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Prof.dr.ir. Uzay Kaymak and Dr. Wim Pijls Leave Econometric Institute
Per September 1st, Prof.dr.ir. Uzay Kaymak, Professor in Intelligence and Computations in Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, and Dr. Wim Pijls, assistant professor in Economics and Informatics at Erasmus School of Economics, leave the Econometric Institute. In his 27.5 years at the university, Wim Pijls taught courses in Java programming and algorithms. Even though Dr. Pijls will be enjoying his early retirement pension, he will also remain active in science in the upcoming years. Prof. Kaymak on the other hand starts at the Eindhoven Technical University at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences.
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 01-09-2011
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PhD Thesis Defense Milan Lovric on Behavioral Finance and Agent-Based Artificial Markets
On March 25, Milan Lovric defended his thesis entitled "Behavioral Finance and Agent-Based Artificial Markets". His promotors are Prof. dr. J. Spronk, Academic Dean MBA Programmes and Professor of Financial Management Science, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Prof. dr. ir. Uzay Kaymak, Professor in Intelligence and Computation in Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Prof. dr. M.J.C.M. Verbeek, Prof dr. D.J.C. van Dijk, and Prof. dr. S. Solomon.
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25-03-2011
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Fuzzy Criteria for Feature Selection
On Tuesday March 22, Susana Vieira (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) will present "Fuzzy Criteria for Feature Selection". In her talk, Susana Vieira stresses that the use of fuzzy decision making may improve the performance of real-world optimization problems, which often deal with multiple different - mostly conflicting and/or contradictory - criteria. Fuzzy decision making allows for an easier and suitable description of the confluence of the different criteria.
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18-03-2011
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Distributed Programming using Hadoop
On Wednesday March 9 (
rescheduled: TBA), Evert Lammers, consultant at SARA, the national high performance computing and e-Science Support Center, will present "Distributed Programming using Hadoop", which serves as an introduction to Hadoop, a software framework for distributed programming. The framework and computing cluster are freely available for researchers and students at universities, as their projects often require a lot of computational power. After a brief introduction to Hadoop, Evert Lammers will continue with a hands-on session for distributed programming and computing in Hadoop by analyzing a large data set. Some Java knowledge is preferred, as Hadoop is based on Java. Note that also MATLAB code can be run in a distributed way using Hadoop. Don't forget to bring your laptop!
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03-03-2011
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Formal Concept Analysis and Fuzzy Logics
On Thursday February 17, Marcos Cintra (São Paulo University, São Carlos, Brazil) presented "Formal Concept Analysis and Fuzzy Logics". Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory which uses formal contexts and concept lattices to model the concept of "concepts". It is used for data analysis, knowledge representation, and information management. The fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theories were introduced by Prof. Zadeh in the 1960s and are consolidated in various areas of the human knowledge. Fuzzy logics have also been used in conjunction with FCA in order to provide a way of handling continuous attributes. In this presentation, FCA and fuzzy logics were briefly introduced, as well as some applications.
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18-02-2011
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An Econometric Approach to Neural Network Model Selection for Financial Time Series Analysis
On Tuesday November 23, Dr. Nikos Thomaidis (University of the Aegean, Chios Island, Greece) presented "An Econometric Approach to Neural Network Model Selection for Financial Time Series Analysis" at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The purpose of this talk was to present a family of neural network (NN)-GARCH models that jointly parametrise the mean and the variance of the conditional distribution. Dr. Nikos Thomaidis demonstrated how this flexible modelling framework can accommodate most of the stylised facts reported about financial prices or rates of return (nonlinear trends, asymmetric GARCH effects and non-gaussian errors).
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24-11-2010
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Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
On Monday September 27, Prof. James C. Bezdek (University of West Florida, USA), founding editor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, presented "Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Visual Assessment and Clustering in Environmental Monitoring Networks" at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His talk addressed several topics, such as wireless sensor networks, DCAD and ESAD models, and visual assessment techniques (iVAT).
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08-10-2010
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Tommi Tervonen Appointed as Assistant Professor in Business Intelligence
As of September 1, Tommi Tervonen joined the Econometric Institute as assistant professor in the field of Business Intelligence. Tervonen's main research expertise is in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), specifically with Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) methods. He is currently interested in data models for algorithmic MCDA, SMAA for drug benefit-risk analysis, and in decision support for evidence-based medical decision making.
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01-09-2010
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NWO Grants Scholarship to Damir Vandic for ECBI Project
On July 20, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that Damir Vandic, an Economics & Informatics honours student, has been granted funding for a four-year period of doctoral research. Starting in fall, Damir will work on an ECBI research project aiming to investigate the use of Semantic Web vocabularies for efficient prduct discovery and presentation.
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20-07-2010
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NWO Grants New ECBI Project
On June 28, the department of Physical Sciences (EW) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that an ECBI research project has been granted funding in the first round of the Free Competition 2010. The project proposal "Financial Events Recognition in News for Algorithmic Trading" by dr. Flavius Frasincar and Prof. dr. ir. Uzay Kaymak is one of the 24 accepted research proposals out of the 90 submitted proposals. Frederik Hogenboom, an Economics & Informatics graduate student, will be assigned to the project.
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13-07-2010
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Dr. Arie Ben-David Visits ECBI
From May 24 until May 31, Dr. Arie Ben-David, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Technology Management, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel, visited ECBI. Goal of this research visit was to write a paper on an alternative to the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve, i.e., the Area Under an Kappa curve (AUK).
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31-05-2010
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Dr. Rob Potharst Leaves Econometric Institute
Reaching the retirment age, on May 26, dr. Rob Potharst resigned from his position as Assistant Professor at the Econometric Institute of the Erasmus University. In his 23 years at the university, Rob Potharst taught courses in Java programming and data mining.
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26-05-2010
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PhD Thesis Defense Martijn Kagie on Online Shopping Interfaces
On May 19, Martijn Kagie defended his thesis entitled "Advances in Online Shopping Interfaces". His promotor is Prof. dr. P.J.F. Groenen, Professor in Statistics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His co-promotor is dr. M.C. van Wezel. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Prof. dr. D. van den Poel, Prof. dr. ing. P.H.C. Eiler, Prof. dr. ir. R. Dekker, and Prof. dr. ir. U. Kaymak.
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19-05-2010
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ECBI Researchers Score in Annual ESB Economists Top 745
Two ECBI researchers, Prof. dr. ir. Rommert Dekker and Prof. dr. ir. Uzay Kaymak, have been ranked amongst the top 100 Dutch economists according to the ESB Economists Top 745. Rankings are based on the H-index, which measures quantity and relevance (impact) of scientific publications.
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08-04-2010
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Economics & Informatics Students Dominate Imagine Cup 2010
This year's Dutch Imagine Cup finale has been dominated by Economics & Informatics students. Three teams managed to obtain first, second, and third place in the competition in Jimmy Woo Amsterdam. The first place winner, team wEarth-IT, is invited to compete in Poland for the international Imagine Cup 2010 title, and therewith follows in the footsteps of first-year Economics & Informatics students team FreshGen, which won the Dutch Imagine Cup 2009 with their Drug Donation Network.
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05-03-2010
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Perspectives of Business Intelligence for Healthcare
Monday, February 15, Prof. dr. ir. Uzay Kaymak, Professor in Intelligence and Computations in Economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, gave an invited talk at the MHPW 2010: Making Healthcare Processes Work workshop at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His talk, entitled "Perspectives of Business Intelligence for Healthcare", addresses some perspectives for business intelligence solutions for healthcare providers.
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03-03-2010
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New intelligence on future energy markets
The face of Europe’s energy supply is set to change. If latest plans by nine European countries go ahead, the North Sea could become home to an intricate network of undersea cables – part of Europe’s first supergrid for renewable energy. Initiatives of this type signal a marked departure from the traditional model of energy supply management, says Wolfgang Ketter. Until now a few large companies have held centre stage in each country, operating in a largely top-down, command-and-control fashion.
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02-03-2010
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Best Poster Paper Award for Alok Gupta, Wolfgang Ketter, Eric van Heck, and Meditya Wasesa
At the Eighth Workshop on eBusiness (WeB-09) at the International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS) in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, on December 15, 2009, Alok Gupta, Wolfgang Ketter, Eric van Heck, and Meditya Wasesa have been awarded wit the Best Poster Paper Award. The price-winning article entitled ‘Real-time Support for Auctioneers to Determine Optimal Clock Start for Multi-unit Sequential Dutch Auctions’.
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27-01-2010
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PhD Thesis Defense Eelco van Asperen on Port, Container, and Bulk Chemical Logistics Optimization
On November 18, Eelco van Asperen defended his PhD thesis entitled "Essays on Port, Container, and Bulk Chemical Logistics Optimization". His promotor is Prof.dr.ir. R. Dekker, Professor of Operations Research, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University. Other members of the doctoral committee are Prof. dr. ir. U. Kaymak, Prof. dr. H. Haralambides and Prof. dr. S. Voß.
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18-09-2009
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Best Paper Award Nomination for Learning Agents Research Group
At the 11th International Conference of Electronic Commerce (ICEC) in Taipei, Taiwan this August, Alexander Hogenboom, Wolf Ketter, Jan van Dalen, Uzay Kaymak, John Collins, and Alok Gupta received a Best Paper Award Nomination for their paper “Product Pricing using Adaptive Real-Time Probability of Acceptance Estimations based on Economic Regimes”.
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05-09-2009
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MinneTAC 3rd place at Trading Agent Competition for Supply-Chain Management
MinneTAC, an autonomous Supply-Chain Management Agent, from the University of Minnesota and Erasmus University (LARGE) won a 3rd place at this year’s Trading Agent Competition for Supply-Chain Management (TAC SCM). This is a tournament witch attracts the best research teams world-wide. Wolf Ketter was the General Chair of this year’s event; he is also at the board of directors of the Association for Trading Agent Research.
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28-07-2009
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The Information Metamorphosis in Economics
Prof. dr. ir. Uzay Kaymak – Professor in Intelligence and Computations in Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, has delivered his inaugural address entitled "The Information Metamorphosis in Economics" on Friday March 6.
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10-03-2009
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Uzay Kaymak appointed endowed professor in Intelligence and Computation in Economics
As of September 1st 2008, dr. ir. Uzay Kaymak (1968) has been appointed as endowed professor in Intelligence and Computation in Economics at the Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics through the Vereniging Trustfonds EUR. The objective of the Trustfonds is promoting growth and flourishing of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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03-09-2008
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Market Dynamics subject PhD Thesis Katalin Boer-Sorbán
On January 25, Katalin Boer-Sorbán has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Agent-Based Simulation of Financial Markets”. Her promotor is Prof.dr. A. de Bruin, Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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29-01-2008
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Third Prize in Thesis Competition
Jethro Borsje and Hanno Embregts won third prize in the 2006 thesis competition for the most useful applications in the fields of Information Technology and Information Science.
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26-12-2006
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