Patent ID: 7707091

Claim:
A method for optimizing a set of portfolios of assets comprising the steps of: providing a computer having a computer-readable media and an electrical output device, wherein the computer-readable media has an application stored thereon; storing data pertaining to the portfolio of assets on the computer-readable media; identifying a set of economic models; executing the set of economic models; determining a fitness landscape representation with respect to the set of portfolios of assets by extracting a set of observables from said execution of the set of economic models; optimizing the set of portfolios by determining at least one optimal searching distance in the fitness landscape representation; searching for ones of the set of portfolios of assets at the at least one optimal searching distance, wherein portfolios at the optimal searching distance comprise optimal ones of the set of portfolios of assets; and presenting results from said searching step for the optimal ones of the portfolios of assets on the electrical output device.