Message from general chair

CIFEr, Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications at the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering and economics. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. CIFEr has been a means of exploration for academics and financial professionals. The subprime/liquidity crisis and flash crashes have had a global effect, program and algorithmic trading continue growing, regulatory and compliance developments and risk management reguirements present new challenges. We need to explore implementing new tools developed through computational intelligence. We believe CIFEr is one of those forums that will help Financial Engineers get through some perplexing problems at this very difficult time.