Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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The Application of One-factor Models for Prices of Crops and Option Pricing Process

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Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Xu, Mengxi, Thesis advisor (ths): Abdella, Kenzu, Thesis advisor (ths): Pollanen, Marco, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis is intended to support dependent-on-crops farmers to hedge the price risks of their crops. Firstly, we applied one-factor model, which incorporated a deterministic function and a stochastic process, to predict the future prices of crops (soybean). A discrete form was employed for one-month-ahead prediction. For general prediction, de-trending and de-cyclicality were used to… more

SPAF-network with Saturating Pretraining Neurons

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Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Burhani, Hasham, Thesis advisor (ths): Wenying, Feng, Degree committee member (dgc): Hurley, Richard, Degree committee member (dgc): Abdella, Kenzu, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>In this work, various aspects of neural networks, pre-trained with denoising autoencoders (DAE) are explored. To saturate neurons more quickly for feature learning in DAE, an activation function that offers higher gradients is introduced. Moreover, the introduction of sparsity functions applied to the hidden layer representations is studied. More importantly, a technique that swaps the… more