Meta-learning for time series forecasting in the NN GC1 competition

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lemke, Christiane ^a   Gabrys, Bogdan ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION MODELS; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FORECASTING METHODS; METALEARNING; RANKING ALGORITHM; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; TIME SERIES FORECASTING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPETITION; FORECASTING; LAKES; TIME SERIES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 78549294511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2010.5584001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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