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Evolving time-lagged feedforward neural networks for time series forecasting
| Resumo: | Time Series Forecasting (TSF) is an important tool to sup- port both individual and organizational decisions. In this work, we propose a novel automatic Evolutionary Time- Lagged Feedforward Network (ETLFN) approach for TSF, based on an Estimation Distribution Algorithm (EDA) that evolves not only Artificial Neural Network (ANN) parame- ters but also which set of time lags are fed into the fore- casting model. Such approach is compared with similar strategy that only selects ANN parameter and the conven- tional TSF ARIMA methodology. Several experiments were held by considering six time series from distinct domains. The obtained multi-step ahead forecasts were evaluated us- ing SMAPE error criteria. Overall, the proposed ETLFN method obtained the best forecasting results. Moreover, it favors simpler neural network models, thus requiring less computational effort. |
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| Autores principais: | Peralta Donate, Juan |
| Outros Autores: | Cortez, Paulo; Gutierrez Sanchez, German; Sanchis de Miguel, Araceli |
| Assunto: | Connectionism and neural nets Hybrid systems artificial neural networks estimation distribution algorithm forecasting time series |
| Ano: | 2011 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Time Series Forecasting (TSF) is an important tool to sup- port both individual and organizational decisions. In this work, we propose a novel automatic Evolutionary Time- Lagged Feedforward Network (ETLFN) approach for TSF, based on an Estimation Distribution Algorithm (EDA) that evolves not only Artificial Neural Network (ANN) parame- ters but also which set of time lags are fed into the fore- casting model. Such approach is compared with similar strategy that only selects ANN parameter and the conven- tional TSF ARIMA methodology. Several experiments were held by considering six time series from distinct domains. The obtained multi-step ahead forecasts were evaluated us- ing SMAPE error criteria. Overall, the proposed ETLFN method obtained the best forecasting results. Moreover, it favors simpler neural network models, thus requiring less computational effort. |
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