In order to get the excellent accuracy for price forecast in the cell phone market, a novel improved Sliding Window (SW) model based on adaptive windows width and a novel improved Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network (NN) model based on adaptive spread are proposed and the Disturbance Factors Model (DFM) is used in this paper. All of the three kinds of price forecasting models are utilized to verify the accuracy. The cell phone price is extracted from different websites and used as the model verification data. And the experimental results of the forecasting average accuracy based on the DFM obtain 94.61 percent. The experimental results of the forecasting average accuracy based on the ARBF NN model obtain 97.88 percent. The experimental results of the forecasting average accuracy based on the Adaptive SW Model (ASWM) obtain 99.64 percent. Although the results based on the DFM are not very good, it is still a satisfactory result. Since it is at least not a very serious result which proves that it is worth to do further researches in the field of the cell phone market based on the DFM. The results based on the ASWM and the ARBF NN models are satisfied. The improved methods enhance the forecast accuracy compared to the original model. In the field of the price forecast on the cell phone market, the improved methods have a good performance which is valuable and useful not only for businesses, but also for consumers.Keywords: Price forecasting, cell phone market, disturbance factor, adaptive sliding windows, adaptive RBF neural network * Corresponding author. zqy@hyit.edu.cn
INTRODUCTIONAs the development of network technology and the popularity of online stores, recently, there is a growing emphasis on researches of commodity price forecasting methods. The commodity price forecasting method is the basis of market forecast analysis, commodity production and sales decisions. It is an important issue in the field of market forecast which plays a key role in commodity production, sales and many other issues. This issue can be seen as the data processing and data analysis issues based on time series. In the past, people have done a large number of experiments on the price forecast in the different fields such as stock market [1][2][3] [14]. There are a lot of improved methods based on these put forward in their researches: forecasting day-ahead electricity price by modified relief algorithm and hybrid neural network [15]; forecasting electricity price with extreme learning machine and bootstrapping [16]; forecasting day-ahead price of electricity markets by mutual information technique and cascaded neuro-evolutionary algorithm [17]; a hybrid model for day-ahead price forecasting [18]; self-adaptive radial basis function neural network for shortterm electricity price forecasting [19]; forecasting day-ahead price of electricity markets by a new fuzzy neural network [20]; a price forecast method of commercial aircraft based on I-GM(0, N) model [21]; forecasting price using an integrated approach [22], and so o...