Feature Paper Special Issue: Quantitative Finance

Dear Colleagues,

We are publishing a special issue on Quantitative Finance. Through this issue, we aim to attract papers covering the myriad facets in the analysis and modeling of financial data, events, and phenomena, including:

• Statistical analysis and modeling
• Machine learning methods
• Mathematical modeling
• Statistical physics modeling
• Optimization algorithms
• Other relevant methods

Timewise, we shall accept papers from as early as September 2021, until 1 March 2022. All qualified papers passing the rigorous peer-review process will be published online, free of charge, and with open access. Qualified papers will be published sequentially in this Special Issue. This way, early submissions can be published without delay. We are looking forward to your submission in this increasingly important field.

Prof. Dr. Gareth W. Peters
Prof. Dr. Damien Challet
Prof. Dr. Hongsong Yuan
Prof. Dr. Paweł Polak
Prof. Dr. Min Shu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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