Time series forecasting using neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Kolarik;Gottfried Rudorfer

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Computer Science, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Augasse 2-6, A-109O Vienna, Austria;Department of Applied Computer Science, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Augasse 2-6, A-109O Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • APL '94 Proceedings of the international conference on APL : the language and its applications: the language and its applications
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Artificial neural networks are suitable for many tasks in pattern recognition and machine learning. In this paper we present an APL system for forecasting univariate time series with artificial neural networks. Unlike conventional techniques for time series analysis, an artificial neural network needs little information about the time series data and can be applied to a broad range of problems. However, the problem of network “tuning” remains: parameters of the backpropagation algorithm as well as the network topology need to be adjusted for optimal performances. For our application, we conducted experiments to find the right parameters for a forecasting network. The artificial neural networks that were found delivered a better forecasting performance than results obtained by the well known ARIMA technique.