Abstract
Forecasting the dynamical behaviors of nonlinear systems over long time intervals represents a great challenge for scientists and has become a very active area of research. The employment of the well-known artificial recurrent neural networks (RNNs)-based models requires a high computational cost, and they usually maintain adequate accuracy for complicated dynamics over short intervals only. In this work, an efficient reservoir-computing (RC) approach is presented to predict the time evolution of the complicated dynamics of a fractional order hyperchaotic finance model. Compared with the well-known deep learning techniques, the suggested RC-based forecasting model is faster, more accurate for long-time prediction, and has a smaller execution time. Numerical schemes for fractional order systems are generally time-consuming. The second goal of the present study is to introduce a faster, more efficient, and simpler simulator to the fractional order chaotic/hyperchaotic systems. The RC model is utilized in a proposed RC-based digital image encryption scheme. Security analysis is carried out to verify the performance of the proposed encryption scheme against different types of statistical, KPA, brute-force, CCA, and differential attacks.