We are delighted to launch the new OJS version of Alternautas, hosted by University Warwick. The first iteration Alternautas began as a rigorous peer-reviewed blog designed widen circulation knowledge produced global South about South. It was forged in fires pink tide governments – progressive power across Latin America during decade or so twenty-first century and vigorous debates around develo...

Conversation simulators are computer programs which give the appearance of conversing with a user in natural language. Alan Turing devised a simple test in order to decide whether such programs are intelligent. In 1991, the Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Studies held the first formal instantiation of the Turing Test. In this incarnation the test was known as the Loebner contest, as Dr. Hugh L...

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence systems have received an increasing amount of academic interest in Economics and Finance. Among these works, Artificial Stock Markets (ASM) have particularly benefited from the agent based approach and from the Multi-Agent philosophy. The application fields for Agents-based modelling and simulations in Finance appears extremely promising. For example, on...