will be published in a specially edited book entitled "Interacting and Evolving Economic Agents: Ten Years On".

Please see our paper submission page for full details.


Key Dates

Submission deadline:  15 March 2005
Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2005
Registration deadline: 1 May 2005
Deadline for submission of full draft of paper: 1 May 2005
Workshop: 13-15 June 2005


Program Organisation

Honorary Chairs:
Ken Binmore (Emeritus,UCL)
Michael Dempster (Cambridge)

Program Co-Chairs:
Sheri Markose (Essex)
Neil Johnson (Oxford)
Shyam Sunder (Yale)

Scientific Committee:
Masanao Aoki, Jasmina Arifovic, Martin Bichler, Shu-Heng Chen, Mauro Gallegati, John Hey, Guilia Iori, Nick Jennings, Alan Kirman, Andreas Krause, Thomas Lux, Ramon Marimon, Ricardo Mansila, Matteo Marsili,  Akira Namatame, Mark Salmon, Chris Starmer, Edward Tsang, Fernando Vega Redondo, Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai, Nick Vriend.
 

Wivenhoe House Hotel on the University of Essex campus.

Essex: an area of natural beauty.

The Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex.

 

 

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