A learning-to-forecast experiment on the foreign exchange market with a classifier system

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 8-9, 1997, Pages 1543-1575

  Beltrametti, Luca ^b   Fiorentini, Riccardo ^a   Marengo, Luigi ^b   Tamborini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Artificial Intelligence; Foreign exchange market; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031590027     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1889(97)00035-3     Document Type: Article

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