The next EMAC conference is taking place in Portugal, late May 2002. Many tracks are present, including Modeling and Forecasting, Marketing Research, Consumer Behavior and Pricing.
Particle Swarm Optimization
Optimizing a non-linear problem using traditional newtonian methods is often infeasible. Then you may try a grid-type of search, trying to exhaust all of search space. If your space is too big, you have to try non-exhaustive methods. One interesting method is known as the Particle Swarm-algorithm. Read an introduction.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
See how an American career-handbook describes the working life of Economists and Marketing Research Analysts. 3 pages (pdf) of interesting reading. I find the section on how some PhD's teach at university while doing part-time consulting especially inspiring.
Artificial Neural Networks
Sometimes one gets the impression, that no examples exists in which ANNs outperform traditional methods in a practical setting. In Alon, Qi and Sadowski (2001) "Forecasting aggregate retail sales: a comparison of artificial neural networks and traditional methods" we are given an example.
Map of the Market
Need an overview of the US stock market? Try out SmartMoney's famous Map of the Market.
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