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Information security economics - and beyond
August 2007
CRYPTO'07: Proceedings of the 27th annual international cryptology conference on Advances in cryptology
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
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The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, incentives are becoming as important to dependability ...

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A Critical Guide to Empirical Validation of Agent-Based Models in Economics: Methodologies, Procedures, and Open Problems
October 2007
Computational Economics , Volume 30 Issue 3
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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This paper addresses the methodological problems of empirical validation in agent-based (AB) models in economics and how these are currently being tackled. We first identify a set of issues that are common to all modelers engaged in empirical validation. ...


Keywords: Agent-based computational economics, B41, B52, C63, Calibration, Empirical validation, History-friendly modeling, Methodology, Simulation models
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The economics of mobile payments: Understanding stakeholder issues for an emerging financial technology application
July 2008
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications , Volume 7 Issue 2
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
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Economic theory provides a unique vantage point from which to examine issues with respect to emerging technologies, where standards and adoption, business process changes and implementation outcomes, information security, investments and business value, ...


Keywords: Business processes, Consumer behavior, Economic analysis, Financial technology, M-payments, Mobile payments, Network externalities, Payment systems, Standards, Technology adoption
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Programming Languages in Economics
October 1999
Computational Economics , Volume 14 Issue 1-2
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Young economists sometimes ask which computer programming languages they should learn. This paper answers that question by suggesting that they begin with a high level language like GAUSS, GAMS, Mathematica, Maple or MATLAB depending on their field ...


Keywords: computational economics, computer languages, programming languages, software
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Experimental economics and experimental computer science: a survey
June 2007
ExpCS '07: Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science
Publisher: ACM
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In surprisingly many computer science research projects, system outcomes may be influenced by computerized or human agents with different economic incentives. Such studies include P2P networks, routing protocols, agent systems, and attacker-defender ...


Keywords: experimental economics, experimental methodology, human subjects
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A review of the use of simulations in teaching economics
December 2004
Social Science Computer Review , Volume 22 Issue 4
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
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Since the 1960s, economists have experimented with incorporating computerized economic simulations into their classes. This article reviews the literature on the use of simulations and describes some of the simulations currently being distributed. In ...


Keywords: computer-assisted instruction, economic education, economic simulations, teaching of economics
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Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies From the Bottom Up
March 2002
Artificial Life , Volume 8 Issue 1
Publisher: MIT Press
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Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modeled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. Thus, ACE is a specialization of economics of the basic complex adaptive systems paradigm. This study outlines ...

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Online social networks in economics
June 2009
Decision Support Systems , Volume 47 Issue 3
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
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This paper describes how economists study social networks. While economists borrow from other fields like sociology or computer science, their approach of modeling of social networks is distinguished by the emphasis on the role of choices under constraints. ...


Keywords: Economics, Information transmission, Social networks
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Experimental economics and experimental computer science: a survey
June 2007
ecs'07: Experimental computer science on Experimental computer science
Publisher: USENIX Association
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Many of computer scientists' research projects avail themselves to experimental studies using economic incentives and formulation of economically motivated hypotheses. In this article I argue that these projects can benefit from the large body of work ...


Keywords: experimental economics, experimental methodology, human subjects experiments
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Teaching Computational Economics to Graduate Students
November 2007
Computational Economics , Volume 30 Issue 4
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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The teaching of computational economics to graduate students has mostly been in a single course with a focus on algorithms and computer code. The shortcoming with this approach is that it neglects one of the most important aspects of computational economics--namely ...


Keywords: C63, Computational economics, E61, Graduate teaching
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Economics and management information systems
September 1982
SIGMIS Database , Volume 14 Issue 1
Publisher: ACM
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Without exaggeration, the basic challenge of management is economics: how to choose to employ scarce productive resources to accomplish limited objectives effectively. It is well recognized today, and increasingly so in post-industrial societies, that ...

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Computational Economics: Help for the Underestimated Undergraduate
May 2006
Computational Economics , Volume 27 Issue 2-3
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Our concern in this paper is that the capability of economics undergraduates is substantially underestimated in the design of the present college curriculum and that our students are insufficiently challenged and motivated. Students enter our classrooms ...


Keywords: computational economics, teaching economics, undergraduate economics
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Privacy in electronic commerce and the economics of immediate gratification
May 2004
EC '04: Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Publisher: ACM Request Permissions Request Permissions   
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Dichotomies between privacy attitudes and behavior have been noted in the literature but not yet fully explained. We apply lessons from the research on behavioral economics to understand the individual decision making process with respect to privacy ...
Keywords: electronic commerce, hyperbolic discounting, immediate gratification, privacy, self-control problems
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Internet Economics: When Constituencies Collide in Cyberspace
November 1997
IEEE Internet Computing , Volume 1 Issue 6
Publisher: IEEE Educational Activities Department
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Security of economics information
February 2010
AIKED'10: Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and data bases
Publisher: World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
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The security economics information has recently become a fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, incentives are becoming as important to dependability as technical design. ...
Keywords: ATM, bank, cyber-risk, economics information, security, vulnerability
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Economics on the edge of chaos: Some pitfalls of linearizing complex systems
May 2007
Environmental Modelling & Software , Volume 22 Issue 5
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
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We discuss some issues and challenges facing economic modellers when confronted with data generated within a non-linear world. The pitfalls associated with the linearisation of inherently non-linear models are raised and the concept of robustness defined ...


Keywords: Attractor, Chaos, Complexity, Linearisation, Robustness, Structural stability
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Computational intelligence in economics and finance: carrying on the legacy of Herbert Simon
February 2005
Information Sciences: an International Journal , Volume 170 Issue 1
Publisher: Elsevier Science Inc.
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This is an editorial guide for the special issue on computational intelligence (CI) in economics and finance. A historical introduction to the background is given. This research paradigm is traced back to Herbert Simon, who, as a founder of artificial ...


Keywords: agent-based computational economics, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, computational intelligence, micro-macro relation, stock price-volume relation
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Reproducible research in computational economics: guidelines, integrated approaches, and open source software
August 2007
Computational Economics , Volume 30 Issue 1
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Traditionally, computer and software applications have been used by economists to off-load otherwise complex or tedious tasks onto technology, freeing up time and intellect to address other, intellectually more rewarding, aspects of research. On the ...


Keywords: B4, C87, C88, Econometric software, Economic methodology, Other computer software
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Managing Software Reuse Economics: An Integrated ROI-based Model
November 2001
Annals of Software Engineering , Volume 11 Issue 1
Publisher: J. C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers
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Several cost models have been proposed in the past for estimating, predicting, and analyzing the costs of software reuse. In this paper we propose an integrated ROI-based cost model which attempts to encompass existing models. Our approach is to analyze ...


Keywords: COCOMO, application engineering, component engineering, domain engineering, return on investment, software cost estimation, software reuse
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Software economics: a roadmap
May 2000
ICSE '00: Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Publisher: ACM
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