Neural Network to forecast next value

[gsilva]

Hi there!

Maybe this is not "a simple question" like the section describes it, but I've searched a lot and still have nothing useful to start with.

I worked with Neural Networks in fingerprint recognition a while ago, and now I wanted to implement a simple network in C (or C++, or Java, or anything else, as long as someone helps me ) that guesses the next value in a sequence.

For example:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

The network would tell me that the next value would probably be 9. Of course, we're talking of a more complex sequences than this one.

The implementation and philosophy behind this forecasting thing is very different from the one behind fingerprint recognition, and all I can find on the web is paid software, but I want to implement this myself.

Any help?

Thanks.

[exif]

The commercial solutions are probably proprietary algorithms. If you're looking to implement your own version you will probably have to come up with your own logic as to how the network comes to a decision. Look around for scholarly papers about the subject, there might exist some literature about it, but be careful that it might be under a non-free license.