This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the XVII SIGEF Congress. It presents fuzzy logic, neural networks and other intelligent techniques applied to economic and business problems. This book is very useful for researchers and graduate students aiming to introduce themselves to the field of quantitative techniques for overcoming uncertain environments. The contributors are experienced scholars of different countries who offer real world applications of these mathematical techniques.Contents:Introduction:The Spanish School of Fuzzy Economics (Jaime Gil-Aluja)Theoretical Foundations:Specific Max. Traveling Salesman Problems (Raul O Dichiara, Blanca I Niel)Solving Fuzzy Mathematical Programming: A Parametric Approach (Ricardo Coelho Silva, Carlos Cruz Corona, José L Verdegay)Study of Fuzzy Model With Constant Development (Xavier Bertran, Narcís Clara, Dolors Corominas)Finance:A Decision Support System for Scoring Distressed Debts and Planning their Collection (Gianluca Murgia, Simone Sbrilli)An Assessment of Abnormal Returns in Socially Responsible Firms Using Fuzzy Jensen's Alpha Values (Klender Aimer Cortez Alejandro, Martha del Pilar Rodríguez García, María Teresa Sorrosal-Forradellas)Return and Risk: The Spanish Public Debt Market (Jose M Brotons, Antonio Terceño, M Gloria Barbera-Mariné)Time Analysis of Responsibility in Finance (David Ceballos)Online Change-Point Detection in Financial Time Series: Challenges and Experimental Evidence with Frequentist and Bayesian Setups (Vasile Georgescu)Application of a Fuzzy Model of Economic-Financial Diagnosis to SMEs (Antonio Terceño, Hernán Vigier, Valeria Scherger)Economics and Politics:The Eurozone Crisis and the “Argentinean” Solution: Fuzzy Similarity and Default Risk (Jorge Pazzi, Fernando Tohmé)A Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Designing Electoral Zones (Eric A Rincón-García, Miguel Á Gutiérrez-Andrade, Sergio G de-los-Cobos-Silva, Pedro Lara-Velázquez, Roman A Mora-Gutiérrez, Antonin S Ponsich)Locating Enterprises Using a Fuzzy Logic-Based Strategy (González Santoyo Federico, Flores Romero Beatriz, Flores Romero Juan José)A Mathematical Model of Price Stabilization in Context of Uncertainty (Joan Bonet Amat, Joan Carles Ferrer Comalat, Elvira Cassu Serra, Salvador Linares Mustarós)An Stochastic Model of the Precautionary Principle (María Teresa Casparri, Javier García Fronti)Management:An Analysis of the Quality Cost in a Business (José M Brotons Martínez, Manuel E Sansalvador Selles)Environmental Performance Measurement in Agri-Food Companies Using Fuzzy Inference System (Elena Escrig-Olmedo, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, Juana María Rivera-Lirio, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo)Evaluation of the Quality of a Tourist Service Applied to the Case of Student Tourism (Luisa L Lazzari, Patricia Mouliá, Andrea Parma)Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach for E-Commerce Websites Evaluation (Huan Liu, Viktor V Krasnoproshin, Shuang Zhang)Analysis of Industrial Cluster Agent Relations Using Fuzzy Subrelations (Antoni Vidal-Suñé, Albert Fonts-Ribas)Neural Networks:Evolutionary Neural Network Classifiers for Monitoring Research, Development and Innovation Performance in European Union Member States (Mónica de la Paz-Marín, Pilar Campoy-Muñoz, César Hervás-Martínez)Memory in Financial Time Series: From Investor Behavior to Artificial Neural Networks (M Teresa Sorrosal-Forradellas, M Glòria Barberà-Mariné, Lisana B Martinez, María-José Garbajosa-Cabello)Capital Structure in the Spanish Chemical Industry. How Does the Financial Crisis Affect? (Xavier Cámara-Turull, Xavier Borràs Balsells, M Teresa Sorrosal-Forradellas, M Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo)Using Neural Networks to Model Sovereign Credit Ratings: Application to the European Union (Raúl León, María Jesús Muñoz)The Effect of Changes of the Hurst Exponent in Return Predictability: The Case of the Dutch Market (Laura Lanzarini, Aurelio Fernández Bariviera, M Belén Guercio, Cristina Tomás-Monterde)Knowledge Management and Innovation:Organizational Learning in Complex Environments: Exploration and Exploitation in a NK Landscape (Bocanet Anca, Iandoli Luca, Cristina Ponsiglione, Giuseppe Zollo)Variables Fostering Knowledge Management Classical Theory vs. Uncertainty Theory (Gerardo Gabriel Alfaro Calderón, Federico González Santoyo, Juan J Flores, Víctor Gerardo Alfaro García)Multi-Objective Fuzzy Models in the Selection of Innovations in the Agricultural Area (Luis M Rivera Vilas, Natalia López-Mosquera García, Mercedes Sánchez Garcíaxiv)Readership: Graduate students and researchers in fuzzy logic, neural networks, Computational methods for Economics & Finance and Decision Sciences.
