scholarly journals Shuffle design to improve time series forecasting accuracy

Author(s):  
Juan Peralta ◽  
German Gutierrez ◽  
Araceli Sanchis
Author(s):  
Nghiem Van Tinh

Over the past 25 years, numerous fuzzy time series forecasting models have been proposed to deal the complex and uncertain problems. The main factors that affect the forecasting results of these models are partition universe of discourse, creation of fuzzy relationship groups and defuzzification of forecasting output values. So, this study presents a hybrid fuzzy time series forecasting model combined particle swarm optimization (PSO) and fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) for solving issues above. The FCM clustering is used to divide the historical data into initial intervals with unequal size. After generating interval, the historical data is fuzzified into fuzzy sets with the aim to serve for establishing fuzzy relationship groups according to chronological order. Then the information obtained from the fuzzy relationship groups can be used to calculate forecasted value based on a new defuzzification technique. In addition, in order to enhance forecasting accuracy, the PSO algorithm is used for finding optimum interval lengths in the universe of discourse. The proposed model is applied to forecast three well-known numerical datasets (enrolments data of the University of Alabama, the Taiwan futures exchange —TAIFEX data and yearly deaths in car road accidents in Belgium). These datasets are also examined by using some other forecasting models available in the literature. The forecasting results obtained from the proposed model are compared to those produced by the other models. It is observed that the proposed model achieves higher forecasting accuracy than its counterparts for both first—order and high—order fuzzy logical relationship.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Teerada Khamphinit ◽  
Pornthipa Ongkunaruk

<p>Demand forecasting is very important for the planning process. The forecast accuracy affects the efficiency of the procurement, production and delivery processes. Our research has the objective of increasing the sales forecasting accuracy of instant noodles for a case study company in Thailand. Many factors affect the sales of instant noodles, such as promotion, other commodities’ prices, national disaster and production capacity. Thus, we collected historical monthly sales data, analysed the data and their pattern and considered whether the data were irregular due to those factors. After obtaining the forecast data, data intervention by adjustment of the irregular effects was performed in accordance with our experience and judgement. Next, we used the predictor function in the Crystal Ball software to determine the best time series forecasting method for actual and adjusted sales data. Then, we verified the result with the actual sales data for one year. The result showed that the adjustment could increase the sales forecast accuracy by 46.14%, 22.53% and 56.42% for products A, B and C, respectively. In summary, the mean average percentage sales forecast error after adjustment was 6.48%–11.62%, which is better than the current method of forecasting based on experts.  </p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Instant Noodle; Intervention; Qualitative Forecasting; Sales Adjustment; Time Ser ies Forecasting </p>


Author(s):  
Qingyi Pan ◽  
Wenbo Hu ◽  
Ning Chen

It is important yet challenging to perform accurate and interpretable time series forecasting. Though deep learning methods can boost forecasting accuracy, they often sacrifice interpretability. In this paper, we present a new scheme of series saliency to boost both accuracy and interpretability. By extracting series images from sliding windows of the time series, we design series saliency as a mixup strategy with a learnable mask between the series images and their perturbed versions. Series saliency is model agnostic and performs as an adaptive data augmentation method for training deep models. Moreover, by slightly changing the objective, we optimize series saliency to find a mask for interpretable forecasting in both feature and time dimensions. Experimental results on several real datasets demonstrate that series saliency is effective to produce accurate time-series forecasting results as well as generate temporal interpretations.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthick Thiyagarajan ◽  
sarath kodagoda ◽  
Nalika Ulapane

Microbial corrosion is considered the main reason for multi-billion dollar sewer asset degradation. Sewer pipe surface temperature is a vital parameter for predicting the micro-biologically induced concrete corrosion. Due to this important measure, a surface temperature sensor suite was recently developed and tested in an aggressive sewer environment. The sensors can fail and they may also put offline during the period of scheduled maintenance. In such situations, time series forecasting of sensor data can be an alternative measure for the operators managing the sewer network. In this regard, this paper focuses on the short-term forecasting of sensor measurements. The evaluation was carried out by forecasting the sensor measurements for different time periods and evaluated with different forecasting models. The ETS model leads to high short-term forecasting accuracy and the ARIMA model leads to high long-term forecasting accuracy. The models were evaluated on real data captured in a Sydney sewer


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthick Thiyagarajan ◽  
sarath kodagoda ◽  
Nalika Ulapane

Microbial corrosion is considered the main reason for multi-billion dollar sewer asset degradation. Sewer pipe surface temperature is a vital parameter for predicting the micro-biologically induced concrete corrosion. Due to this important measure, a surface temperature sensor suite was recently developed and tested in an aggressive sewer environment. The sensors can fail and they may also put offline during the period of scheduled maintenance. In such situations, time series forecasting of sensor data can be an alternative measure for the operators managing the sewer network. In this regard, this paper focuses on the short-term forecasting of sensor measurements. The evaluation was carried out by forecasting the sensor measurements for different time periods and evaluated with different forecasting models. The ETS model leads to high short-term forecasting accuracy and the ARIMA model leads to high long-term forecasting accuracy. The models were evaluated on real data captured in a Sydney sewer


Author(s):  
Riswan Efendi ◽  
Mustafa Mat Deris

Many models and techniques have been proposed by researchers to improve forecasting accuracy using fuzzy time series. However, very few studies have tackled problems that involve inverse fuzzy function into fuzzy time series forecasting. In this paper, we modify inverse fuzzy function by considering new factor value in establishing the forecasting model without any probabilistic approaches. The proposed model was evaluated by comparing its performance with inverse and noninverse fuzzy time series models in forecasting the yearly enrollment data of several universities, such as Alabama University, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and QiongZhou University; the yearly car accidents in Belgium; and the monthly Turkish spot gold price. The results suggest that the proposed model has potential to improve the forecasting accuracy compared to the existing inverse and non-inverse fuzzy time series models. This paper contributes to providing the better future forecast values using the systematic rules.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1655-1674
Author(s):  
Mahua Bose ◽  
Kalyani Mali

In recent years, various methods for forecasting fuzzy time series have been presented in different areas, such as stock price, enrollments, weather, production etc. It is observed that in most of the cases, static length of intervals/equal length of interval has been used. Length of the interval has significant role on forecasting accuracy. The objective of this present study is to incorporate the idea of fuzzy discretization into interval creation and examine the effect of positional information of elements within a group or interval to the forecast. This idea outperforms the existing high order forecast methods using fixed interval. Experiments are carried on three datasets including Lahi production data, enrollment data and rainfall data which deal with a lot of uncertainty.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Bahrami ◽  
Mehdi Khashei ◽  
Atefeh Amindoust

Purpose The purpose of this paper, because of the complexity of demand time series and the need to construct a more accurate hybrid model that can model all relationships in data, is to propose a parallel-series hybridization of seasonal neural networks and statistical models for demand time series forecasting. Design/methodology/approach The main idea of proposed model is centered around combining parallel and series hybrid methodologies to use the benefit of unique advantages of both hybrid strategies as well as intelligent and classic seasonal time series models simultaneously for achieving results that are more accurate for the first time. In the proposed model, in contrast of traditional parallel and series hybrid strategies, it can be generally shown that the performance of the proposed model will not be worse than components. Findings Empirical results of forecasting two well-known seasonal time series data sets, including the total production value of the Taiwan machinery industry and the sales volume of soft drinks, indicate that the proposed model can effectively improve the forecasting accuracy achieved by either of their components used in isolation. In addition, the proposed model can achieve more accurate results than parallel and series hybrid model with same components. Therefore, the proposed model can be used as an appropriate alternative model for seasonal time series forecasting, especially when higher forecasting accuracy is needed. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the proposed model, for first time and in contrast of traditional parallel and series hybrid strategies, is developed.


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