Title
Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm for Financial Classification Problems
Abstract
Nature-inspired methods are used in various fields for solving a number of problems. This study uses a nature-inspired method, artificial bee colony optimization that is based on the foraging behaviour of bees, for a financial classification problem. Financial decisions are often based on classification models, which are used to assign a set of observations into predefined groups. One important step toward the development of accurate financial classification models involves the selection of the appropriate independent variables (features) that are relevant to the problem. The proposed method uses a discrete version of the artificial bee colony algorithm for the feature selection step while nearest neighbour based classifiers are used for the classification step. The performance of the method is tested using various benchmark datasets from UCI Machine Learning Repository and in a financial classification task involving credit risk assessment. Its results are compared with the results of other nature-inspired methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.4018/jamc.2011010101
Int. J. of Applied Metaheuristic Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
metaheuristics
Credit risk assessment,Artificial bee colony algorithm,Nearest neighbour,Feature selection,Variables,Artificial intelligence,Finance,Artificial bee colony optimization,Mathematics,Machine learning,Metaheuristic
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
1
1947-8283
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yannis Marinakis184442.66
Magdalene Marinaki267032.53
Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis326027.74
Constantin Zopounidis4106690.47