The expanding range of financial instruments available to corporations and individuals, coupled with the increasing complexity of the analytical methods used by financial analysts, strategic planners, investors, creditors, and insurers, have forced these groups to turn to increasingly sophisticated technologies for solutions. The marriage between traditional topics of finance and cutting-edge technology has resulted in the field of Financial Engineering. The purpose of IASTED’s international conference on Financial Engineering and Applications is to provide a forum for experts from academia, business, and the government to exchange information on this interdisciplinary subject.

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Relevant topics include but are not restricted to:

Derivatives
Securities
Corporate Governance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Investment Models
Portfolio Management
Risk Analysis
Valuation
Real Options
Exotic Options
Market Analysis
Hedging
Modelling and Simulation
Queueing
Management Science
Time Series Analysis
Forecasting
Artificial Markets
Trading Costs and Liquidity
Financial Visualization


Local Regulatory Issues
International Regulatory Issues
International Finance
Optimization
Stochastic Control
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Pattern Recognition
Neural Networks
Fuzzy Systems
Data Mining
Knowledge Discovery
E-Finance
E-Commerce
Case Studies