Hi everybody,
I have almost completed by BSc Informatik Studies (BSc Computer Science), and I am now writing my BSc Thesis...
It is called
Parallelisierung von Genetischen Algorithmen für Anwendungen der Finanzwirtschaft
which can be roughly translated to
Parallelization of Genetic Algorithms for Applied Finance
More specifically, the financial application Domain is
Modern Portfolio Theory, and it's extensions (integer constraints, Transaction costs). See
Luenberger - Investment Science for an overview of the topic, and
Maringer - Portfolio Management with Heuristic Optimization for the extensions.
The target platforms will be "traditional" shared memory processors (x86) using C/C++ and GPUs using CUDA.
I have three months to complete my thesis and I am starting right now..