Frequency independent automatic input variable selection for Neural Networks for forecasting

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kourentzes, Nikolaos ^a   Crone, Sven F ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; FORECASTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DETERMINISTIC COMPONENT; FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT; FULLY AUTOMATED; INPUT VARIABLE SELECTION; INPUT VARIABLES; KEY ISSUES; NEURAL-NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT; TIME SERIES FORECASTING; TIMES SERIES;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 79959452738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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