title: Foreword: special issue on computational finance and economics.
authors.affiliation: Natural Computing Research and Applications Group, Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brabazon
authors.affiliation: School of Computing, University of Kent, Medway, UK.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kampouridis