“…The forecast accuracy of these models has been improved by optimizing their input with evolutionary search heuristics, such as Particle Swarm Optimization [4, 32,60,62,63], Genetic Algorithms [22,30,39,42,43,49,54], Simulated Annealing [23,40], Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm [5, 24,47], Differential Evolution [25,57] and Fruit Fly Optimization [38,41]. These hybrid methodologies have been applied to many different fields in forecasting, including tourism flow forecasting [14], electricity demand forecasting [63], rainfall prediction [60], price forecasting [47] and many others. The literature on evolutionary algorithms for AR(I)MA modeling mainly focuses on Genetic Algorithms [1, 21,29,45,49], with a few exceptions, such as [26].…”