Trading rule extraction in stock market using the rough set approach

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "Trading rule extraction in stock market using the rough set approach"

Transcription

1 Tradig rule extractio i stock market usig the rough set approach Kyoug-jae Kim *, Ji-youg Huh * ad Igoo Ha Abstract I this paper, we propose the rough set approach to extract tradig rules able to discrimiate betwee bullish ad bearish markets i stock market. The rough set approach is very valuable to extract tradig rules. First, it does ot make ay assumptio about the distributio of the data. Secod, it ot oly hadles oise well, but also elimiates irrelevat factors. I additio, the rough set approach appropriate for detectig stock market timig because this approach does ot geerate the sigal for trade whe the patter of market is ucertai. The experimetal results are ecouragig ad prove the usefuless of the rough set approach for stock market aalysis with respect to profitability. Key words: the rough set approach, tradig rule, stock market timig 1. Itroductio quatitative data. Some researchers ivestigated the issue of predictig stock idex futures market. Trippi ad For a log time, stock market predictio is logcherished desire of ivestors, speculators, ad idustries. Although several studies ivestigated to predict price movemets i stock market, fiacial time series too complex ad oisy to forecast. May researchers predicted the price movemets i stock market usig artificial itelligece (AI) techiques durig past decades. Kimoto et al. (1990) used several learig algorithms ad predictio methods for the predictio systems of Tokyo stock exchage prices idex (TOPIX). Their system used modular eural etwork to lear the relatioships amog various factors. Kamijo ad Taikawa (1990) used recurret eural etwork ad Ahmadi (1990) employed backpropagatio eural etwork with geeralized delta rule to predict the stock market. Yoo ad Swales (1991) also performed predictio usig qualitative ad DeSieo (1992) ad Choi et al. (1995) predicted daily directio of chage i S&P 500 idex futures usig ANNs. Duke ad Log (1993) executed daily predictio of Germa govermet bod futures usig feedforward backpropagatio eural etwork. Recet research teds to iclude ovel factors ad to hybridize several AI techiques. Hiemstra (1995) proposed fuzzy expert systems to predict stock market returs. He suggested that ANNs ad fuzzy logic could capture the complexities of the fuctioal mappig because they do ot require the fuctioal specificatio of the fuctio to approximate. A more recet study of Kohara et al. (1997) icorporated prior kowledge to improve the performace of stock market predictio. Tsaih et al. (1998) itegrated the rule-based techique ad the ANNs to predict the directio of the S&P 500 stock idex Graduate School of Maagemet Korea Advaced Istitute of Sciece ad Techology

2 futures o a daily basis. Previous research usig AI techiques almost predicted the price of every tradig day, week, ad moth. It is more importat, however, to determie stock market timig, whe to buy ad sell stocks, tha to predict the price movemet for everyday because ivestors i stock market geerally do ot trade everyday. If ivestors trade their stocks everyday, they are charged to tremedous amout of fee for trade. Market timig is a ivestmet strategy which is used for the purpose of obtaiig the excess retur. Traditioally excess retur is achieved by switchig betwee asset classes i aticipatio of major turig poits i stock market (Waksma et al., 1997). I this paper, we propose a ew rule-based techique, so called rough set approach, to determie market timig for stock market. Rough set approach is very valuable to extract tradig rules. First, it does ot make ay assumptio about the distributio of the data. Secod, it ca geerate profitable market timig because it ot oly hadles oise well, but also elimiates irrelevat factors (Ruggiero, 1997). I additio, the rough set approach appropriate for detectig stock market timig because this approach does ot geerate the sigal for trade whe the patter of market is ucertai. The rest of the paper is orgaized ito five sectios. The ext sectio reviews the basic cocept of the rough set approach ad their applicatios i busiess. I the third sectio, we explai the tradig rule extractio ad review the cocept of market timig i stock market. I the fourth sectio, we describe the research data ad execute experimets. I the fifth sectio, empirical results are summarized ad discussed. I the followig sectio, coclusios ad future research issues are preseted. 2. The rough set approach ad their applicatios i busiess The rough set cocept proposed by Pawlak (1982) assume that there is some iformatio which ca be associated with every object of the uiverse. The same iformatio ca characterize the objects, ad these are idiscerible i the view of available iformatio about them. The so-called idiscerible relatio from this view is the mathematical basis of the rough set theory. Ay set of idiscerible objects is called elemetary set ad forms a basic atom of kowledge about the uiverse (Dimitras et al., 1999). Ay subset of the uiverse ca either be expressed precisely i the view of the atoms or roughly oly. I the latter case, a certai subset ca be characterized by two ordiary sets which are called lower ad upper approximatios. For each cocept X the greatest defiable set cotaied i X ad the least defiable set cotaiig X ca be computed. The former set is called a lower approximatio of X ad the letter is called a upper approximatio of X (Pawlak et al., 1995). The lower approximatio cosists of all of he objects that certaily belog to the cocept while the upper approximatio cosists of ay objects that possibly belogs to the cocept (Ruggiero, 1997). The cocept X is called rough if the upper approximatio is ot equal to the lower approximatio of X (Jagielska et al., 1999). Geerally, the kowledge about objects ca be represeted i the shape of a iformatio table. The rows of the table are objects, the colums are attributes ad the itersectios of rows ad colums are filled with attribute values. The importat poit i the rough set approach is the discovery of the depedecies betwee attributes. It ca be assumed that the set of attributes depeds o the set of attributes. Aother importat cocept is the reductio of attributes. This process is performed for fidig the miimal subset assurig the same quality of classificatio. The attributes i iformatio table are composed of two kids of attributes, the coditio attributes ad the

3 decisio attributes. As for coditio attributes ad decisio attribute, there are aother measure of depedecy, which ca represet full depedecy ad partial depedecy. The reducts i the rough set approach is sets that cotai the same elemets as other sets but possess the fewest attributes (Ruggiero, 1997). Elimiatio of superfluous attributes ca help to extract strog ad oredudat classificatio rules (Jagielska et al., 1999). Itersectio of all the reducts is called Core. The core is a collectio of the most relevat ad strog attributes (Dimitras et al., 1999). As the rough set approach to data aalysis ca hadle imperfect data full of ucertaity ad vagueess, it atoes for other approaches dealig with data ucertaity such as probability theory, evidece theory, ad fuzzy set theory, etc. Usig this approach oe aalyses oly facts hidde i data, it eeds o additioal iformatio about data ad does t correct icosistecies maifested i data, istead rules extracted are categorized ito certai ad possible forms. The applicatios of this approach o busiess area are maily o the evaluatio ad predictio of bakruptcy ad market research. These works were made maily by the Greek iformatio about bakruptcy. Oe of the earliest applicatios was doe i the work of Slowiski ad Zopouidis (1995). They used the rough set approach to evaluate bakruptcy. Slowiski et al. (1997) compared rough set approach with discrimiat aalysis for predictio of compay acquisitio i Greece ad Dimitras et al. (1999) compared it with logit aalysis to predict busiess failure. The rough set approach, however, may ot be proper i the evaluatio of bakruptcy because of the excessive productio of rules for the predicted cases. I the work of Slowiski et al. (1997), 24 rules were give to the 30 cases. I additio, the case will occurs that the rules solely by the rough set approach. This problem is crucial i the field of bakruptcy predictio because all the judgmet is to be give to all ew cases to come. 3. Tradig rule extractio ad market timig Extractig tradig rules from the stock market is alterative way of detectig market timig. Market timig is a ivestmet strategy which is used for the purpose of obtaiig the excess retur. Traditioally excess retur is achieved by switchig betwee asset classes i aticipatio of major turig poits i the stock market (Waksma et al., 1997). Detectig market timig meas determiig to buy ad sell to get a excess retur from tradig. The market timig systems usually employs profitable rule base to capture the major turig poits. It is very importat to determie stock market timig tha to predict the price movemet for everyday because ivestors i stock market geerally do ot trade everyday. If ivestors trade their stocks i everyday, they are charged to tremedous amout of fee for trade. I additio, although there are a ifiite umber of possible tradig rules by which we could trade, it seems that oly a few of them would have made a profit. There has bee much debate regardig the developmet of tradig systems usig historical data. We agree that the future is ever exactly like the past, however, a commo ivestmet approach is to employ systems that would probably have worked well i the past ad that seem to have a reasoable chace of doig well i the future. So, we defie a goal of system as fidig tradig rules for market timig which would have yielded the highest retur over a certai period. extracted caot be applicable to the holdout samples

4 4. Research data Note) C: Closig price, L: Low price, H: High price, The research data used i this study is KOSPI 200 from May 1996 through October KOSPI 200 is the uderlyig idex of KOSPI 200 future which is the first derivative istrumet i Korea stock market. Futures are the stadard forms that decide the quatity ad price i the certified market at a certai future poit of time. The geeral fuctios of futures market are supplyig iformatio about future price of commodities, speculatio ad hedgig (Kolb ad Hamada, 1988). We collected samples of 660 tradig days. May previous stock market aalyses have used techical or fudametal idicator. I geeral, fudametal idicators are mostly used for log-term tred aalysis while techical idicators are used for short-term patter aalysis. I this research, we use the techical idicators as iput variables. Nie techical idicators are selected by the review of domai expert ad past research. Table 1 gives selected iput variables ad their formulas. MA: Movig average of price, M t : ( H t L t + C t ) SM t : i = 1 M t i + 1, D t : i = 1 M +, 3 t i + SM 1 t, Up: Upward price chage, Dw: Dowward price chage The rough set approach eeds the data which are discretized i advace because the rule extractio process does ot has the discretizatio algorithm. The thresholds of discretizatio are preseted i Table 2. These thresholds are selected by the review of the textbook about techical aalysis i stock market. Table 3 presets summary statistics for each variable. Category Features A1 (Stochastic %K) [0, 25] (25, 75] (75, ) A2 (Stochastic%D) [0, 25] (25, 75] (75, ) A3 (RSI) [0, 30] (30, 70] (70,100] A4 (Mometum) (-, 0] (0, ) A5 (ROC) (-,100] (100, ) A6 (A/D Oscillator) (-,0.5] (0.5, ) A7 (CCI) (-,0] (0, ) Features Names of feature Formulas A1 Stochastic %K C t L 100 H L A2 Stochastic %D 1 % K t i A3 <Table 1> Techical idicators (Achelis, 1995; Gifford, 1995; Chag et al., 1996; Edwards ad Magee, 1997; Choi, 1995) RSI (relative stregth idex) i = A4 Mometum C t C t 4 A5 ROC (rate of chage) 1 i= 0 1 i= 0 Ct 100 C t A6 A/D Oscillator H t Ct H t Lt A7 A8 CCI (commodity chael idex) OSCP (price oscillator) Up Dw ( M t SMt ) ( Dt ) MA 5 MA 10 MA A9 Disparity 5 days C t 100 MA 5 5 t i t i A8 (OSCP) (-, 0] (0, ) A9 (Disparity 5 days) (-, 100] (100, ) <Table 2> Discretizig threshold (Murphy, 1986; Achelis, 1995; Gifford, 1995; Chag et al., 1996; Edwards ad Magee, 1997; Choi, 1995) Features Max Mi Mea Stadard Deviatio A1 (Stochastic%K) A2 (Stochastic %D) A3 (RSI) A4 (Mometum) A5 (ROC) A6 (A/D Oscillator) A7 (CCI ) A8 (OSCP) A9 (Disparity 5 days) <Table 3> Summary statistics

5 5. Experimetal Results decreased more tha 58% durig the modelig period, we ca fid rules that would yield the high level of profit As metioed earlier, i this study, the rough set were it used to trade stocks o a give set of historical data. approach is used to fid the profitable rules. It produces followig results. First, the core of attributes is empty. This implies that o sigle attribute perfectly explai the characteristics of decisio classes. This may be owig to complex relatioship amog attributes i stock market. Secod, 280 reducts are obtaied from experimet. Derived reducts ad their stregth are preseted i Appedix. The stregth meas the umber of objects satisfyig the rule. The rough set approach produces several umber of reducts. To extract rules from the several sets of reducts, Dimitras et al. (1999) used followig two criteria. First, the reduct should iclude as small a umber of attributes possible. Secod, the reduct should ot miss the attributes judged by the domai expert as the most sigificat for evaluatio of the firms. These criteria, however, are arbitrary ad subjective oes. I this study, we use followig criteria to extract rules. First, we select reduct which has the largest stregth. The largest stregth meas may objects of historical data support the rule. The reducts selected are twelve reducts which are the reduct #1 ~ #12 i Appedix. These reducts are supported by 60 stregth respectively. The we extract rules from each selected reduct. I the process of extractig rules, we permit 51% of the miimum level of discrimiatio ad 21 of the miimum stregth for each rule. The we apply the results of extracted rules to our tradig strategy i Table 4. I the process of applyig the rules, the reducts which do ot produce Buy sigal are excluded because these reducts do ot produce profit or loss ay more. Fially, the reduct #1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #9, #10, #11, ad #12 are selected ad they are applied to outof-sample data to validate the geeralizatio power. If today s sigal is UP, The If the previous day s decisio was BUY, The SELL stocks; Else BUY stocks; If today s sigal is NONE (If ay rules do ot matched to today s market coditio) or DOWN, The If the previous day s decisio was BUY, The SELL stocks; Else do ot trade. <Table 4> Tradig strategy Tradig profit eared from simulated tradig results are preseted i Table 5. While the uderlyig idex decreased more tha 58% durig the modelig period, we ca fid rules that would yield the high level of profit were it used to trade stocks o a give set of historical data. The rules derived by modelig data are applied to validatio period to verify the effectiveess of the proposed approach. I the derived tradig rules sets, the reduct #3 produces the best performace for validatio period. While the uderlyig idex decreased about 17% durig the validatio period, the tradig strategies followed by the derived rules get 31.5% for the reduct #3 (the derived rules set #3 i Table 5) of tradig profit. This meas the ivestor who follows the rules from the reduct #3 ca ear 48.3% of profit durig the validatio period tha the ivestor who follows buy ad hold strategy. The descriptio of rules of the reduct #3 are illustrated i Table 6. The other rules i Table 5 are alteratively good tradig rules although there is mior differece i simulated performace. These experimetal results demostrate that the rough set approach is promisig method for extractig profitable tradig rules. Tradig profit eared from simulated tradig results are preseted i Table 5. While the uderlyig idex

6 Followig Buy & Hold Accumulated profit (assume iitial ivestmet of 10,000 wo) (the accumulated rate of retur / the excess retur tha followig buy ad hold strategy) Modelig period (May 1996 November 1997) 4,167 wo (-58.3% / 0%) Validatio period (Jauary 1998 October 1998) 8,317 wo (-16.8% / 0%) advatage of the proposed approach is that tradig rules geerated by the rough set approach produce the tradig sigals oly whe the rules are fired. Each of the rules extracted produces the sigals less tha 20% of time. The rough set approach do ot produce the tradig sigals Followig the rules set 1 (Reduct #1: {A1, A2, A6, A8}) Followig the rules set 2 (Reduct #2: {A1, A2, A8}) 10,872 wo (8.7% / 67.0%) 9,539 wo (-4.6% / 53.7%) 12,480 wo (24.8% / 41.6%) 12,660 wo (26.6% / 43.4%) whe the patter of market is ucertai because the selectio of reduct ad the extractio of rules are cotrolled by the stregth of each reduct ad rule. This is Followig the rules set 3 (Reduct #3: {A1, A3, A6, A8}) Followig the rules set 4 (Reduct #4: {A1, A6, A8}) 10,830 wo (8.3% / 66.6%) 10,177 wo (1.8% / 60.1%) 13,153 wo (31.5% / 48.3%) 11,816 wo (18.2% / 35.0%) very importat to detect market timig because market timig is detected by capturig the major turig poits i data. I additio, ivestors i stock market geerally do Followig the rules set 5 (Reduct #6: {A3, A6, A8}) Followig the rules set 6 (Reduct #9: {A4, A7, A8}) 9,881 wo (-1.2%/ 57.1%) 9,689 wo (-3.1% / 55.2%) 10,744 wo (7.4% / 24.2%) 12,140 wo (21.4% / 38.2%) ot trade everyday owig to tremedous amout of fee for trade. The derived rules form the experimets are Followig the rules set 7 (Reduct #10: {A4, A8, A9}) Followig the rules set 8 (Reduct #11: {A5, A7, A8}) 9,430 wo (-5.7% / 52.6%) 9,689 wo (-3.1% / 55.2%) 12,688 wo (26.9% / 43.7%) 12,140 wo (21.4% / 38.2%) alteratively good tradig rules although there is mior differece i simulated performace. The experimetal results are very ecouragig ad prove the usefuless of Followig the rules set 9 (Reduct #12: {A5, A8, A9}) 9,430 wo (-5.7% / 52.6%) 12,688 wo (26.9% / 43.7%) the rough set approach for stock market aalysis with respect to profitability. <Table 5> The profit of buyig ad sellig simulatios We eed a more extesive validatio process because the future is ever exactly like the past. I Elemetary coditios Decisio class No. A1 A3 A6 A8 A10 Stregth # Up 29 # Dow 21 # Up 47 # Dow 21 # Dow 21 # Dow 33 # Dow 104 <Table 6> Descriptio of derived rules from the reduct #3 7. Cocludig remarks additio, the rough set approach, however, does ot has the geeral guidace for the discretizatio of cotiuous data, we eed a comparative study about the effects o results of differet methods for discretizatio icludig domai kowledge, equal frequecy approach, ad etropy miimizatio method. Refereces Achelis, S. B., Techical Aalysis from A to Z, Probus This study iteds to mie profitable tradig rules usig the rough set approach for Korea Stock Price Idex 200 (KOSPI 200) futures. The rough set approach is very valuable to extract tradig rules because it ca be used to discover depedecies i data while elimiatig the superfluous factors i oisy stock market data. Additioal Publishig, Ahmadi, H., Testability of the arbitrage pricig theory by eural etworks, Proceedigs of the IEEE Iteratioal Coferece o Neural Networks, 1990, pp Chag, J., Jug, Y., Yeo, K., Ju, J., Shi, D. ad Kim, H.,

7 Techical Idicators ad Aalysis Methods, Seoul, Korea, Jiritamgu Publishig, Choi, J., Techical Idicator, Seoul, Korea, Jiritamgu Publishig, Choi, J. H., Lee, M. K. ad Rhee, M. W., Tradig S&P500 stock idex futures usig a eural etwork, Proceedigs of the 3 rd Aual Iteratioal Coferece o Artificial Itelligece Applicatios o Wall Street, 1995, pp Dimitras, A. I., Slowiski, R., Susmaga, R. ad Zopouidis, C., Busiess failure predictio usig rough sets, Europea Joural of Operatioal Research, Vol. 114, 1999, pp. 263~280. Duke, L. S., ad Log, J. A., Neural etwork futures tradig - A feasibility study, Adaptive Itelliget Systems, Elsevier Sciece Publishers, 1993, pp Edwards, R. D. ad Magee, J., Techical aalysis of stock treds, Chicago, Illiois, Joh Magee Ic., Gifford, E., Ivestor s Guide to Techical Aalysis: Predictig Price Actio i the Markets, Lodo, Pitma Publishig, Hiemstra, Y., Modelig structured oliear kowledge to predict stock market returs, I Trippi, R. R. (Eds.), Chaos & Noliear Dyamics i the fiacial Markets: Theory, Evidece ad Applicatios, Irwi, 1995, pp Jagielska, I., Matthews, C. ad Whitfort, T., A ivestigatio ito the applicatio of eural etworks, fuzzy logic, geetic algorithms, ad rough sets to automated kowledge acquisitio for classificatio problems, Neurocomputig, Vol. 24, 1999, pp Kamijo, K. ad Taigawa, T., Stock price patter recogitio: A recurret eural etwork approach Proceedigs of the IEEE Iteratioal Joit Coferece o Neural Networks, 1990, pp Kimoto, T., Asakawa, K., Yoda, M. ad Takeoka, M., Stock market predictio system with modular eural etworks, Proceedigs of the IEEE Iteratioal Joit Coferece o Neural Networks, 1990, pp Kohara, K., Ishikawa, T., Fukuhara, Y. ad Nakamura, Y., Stock price predictio usig prior kowledge ad eural etworks, Iteratioal Joural of Itelliget Systems i Accoutig, Fiace ad Maagemet, vol. 6, 1997, pp Kolb, R. W. ad Hamada, R. S., Uderstadig Futures Markets, Scott, Forema ad Compay, Murphy, J. J., Techical Aalysis of the Futures Markets: A Comprehesive Guide to Tradig Methods ad Applicatios, New York, New York Istitute of Fiace, A Pretice-Hall Compay, Pawlak, Z., Rough sets, Iteratioal Joural of Iformatio ad Computer Scieces, Vol. 11, 1982, pp Pawlak, Z., Grzymala-Busse, J. Slowiski, R. ad Ziarko, W., Rough sets, Commuicatios of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 11, 1995, pp Ruggiero, M. A., Cyberetic Tradig Strategies: Developig Profitable Tradig Systems with Stateof-the-art Techologies, Joh Wiley & Sos, Ic, Slowiski, R. ad Zopouidis, C., Applicatio of the rough set approach to evaluatio of bakruptcy risk, Iteratioal Joural of Itelliget Systems i Accoutig, Fiace ad Maagemet, Vol. 4, 1995, pp. 27~41. Slowiski, R., Zopouidis, C., ad Dimitras, A. I., Predictio of compay acquisitio i Greece by meas of the rough set approach, Europea Joural of Operatioal Research, Vol. 100, 1997, pp. 1~15.

8 Trippi, R. R. ad DeSieo, D., Tradig equity idex futures with a eural etwork, The Joural of Portfolio Maagemet, 1992, pp Tsaih, R., Hsu, Y. ad Lai, C. C., Forecastig S&P 500 Stock idex futures with a hybrid AI system, Decisio support Systems, 1998, pp Waksma, G., Sadler, M., Ward, M. ad Firer, C., Market timig o the Johaesburg Stock Exchage usig derivative istrumets, Omega, Iteratioal Joural of Maagemet Sciece, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1997, pp Yoo, Y. ad Swales, G., Predictig stock price Appedix performace: A eural etwork approach, Proceedigs of the IEEE 24 th Aual Coferece o Systems Scieces, 1991, pp No. Reduct Stregth 1 {A1, A2, A6, A8} 60 2 {A1, A2, A8} 60 3 {A1, A3, A6, A8} 60 4 {A1, A6, A8} 60 5 {A2, A9} 60 6 {A3, A6, A8} 60 7 {A3, A7} 60 8 {A3, A9} 60 9 {A4, A7, A8} {A4, A8, A9} {A5, A7, A8} {A5, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A6} {A2, A3, A6, A8} {A2, A6, A8} {A1, A2, A6} {A3, A7, A9} {A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3} {A2, A3, A6, A9} {A1, A3, A4, A6, A8} {A1, A3, A5, A6, A8} {A2, A3, A6} {A3, A4, A6, A7, A8} {A3, A5, A6, A7, A8} 54 No. Reduct Stregth 27 {A1, A2, A3, A8} {A3, A4} {A3, A5} {A1, A4, A6, A8} {A1, A5, A6, A8} {A3, A4, A7, A9} {A3, A5, A7, A9} {A4, A6, A7, A8} {A5, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A4, A8} {A1, A5, A8} {A3, A6, A7} {A3, A4, A6, A8, A9} {A3, A5, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A4, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A5, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A3, A4, A8} {A1, A3, A5, A8} {A1, A3, A6, A7, A8} {A4, A6, A8, A9} {A5, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A9} {A2, A3, A6, A7} {A3, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A3, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A6, A7} {A4, A7, A9} {A5, A7, A9} {A6, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A8} {A2, A4, A6, A8, A9} {A2, A5, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A7} {A1, A2, A4, A6} {A1, A2, A5, A6} {A1, A3, A4, A6, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A6, A9} {A2, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A3, A4, A7, A8} {A1, A3, A5, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A6, A8, A9} {A2, A8, A9} {A3, A4, A6, A9} {A3, A5, A6, A9} {A2, A3, A7} {A1, A3, A4, A6, A7} {A1, A3, A5, A6, A7} {A1, A4, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A5, A6, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A9} 35

9 No. Reduct Stregth 78 {A1, A3, A4} {A1, A3, A5} {A2, A3, A6, A7, A8} {A2, A4, A6, A7, A8} {A2, A5, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A4, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A5, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A4, A6, A7} {A1, A5, A6, A7} {A2, A7, A8} {A1, A3, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A6, A9} {A1, A4} {A1, A5} {A2, A3, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A4, A6} {A1, A3, A5, A6} {A1, A3, A6} {A2, A3, A4, A6, A9} {A2, A3, A5, A6, A9} {A2, A6, A7} {A3, A4, A6, A7, A9} {A3, A5, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A8} {A1, A2, A5, A8} {A1, A2, A6, A9} {A2, A7, A9} {A4, A7, A8, A9} {A5, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A4, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A3, A5, A6, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A4, A6, A7} {A2, A3, A5, A6, A7} {A3, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A4, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A5, A6, A8, A9} {A3, A6, A8, A9} {A3, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A6, A7} {A2, A3, A4, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A5, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A4, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A5, A7, A8} {A2, A6, A8, A9} {A3, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A6, A7} {A1, A3, A4, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A4, A6, A8} {A2, A3, A5, A6, A8} 21 No. Reduct Stregth 129 {A2, A8} {A2, A7} {A3, A4, A6, A7} {A3, A5, A6, A7} {A4, A6, A9} {A5, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A5, A6, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A4, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A6, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A6, A7} {A1, A2, A4, A6, A8} {A1, A2, A5, A6, A7} {A1, A2, A5, A6, A8} {A1, A3, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A6, A7, A8, A9} {A2, A4, A6, A7} {A2, A5, A6, A7} {A1, A3, A4, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A7, A9} {A2, A3, A4, A6, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A4, A7, A9} {A2, A3, A5, A6, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A5, A7, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A7, A9} {A3, A4, A6, A8} {A3, A5, A6, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A6, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, A8} {A1, A4, A7, A8} {A1, A5, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A3, A4, A7, A8} {A3, A5, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A4} {A1, A2, A3, A5} {A2, A3, A7, A8} {A2, A4, A6, A8} {A2, A4, A7, A9} {A2, A5, A6, A8} {A2, A5, A7, A9} {A2, A7, A8, A9} {A3, A4, A8, A9} {A3, A4, A9} {A3, A5, A8, A9} 11

10 No. Reduct Stregth 180 {A3, A5, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A7, A8} {A2, A3, A4, A7} {A2, A3, A5, A7} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A6} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A6} {A1, A2, A8, A9} {A1, A6, A8, A9} {A2, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A2, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A5, A8, A9} {A1, A4, A8, A9} {A1, A5, A8, A9} {A1, A6, A7, A8} {A2, A3} {A3, A6, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A6, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A6, A8} {A1, A2, A4, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A5, A6, A9} {A2, A3, A7, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A4, A6, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A5, A6, A8, A9} {A2, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A6, A7} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, A7} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A8} {A1, A2, A4, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A2, A5, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A8, A9} {A1, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A8} {A2, A4, A6, A7, A9} {A2, A5, A6, A7, A9} {A2, A6, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A4} {A1, A2, A5} {A1, A3, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A7, A8} {A1, A4, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A5, A6, A7, A9} {A4, A6, A7} {A5, A6, A7} {A2, A3, A4, A9} 3 No. Reduct Stregth 231 {A2, A3, A5, A9} {A2, A4, A7, A8} {A2, A5, A7, A8} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A7} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A7} {A1, A2, A3, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A7} {A1, A2, A5, A7} {A1, A2, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A2} {A1, A3, A4, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A4, A7} {A1, A3, A5, A6, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A7} {A1, A4, A6, A9} {A1, A5, A6, A9} {A1, A6, A7, A8, A9} {A2, A3, A4, A8} {A2, A3, A5, A8} {A3, A4, A7} {A3, A5, A7} {A1, A2, A3, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A3, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A4, A7, A9} {A1, A2, A5, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A5, A7, A9} {A1, A2, A6, A7, A8, A9} {A1, A2, A7} {A1, A3, A4, A9} {A1, A3, A5, A9} {A1, A3, A7, A9} {A1, A3, A9} {A1, A3} {A1, A4, A6} {A1, A5, A6} {A1, A6} {A2, A3, A6, A7, A9} {A2, A3, A7, A9} {A2, A4, A6, A9} {A2, A5, A6, A9} {A3, A6, A7, A9} {A3, A8} {A4, A6, A7, A9} {A5, A6, A7, A9} {A6, A8, A9} {A7, A9} 1

Institute of Actuaries of India Subject CT1 Financial Mathematics

Institute of Actuaries of India Subject CT1 Financial Mathematics Istitute of Actuaries of Idia Subject CT1 Fiacial Mathematics For 2014 Examiatios Subject CT1 Fiacial Mathematics Core Techical Aim The aim of the Fiacial Mathematics subject is to provide a groudig i

More information

Automatic Tuning for FOREX Trading System Using Fuzzy Time Series

Automatic Tuning for FOREX Trading System Using Fuzzy Time Series utomatic Tuig for FOREX Tradig System Usig Fuzzy Time Series Kraimo Maeesilp ad Pitihate Soorasa bstract Efficiecy of the automatic currecy tradig system is time depedet due to usig fixed parameters which

More information

Modified Line Search Method for Global Optimization

Modified Line Search Method for Global Optimization Modified Lie Search Method for Global Optimizatio Cria Grosa ad Ajith Abraham Ceter of Excellece for Quatifiable Quality of Service Norwegia Uiversity of Sciece ad Techology Trodheim, Norway {cria, ajith}@q2s.tu.o

More information

*The most important feature of MRP as compared with ordinary inventory control analysis is its time phasing feature.

*The most important feature of MRP as compared with ordinary inventory control analysis is its time phasing feature. Itegrated Productio ad Ivetory Cotrol System MRP ad MRP II Framework of Maufacturig System Ivetory cotrol, productio schedulig, capacity plaig ad fiacial ad busiess decisios i a productio system are iterrelated.

More information

Volatility of rates of return on the example of wheat futures. Sławomir Juszczyk. Rafał Balina

Volatility of rates of return on the example of wheat futures. Sławomir Juszczyk. Rafał Balina Overcomig the Crisis: Ecoomic ad Fiacial Developmets i Asia ad Europe Edited by Štefa Bojec, Josef C. Brada, ad Masaaki Kuboiwa http://www.hippocampus.si/isbn/978-961-6832-32-8/cotets.pdf Volatility of

More information

Data Analysis and Statistical Behaviors of Stock Market Fluctuations

Data Analysis and Statistical Behaviors of Stock Market Fluctuations 44 JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, VOL. 3, NO. 0, OCTOBER 2008 Data Aalysis ad Statistical Behaviors of Stock Market Fluctuatios Ju Wag Departmet of Mathematics, Beijig Jiaotog Uiversity, Beijig 00044, Chia Email:

More information

Bond Valuation I. What is a bond? Cash Flows of A Typical Bond. Bond Valuation. Coupon Rate and Current Yield. Cash Flows of A Typical Bond

Bond Valuation I. What is a bond? Cash Flows of A Typical Bond. Bond Valuation. Coupon Rate and Current Yield. Cash Flows of A Typical Bond What is a bod? Bod Valuatio I Bod is a I.O.U. Bod is a borrowig agreemet Bod issuers borrow moey from bod holders Bod is a fixed-icome security that typically pays periodic coupo paymets, ad a pricipal

More information

Investing in Stocks WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF STOCKS? WHY INVEST IN STOCKS? CAN YOU LOSE MONEY?

Investing in Stocks WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF STOCKS? WHY INVEST IN STOCKS? CAN YOU LOSE MONEY? Ivestig i Stocks Ivestig i Stocks Busiesses sell shares of stock to ivestors as a way to raise moey to fiace expasio, pay off debt ad provide operatig capital. Ecoomic coditios: Employmet, iflatio, ivetory

More information

JJMIE Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

JJMIE Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering JJMIE Jorda Joural of Mechaical ad Idustrial Egieerig Volume 5, Number 5, Oct. 2011 ISSN 1995-6665 Pages 439-446 Modelig Stock Market Exchage Prices Usig Artificial Neural Network: A Study of Amma Stock

More information

THE ACCURACY OF SIMPLE TRADING RULES IN STOCK MARKETS

THE ACCURACY OF SIMPLE TRADING RULES IN STOCK MARKETS THE ACCURACY OF SIMPLE TRADING RULES IN STOCK MARKETS Audrius Dzikevicius 1, Svetlaa Sarada 2, Aleksadra Kravciook 3 1 Vilius Gedimias Techical Uiversity, Lithuaia, [email protected] 2 Vilius Gedimias

More information

Evaluating Model for B2C E- commerce Enterprise Development Based on DEA

Evaluating Model for B2C E- commerce Enterprise Development Based on DEA , pp.180-184 http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2014.53.39 Evaluatig Model for B2C E- commerce Eterprise Developmet Based o DEA Weli Geg, Jig Ta Computer ad iformatio egieerig Istitute, Harbi Uiversity of

More information

Linear and Nonlinear Trading Models with Gradient Boosted Random Forests and Application to Singapore Stock Market *

Linear and Nonlinear Trading Models with Gradient Boosted Random Forests and Application to Singapore Stock Market * Joural of Itelliget Learig Systems ad Applicatios, 2013, 5, 1-10 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jilsa.2013.51001 Published Olie February 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/joural/jilsa) 1 Liear ad Noliear radig Models

More information

INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE COUNCIL (IPC) Guidance Statement on Calculation Methodology

INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE COUNCIL (IPC) Guidance Statement on Calculation Methodology Adoptio Date: 4 March 2004 Effective Date: 1 Jue 2004 Retroactive Applicatio: No Public Commet Period: Aug Nov 2002 INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE COUNCIL (IPC) Preface Guidace Statemet o Calculatio Methodology

More information

CHAPTER 3 THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY

CHAPTER 3 THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY CHAPTER 3 THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY OVERVIEW A dollar i the had today is worth more tha a dollar to be received i the future because, if you had it ow, you could ivest that dollar ad ear iterest. Of all

More information

SECTION 1.5 : SUMMATION NOTATION + WORK WITH SEQUENCES

SECTION 1.5 : SUMMATION NOTATION + WORK WITH SEQUENCES SECTION 1.5 : SUMMATION NOTATION + WORK WITH SEQUENCES Read Sectio 1.5 (pages 5 9) Overview I Sectio 1.5 we lear to work with summatio otatio ad formulas. We will also itroduce a brief overview of sequeces,

More information

The analysis of the Cournot oligopoly model considering the subjective motive in the strategy selection

The analysis of the Cournot oligopoly model considering the subjective motive in the strategy selection The aalysis of the Courot oligopoly model cosiderig the subjective motive i the strategy selectio Shigehito Furuyama Teruhisa Nakai Departmet of Systems Maagemet Egieerig Faculty of Egieerig Kasai Uiversity

More information

How to read A Mutual Fund shareholder report

How to read A Mutual Fund shareholder report Ivestor BulletI How to read A Mutual Fud shareholder report The SEC s Office of Ivestor Educatio ad Advocacy is issuig this Ivestor Bulleti to educate idividual ivestors about mutual fud shareholder reports.

More information

INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE COUNCIL (IPC)

INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE COUNCIL (IPC) INVESTMENT PEFOMANCE COUNCIL (IPC) INVITATION TO COMMENT: Global Ivestmet Performace Stadards (GIPS ) Guidace Statemet o Calculatio Methodology The Associatio for Ivestmet Maagemet ad esearch (AIM) seeks

More information

LECTURE 13: Cross-validation

LECTURE 13: Cross-validation LECTURE 3: Cross-validatio Resampli methods Cross Validatio Bootstrap Bias ad variace estimatio with the Bootstrap Three-way data partitioi Itroductio to Patter Aalysis Ricardo Gutierrez-Osua Texas A&M

More information

Vladimir N. Burkov, Dmitri A. Novikov MODELS AND METHODS OF MULTIPROJECTS MANAGEMENT

Vladimir N. Burkov, Dmitri A. Novikov MODELS AND METHODS OF MULTIPROJECTS MANAGEMENT Keywords: project maagemet, resource allocatio, etwork plaig Vladimir N Burkov, Dmitri A Novikov MODELS AND METHODS OF MULTIPROJECTS MANAGEMENT The paper deals with the problems of resource allocatio betwee

More information

DAME - Microsoft Excel add-in for solving multicriteria decision problems with scenarios Radomir Perzina 1, Jaroslav Ramik 2

DAME - Microsoft Excel add-in for solving multicriteria decision problems with scenarios Radomir Perzina 1, Jaroslav Ramik 2 Itroductio DAME - Microsoft Excel add-i for solvig multicriteria decisio problems with scearios Radomir Perzia, Jaroslav Ramik 2 Abstract. The mai goal of every ecoomic aget is to make a good decisio,

More information

Research Method (I) --Knowledge on Sampling (Simple Random Sampling)

Research Method (I) --Knowledge on Sampling (Simple Random Sampling) Research Method (I) --Kowledge o Samplig (Simple Radom Samplig) 1. Itroductio to samplig 1.1 Defiitio of samplig Samplig ca be defied as selectig part of the elemets i a populatio. It results i the fact

More information

PROCEEDINGS OF THE YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR BONUS-MALUS SYSTEM

PROCEEDINGS OF THE YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR BONUS-MALUS SYSTEM PROCEEDINGS OF THE YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY Physical ad Mathematical Scieces 2015, 1, p. 15 19 M a t h e m a t i c s AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR BONUS-MALUS SYSTEM A. G. GULYAN Chair of Actuarial Mathematics

More information

ADAPTIVE NETWORKS SAFETY CONTROL ON FUZZY LOGIC

ADAPTIVE NETWORKS SAFETY CONTROL ON FUZZY LOGIC 8 th Iteratioal Coferece o DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION SYSTEMS S u c e a v a, R o m a i a, M a y 25 27, 2 6 ADAPTIVE NETWORKS SAFETY CONTROL ON FUZZY LOGIC Vadim MUKHIN 1, Elea PAVLENKO 2 Natioal Techical

More information

where: T = number of years of cash flow in investment's life n = the year in which the cash flow X n i = IRR = the internal rate of return

where: T = number of years of cash flow in investment's life n = the year in which the cash flow X n i = IRR = the internal rate of return EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMS By Ke D. Duft, Extesio Ecoomist I the March 98 issue of this publicatio we reviewed the procedure by which a capital ivestmet project was assessed. The

More information

Baan Service Master Data Management

Baan Service Master Data Management Baa Service Master Data Maagemet Module Procedure UP069A US Documetiformatio Documet Documet code : UP069A US Documet group : User Documetatio Documet title : Master Data Maagemet Applicatio/Package :

More information

Ordinal Classification Method for the Evaluation Of Thai Non-life Insurance Companies

Ordinal Classification Method for the Evaluation Of Thai Non-life Insurance Companies Ordial Method for the Evaluatio Of Thai No-life Isurace Compaies Phaiboo Jhopita, Sukree Sithupiyo 2 ad Thitivadee Chaiyawat 3 Techopreeurship ad Iovatio Maagemet Program Graduate School, Chulalogkor Uiversity,

More information

In nite Sequences. Dr. Philippe B. Laval Kennesaw State University. October 9, 2008

In nite Sequences. Dr. Philippe B. Laval Kennesaw State University. October 9, 2008 I ite Sequeces Dr. Philippe B. Laval Keesaw State Uiversity October 9, 2008 Abstract This had out is a itroductio to i ite sequeces. mai de itios ad presets some elemetary results. It gives the I ite Sequeces

More information

Forecasting. Forecasting Application. Practical Forecasting. Chapter 7 OVERVIEW KEY CONCEPTS. Chapter 7. Chapter 7

Forecasting. Forecasting Application. Practical Forecasting. Chapter 7 OVERVIEW KEY CONCEPTS. Chapter 7. Chapter 7 Forecastig Chapter 7 Chapter 7 OVERVIEW Forecastig Applicatios Qualitative Aalysis Tred Aalysis ad Projectio Busiess Cycle Expoetial Smoothig Ecoometric Forecastig Judgig Forecast Reliability Choosig the

More information

Non-life insurance mathematics. Nils F. Haavardsson, University of Oslo and DNB Skadeforsikring

Non-life insurance mathematics. Nils F. Haavardsson, University of Oslo and DNB Skadeforsikring No-life isurace mathematics Nils F. Haavardsso, Uiversity of Oslo ad DNB Skadeforsikrig Mai issues so far Why does isurace work? How is risk premium defied ad why is it importat? How ca claim frequecy

More information

Statement of cash flows

Statement of cash flows 6 Statemet of cash flows this chapter covers... I this chapter we study the statemet of cash flows, which liks profit from the statemet of profit or loss ad other comprehesive icome with chages i assets

More information

ODBC. Getting Started With Sage Timberline Office ODBC

ODBC. Getting Started With Sage Timberline Office ODBC ODBC Gettig Started With Sage Timberlie Office ODBC NOTICE This documet ad the Sage Timberlie Office software may be used oly i accordace with the accompayig Sage Timberlie Office Ed User Licese Agreemet.

More information

Page 1. Real Options for Engineering Systems. What are we up to? Today s agenda. J1: Real Options for Engineering Systems. Richard de Neufville

Page 1. Real Options for Engineering Systems. What are we up to? Today s agenda. J1: Real Options for Engineering Systems. Richard de Neufville Real Optios for Egieerig Systems J: Real Optios for Egieerig Systems By (MIT) Stefa Scholtes (CU) Course website: http://msl.mit.edu/cmi/ardet_2002 Stefa Scholtes Judge Istitute of Maagemet, CU Slide What

More information

Installment Joint Life Insurance Actuarial Models with the Stochastic Interest Rate

Installment Joint Life Insurance Actuarial Models with the Stochastic Interest Rate Iteratioal Coferece o Maagemet Sciece ad Maagemet Iovatio (MSMI 4) Istallmet Joit Life Isurace ctuarial Models with the Stochastic Iterest Rate Nia-Nia JI a,*, Yue LI, Dog-Hui WNG College of Sciece, Harbi

More information

Subject CT5 Contingencies Core Technical Syllabus

Subject CT5 Contingencies Core Technical Syllabus Subject CT5 Cotigecies Core Techical Syllabus for the 2015 exams 1 Jue 2014 Aim The aim of the Cotigecies subject is to provide a groudig i the mathematical techiques which ca be used to model ad value

More information

A Guide to the Pricing Conventions of SFE Interest Rate Products

A Guide to the Pricing Conventions of SFE Interest Rate Products A Guide to the Pricig Covetios of SFE Iterest Rate Products SFE 30 Day Iterbak Cash Rate Futures Physical 90 Day Bak Bills SFE 90 Day Bak Bill Futures SFE 90 Day Bak Bill Futures Tick Value Calculatios

More information

Domain 1: Designing a SQL Server Instance and a Database Solution

Domain 1: Designing a SQL Server Instance and a Database Solution Maual SQL Server 2008 Desig, Optimize ad Maitai (70-450) 1-800-418-6789 Domai 1: Desigig a SQL Server Istace ad a Database Solutio Desigig for CPU, Memory ad Storage Capacity Requiremets Whe desigig a

More information

Department of Computer Science, University of Otago

Department of Computer Science, University of Otago Departmet of Computer Sciece, Uiversity of Otago Techical Report OUCS-2006-09 Permutatios Cotaiig May Patters Authors: M.H. Albert Departmet of Computer Sciece, Uiversity of Otago Micah Colema, Rya Fly

More information

INDEPENDENT BUSINESS PLAN EVENT 2016

INDEPENDENT BUSINESS PLAN EVENT 2016 INDEPENDENT BUSINESS PLAN EVENT 2016 The Idepedet Busiess Pla Evet ivolves the developmet of a comprehesive proposal to start a ew busiess. Ay type of busiess may be used. The Idepedet Busiess Pla Evet

More information

Study on the application of the software phase-locked loop in tracking and filtering of pulse signal

Study on the application of the software phase-locked loop in tracking and filtering of pulse signal Advaced Sciece ad Techology Letters, pp.31-35 http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2014.78.06 Study o the applicatio of the software phase-locked loop i trackig ad filterig of pulse sigal Sog Wei Xia 1 (College

More information

A probabilistic proof of a binomial identity

A probabilistic proof of a binomial identity A probabilistic proof of a biomial idetity Joatho Peterso Abstract We give a elemetary probabilistic proof of a biomial idetity. The proof is obtaied by computig the probability of a certai evet i two

More information

A Fuzzy Model of Software Project Effort Estimation

A Fuzzy Model of Software Project Effort Estimation TJFS: Turkish Joural of Fuzzy Systems (eissn: 309 90) A Official Joural of Turkish Fuzzy Systems Associatio Vol.4, No.2, pp. 68-76, 203 A Fuzzy Model of Software Project Effort Estimatio Oumout Chouseioglou

More information

Engineering Data Management

Engineering Data Management BaaERP 5.0c Maufacturig Egieerig Data Maagemet Module Procedure UP128A US Documetiformatio Documet Documet code : UP128A US Documet group : User Documetatio Documet title : Egieerig Data Maagemet Applicatio/Package

More information

A Combined Continuous/Binary Genetic Algorithm for Microstrip Antenna Design

A Combined Continuous/Binary Genetic Algorithm for Microstrip Antenna Design A Combied Cotiuous/Biary Geetic Algorithm for Microstrip Atea Desig Rady L. Haupt The Pesylvaia State Uiversity Applied Research Laboratory P. O. Box 30 State College, PA 16804-0030 [email protected] Abstract:

More information

Output Analysis (2, Chapters 10 &11 Law)

Output Analysis (2, Chapters 10 &11 Law) B. Maddah ENMG 6 Simulatio 05/0/07 Output Aalysis (, Chapters 10 &11 Law) Comparig alterative system cofiguratio Sice the output of a simulatio is radom, the comparig differet systems via simulatio should

More information

Present Values, Investment Returns and Discount Rates

Present Values, Investment Returns and Discount Rates Preset Values, Ivestmet Returs ad Discout Rates Dimitry Midli, ASA, MAAA, PhD Presidet CDI Advisors LLC [email protected] May 2, 203 Copyright 20, CDI Advisors LLC The cocept of preset value lies

More information

Enhancing Oracle Business Intelligence with cubus EV How users of Oracle BI on Essbase cubes can benefit from cubus outperform EV Analytics (cubus EV)

Enhancing Oracle Business Intelligence with cubus EV How users of Oracle BI on Essbase cubes can benefit from cubus outperform EV Analytics (cubus EV) Ehacig Oracle Busiess Itelligece with cubus EV How users of Oracle BI o Essbase cubes ca beefit from cubus outperform EV Aalytics (cubus EV) CONTENT 01 cubus EV as a ehacemet to Oracle BI o Essbase 02

More information

Valuing Firms in Distress

Valuing Firms in Distress Valuig Firms i Distress Aswath Damodara http://www.damodara.com Aswath Damodara 1 The Goig Cocer Assumptio Traditioal valuatio techiques are built o the assumptio of a goig cocer, I.e., a firm that has

More information

.04. This means $1000 is multiplied by 1.02 five times, once for each of the remaining sixmonth

.04. This means $1000 is multiplied by 1.02 five times, once for each of the remaining sixmonth Questio 1: What is a ordiary auity? Let s look at a ordiary auity that is certai ad simple. By this, we mea a auity over a fixed term whose paymet period matches the iterest coversio period. Additioally,

More information

France caters to innovative companies and offers the best research tax credit in Europe

France caters to innovative companies and offers the best research tax credit in Europe 1/5 The Frech Govermet has three objectives : > improve Frace s fiscal competitiveess > cosolidate R&D activities > make Frace a attractive coutry for iovatio Tax icetives have become a key elemet of public

More information

Research Article Sign Data Derivative Recovery

Research Article Sign Data Derivative Recovery Iteratioal Scholarly Research Network ISRN Applied Mathematics Volume 0, Article ID 63070, 7 pages doi:0.540/0/63070 Research Article Sig Data Derivative Recovery L. M. Housto, G. A. Glass, ad A. D. Dymikov

More information

1 Correlation and Regression Analysis

1 Correlation and Regression Analysis 1 Correlatio ad Regressio Aalysis I this sectio we will be ivestigatig the relatioship betwee two cotiuous variable, such as height ad weight, the cocetratio of a ijected drug ad heart rate, or the cosumptio

More information

Cantilever Beam Experiment

Cantilever Beam Experiment Mechaical Egieerig Departmet Uiversity of Massachusetts Lowell Catilever Beam Experimet Backgroud A disk drive maufacturer is redesigig several disk drive armature mechaisms. This is the result of evaluatio

More information

5.4 Amortization. Question 1: How do you find the present value of an annuity? Question 2: How is a loan amortized?

5.4 Amortization. Question 1: How do you find the present value of an annuity? Question 2: How is a loan amortized? 5.4 Amortizatio Questio 1: How do you fid the preset value of a auity? Questio 2: How is a loa amortized? Questio 3: How do you make a amortizatio table? Oe of the most commo fiacial istrumets a perso

More information

I. Why is there a time value to money (TVM)?

I. Why is there a time value to money (TVM)? Itroductio to the Time Value of Moey Lecture Outlie I. Why is there the cocept of time value? II. Sigle cash flows over multiple periods III. Groups of cash flows IV. Warigs o doig time value calculatios

More information

Introducing Your New Wells Fargo Trust and Investment Statement. Your Account Information Simply Stated.

Introducing Your New Wells Fargo Trust and Investment Statement. Your Account Information Simply Stated. Itroducig Your New Wells Fargo Trust ad Ivestmet Statemet. Your Accout Iformatio Simply Stated. We are pleased to itroduce your ew easy-to-read statemet. It provides a overview of your accout ad a complete

More information

Pre-Suit Collection Strategies

Pre-Suit Collection Strategies Pre-Suit Collectio Strategies Writte by Charles PT Phoeix How to Decide Whether to Pursue Collectio Calculatig the Value of Collectio As with ay busiess litigatio, all factors associated with the process

More information

Hypergeometric Distributions

Hypergeometric Distributions 7.4 Hypergeometric Distributios Whe choosig the startig lie-up for a game, a coach obviously has to choose a differet player for each positio. Similarly, whe a uio elects delegates for a covetio or you

More information

A Faster Clause-Shortening Algorithm for SAT with No Restriction on Clause Length

A Faster Clause-Shortening Algorithm for SAT with No Restriction on Clause Length Joural o Satisfiability, Boolea Modelig ad Computatio 1 2005) 49-60 A Faster Clause-Shorteig Algorithm for SAT with No Restrictio o Clause Legth Evgey Datsi Alexader Wolpert Departmet of Computer Sciece

More information

Systems Design Project: Indoor Location of Wireless Devices

Systems Design Project: Indoor Location of Wireless Devices Systems Desig Project: Idoor Locatio of Wireless Devices Prepared By: Bria Murphy Seior Systems Sciece ad Egieerig Washigto Uiversity i St. Louis Phoe: (805) 698-5295 Email: [email protected] Supervised

More information

Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2015, 7(3):1184-1190. Research Article

Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2015, 7(3):1184-1190. Research Article Available olie www.ocpr.com Joural of Chemical ad Pharmaceutical Research, 15, 7(3):1184-119 Research Article ISSN : 975-7384 CODEN(USA) : JCPRC5 Iformatio systems' buildig of small ad medium eterprises

More information

FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION BASED ON CLOUD MODEL

FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION BASED ON CLOUD MODEL FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION BASED ON CLOUD MODEL Hehua Chi a, Liahua Chi b *, Meg Fag a, Juebo Wu c a Iteratioal School of Software, Wuha Uiversity, Wuha 430079, Chia - [email protected] b School of Computer

More information

How To Extract From Data From A College Course

How To Extract From Data From A College Course (IJACSA Iteratioal Joural of Advaced Computer Sciece ad Applicatios, Vol., No. 6, 0 Miig Educatioal Data to Aalyze Studets Performace Briesh Kumar Baradwa Research Scholor, Sighaiya Uiversity, Raastha,

More information

Chapter 5 Unit 1. IET 350 Engineering Economics. Learning Objectives Chapter 5. Learning Objectives Unit 1. Annual Amount and Gradient Functions

Chapter 5 Unit 1. IET 350 Engineering Economics. Learning Objectives Chapter 5. Learning Objectives Unit 1. Annual Amount and Gradient Functions Chapter 5 Uit Aual Amout ad Gradiet Fuctios IET 350 Egieerig Ecoomics Learig Objectives Chapter 5 Upo completio of this chapter you should uderstad: Calculatig future values from aual amouts. Calculatig

More information

Confidence Intervals for One Mean

Confidence Intervals for One Mean Chapter 420 Cofidece Itervals for Oe Mea Itroductio This routie calculates the sample size ecessary to achieve a specified distace from the mea to the cofidece limit(s) at a stated cofidece level for a

More information

Reliability Analysis in HPC clusters

Reliability Analysis in HPC clusters Reliability Aalysis i HPC clusters Narasimha Raju, Gottumukkala, Yuda Liu, Chokchai Box Leagsuksu 1, Raja Nassar, Stephe Scott 2 College of Egieerig & Sciece, Louisiaa ech Uiversity Oak Ridge Natioal Lab

More information

A Balanced Scorecard

A Balanced Scorecard A Balaced Scorecard with VISION A Visio Iteratioal White Paper Visio Iteratioal A/S Aarhusgade 88, DK-2100 Copehage, Demark Phoe +45 35430086 Fax +45 35434646 www.balaced-scorecard.com 1 1. Itroductio

More information

Determining the sample size

Determining the sample size Determiig the sample size Oe of the most commo questios ay statisticia gets asked is How large a sample size do I eed? Researchers are ofte surprised to fid out that the aswer depeds o a umber of factors

More information

Neolane Reporting. Neolane v6.1

Neolane Reporting. Neolane v6.1 Neolae Reportig Neolae v6.1 This documet, ad the software it describes, are provided subject to a Licese Agreemet ad may ot be used or copied outside of the provisios of the Licese Agreemet. No part of

More information

Erik Ottosson & Fredrik Weissenrieder, 1996-03-01 CVA. Cash Value Added - a new method for measuring financial performance.

Erik Ottosson & Fredrik Weissenrieder, 1996-03-01 CVA. Cash Value Added - a new method for measuring financial performance. CVA Cash Value Added - a ew method for measurig fiacial performace Erik Ottosso Strategic Cotroller Sveska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA Box 7827 S-103 97 Stockholm Swede Fredrik Weisserieder Departmet of

More information

Application of Combination Forecasting Model in the Patrol Sales Forecast

Application of Combination Forecasting Model in the Patrol Sales Forecast Joural of Applied Sciece ad Egieerig Iovatio, Vol.2 No.12, 2015, pp. 481-485 ISSN (Prit): 2331-9062 ISSN (Olie): 2331-9070 Applicatio of Combiatio Forecastig Model i the Patrol Sales Forecast Chogyu Jiag

More information

Ekkehart Schlicht: Economic Surplus and Derived Demand

Ekkehart Schlicht: Economic Surplus and Derived Demand Ekkehart Schlicht: Ecoomic Surplus ad Derived Demad Muich Discussio Paper No. 2006-17 Departmet of Ecoomics Uiversity of Muich Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät Ludwig-Maximilias-Uiversität Müche Olie at http://epub.ub.ui-mueche.de/940/

More information

COMPARISON OF THE EFFICIENCY OF S-CONTROL CHART AND EWMA-S 2 CONTROL CHART FOR THE CHANGES IN A PROCESS

COMPARISON OF THE EFFICIENCY OF S-CONTROL CHART AND EWMA-S 2 CONTROL CHART FOR THE CHANGES IN A PROCESS COMPARISON OF THE EFFICIENCY OF S-CONTROL CHART AND EWMA-S CONTROL CHART FOR THE CHANGES IN A PROCESS Supraee Lisawadi Departmet of Mathematics ad Statistics, Faculty of Sciece ad Techoology, Thammasat

More information

Amendments to employer debt Regulations

Amendments to employer debt Regulations March 2008 Pesios Legal Alert Amedmets to employer debt Regulatios The Govermet has at last issued Regulatios which will amed the law as to employer debts uder s75 Pesios Act 1995. The amedig Regulatios

More information

THE ROLE OF EXPORTS IN ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH REFERENCE TO ETHIOPIAN COUNTRY

THE ROLE OF EXPORTS IN ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH REFERENCE TO ETHIOPIAN COUNTRY - THE ROLE OF EXPORTS IN ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH REFERENCE TO ETHIOPIAN COUNTRY BY: FAYE ENSERMU CHEMEDA Ethio-Italia Cooperatio Arsi-Bale Rural developmet Project Paper Prepared for the Coferece o Aual Meetig

More information

NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MORTGAGES AND ANNUITIES. Yuri Shestopaloff,

NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MORTGAGES AND ANNUITIES. Yuri Shestopaloff, NEW HIGH PERFORMNCE COMPUTTIONL METHODS FOR MORTGGES ND NNUITIES Yuri Shestopaloff, Geerally, mortgage ad auity equatios do ot have aalytical solutios for ukow iterest rate, which has to be foud usig umerical

More information

Biology 171L Environment and Ecology Lab Lab 2: Descriptive Statistics, Presenting Data and Graphing Relationships

Biology 171L Environment and Ecology Lab Lab 2: Descriptive Statistics, Presenting Data and Graphing Relationships Biology 171L Eviromet ad Ecology Lab Lab : Descriptive Statistics, Presetig Data ad Graphig Relatioships Itroductio Log lists of data are ofte ot very useful for idetifyig geeral treds i the data or the

More information

CREATIVE MARKETING PROJECT 2016

CREATIVE MARKETING PROJECT 2016 CREATIVE MARKETING PROJECT 2016 The Creative Marketig Project is a chapter project that develops i chapter members a aalytical ad creative approach to the marketig process, actively egages chapter members

More information

STUDENTS PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE LEARNING IN BUSINESS COURSES AT UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA, INDONESIA. Maya Maria, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia

STUDENTS PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE LEARNING IN BUSINESS COURSES AT UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA, INDONESIA. Maya Maria, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia STUDENTS PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE LEARNING IN BUSINESS COURSES AT UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA, INDONESIA Maya Maria, Uiversitas Terbuka, Idoesia Co-author: Amiuddi Zuhairi, Uiversitas Terbuka, Idoesia Kuria Edah

More information

The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses

The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses Fiacial Aalysts Joural Volume 69 Number 2 2013 CFA Istitute The Arithmetic of Ivestmet Expeses William F. Sharpe Recet regulatory chages have brought a reewed focus o the impact of ivestmet expeses o ivestors

More information

CCH Accountants Starter Pack

CCH Accountants Starter Pack CCH Accoutats Starter Pack We may be a bit smaller, but fudametally we re o differet to ay other accoutig practice. Util ow, smaller firms have faced a stark choice: Buy cheaply, kowig that the practice

More information

How To Find FINANCING For Your Business

How To Find FINANCING For Your Business How To Fid FINANCING For Your Busiess Oe of the most difficult tasks faced by the maagemet team of small busiesses today is fidig adequate fiacig for curret operatios i order to support ew ad ogoig cotracts.

More information

Entropy of bi-capacities

Entropy of bi-capacities Etropy of bi-capacities Iva Kojadiovic LINA CNRS FRE 2729 Site école polytechique de l uiv. de Nates Rue Christia Pauc 44306 Nates, Frace [email protected] Jea-Luc Marichal Applied Mathematics

More information

CHAPTER 3 DIGITAL CODING OF SIGNALS

CHAPTER 3 DIGITAL CODING OF SIGNALS CHAPTER 3 DIGITAL CODING OF SIGNALS Computers are ofte used to automate the recordig of measuremets. The trasducers ad sigal coditioig circuits produce a voltage sigal that is proportioal to a quatity

More information

Measures of Spread and Boxplots Discrete Math, Section 9.4

Measures of Spread and Boxplots Discrete Math, Section 9.4 Measures of Spread ad Boxplots Discrete Math, Sectio 9.4 We start with a example: Example 1: Comparig Mea ad Media Compute the mea ad media of each data set: S 1 = {4, 6, 8, 10, 1, 14, 16} S = {4, 7, 9,

More information

Chatpun Khamyat Department of Industrial Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand [email protected]

Chatpun Khamyat Department of Industrial Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand ocpky@hotmail.com SOLVING THE OIL DELIVERY TRUCKS ROUTING PROBLEM WITH MODIFY MULTI-TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM APPROACH CASE STUDY: THE SME'S OIL LOGISTIC COMPANY IN BANGKOK THAILAND Chatpu Khamyat Departmet of Idustrial

More information

Nr. 2. Interpolation of Discount Factors. Heinz Cremers Willi Schwarz. Mai 1996

Nr. 2. Interpolation of Discount Factors. Heinz Cremers Willi Schwarz. Mai 1996 Nr 2 Iterpolatio of Discout Factors Heiz Cremers Willi Schwarz Mai 1996 Autore: Herausgeber: Prof Dr Heiz Cremers Quatitative Methode ud Spezielle Bakbetriebslehre Hochschule für Bakwirtschaft Dr Willi

More information

Chair for Network Architectures and Services Institute of Informatics TU München Prof. Carle. Network Security. Chapter 2 Basics

Chair for Network Architectures and Services Institute of Informatics TU München Prof. Carle. Network Security. Chapter 2 Basics Chair for Network Architectures ad Services Istitute of Iformatics TU Müche Prof. Carle Network Security Chapter 2 Basics 2.4 Radom Number Geeratio for Cryptographic Protocols Motivatio It is crucial to

More information