Intl. Symposium on Smart Creative Solutions for Financial Services

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              SFS 03 - Intl. Symposium on
       SMART CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
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Sponsored by EUNITE - 
EUropean Network on Intelligent TEchnologies for 
Smart Adaptive Systems

Frankfurt am Main, Germany
March 27 - 28, 2003

Home Page: http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~sfs/

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WELCOME
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 In our every-changing world only institutions and 
 companies that know their customers well are able 
 to await customer satisfaction and to ensure 
 customer loyalty long-dated. 
 Additionally, finding creative ways and new strategies
 in assuring qualitative customer-related information
 is one of the major aspects in the modern business world. 

 The Computer Science Department of the 
 J.W. Goethe-University within the context of the
 European Network for Intelligent Technologies on 
 smart adaptive systems (EUNITE) invites you to participate
 in an International Symposium providing novel ways and 
 solutions for the financial market using smart 
 adaptive systems. Smart adaptive systems are 
 new methodical techniques for data analysis and prediction, 
 they are effective, powerful and promise to adapt and 
 react according to the business data presented to them.  

 For the Symposium, we offer a two-day seminar that 
 is both dedicated to technical specialists (first day)
 and managers (second day). The symposium will take place
 in March 27-28 at Poelzig Bau, a historical place next
 to the famous Frankfurt Botanic Garden. More information 
 
 We are certain that this European technology transfer
 effort will enhance you to react on current customer 
 challenges. 

 We are looking forward to meet you there!


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PROGRAM
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 THURSDAY, MARCH 27th
 TECHNICAL DAY
 
 10.00 - 11.00 Solving financial problems by 
               Adaptive Systems
               Prof. Dr. Uzay Kaymak
               Erasmus University Rotterdam
               The Netherlands
  
 11.15 - 12.15 Real Option Valuation Models: some impact 
               on Giga-investment decisions
               Prof. Dr. Christer Carlsson 
               Abo Akademi University
               Finland
 
 13.30 - 14.30 Style classification of hedge funds
               Dr. Pieter Jelle van der Sluis
               ABP Investments, Research Dept.
               The Netherlands
 
 14.45 - 15.45 Customer Behavior Modeling in a Changing Market
               Dr. Peter Zemp
               Credit Suisse Financial Services
               Switzerland

 16.00 - 17.00 Adaptive Modeling for Econometrical Analysis
               PD Dr. Bulthaupt, N. Wartig
               Allianz AG
               Germany
 
 FRIDAY, MARCH 28th
 MANAGEMENT DAY
 
 10.00 - 11.00 Finance is emotion: using smart adaptive systems
               for customer concern realization management
               Marten den Uyl
               Director, Sentient Machine Research
               The Netherlands

 11.15 - 12.15 Smart Strategies for Credit Risk Management
               Drs. Peter van der Putten
               KiQ
               The Netherlands
 
 13.30 - 14.30 Shareholder Relationship Management
               Dr. Peter Gentsch
               pepper technologies AG
               Germany


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IMPORTANT DAYS
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 February 11, 2003       Early Registration
 March  1, 2003          Deadline - Early Registration
 March  2, 2003          Late and On-Site Registration
 March 27-28, 2003       Conference

 Please note that a storno fee of 20% will take into effect 
 in case you cancel the registration after March 1, 2003. 


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EUNITE
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 Within the framework of the European Research Efforts, 
 a network of excellence has formed between researchers
 in Europe dealing with the application of artificial 
 intelligence (AI) techniques as smart adaptive systems 
 which includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy systems
 and evolutionary computing. 
 Beside the coordination and research support,one of 
 the major activities of EUNITE network is the promotion
 of the new methodical possibilitiesfor data analysis
 and prediction by smartadaptive systems which has grown
 an huge number of successful applicationsin medicine,
 industry and finance.
 This symposium is organized within the financial group
 of EUNITE.For more information,  

 see  www.eunite.org

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIR and MORE INFORMATION
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 PD Dr. Rüdiger Brause
     Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
     Institute for Computer Science, Adaptive Systems
     Robert-Mayer Str. 11-15, D-60054 Frankfurt a. M., Germany
     Email: brause-jNDFPZUTrfROceuj71AUlOGSygy492AeG9Ur7JDdleE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

 Dr. Christoph Schommer
     IBM Software Group EMEA
     Ernst-Reuter Platz 2, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
     Email: schommer-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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