Introduction

Posted by Jim Witkam on
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Thanks Tom. Incidentally, I actually stumbled upon their website once before when searching for something complexity related.
Not sure when/if I will get to Indonesia but in case they are back in the Netherlands I'd be happy to meet them. I have a cousin who is working as an urban planner in Rotterdam.

Jim

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Tom Johnson
  To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Introduction


  Welcome, Jim.  We just had two visitors in Santa Fe from Indonesia, both of whom had studied in Amsterdam and one, especially, is quite interested in Complexity and simulation modeling as they can be applied to urban planning.  And, as a result of their visit, Steve Guerin turned up this institute in Bandung, should you be returning to the region.   http://www.bandungfe.net/

  All the best,
  Tom Johnson


  On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Jim Witkam <jw at altreva.com> wrote:

    Hi everyone, I've been on the FRIAM list for some time now but haven't
    introduced myself yet, so here goes:

    My background is in computer science and finance. For the last 5 years I
    have been an independent researcher and software developer in the fields of
    (agent-based) computational economics and evolutionary computation.
    Specifically I've been busy with agent-based simulation models of financial
    markets for the purpose of price forecasting. The complex behavior of
    financial markets has been a long time interest of me, as well as artificial
    intelligence and related computer science fields. My work can be found at
    www.altreva.com.

    Prior life experience includes an Msc in computer science from Universiteit
    Twente, 4 years as a consultant at Ernst & Young Treasury & Financial Risk
    Management, 1 year as marketing director of an AI software startup company,
    1 year as manager at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance, 5 years of traveling
    and living in Sout-East Asia.

    I'm living in the Netherlands so unfortunately I won't be able to attend the
    FRIAM meetings on a regular basis but I hope to take part in the FRIAM
    community through electronic ways.

    Jim Witkam
    http://www.altreva.com
    jw at altreva.com


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