Soft Computing - Call for Papers: Econophysics and complexity: methods and applications – Celebrating the 80th birthday of Marcel Ausloos

CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS

This special issue of Soft computing is dedicated to methods and applications for the analysis of complex phenomena. Peculiar attention will be paid to the exploration of the themes at the frontier of the econophysics research, with the study of financial markets and socio-economic environments through methods related to physics and – more generally – quantitative methods.

The special collection has the ambitious target of celebrating the outstanding scientific activity of Prof. Dr. Marcel Ausloos on the occasion of his 80^th birthday.

Topics of Interest
The topics of interest for this SI include, but are not limited to:

• Socio-economic complex systems
• Complex networks and applications in finance
• Economics and social science
• Data science for financial markets
• Data regularities in finance and economics
• Cluster analysis and applications in finance
• Economics and social science
• Mathematical and statistical methods for finance and economics
• Commodities and option pricing
• Risk management
• Forecasting

We warmly encourage the submission of high-level contributions dealing with the topic of interest through an interdisciplinary approach.

KEYWORDS:

• Econophysics
• Complex systems
• Complex networks
• Finance
• Social sciences and economics
• Data science
• Quantitative and statistical models

SUBMISSION - IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• All papers will be peer-reviewed. Before any special issue is given final approval to be put into production, additional rigorous integrity checks are carried out by the Editor-in-Chief, Special Issues Assistant Editor, Editorial Team, Production Office and by Springer Nature.

•  Authors should follow the formatting and submission instructions for Soft Computing: https://www.springer.com/journal/500/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab) (this opens in a new tab).

• During the first submission step in Editorial Manager select 'Original article' as the article type. In further steps you should confirm that your submission belongs to this special issue by choosing the special issue title from the drop-down menu.

• Submissions should be original papers and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

GUEST EDITORS

Roy Cerqueti (Lead Guest Editor)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
E-mail: roy.cerqueti@uniroma1.it (this opens in a new tab)

Roy Cerqueti is Full Professor of Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Research Affiliate of the GRANEM, a Research Center hosted by the University of Angers, France. Director of the Doctoral School in Social and Economic Sciences (Sapienza University of Rome). He was also a review Panel expert in the COST Action Proposal Submission, Evaluation, Selection and Approval procedure (appointment by the Italian Minister of University - Office of the National Coordinator of COST projects) from 2017 to 2019. He has published several scientific articles, most of them in highly-ranked international journals. He regularly participates in international conferences as an invited speaker. He has several editorial assignments and regularly performs referral services for many journals and scientific institutions. He has participated in research projects at a national and international level, also as Principal Investigator.

Giulia Rotundo (Guest Editor)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
E-mail: giulia.rotundo@uniroma1.it (this opens in a new tab)

Giulia Rotundo is Full Professor for Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance at the Department of Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; she participates in the curriculum on PhD in Statistics at this same University. Her education was mainly achieved at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got a degree in Mathematics, a specialization in Cognitive Psychology and Neural Networks, and obtained later another degree in Computer Science. Her current main research interest is on Complex networks applied to Economics and Finance, including agent-based models, discrete dynamical models on networks, econometrics, measures of risk and decision support models. She has formerly served as a researcher at C.N.R. (National Research Council), and  at the Faculty of. She participated in several international research projects.

Claudiu Herteliu (Guest Editor)
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
E-mail: hertz@csie.ase.ro (this opens in a new tab)

Claudiu Herteliu holds a PhD granted in 2007 by University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. He started teaching in 2002 as teaching assistant, currently he is full professor at Statistics and Econometrics Department from the same university. He worked with quantitative methods in Education and Research Ministry (2001-2008) and National Institute of Statistics (2008-2011). He had managerial responsibilities as The Dissemination of Romanian Statistical Information Activity or vice-dean of the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics (2012 – present) and member of University Senate (2012 – present). Main areas of research interests are: statistics and econometrics; quantitative methods in religion; scientometrics, health-metrics, statistical artefacts.

Gurjeet Dhesi (Guest Editor)
Group of Researchers Applying Physics in Economy and Sociology (GRAPES), Liège, Belgium
E-mail: dhesig74@gmail.com (this opens in a new tab)

Gurjeet Dhesi in his last full-time post until January 2022 was the Director of Research and Enterprise at London South Bank University Business School. He is now currently affiliated to the Group of Researchers Applying Physics in Economics and Sociology (GRAPES). He has published in a wide variety of  internationally renowned and world leading journals.