Accurate prediction of stock market behavior is a challenging issue for financial forecasting. Artificial neural networks, such as multilayer perceptron have been established as better approximation and classification models for this domain. This study proposes a chemical reaction optimization...

This study attempts to accelerate the learning ability of an artifcial electric feld algorithm (AEFA) by attributing it with two mechanisms: elitism and oppositionbased learning. Elitism advances the convergence of the AEFA towards global optima by retaining the fne-tuned solutions obtained thus...