Enhanced artificial bee colony for training least squares support vector machines in commodity price forecasting

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 196-205

  Mustaffa, Zuriani ^a   Yusof, Yuhanis ^a   Kamaruddin, Siti Sakira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Artificial bee colony; Commodity price forecasting; Least squares support vector machines; Levy probability distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONIES; ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONIES (ABC); BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; COMMODITY PRICES; LEAST SQUARES SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SEARCHING STRATEGY;

FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME SERIES;

COSTS;

EID: 84897657079     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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