Training neural networks by electromagnetism-like mechanism algorithm for tourism arrivals forecasting

Proceedings 2010 IEEE 5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 679-688

  Wu, Qing ^a   Zhang, Chun Jiang ^a   Gao, Liang ^a   Li, Xinyu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Econometrical model; Electromagnetism like mechanism; Neural network; Time series analysis; Tourism demand forecasting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NETWORK BASED FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; ECONOMETRICAL MODEL; EM ALGORITHMS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FORECASTING MODELS; LEARNING RULES; MOVING AVERAGES; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; TOURISM DEMAND; TOURISM INDUSTRY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78650590328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BICTA.2010.5645207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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