Title: An empirical net asset value forecasting model based on optimised ANN using elephant herding strategy

Authors: Sarbeswara Hota; Kuhoo; Debahuti Mishra; Srikanta Patnaik

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Abstract: Net asset value (NAV) prediction of mutual funds is one of the promising tasks of financial time series data forecasting. It enables the investors to choose the desired mutual fund for investing. Artificial neural network (ANN) is well suited for NAV prediction as the NAV data are nonlinear in nature. This paper proposes the ANN model hybridised with elephant herding optimisation (EHO) algorithm to predict the NAV of different interval days ahead for two of the Indian mutual funds. The prediction performance of ANN-EHO model is compared with ANN, ANN-GA, ANN-PSO and ANN-DE. The results implicate that ANN-EHO model is superior to other four models.

Keywords: net asset value; NAV; elephant herding optimisation; EHO; differential evolution; DE; matriarch.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2020.104183

International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2020 Vol.19 No.1, pp.118 - 132

Received: 10 Oct 2018
Accepted: 02 Apr 2019
Published online: 20 Dec 2019 *

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