Application of SVR with improved ant colony optimization algorithms in exchange rate forecasting

Control and Cybernetics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 863-891

  Hung, Wei Mou ^a   Hong, Wei Chiang ^b  

^a DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149138054     PISSN: 03248569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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