Foreign exchange trading using a learning classifier system

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 125, Issue , 2008, Pages 169-189

  Stone, Christopher ^a   Bull, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 46949104692     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78979-6_8     Document Type: Article

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