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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,765 Views
36 Pages

Optimization of Financial Asset Neutrosophic Portfolios

  • Marcel-Ioan Boloș,
  • Ioana-Alexandra Bradea and
  • Camelia Delcea

21 May 2021

The purpose of this paper was to model, with the help of neutrosophic fuzzy numbers, the optimal financial asset portfolios, offering additional information to those investing in the capital market. The optimal neutrosophic portfolios are those categ...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,049 Views
6 Pages

Financial management is important for the construction sector, as construction companies contribute to the development of countries. Malaysia encourages the construction sector to develop advanced infrastructure related to transport and housing. Fina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,282 Views
22 Pages

Hybrid BiLSTM-ARIMA Architecture with Whale-Driven Optimization for Financial Time Series Forecasting

  • Panke Qin,
  • Bo Ye,
  • Ya Li,
  • Zhongqi Cai,
  • Zhenlun Gao,
  • Haoran Qi and
  • Yongjie Ding

15 August 2025

Financial time series display inherent nonlinearity and high volatility, creating substantial challenges for accurate forecasting. Advancements in artificial intelligence have positioned deep learning as a critical tool for financial time series fore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,563 Views
13 Pages

In recent years, Chinese governments have launched ambitious plans in developing public rental housing (PRH), which are almost impossible to accomplish without the involvement of the private sector. Yet, very few quantitative studies have been carrie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,575 Views
23 Pages

Financial sustainability in higher education is increasingly fragile due to policy shifts, rising costs, and funding volatility. Legacy early-warning systems based on static thresholds or rules struggle to adapt to these dynamics and often overlook f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,662 Views
15 Pages

10 May 2024

The development of human society and the production and operation activities of enterprises have brought about global warming, resulting in frequent natural disasters. It has become the consensus of all countries in the world to develop a green and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,297 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Hunter–Prey Optimization with Deep Learning-Based Fintech for Predicting Financial Crises in the Economy and Society

  • Iyad Katib,
  • Fatmah Y. Assiri,
  • Turki Althaqafi,
  • Zenah Mahmoud AlKubaisy,
  • Diaa Hamed and
  • Mahmoud Ragab

14 August 2023

Financial technology (Fintech) plays a pivotal role in driving contemporary technology, society, economies, and many other fields. The new-generation Fintech is Smart Fintech, mainly empowered and inspired by data science and artificial intelligence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,246 Views
24 Pages

A Smart Optimization Model for Reliable Signal Detection in Financial Markets Using ELM and Blockchain Technology

  • Deepak Kumar,
  • Priyanka Pramod Pawar,
  • Santosh Reddy Addula,
  • Mohan Kumar Meesala,
  • Oludotun Oni,
  • Qasim Naveed Cheema and
  • Anwar Ul Haq

23 October 2025

This study proposes a novel approach to improve the reliability of trading signals for gold market prediction by integrating technical analysis indicators, Moving Averages (MAs), MACD, and Ichimoku Cloud, with a Particle Swarm-Optimized Extreme Learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,259 Views
28 Pages

22 October 2025

In the era of big data and rapid information growth, investors encounter a complex financial environment characterized by extensive data, conflicting investment objectives, and markets that are unpredictable due to economic and policy fluctuations. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,204 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2018

The study of how foreign exchange reserves maintain financial security is of vital significance. This paper provides simulations and estimations of the optimal scale of foreign exchange reserves under the background of possible shocks to China’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,391 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2021

We consider a spread financial market defined by the multidimensional Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. We study the optimal consumption/investment problem for logarithmic utility functions using a stochastic dynamical programming method. We sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,153 Views
12 Pages

The adjustment speed of financial leverage indicates the movement of companies towards the optimal capital structure, and clearly shows the financing policies of companies. The importance of optimal leverage is such that the growth and survival of co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,541 Views
24 Pages

29 July 2023

A novel financial metric denominated unit financial impact indicator (UFII) is proposed to minimize the payback period for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems investments and quantify the financial efficiency of allocation and sizing strategies. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,572 Views
26 Pages

12 June 2025

In the domain of financial markets, deep learning techniques have emerged as a significant tool for the development of investment strategies. The present study investigates the potential of time series forecasting (TSF) in financial application scena...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,322 Views
12 Pages

Price and Profit Optimization for Financial Services

  • Catalina Bolancé,
  • Montserrat Guillen,
  • Jens Perch Nielsen and
  • Fredrik Thuring

8 February 2018

Prospective customers of financial and insurance products can be targeted based on the profit the provider expects to earn from them. We present a model for individual expected profit and two alternatives for calculating optimal personalized prices t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,370 Views
21 Pages

11 September 2021

How the financial structure promotes the development of real economy has always been a research topic in academia. By analyzing the characteristics of China’s financial system, this paper constructs the Finance Structure Index (FSI) from the perspect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,532 Views
17 Pages

Financial and Energetic Optimization of Greek Buildings Insulation

  • Georgios Mitsopoulos,
  • Evangelos Bellos and
  • Christos Tzivanidis

17 September 2018

The most important parameter in the design of the building envelope is the insulation thickness, because it dramatically influences the heating and cooling loads. The objective of this study is the investigation of different insulation scenarios for...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,437 Views
21 Pages

The objective of this work is the financial optimization of a solar-driven organic Rankine cycle. Parabolic trough solar collectors are used as the most mature solar concentrating system and also there is a sensible storage system. The unit is examin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,407 Views
19 Pages

The urban network is an important method of spatial optimization, and measuring the development level of the urban network is a prerequisite for spatial optimization. Combining geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis, social network anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
335 Views
16 Pages

Optimization of Working Capital for Financial Sustainability in Manufacturing Companies: A Statistical Model

  • Karla Estefanía Morales,
  • Edison Roberto Valencia-Nuñez,
  • Josselyn Paredes-León and
  • Freddy Armijos-Arcos

Background: Working capital management plays a critical role in ensuring business liquidity and financial sustainability. However, few studies in developing economies have employed multivariate statistical techniques to optimize working capital decis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,140 Views
32 Pages

8 July 2022

Financial distress prediction is crucial in the financial domain because of its implications for banks, businesses, and corporations. Serious financial losses may occur because of poor financial distress prediction. As a result, significant efforts h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,510 Views
18 Pages

Predicting and trading assets in the global financial market represents a complex challenge driven by the dynamic and volatile nature of the sector. This study proposes a day trading strategy that optimizes asset purchase and sale parameters using di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,171 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2024

Given the significant impact of healthcare stock changes on the global economy, including its GDP and other financial factors, we endeavored to create an analytical prediction model for forecasting the annual percentage change of these stocks. Our mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,178 Views
21 Pages

6 May 2025

This paper explores optimal consumption and investment strategies for agents facing mortality risk within a complete financial market. Departing from traditional frameworks, we leverage state-dependent utility theory, discounted by the state–pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,875 Views
16 Pages

12 November 2023

Under the guidance of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, “ecological priority” and “green development” have become the popular consensus, and the financial regulatory level continuously guides financial instit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,389 Views
26 Pages

9 May 2025

The building sector significantly contributes to global resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions, necessitating integrated approaches to evaluate both environmental and economic performance. This study developed a sustainability-oriented asses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,269 Views
21 Pages

Intelligent Financial Forecasting with Granger Causality and Correlation Analysis Using Bayesian Optimization and Long Short-Term Memory

  • Julius Olaniyan,
  • Deborah Olaniyan,
  • Ibidun Christiana Obagbuwa,
  • Bukohwo Michael Esiefarienrhe,
  • Ayodele A. Adebiyi and
  • Olorunfemi Paul Bernard

11 November 2024

Financial forecasting plays a critical role in decision-making across various economic sectors, aiming to predict market dynamics and economic indicators through the analysis of historical data. This study addresses the challenges posed by traditiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,143 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2023

Sustainable financial fraud detection (FD) comprises the use of sustainable and ethical practices in the detection of fraudulent activities in the financial sector. Credit card fraud (CCF) has dramatically increased with the advances in communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
5,517 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2022

Based on the Peking University Digital Financial Inclusion Index and 2011–2018 provincial panel data, this paper discusses the mechanism of digital financial inclusion on agricultural green total factor productivity from both theoretical and em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,671 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2022

Financial portfolio management is a very time-consuming task as it requires the continuous surveying of the market volatility. Investors need to hire potential financial advisors to manage portfolios on their behalf. Efficient hiring of financial adv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,674 Views
8 Pages

12 November 2020

This research article shows how the pricing of derivative securities can be seen from the context of stochastic optimal control theory and information theory. The financial market is seen as an information processing system, which optimizes an inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,394 Views
25 Pages

Core Predictors of Debt Specialization: A New Insight to Optimal Capital Structure

  • Kanwal Iqbal Khan,
  • Faisal Qadeer,
  • Mário Nuno Mata,
  • José Chavaglia Neto,
  • Qurat ul An Sabir,
  • Jéssica Nunes Martins and
  • José António Filipe

27 April 2021

Debt structure composition is an essential topic of discussion for the management of capital structure decisions. Researchers made extensive efforts to understand the criteria for selecting debts, specifically, to know about the reasons for debt spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,781 Views
21 Pages

7 March 2019

Financial prediction is an important research field in financial data time series mining. There has always been a problem of clustering massive financial time series data. Conventional clustering algorithms are not practical for time series data beca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
934 Views
23 Pages

Robust Metaheuristic Optimization for Algorithmic Trading: A Comparative Study of Optimization Techniques

  • Kaled Hernández-Romo,
  • José Lemus-Romani,
  • Emanuel Vega,
  • Marcelo Becerra-Rozas and
  • Andrés Romo

24 December 2025

Algorithmic trading heavily relies on the optimization of rule-based strategies to maximize profitability and ensure robustness under volatile market conditions. Traditional optimization methods often face limitations when dealing with the nonlinear,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,583 Views
24 Pages

22 January 2022

With the steady increase of corporate system reform in the railway transportation industry, high-speed railways have accelerated their steps toward marketization, and the market competition they face has become increasingly fierce. In this context, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,184 Views
12 Pages

Toward Prediction of Financial Crashes with a D-Wave Quantum Annealer

  • Yongcheng Ding,
  • Javier Gonzalez-Conde,
  • Lucas Lamata,
  • José D. Martín-Guerrero,
  • Enrique Lizaso,
  • Samuel Mugel,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Román Orús,
  • Enrique Solano and
  • Mikel Sanz

10 February 2023

The prediction of financial crashes in a complex financial network is known to be an NP-hard problem, which means that no known algorithm can efficiently find optimal solutions. We experimentally explore a novel approach to this problem by using a D-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,747 Views
22 Pages

This paper investigates the complex factors hindering entrepreneurial aspirations in Lebanon, focusing on the absence of a functional financial system and its impact on entrepreneurial intentions. Drawing on surveys conducted with 325 Lebanese partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,608 Views
16 Pages

This paper explores how to construct a fair and optimal compensation system between the principal and the agent in the face of financial compensation agency problems during a limited period in relation to the concept of sustainability. In the constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
609 Views
29 Pages

24 December 2025

As financial markets become increasingly complex, optimizing investment portfolios under multiple conflicting objectives has become a central challenge for decision-makers. This paper presents a comprehensive benchmarking framework for multi-objectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
4,749 Views
17 Pages

28 March 2023

The rapid development of Internet information technology has made e-commerce enterprises face complex and changing financial problems. Combining artificial intelligence algorithms and dynamic monitoring of financial risks has been a current research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,502 Views
25 Pages

15 May 2023

Consumption upgrading reflects people’s pursuit of a better life and is an important engine of high-quality economic development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2021, this study analyses the impact and mechanism o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,751 Views
16 Pages

Return Rate Prediction in Blockchain Financial Products Using Deep Learning

  • Noura Metawa,
  • Mohamemd I. Alghamdi,
  • Ibrahim M. El-Hasnony and
  • Mohamed Elhoseny

28 October 2021

Recently, bitcoin-based blockchain technologies have received significant interest among investors. They have concentrated on the prediction of return and risk rates of the financial product. So, an automated tool to predict the return rate of bitcoi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,804 Views
14 Pages

30 December 2019

Knowledge generated using data mining techniques is of great interest for organizations, as it facilitates tactical and strategic decision making, generating a competitive advantage. In the special case of credit granting organizations, it is importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,778 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2021

The COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) pandemic, which has been accompanied by an economic crisis and multiple restrictions on our lives, has sparked renewed interest in the topic of loneliness as well as its determinants. We examined (1) the associat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,498 Views
25 Pages

The Role of FPGAs in Modern Option Pricing Techniques: A Survey

  • Aidan O Mahony,
  • Bernard Hanzon and
  • Emanuel Popovici

12 August 2024

In financial computation, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have emerged as a transformative technology, particularly in the domain of option pricing. This study presents the impact of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) on computational meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,359 Views
11 Pages

Optimization of the Structure of the Investment Portfolio of High-Tech Companies Based on the Minimax Criterion

  • Alex Borodin,
  • Manuela Tvaronavičienė,
  • Irina Vygodchikova,
  • Galina Panaedova and
  • Andrey Kulikov

30 July 2021

A model has been developed for the optimization of the share structure of an investment portfolio in high-tech projects supported by the leaders of the leading industry companies in Russia. Several indicators (financial leverage, integrated rating of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,585 Views
19 Pages

14 August 2025

This study explores how IFRS adoption is associated with analysts’ forecast accuracy, optimism, and dispersion in Saudi Arabia. Drawing on data from publicly listed firms from 2013 to 2020, we assess changes in forecasting behavior surrounding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,407 Views
17 Pages

Predicting Fraud in Financial Payment Services through Optimized Hyper-Parameter-Tuned XGBoost Model

  • Surjeet Dalal,
  • Bijeta Seth,
  • Magdalena Radulescu,
  • Carmen Secara and
  • Claudia Tolea

9 December 2022

Online transactions, medical services, financial transactions, and banking all have their share of fraudulent activity. The annual revenue generated by fraud exceeds $1 trillion. Even while fraud is dangerous for organizations, it may be uncovered wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,357 Views
23 Pages

31 July 2025

Managing finances in a supply chain today is not as straightforward as it once was. The world is constantly shifting—markets fluctuate, risks emerge unexpectedly—and companies are continually trying to stay one step ahead. In all this, fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,893 Views
34 Pages

19 February 2025

This study explores smoothing techniques to refine financial risk tolerance (FRT) data for the improved prediction of financial market indicators, including the Volatility Index and S&P 500 ETF. Raw FRT data often contain noise and volatility, ob...

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