Investment decision making using FGP: A case study

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 1253-1259

  Li, Jin ^a   Tsang, Edward P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGES; FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; INVESTMENT DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEM; TECHNICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL FACTORS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84901388569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.782584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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