FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the NeuroVe$t Journal

Special Issue Theme: Hybrid Neural Networks for Financial Forecasting

Submission Deadline: September 3, 1996

Publication Date: January 1997

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Finance & Technology Publishing is seeking papers reporting original research for review and publication in the NeuroVe$t Journal special issue on HYBRID NEURAL NETWORKS FOR FINANCIAL FORECASTING scheduled for publication in January 1997.

Aims and Scope: Current machine learning prediction systems are very limited in the type of knowledge they can use for learning. This design limitation is particularly serious when applied to financial domains where sample data is very noisy and non-stationary. Although potentially better results are achievable using learning systems that integrate two or more types of knowledge representation and/or multiple inference underlying a learning process, to date little has been published on such hybrid approaches to financial modeling. Potential subjects of interest to this special issue include systems in which neural networks are integrated with other prediction techniques (e.g. trading rules, stochastic analysis, nonlinear dynamics, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, etc.) to complement limited training data information into more accurate prediction systems.

Submission Procedure: Prospective authors are invited to submit three hardcopies and a softcopy of a complete manuscript by SEPTEMBER 3, 1996 to either the Guest Editor or to the Editor-in-Chief. Papers should be double-spaced, single-sided and the text should be 4000 to 5000 words in length, contain no more than 10 references. Authors should provide a brief biographic sketch of themselves. Each copy submitted should include a page that contains the title of the paper, the full name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), complete mailing address and telephone numbers of all authors, and a 150 to 300 word abstract. Text citations must use the following format: last name(s) of author(s), publication date and suffix (as necessary) in brackets. Example: [Watkins and McCoy 1993a]. References must be listed alphabetically by the last name of the first author. The preferred file format for a softcopy is Word for Windows. All formating details are available at the NeuroVeSt WWW location http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/FTPub/nvj.htm

GUEST EDITOR:

Zoran Obradovic

Address: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2752, USA. Tel: (509) 335-6601, Fax: (509) 335-3818, email: zoran@eecs.wsu.edu, http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~zoran

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Randall B. Caldwell

Address: NeuroVe$t Journal, P.O. Box 764, Haymarket, VA 22069-0764, USA. Tel/Fax: (703) 754-0696, email: RBCALDWELL@delphi.com