Efficient prediction of stock market indices using adaptive bacterial foraging optimization (ABFO) and BFO based techniques

  • Authors:
  • Ritanjali Majhi;G. Panda;Babita Majhi;G. Sahoo

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Management, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India;Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa 769008, India;Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa 769008, India;Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, BIT, Mesra, India

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The present paper introduces the use of BFO and ABFO techniques to develop an efficient forecasting model for prediction of various stock indices. The structure used in these forecasting models is a simple linear combiner. The connecting weights of the adaptive linear combiner based models are optimized using ABFO and BFO by minimizing its mean square error (MSE). The short and long term prediction performance of these models are evaluated with test data and the results obtained are compared with those obtained from the genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) based models. It is in general observed that the new models are computationally more efficient, prediction wise more accurate and show faster convergence compared to other evolutionary computing models such as GA and PSO based models.