Combining Piecewise Linear Regression and a Granular Computing Framework for Financial Time Series Classification

Valerio Modugno, Francesca Possemato, Antonello Rizzi

2014

Abstract

Finance is a very broad field where the uncertainty plays a central role and every financial operator have to deal with it. In this paper we propose a new method for a trend prediction on financial time series combining a Linear Piecewise Regression with a granular computing framework. A set of parameters control the behavior of the whole system, thus making their fine tuning a critical optimization task. To this aim in this paper we employ an evolutionary optimization algorithm to tackle this crucial phase. We tested our system on both synthetic benchmarking data and on real financial time series. Our tests show very good classification results on benchmarking data. Results on real data, although not completely satisfactory, are encouraging, suggesting further developments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Modugno V., Possemato F. and Rizzi A. (2014). Combining Piecewise Linear Regression and a Granular Computing Framework for Financial Time Series Classification . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-052-9, pages 281-288. DOI: 10.5220/0005127402810288

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ecta14,
author={Valerio Modugno and Francesca Possemato and Antonello Rizzi},
title={Combining Piecewise Linear Regression and a Granular Computing Framework for Financial Time Series Classification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={281-288},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005127402810288},
isbn={978-989-758-052-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2014)
TI - Combining Piecewise Linear Regression and a Granular Computing Framework for Financial Time Series Classification
SN - 978-989-758-052-9
AU - Modugno V.
AU - Possemato F.
AU - Rizzi A.
PY - 2014
SP - 281
EP - 288
DO - 10.5220/0005127402810288