Brian Sallans received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Physics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. While working on a University of Toronto Ph.D. he moved to the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in University College London. He completed his Ph.D. in 2001 under the supervision of G.E. Hinton. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His current research interests include agent-based simulation of economic systems, adaptive multiagent systems, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.

Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Freyung 6/6/7, A-1010
Vienna
Austria

email: brian@oefai.at
web: http://www.oefai.at/~brian/

Alexander Pfister received his Diploma in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. During his studies he specialized in Industrial Management, Finance and Financial Markets and Operations Research. Currently he is working as a Research Assistant at the Department of Banking and Finance at the Vienna University. His research topics are heterogeneous agent models, genetic algorithms and artificial markets.

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Augasse 2-6, A-1090
Vienna
Austria

email: apfister@wu-wien.ac.at
web: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/wwwu/institute/vw6/ap.htm

Alexandros Karatzoglou is a Research Assistant at the department of Statistics and Probability Theory at the Vienna University of Technology. His research interests include economic simulation models and agent-based simulation environments.

Department of Statistics and Probability Theory
Vienna University of Technology
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/1071, A-1040
Vienna
Austria

email: alexis@ci.tuwien.ac.at
web: http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/people/Karatzoglou_Alexandros.html

Georg Dorffner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Vienna, Austria, and head of the Neural Computation Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI). The neural computation group was founded in 1987 and today is one of the largest and most renowned neural computation research groups in Austria. It is involved in several European and national research projects, and is a key node of EUNITE. In 2001, Georg Dorffner was the chair of the the European neural networks conference ICANN.

Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Freyung 6/6/7, A-1010
Vienna
Austria

email: georg@oefai.at
web: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~georg/

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