Problems
in
finance
and business are amongst the
hardest problems to be solved on computer systems.
This course deals with three branches of
computing that aim explicitly to deal with such problems:soft
computing, grid computing and time
series
analysis, .
These problems include
the known
complex phenomena, including evolutionary growth and catastrophic
failures,
self-organisation and closely-coupled systems, viral attacks and
contagion, and
self-repair and learning.