6. Conclusions and future work
We presented a comparisonoffeedforward and recurrentneural networks performance for time series prediction where cooperative neuro-evolution was used as the training algorithm. We used two different problem decomposition methods in cooperative neuro-evolution. The results show that the recurrent neural network architecture with neuron level decomposition gave the best results across the different problems. A mobile application framework was also presented that has the potential to efficiently synchronise the prediction system with smartphones taking into account the challenges of over-heating and power consumption. It was highlighted that security issues need to be death with in the implementation of biometric features in the mobile application. This can give potential investors real-time information on market behaviour which is useful in making investments. In future research, it would be interesting to apply the prediction method to different financial problems that deal with foreign exchange rates, interest rates, and dividend rates. Multi-variate time series can also be used to further improve the prediction. Furthermore, machine learning approaches such as transfer learning could be used to exploit fundamental knowledge in different markets that generate the time series.