{"title":"Comparing the forecastability of alternative quantitative models: A trading simulation approach in financial engineering","authors":"Mei Zheng , Jia Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, we build Box-Jenkins ARMA model and ARMA-GARCH model to forecast the returns of shanghai stock exchange composite index in financial engineering. Out-of-sample forecasting performances are evaluated to compare the forecastability of the two models. Traditional engineering type of models aim to minimize statistical errors, however, the model with minimum engineering type of statistical errors does not necessarily guarantee maximized trading profits, which is often deemed as the ultimate objective of financial application. The best way to evaluate alternative financial model is therefore to evaluate their trading performance by means of trading simulation.</p><p>We find that both quantitative models are able to forecast the future movements of the market accurately, which yields significant risk adjusted returns compared to the overall market during the out-of-sample period. In addition, although the ARMA-GARCH model is better than the ARMA model theoretically and statistically, the latter outperforms the former with significantly higher trading performances.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 35-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82489693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of Investment Funds with DEA and Higher Moments Characteristics: Financial Engineering Perspective","authors":"Jian Guo , Chaoqun Ma , Zhongbao Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.033","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the development of funds market, the research of funds performance evaluation are becoming an important topic in the field of financial engineering. In the previous research, performance evaluation of investment funds was based on some typical hypothesis, and higher moment of the assets return was mostly neglected. However, a great amount of research, both theoretical and empirical, has supported the existence of nonnormality of portfolio return and the important role of higher moments of return in the investors’ utility. This has led to widespread suspicion of the validity of the traditional evaluation methodology. In this paper, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the performance of the funds in the consideration of higher moments. The results show that the evaluation score is related to the utility preference of the investors, which indicates that the evaluation results are more realistic and consistent with the investors’ preference.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 209-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77963962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Engineering Estimation Methods of Minimum Risk Hedge Ratio","authors":"Zheng Yao, Haiyan Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As an important tool to circumvent the systemic risks in financial engineering, the key for achievement of the performance of stock index futures is dependent on determination of the hedge ratio (HR). In this paper, the minimum risk-based portfolio hedging model is first analyzed. It is then followed by the investigation on various major estimation methods for the minimum risk hedge ratio. Aiming at the newest Shanghai and Shenzhen (HS) 300 index futures hedge, the empirical analyses are eventually performed for the hedge strategies, thus validating the application of these different estimation methods in China's market. The results revealed in the current study show that the HR obtained by the ordinary least squares (OLS) model is maximal and the out-of-sample hedging performance is the best; however, the hedging effectiveness is not sufficiently stable for both the out-of-sample and in-sample estimation. In addition, the in-sample hedging performance accomplished through the bivariate vector autoregression (B-VAR) model is superior to those achieved via other methods. It is manifested further from the results that the HR determined by the error correction (EC) model is minimal and the hedging performances for both the out-of-sample and in-sample data are weak, yet the hedging effectiveness for both of them is stable.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 187-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.10.027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87002999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic evaluation of wind-powered pumped storage system","authors":"Li Dinglin, Chen Yingjie, Zhang Kun, Zeng Ming","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Wind power, a green energy, has become another primary renewable resource of great value in economic utility and industrialization development, like hydraulic power at the time when comes with the pressure from energy crisis and environmental protection. This paper considers a wind-powered pumped storage system based on an 8 MW wind farm. The effect of pumped storage power station to wind power regulation is calculated, and an economic evaluation model was developed. This paper shows that a significant smoothing of the produced power is realized, dispatchable output power can be offered to the system, whereas extra economic benefit can also be achieved.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 107-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81831477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiang-shi Zhang , Pan-pan He , Shu-shan Gao , Tao Jia
{"title":"Quantitative Method on Miners Emergency Response Capacity","authors":"Jiang-shi Zhang , Pan-pan He , Shu-shan Gao , Tao Jia","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A quantitative method is made to evaluate miners’ emergency response capacity. Firstly, based on the safety engineering practices, an evaluation index system of individual emergency ability is established, and a hierarchical structure is set up, which includes security physiology, safety ability, individual psychology and sentiment in the top level. Secondly, Analytic Hierarchy Process is applied to determine each index's weight reasonably. Thirdly, fuzzy mathematical method is used to conduct the evaluation of single factor and the overall comprehensive evaluation respectively. Finally, for engineering practices, the method is used in a certain coal mine, and a set of appraise data is obtained, results shows that the quantitative method is help to select safety employers and reduce human-initiated mining accidents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 260-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88473555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The PWM speed regulation of DC motor based on intelligent control","authors":"Wenbin Yan , Dada Wang , Pengfei Jia , Weiguo Li","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The PWM speed regulation of DC motor based on intelligent control is discussed. The simulation is carried out with the SIMULINK after that the mathematical model of controlled object is built. This article introduces the PWM bipolar drive of DC motor, designs a fuzzy controller and a neutral network controller and then discusses the application of artificial intelligence in the speed regulation of DC motor.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"3 ","pages":"Pages 259-267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79977597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Models Responding to Large-area Flight Delays in Aviation Production Engineering","authors":"Mingang Gao, Hong Chi, Yuzhen Hu, Baoguang Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Large-area flight delays have a serious impact on aviation safety and bring huge losses to airlines. Flight reschedulling is a classic aviation production engineering. Based on flight priority levels, models are built responding to large-area flight delays in this paper. The models adopt different rescheduling rules to flights in different status. Meanwhile they take the restraint of connection of flights and surplus flight time of IA flights (flights in the air) into account, which makes the model accord with practical situation. A case study is given which demonstrate the Effectiveness of the models. The models provide significant theoretical basis to airline flight rescheduling.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 68-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79614867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Zhang , Hualing Song , Chunlei Li , Chuanpeng Wang
{"title":"Entropy-Based Complexity Metrics for Coal Resource Consolidation System Engineering","authors":"Yi Zhang , Hualing Song , Chunlei Li , Chuanpeng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on the basic principle of management entropy theory, this paper constructs a metric scale and entropy-based quantization model for evaluating the complexity of resource consolidation system engineering. Under the transformed structure of coal resource consolidation system of Shanxi Province and the constructed relation mode, the proposed model is put in practice to analyze and evaluate the complexity of Shanxi coal resources consolidation system. The results show that by importing material, energy and information, the complex system evolves to the direction of order and dynamic balance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 175-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81908440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the Resource Allocation in Urban Defense Engineering with Intentional Threats","authors":"Hu Xiaofeng, Shen Shifei","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intentional threats, which are also known as human-induced hazards including terrorism, have become a worldwide catastrophe risk since recent years. In order to protect city from intentional threats, the urban defense engineering has become an important part of urban planning and construction. Based on that, the security planning on urban infrastructure is required to be improved and corresponding security surveillance and early warning systems need to be enhanced. More importantly, the macro-level study of defense resource allocation should be given more considerations. In this study, a resource allocation model focusing on urban defense under the situation with intentional attacking is developed. In this resource allocation model, the rationality level of attackers, the interrelation among targets and other related problems under intentional attacks are all considered. Besides, this model is also validated by using an example, and in this example, the impact of several important parameters have been discussed. It is shown that the expected loss of the optimized resource allocation plan derived from this model is smaller than that of the population proportion-based allocation plan and average-based allocation plan. It also shows that the correlation coefficient of targets has a significant impact of the defense resource allocation. This model can provide the planners and decision makers of urban defense engineering with scientific basis for macroscopic decision making in responding to intentional threats.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"5 ","pages":"Pages 198-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2012.04.032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89441572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Business Intelligence System Based on BP Neural Network","authors":"Su-Li Yan, Ying Wang, Ji-Cheng Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, the current situation of comprehensive evaluation of business intelligence system (BIS) is analyzed, and the objectives and principles of establishing the evaluation system are elaborated. The evaluation index system of BIS is structured, and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique is used to confirm the index weights, and the fuzzy TOPSIS is selected to determine the synthetically scores of different companies’ BIS. Then how to use BP neural network to evaluate BIS is discussed. The simulation results finally verify the scientific and effectiveness of this method. The study will provide a more scientific and reliable basis for systems engineering decision analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101207,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering Procedia","volume":"4 ","pages":"Pages 275-281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sepro.2011.11.076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74217458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}