Duke Forest Conference 2016
Economics in the Era of Natural Computationalism and Big Data
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
“Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata” (by John von Neumann)
Hilton Garden, Durham, North Carolina, Nov 11-13, 2016

International Program Committee

Chair

Paul P Wang, Duke University, USA

Co-Chairs

Jason Barr, Rutgers University, USA

Jane Binner, Birmingham University, UK

Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Michael Gavin, University of South Carolina, USA

Shabnam Mousavi, John Hopkins University, USA

William Rand, University of Maryland, USA

Bing-Hong Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Scientific Advisory Committee

John Mordeson, Creighton University, USA

Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University, USA

Program Chairs

Ye-Rong Du, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Ragupathy Venkatachalam, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

International Program Committee

David Andersson, ShanghaiTech University, China

Jorgen Vitting Andersen, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), France

Peter Anselmo, New Mexico Tech, USA

Yuji Aruka, Chuo University, Japan

Albert Bakhtizin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Jan Baetens, Ghent University, Belgium

Te Bao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Anthony Brabazon, University College Dublin, Ireland

Edgardo Bucciarelli, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Eugene Callahan, Cardiff University, UK

Shih-Fen Cheng, Singapore Management University, Singaore

Siew Ann Cheong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

N.K. Chidambaran, Fordham University, USA

German Creamer, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Zengru Di, Beijing Normal University, China

Francesco Di Iorio, Nankai University, China

Paola D'Orazio, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Witold Dzwinel, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Michael Gallagher, St. Bonaventure University, USA

Christophre Georges, Hamilton College, USA

Jiaqi Ge, James Hutton Institute, UK

Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia

Gianfranco Giulioni, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., USA

Shyam S. Gouri Suresh, Davidson College, USA

Laszlo Gulyas, Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary

Mirsad Hadzikadic, Uuiversity of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Nobuyuki Hanaki, University of Nice, France

Kun-Huang Huarng, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Yu-Ning Hwang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Kiyoshi Izumi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Biliana Alexandrova Kabadjova, Bank of Mexico, Mexico

Michael Kampouridis, University of Kent, UK

Brian Kokensparger, Creighton University, USA

William Kretzschmar, Univ of Georgia, Athens, USA

Edward Kung, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

William Lawless, Paine College, USA

Allen Lee, Arizona State University, USA

Duk Hee Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Honggang Li, Beijing Normal University, China

Xihao Li, McMaster University, Canada

Guay Lim, University of Melbourne, Australia

Hwan Lin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Jianwu Lin, Tsinghua University, China

Ruipeng Liu, Deakin University, Australia

Guillermo Machado Sotomayor, National University of Chimborazo, Ecuador

Krzysztof Malarz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Dietmar Maringer, University of Basel, Switzerland

Leslie Marsh, University of British Columbia, Canada

Asunción Mochón, National Distance Education University, Spain

Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan

Asjad Naqvi, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Shigeaki Ogibayashi, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Vijayalakshmi Pai, PSG College of Technology, India

Heping Pan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Andreas Pape, Binghamton University, USA

Andreas Pyka, Universität Hohenheim, Germany

Adrien Querbes- Revier, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA

Marco Raberto, University of Genoa, Italy

Yago Sáez, Charles III University of Madrid, Spain

Aki-Hira Sato, Kyoto University, Japan

Hokky Situngkir, Bandung Fe Institute, Indonesia

Sami Al-Suwailem, Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia

Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Elpida Tzafestas, University of Athens, Greece

Ben Vermeulen, Universität Hohenheim, Germany

Guocheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Li-Jian Wei, Sun Yat-Sen Business School, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Emma Wilson, University of Alabama, USA

Chien-Te Wu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Lingfei Wu, University of Chicago, USA

Ling Xue, Peking University, China

Chao Yang, Hunan University, China

Xiaoguang Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yimin Yang, Protiviti, Inc., USA

Tina Yu, University of San Francisco, USA

Mei Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Conference Coordinator

Connie Wang, AI-ECON Research Center, USA