Advanced Dynamic Modeling of Economic and Social Systems

✍ Scribed by Myriam P. Sassano, Araceli N. Proto (auth.), Araceli N. Proto, Massimo Squillante, Janusz Kacprzyk (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 448
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume recent advances in the use of modern quantitative models for the analysis of various problems related to the dynamics of social and economic systems are presented. The majority chapters describe tools and techniques of broadly perceived computational intelligence, notably fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, neural networks and some non-standard probabilistic and statistical analyses. Due to the high complexity of the systems and problems considered, in many situations it is necessary to consider at the same time analytic, topological and statistical aspects and apply appropriate procedures and algorithms. This volume is a direct result of vivid discussions held during the Fifth International Workshop on Dynamics of Social and Economical Systems (DYSES) which was held at Benevento, Italy September 20-25, 2010, as well as a couple of post-workshop meetings and consultations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Housing Prices Wavelet Entropy to Understand Macroeconomic States....Pages 1-9
Dynamical Models for Representing and Building Consensus in Committees....Pages 11-19
Financial Applications of Flow Network Theory....Pages 21-29
Networks of Financial Contagion....Pages 31-48
Rumour Propagation on Social Networks as a Function of Diversity....Pages 49-60
Formal and Informal Networks in Organizations....Pages 61-77
Assessing Consumer Credit Applications by a Genetic Programming Approach....Pages 79-89
Towards a Human Consistent Analysis of Innovativeness via Linguistic Data Summaries and Their Protoforms....Pages 91-107
An Investigation of Computational Complexity of the Method of Symbolic Images....Pages 109-126
Spatial Database Quality and the Potential Uncertainty Sources....Pages 127-142
Mathematical Model Used in Decision-Making Process with Respect to the Reliability of Geodatabase....Pages 143-162
Complex Networks Topology: The Statistical Self-similarity Characteristics of the Average Overlapping Index....Pages 163-174
Taxicab Non Symmetrical Correspondence Analysis for the Evaluation of the Passenger Satisfaction....Pages 175-184
Simulation Study for PLS Path Modelling with High-Order Construct: A Job Satisfaction Model Evidence....Pages 185-207
Log-Ratio and Parallel Factor Analysis: An Approach to Analyze Three-Way Compositional Data....Pages 209-221
Analyzing AHP Matrix by Robust Regression....Pages 223-231
Back Matter....Pages 0--1

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Business Information Systems