> 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 <tom at jtjohnson.com>
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group<friam at redfish.com>
> *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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>
>
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>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
> -- Buckminster Fuller
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