1. Preface — special issue on complex data processing methods and their applications to economic systems

   • Hossein Hassani
   • Shouyang Wang
   • Xun Zhang

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 1 - 2

2. A self-similar local neuro-fuzzy model for short-term demand forecasting

   • Hossein Hassani
   • Majid Abdollahzadeh
   • Arash Miranian

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 3 - 20

3. Forecasting exchange rates: An optimal approach

   • Christina Beneki
   • Masoud Yarmohammadi

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 21 - 28

4. Combining singular spectrum analysis and PAR(p) structures to model wind speed time series

   • Moisés Lima de Menezes
   • Reinaldo Castro Souza
   • José Francisco Moreira Pessanha

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 29 - 46

5. Exchange rate forecasting with optimum singular spectrum analysis

   • Mansi Ghodsi
   • Masoud Yarmohammadi

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 47 - 55

6. Estimating multi-country prosperity index: A two-dimensional singular spectrum analysis approach

   • Jiawei Zhang
   • Hossein Hassani
   • Xun Zhang

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 56 - 74

7. Cluster-based regularized sliced inverse regression for forecasting macroeconomic variables

   • Yue Yu
   • Zhihong Chen
   • Jie Yang

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 75 - 91

8. Information identification in different networks with heterogeneous information sources

   • Xu Feng
   • Wei Zhang
   • Xiong Xiong

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 92 - 116

9. Forecasting time series with genetic programming based on least square method

   • Fengmei Yang
   • Meng Li
   • Jian Li

   OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 117 - 129

10. Does investor sentiment predict stock returns? The evidence from Chinese stock market

    • Hui Bu
    • Li Pi

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 130 - 143

11. Is technical analysis informative in UK stock market? Evidence from decomposition-based vector autoregressive (DVAR) model

    • Haibin Xie
    • Jiangze Bian
    • Han Qiao

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 144 - 156

12. A rough set approach to feature selection based on scatter search metaheuristic

    • Jue Wang
    • Qi Zhang
    • M. Ibrahim Abdel-Monem

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 157 - 168

13. Robust trading rule selection and forecasting accuracy

    • Harald Schmidbauer
    • Angi Rösch
    • Vehbi Sinan Tunalioğlu

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 169 - 180

14. A transfer forecasting model for container throughput guided by discrete PSO

    • Jin Xiao
    • Yi Xiao
    • Kin Keung Lai

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 181 - 192

15. American option pricing under GARCH diffusion model: An empirical study

    • Xinyu Wu
    • Wenyu Yang
    • Xiujuan Zhao

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 193 - 207

16. A quantitative model for intraday stock price changes based on order flows

    • Meng Li
    • Xiaofeng Hui
    • Kazuo Kishimoto

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 208 - 224

17. A multiscale modeling approach incorporating ARIMA and anns for financial market volatility forecasting

    • Yi Xiao
    • Jin Xiao
    • Shouyang Wang

    OriginalPaper 02 February 2014 Pages: 225 - 236