Smart Computing Applications in Crowdfunding

Preface

Finance has a great impact on real economy’s development. From a historical perspective, financial innovation is often coupled with technological advancement. Among various innovations in the financial sector, crowdfunding is a burgeoning and dynamic industry, in which a diverse variety of business models are incorporated. It is, thus, imperative to conduct a comprehensive exploration of the crowdfunding landscape. Meanwhile, the uprising of smart computing-enabled artificial intelligence is also broadly witnessed, which has inspired (or even forced) numerous sectors (including the financial sector) all over the world to react. Motivated by these two noteworthy phenomena, this book covers the key players and critical issues typically ...