abstract = "Time series forecasting has been considered an
important tool to support decisions in different
domains. A highly accurate prediction is essential to
ensure the quality of these decisions. Time series
forecasting is based on historical data and the
predictions are usually made using statistical methods.
These characteristics make the forecasting problem an
interesting application of Machine learning techniques,
especially for Boosting techniques and Genetic
Programming. Boosting techniques currently receive a
lot of attention; they combine predictions from
different forecasting methods as a procedure to improve
the accuracy. This paper explores Genetic Programming
(GP) and Boosting technique to obtain an ensemble of
regressors and proposes a new formula for the updating
of the weights and for the final hypothesis. This new
formula is based on the correlation coefficient instead
of the loss function used by traditional boosting
algorithms, this new algorithm is called Boosting using
Correlation Coefficient (BCC). To validate this method,
experiments were accomplished using real, financial and
artificial series generated by Monte Carlo Simulation.
The results obtained by using this new methodology were
compared with the results obtained from GP, GPBoost and
the traditional statistical methodology (ARMA). The
results show advantages in the use of the proposed
approach.",
notes = "CEC 2007 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the EPS, and
the IET.