Soft computing in economics and finance (Q626373)

From the introduction: Chapter 2 presents a brief overview of the applications of modern methods of soft computing in economics and finance and the problems which were revealed in the process of these methods implementation. In Chapter 3 the author presents modern methods for uncertainty modeling only to the extent needed for understanding the applications in the following chapters. In Chapter 4, the problems typical for multiple criteria decision making are analyzed and new solutions of them are proposed as well. The problem of appropriate common scale for representation of objective and subjective criteria is solved using the simple subsethood measure based on the \(\alpha\)-cut representation of fuzzy values. Chapter 5 deals with the so-called distribution problem, which belongs to the wide-class of the logistic problems. In Chapter 6 the author presents and compares three different expert systems for stock trading based on the synthesis of fuzzy logic and technical analysis. In Chapter 7, a new approach to solving interval and fuzzy equations based on the generalized procedure of interval extension, called interval extended zero method, is proposed.