“…Newly developed data mining techniques and advancements in computational intelligence capabilities have been applied to build intelligent information systems for modeling complex, dynamic, and multivariate nonlinear systems (Nayak et al, 2018;Adhikari & Agrawal, 2014). In particular, soft computing methodologies have been applied successfully to areas such as data classification (Alatas, 2011;Alatas, 2012;Nayak et al, 2015), financial forecasting (Nayak et al, 2018), credit scoring (Addo et al, 2018;Tomczak & Zięba, 2015;Chow, 2018), portfolio management (Xu et al, 2011a), business failure prediction, and risk level evaluation (Daubie & Meskens, 2002;Chandra et al, 2009), and they have been found to produce significantly improved results. ANNs have proven to be an effective modeling procedure in stock market forecasting when the input-output mapping contains both regularities and exceptions (Nayak et al, 2018;Zhang, 2003;Adhikari & Agrawal, 2014;Gu et al, 2018;Board, 2017).…”