Efficient Portfolio Selection

Merak believed that an efficient frontier analysis method that combined the robustness of the Monte Carlo approach with the confidence of the Markowitz approach would be a very powerful tool for any industry. However, it soon became clear that there are other ways to address the problem that do not require a Monte Carlo component. Three subgroups were formed, and each developed a different approach for solving the problem. These were the Portfolio Selection Algorithm Approach, the Statistical Inference Approach, and the Integer Programming Approach

A recommender system for process discovery

Over the last decade, several algorithms for process discovery and process conformance have been proposed. Still, it is well-accepted that there is no dominant algorithm in any of these two disciplines, and then it is often difficult to apply them successfully. Most of these algorithms need a close-to expert knowledge in order to be applied satisfactorily. In this paper, we present a recommender system that uses portfolio-based algorithm selection strategies to face the following problems: to find the best discovery algorithm for the data at hand, and to allow bridging the gap between general users and process mining algorithms. Experiments performed with the developed tool witness the usefulness of the approach for a variety of instances.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author’s final draft

Applying Particle Swarm Optimization to Solve Portfolio Selection Problems

Particle swarm optimization (PSO), introduced by Kennedy and Eberhart in 1995, is a social population-based search algorithm and is generally similar to the evolutionary computation techniques that have been successfully applied to solve various hard optimization problems. The standard Markowitz mean-variance approach to portfolio selection involves tracing out an efficient frontier, a continuous curve illustrating the tradeoff between return and risk. In this paper we applied the particle swarm approach to find an efficient frontier associated with the classical and general (unconstrained and constrained) mean-variance portfolio selection problem. The OR library data sets were tested in our paper and computational results showed that the PSO found better solutions when compared to genetic algorithm (GA), simulated annealing(SA), and tabu search(TS)