booktitle = "2015 International Symposium on Innovations in
Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA)",
title = "Development of {2D} curve-fitting
genetic/gene-expression programming technique for
efficient time-series financial forecasting",
year = "2015",
abstract = "Stock market prediction is of immense interest to
trading companies and buyers due to high profit
margins. Therefore, precise prediction of the measure
of increase or decrease of stock prices also plays an
important role in buying/selling activities. This
research presents a specialised extension to the
genetic algorithms (GA) known as the genetic
programming (GP) and gene expression programming (GEP)
to explore and investigate the outcome of the GEP
criteria on the stock market price prediction. The
research presented in this paper aims at the modelling
and prediction of short-to-medium term stock value
fluctuations in the market via genetically tuned stock
market parameters. The technique uses hierarchically
defined GP and GEP techniques to tune algebraic
functions representing the fittest equation for stock
market activities. The proposed methodology is
evaluated against five well-known stock market
companies with each having its own trading
circumstances during the past 20+ years. The proposed
GEP/GP methodologies were evaluated based on variable
window/population sizes, selection methods, and
Elitism, Rank and Roulette selection methods. The
Elitism-based approach showed promising results with a
low error-rate in the resultant pattern matching with
an overall accuracy of 93.46percent for short-term
5-day and 92.105 for medium-term 56-day trading
periods.",