Analyzing foreign exchange rates by rough set theory and directed acyclic graph support vector machines

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 5993-5998

  Pai, Ping Feng ^a   Chen, Shi Yu ^a   Huang, Chao Wei ^a   Chang, Ya Hsin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graph support vector machines; Foreign exchange; Immune algorithms; Rough set theory; Tabu search algorithms

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; FOREIGN EXCHANGE; IMMUNE ALGORITHM; IMMUNE ALGORITHMS; TABU SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TABU SEARCH; VECTORS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 77951206577     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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