Preface -- Books for which the problems are designed -- Section A: Arbitrage and asset pricing -- Appendix A: Fundamentals of asset pricing -- Section a exercises -- Section B: Utility theory -- Appendix B: Technical fundamentals for utility theory -- Section B: Exercises -- Stochastic dominance...

Using models, developed in one branch of science, to describe similar behaviors encountered in a different one, is the essence of a synergetic approach. A wide range of topics has been developed including Agent-based models, econophysics, socio-economic networks, information, bounded rationality...

The book is a benefit for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of operations research, decision theory, optimization theory, linear algebra, interval analysis, and fuzzy sets. The book will also be useful for the researchers in the respective areas. The first part of the book deals...