[Planning]

This special session focuses on informatics in finance and economics.
We appreciate many paper submissions from various backgrounds related to finance and economics.

++ Important Date ++
Paper deadline: April 15 (PST), 2024
Date: July 6-12, 2024

++ Venue and details ++
Takamatsu, Japan (ONSITE)
https://iaiai.org/conference/aai2024/
AIFE special site: https://aife.mhirano.jp/

++ Submission ++
See: https://iaiai.org/conference/aai2024/paper-submission/
IEEE 2 columns 2/4/6 pages (+2 pages are allowed)
Usually, accepted papers will be published via IEEE Xplore.
The review process is double-blinded.
Don't forget to select "13th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence" as Track and "SCAI-SS1: Applied Informatics in Finance and Economics (AIFE)" as Topics on the submission system (easychair).

++ Aims and Scope ++
With the recent development of informatics and AI technologies, they now play a key role in financial markets and economics. For example, for analyzing a large amount of financial information, computational informatics is necessary to handle them. Moreover, artificial market simulations, computational economics, natural language processing including large language models for finance and economics, and deep learning applications for many financial-related and economics-related challenges are also popular. More recently, alternative data exploration for wider informatics approaches is also gaining popularity in the financial and economic industries. Those new technologies have been developed not only by academic researchers but also by market participants. For more development, the collaboration of many participants having various backgrounds is now necessary. In this session, we aim to give them the specialized opportunity to gather and discuss new challenges in finance and economics. In organizing the second edition of the special session following the last year, we highly appreciate paper submissions from wider financial and economic topics and participation from the wider area, including academic and industrial areas.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
1. Informatics Models and Applications:
- Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation in Finance/Economics
- Social Simulation involving Finance/Economics
- Machine Learning in Finance/Economics
- Deep Learning in Finance/Economics
- Neural Networks in Finance/Economics
- Data Mining in Finance/Economics
- Text Mining in Finance/Economics
- Large Language Models in Finance/Economics
- Big Data in Finance/Economics
- Probabilistic Modeling in Finance/Economics
- Fuzzy in Finance/Economics
- Time-series Analysis in Finance/Economics
- Evolutionary Computation in Finance/Economics
- Semantic Web and Linked Data in Finance/Economics
- Gama Theory in Finance/Economics
- Optimization in Finance/Economics

2. Informatics Application in Finance:
- Trading
- Hedging
- Asset allocation
- Portfolio optimization
- Risk Management
- Financial Analytics
- Behavioural finance
- Evolutionary finance
- Cryptocurrencies

3. Informatics Application in Economics
- Computational Economics
- Market Modeling
- Agent-based simulation for Economic Decision
- Alternative data

++ Organizers ++
Masanori Hirano (The University of Tokyo)
Kei Nakagawa (Nomura Asset Management Co, ltd.)
Yoshiyuki Suimon (Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Hiroki Sakaji (Hokkaido University)

++ Note ++
All accepted papers are treated as well as those in the main session in IIAI AAI 2024. Therefore, high review-scored papers might be selected for paper awards and recommended to journals.
When the number of accepted papers is small, this special session could be merged with the main conference.

++ Contact ++
aife@mhirano.jp