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                                                     Seminar

             Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title

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The Event Calculus on High Frequency Finance

 

 

 

Speaker

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Prof. Edward Tsang

 

 

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

 

 

University of Essex

 

 

 

Date

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July 29th, 2011 (Friday)

 

 

 

Time

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4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

 

 

Venue

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Room 513

 

 

William M.W. Mong Engineering Building

 

 

(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)

 

 

CUHK

 

 

 

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Abstract:
 

To understand financial markets and prevent unnecessary crises, markets should be studied scientifically. With event calculus, this paper formalizes market clearance dynamics under simple market models. The immediate future is determined by the present state plus the orders in the market. The purpose of this calculus is not to forecast orders, but to provide a means to reason with market dynamics and assess risk. Using logic reduces ambiguity and enables rigorous reasoning. An algorithm for assessing risk is proposed. Real markets are more complex than the models presented in this paper. However, this paper lays a solid foundation for studying market models.


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Biography:
 

Edward Tsang holds a first degree in Business Administration (1977, major in Finance) and a PhD degree (1987) in Computer Science. Prior to his PhD studies, he served for five years in various positions in the commercial sector in Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor in Computer Science at University of Essex. He has served the university as members of the Senate, Council and Select Committee for Professors; he has also served the Department of Computer Science as Deputy Head (Research).

Edward Tsang was a co-founder of Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA). CCFEA is an interdisciplinary research centre, which applies artificial intelligence methods to problems in finance and economics. It is supported by City Associates, which is supported by HSBC, Olsen & Associates, Ionic Sharescope, Bank of England, Old Mutual and other companies.

Edward Tsang has broad interest in artificial intelligence. He is best known in his research in constraint satisfaction (a branch of combinatorial optimisation for decision support and scheduling) and computational finance and economic agents (in particularly, forecasting and automated bargaining). Heuristic search and evolutionary computation are the main techniques used to these applications. He established and leads the Constraint Satisfaction and Optimisation Research Group and the Computational Finance research group at University of Essex. He is the author of Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction, the first book to define the scope of the field, and arguably the most rigorous in the field (all major concepts were defined with formal logic).

Edward Tsang regularly serves the research community. He founded the Technical Committee in Computation Finance and Economics in IEEE’s Computational Intelligence Society in 2004, and chaired it until the end of 2005. He serves in editorial boards of IEEE Transactions in Evolutionary Computation, Constraints, the Scheduling journal and other journals. He has been a member of the Computing College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK) since 1997. He has served committees and panels for many major international conferences and workshops. He has given invited speeches in international conferences, including the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) 2006.

Edward Tsang’s research is highly industry-relevant. He has given consultation to GEC Marconi, British Telecom, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Old Mutual Asset Managers, RAS and other organizations. Guided Local Search, developed in his laboratory, has been embedded in ILOG DISPATCHER, a commercial product for vehicle routing. EDDIE, a financial forecasting tool, has attracted much commercial interest.


************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************

 

 

 

Host

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Prof. Duan Li

Tel

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(852) 2609-8316/8323

Email

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dli@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

Enquiries

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Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou

 

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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

 

 

CUHK

Website

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http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seem5201

Email

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seem5201@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

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