Meta-learning for time series forecasting and forecast combination

Neurocomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 10-12, 2010, Pages 2006-2016

  Lemke, Christiane ^a   Gabrys, Bogdan ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Forecast combination; Forecasting; Meta learning; Time series; Time series features

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION FORECASTING; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FEATURE SETS; FORECAST COMBINATION; FORECASTING METHODS; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; INFORMED DECISION; META-LEARNING APPROACH; METALEARNING; SIMPLE MODEL; TIME SERIES FORECASTING;

TIME SERIES;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORECASTING; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; META LEARNING METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952545391     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.09.020     Document Type: Article

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