An improved method for forecasting enrollments based on fuzzy time series and particle swarm optimization

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 2, 2009, Pages 6108-6117

  Kuo, I Hong ^a   Horng, Shi Jinn ^a,b,d   Kao, Tzong Wann ^c   Lin, Tsung Lieh ^a,c   Lee, Cheng Ling ^b   Pan, Yi ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN TAIWAN   (Taiwan)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Fuzzy time series; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SIMULATED ANNEALING; TIME SERIES;

FIRST ORDER; FORECAST RULES; FORECASTING MODELS; FUZZY TIME SERIES; HIGH-ORDER; HYBRID FORECASTING; RESEARCH TOPICS; UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 58349092063     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.07.043     Document Type: Article

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