This paper presents the adaptation of CORBFN, an evolutionary cooperative-competitive hybrid algorithm for the design of Radial Basis Function Networks, for short-term forecasting of the price of extra virgin olive oil. In the proposed cooperative-competitive environment, each individual represents a Radial Basis Function, and the entire population is responsible for the final solution. In orde...

Traditionally, the autoregressivemoving average (ARMA)model has been one of themost widely used linear models in time series prediction. Recent research activities in forecasting with artificial neural networks (ANNs) suggest that ANNs can be a promising alternative to the traditional ARMA structure. These linear models and ANNs are often compared with mixed conclusions in terms of the superior...

Two smoothing strategies combined with autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and autoregressive neural networks (ANNs) models to improve the forecasting of time series are presented. The strategy of forecasting is implemented using two stages. In the first stage the time series is smoothed using either, 3-point moving average smoothing, or singular value Decomposition of the Hankel m...

Improving time series forecastingaccuracy is an important yet often difficult task.Both theoretical and empirical findings haveindicated that integration of several models is an effectiveway to improve predictive performance, especiallywhen the models in combination are quite different. In this paper,a model of the hybrid artificial neural networks andfuzzy model is proposed for time series for...

Both theoretical and empirical findings have suggested that combining different models can be an effective way to improve the predictive performance of each individual model. It is especially occurred when the models in the ensemble are quite different. Hybrid techniques that decompose a time series into its linear and nonlinear components are one of the most important kinds of the hybrid model...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are very powerful tool in modern quantitative finance and have immerged as a powerful statistical modeling technology. This paper focuses on the problem of estimation of volatility of Indian Stock market. It begins with volatility calculation by Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (ARCH), & Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARC...

Worldwide, influenza is estimated to result in approximately 3 to 5 million annual cases of severe illness and approximately 250,000 to 500,000 deaths. We need an accurate time-series model to predict the number of influenza patients. Although time-series models with different time lags as feature spaces could lead to varied accuracy, past studies simply adopted a time lag in their models witho...

Forecasting electricity demand requires accurate and sustainable data acquisition systems which rely on smart grid systems. To predict the expected by grid, many meters are required to collect sufficient data. However, problem is multi-dimensional simple power aggregation techniques may fail capture relational similarities between various types of users. Therefore, forecasting energy plays a ke...

Time series data mining (TSDM) techniques explores large amount of time series data in search of interesting relationships among variables. The TSDM methods overcome limitations including stationarity and linearity requirements of traditional time series analysis by adapting data mining concepts for analyzing time series data. The Feed Forward Neural Net is one of the most widely used neural ne...

Firms use time-series forecasting methods to predict sales. However, it is still a question which method forecaster best, if only single forecast needed. This study investigates and evaluates different sales methods: multiplicative Holt-Winters (HW), additive HW, seasonal auto regressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) [a variant of (ARIMA)], long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural ne...