Continuous ant colony optimization algorithms in a support vector regression based financial forecasting model

Proceedings - Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 548-552

  Hong, Wei Chiang ^a,b   Chen, Yu Fen ^c   Chen, Peng Wen ^b   Yeh, Yi Hsuan ^b  

^a IEEE

^b ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continuous ant colony optimization algorithms (CACO); Exchange rates; Financial forecasting; Support vector regression (SVR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS (CACO); EXCHANGE RATES; FINANCIAL FORECASTING; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR);

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 38049040959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2007.315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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