The latest book on Genetic Programming, Poli, Langdon and McPhee's (with contributions
from John R. Koza) A Field Guide to Genetic Programming represents an exciting landmark …

In this paper, an evolving least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) learning paradigm
with a mixed kernel is proposed to explore stock market trends. In the proposed learning …

Stock markets are very important in modern societies and their behavior has serious
implications for a wide spectrum of the world's population. Investors, governing bodies, and …

This paper is motivated by the interest in finding significant movements in financial stock
prices. However, when the number of profitable opportunities is scarce, the prediction of …

Abstract Machine learning techniques extend the past experiences into the future. However,
when the number of examples in the minority class (positive cases) is very small in …

Financial contagion refers to a scenario in which small shocks, which initially affect only a
few financial institutions or a particular region of the economy, spread to the rest of the …

The use of computational intelligence techniques for data analysis is illustrated in this thesis,
focusing particularly on identifying the existing issues and proposing new and effective …