Jean-Philippe Rennard has achieved a tremendous task of editing 58 papers written by 103 researchers in two volumes of the Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management. The Handbook by Rennard provides a stocktaking of the state-of-the-art in the field.
– The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (2008).
The Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economics and Management is an outstanding contribution demonstrating the unlimited and still underdeveloped and underemployed power of nature-inspired computing for the advance of knowledge in economics and management.
– Jean-Jacques Chanaron, CNRS, France
This handbook can stimulate future researchers to enter the picture and to strongly invest into scientific innovation in their respective disciplinary fields.
– Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
The handbook that Jean-Philippe Rennard has assembled is a wonderfully diverse collection of points of view from this new breed of economists and social scientists, a vibrant cross-section of the field of economics as I hope it will evolve in the near future.
– Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem Corporation, USA
Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management presents more of a reference to the current state-of-the-art research topics in the field of nature-inspired computing form a wide range of disciplines, ranging from social sciences to operations research. The two edited volumes together provide a concise, single-source reference guide to the varied role of nature-inspired computing.
– Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol. 35 (2008)