scholarly journals Student Enrollment and Teacher Statistics Forecasting Based on Time-Series Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Stephanie Yang ◽  
Hsueh-Chih Chen ◽  
Wen-Ching Chen ◽  
Cheng-Hong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
National Competitiveness ◽  
Whale Optimization ◽  
Low Birthrate

Education competitiveness is a key feature of national competitiveness. It is crucial for nations to develop and enhance student and teacher potential to increase national competitiveness. The decreasing population of children has caused a series of social problems in many developed countries, directly affecting education and com.petitiveness in an international environment. In Taiwan, a low birthrate has had a large impact on schools at every level because of a substantial decrease in enrollment and a surplus of teachers. Therefore, close attention must be paid to these trends. In this study, combining a whale optimization algorithm (WOA) and support vector regression (WOASVR) was proposed to determine trends of student and teacher numbers in Taiwan for higher accuracy in time-series forecasting analysis. To select the most suitable support vector kernel parameters, WOA was applied. Data collected from the Ministry of Education datasets of student and teacher numbers between 1991 and 2018 were used to examine the proposed method. Analysis revealed that the numbers of students and teachers decreased annually except in private primary schools. A comparison of the forecasting results obtained from WOASVR and other common models indicated that WOASVR provided the lowest mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and root mean square error (RMSE) for all analyzed datasets. Forecasting performed using the WOASVR method can provide accurate data for use in developing education policies and responses.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of machine learning approaches to analyze and predict the COVID-19 outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e746
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem ◽  
Jian Yu ◽  
Muhammad Aamir ◽  
Sajjad Ahmad Khan ◽  
Olayinka Adeleye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Mean Absolute Percentage Error ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Absolute Percentage Error ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
The Impact

Background Forecasting the time of forthcoming pandemic reduces the impact of diseases by taking precautionary steps such as public health messaging and raising the consciousness of doctors. With the continuous and rapid increase in the cumulative incidence of COVID-19, statistical and outbreak prediction models including various machine learning (ML) models are being used by the research community to track and predict the trend of the epidemic, and also in developing appropriate strategies to combat and manage its spread. Methods In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of various ML approaches including Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbor and Artificial Neural Network in predicting the COVID-19 outbreak in the epidemiological domain. We first apply the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method to identify and model the short and long-run relationships of the time-series COVID-19 datasets. That is, we determine the lags between a response variable and its respective explanatory time series variables as independent variables. Then, the resulting significant variables concerning their lags are used in the regression model selected by the ARDL for predicting and forecasting the trend of the epidemic. Results Statistical measures—Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE)—are used for model accuracy. The values of MAPE for the best-selected models for confirmed, recovered and deaths cases are 0.003, 0.006 and 0.115, respectively, which falls under the category of highly accurate forecasts. In addition, we computed 15 days ahead forecast for the daily deaths, recovered, and confirm patients and the cases fluctuated across time in all aspects. Besides, the results reveal the advantages of ML algorithms for supporting the decision-making of evolving short-term policies.

scholarly journals English in public primary schools in Colombia: Achievements and challenges brought about by national language education policies

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Correa ◽  
Adriana González
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Global Market ◽  
National Language ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Government

In an effort to become more competitive in the global market, Colombia, as many other Latin American countries, has declared English the dominant foreign language to be taught in schools and universities across the country. To support this measure, in the last 16 years, the government, through its National Ministry of Education, has launched a series of programs such as National Program of Bilingualism 2004-2019; the Program for Strengthening the Development of Competences in Foreign Languages; The National English Program: Colombia Very Well 2015-2025; and most recently, Bilingual Colombia 2014-2018. Results from studies conducted by local researchers across the country suggest that the regulation has posed a series of challenges for public primary school teachers, which these programs have not been able to address. These challenges can be divided into two categories: professional and work related. The purpose of this article is twofold: First, the article intends to provide a critical overview of the four programs that the Colombian government has launched since 2004. Second, the article aims to present some conclusions and recommendations for language policy design and implementation in Colombia.

scholarly journals Chaos Time Series Prediction Based on Membrane Optimization Algorithms

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Li ◽  
Liangzhong Yi ◽  
Zheng Pei ◽  
Zhisheng Gao ◽  
Hong Peng
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Mean Square Error ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Membrane Computing ◽  
Spectrum Management ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
Proposed Model

This paper puts forward a prediction model based on membrane computing optimization algorithm for chaos time series; the model optimizes simultaneously the parameters of phase space reconstruction(τ,m)and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM)(γ,σ)by using membrane computing optimization algorithm. It is an important basis for spectrum management to predict accurately the change trend of parameters in the electromagnetic environment, which can help decision makers to adopt an optimal action. Then, the model presented in this paper is used to forecast band occupancy rate of frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting band and interphone band. To show the applicability and superiority of the proposed model, this paper will compare the forecast model presented in it with conventional similar models. The experimental results show that whether single-step prediction or multistep prediction, the proposed model performs best based on three error measures, namely, normalized mean square error (NMSE), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE).

scholarly journals Fast Univariate Time Series Prediction of Solar Power for Real-Time Control of Energy Storage System

Forecasting ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Majidpour ◽  
Hamidreza Nazaripouya ◽  
Peter Chu ◽  
Hemanshu Pota ◽  
Rajit Gadh
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Time Series Prediction ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Acquisition Time ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Solar Power Generation ◽  
Prediction Algorithms ◽  
Univariate Time Series

In this paper, super-short-term prediction of solar power generation for applications in dynamic control of energy system has been investigated. In order to follow and satisfy the dynamics of the controller, the deployed prediction method should have a fast response time. To this end, this paper proposes fast prediction methods to provide the control system with one step ahead of solar power generation. The proposed methods are based on univariate time series prediction. That is, instead of using external data such as the weather forecast as the input of prediction algorithms, they solely rely on past values of solar power data, hence lowering the volume and acquisition time of input data. In addition, the selected algorithms are able to generate the forecast output in less than a second. The proposed methods in this paper are grounded on four well-known prediction algorithms including Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), K-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and Random Forest (RF). The speed and accuracy of the proposed algorithms have been compared based on two different error measures, Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE). Real world data collected from the PV installation at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) are used for prediction purposes. The results show that kNN and RF have better predicting performance with respect to SMAPE and MAE criteria.

scholarly journals Forecasting ASEAN Tourist Arrivals in Malaysia using Different Time Series Models

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 572-578
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Time Series Models ◽  
Mode Decomposition ◽  
Asean Country ◽  
Forecasting Performance

In this study three time series models are used for forecasting monthly ASEAN tourist arrivals in Malaysia from January 1999 to December 2015. Brunei, Thailand and Vietnam of ASEAN country selected as case study. This paper compares the forecasting accuracy of seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Wavelet Support Vector Machine (WSVM) and Empirical Mode Decomposition with Wavelet Support Vector Machine (EMD_WSVM) using root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) criterion. Moreover, correlation test has also been carried out to strengthen decisions, and to check accuracy of various forecasting models. Based on the forecasting performance of all four models, hybrid model SARIMA and EMD_WSVM are found to be best models as compare to single model SVM and hybrid model WSVM.

scholarly journals A Nonlinear Optimizated PSO-SVR Hybrid System for Time Series Forecasting with ARIMA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilly Pereira Alves ◽  
Joao Fausto Lorenzato Oliveira ◽  
Manoel Henrique da Nóbrega Marinho ◽  
Francisco Madeiro
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Squared Error ◽  
The Subject

In the forecasting time series field, the combination of techniques to aid in predicting different patterns has been the subject of several studies. Hybrid models have been widely applied in this scenario, where the vast majority of series are composed of linear and nonlinear patterns. The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) presents satisfactory results in a linear pattern prediction but can not capture nonlinear ones. In dealing with nonlinear patterns, the Support Vector Regression (SVR) has shown promising results. In order to map both patterns, an optimized nonlinear combination model based on SVR and ARIMA is proposed. The main difference in comparison with other works is the use of an interactive Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to increase the prediction performance. To the experimental setup, six well-known datasets of the literature is used. The performance is assessed by the metrics Mean Squared Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). The results show the proposed system attains better outcomes when compared to the other tested techniques, for most of the used data.

Forecasting based on spectral time series analysis: prediction of the Aurubis stock price

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Julia Babirath ◽  
Karel Malec ◽  
Rainer Schmitl ◽  
Kamil Maitah ◽  
Mansoor Maitah
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Wiener Process ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Portfolio Performance ◽  
Stock Price Prediction ◽  
Series Analysis ◽  
Augmented Dickey Fuller

The attempt to predict stock price movements has occupied investors ever since. Reliable forecasts are a basis for investment management, and improved forecasting results lead to enhanced portfolio performance and sound risk management. While forecasting using the Wiener process has received great attention in the literature, spectral time series analysis has been disregarded in this respect. The paper’s main objective is to evaluate whether spectral time series analysis can produce reliable forecasts of the Aurubis stock price. Aurubis poses a suitable candidate for an investor’s portfolio due to its sound economic and financial situation and the steady dividend policy. Additionally, reliable management contributes to making Aurubis an investment opportunity. To judge if the achieved forecast results can be considered satisfactory, they are compared against the simulation results of a Wiener process. After de-trending the time series using an Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, the residuals were compartmentalized into sine and cosine functions. The frequencies, amplitude, and phase were obtained using the Fast Fourier transform. The mean absolute percentage error measured the accuracy of the stock price prediction, and the results showed that the spectral analysis was able to deliver superior results when comparing the simulation using a Wiener process. Hence, spectral time series can enhance stock price forecasts and consequently improve risk management.

scholarly journals Predicting Ink Transfer Rate of 3D Additive Printing Using EGBO Optimized Least Squares Support Vector Machine Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Shengpu Li ◽  
Yize Sun
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Experimental Sample ◽  
Machine Model ◽  
Ink Transfer

Ink transfer rate (ITR) is a reference index to measure the quality of 3D additive printing. In this study, an ink transfer rate prediction model is proposed by applying the least squares support vector machine (LSSVM). In addition, enhanced garden balsam optimization (EGBO) is used for selection and optimization of hyperparameters that are embedded in the LSSVM model. 102 sets of experimental sample data have been collected from the production line to train and test the hybrid prediction model. Experimental results show that the coefficient of determination (R2) for the introduced model is equal to 0.8476, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) is 6.6 × 10 (−3), and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is 1.6502 × 10 (−3) for the ink transfer rate of 3D additive printing.

scholarly journals Monitoring Urban Sprawl Using Time-Series Data: Famagusta Region of Northern Cyprus

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110074
Author(s):  
Kamyar Fuladlu ◽  
Müge Riza ◽  
Mustafa Ilkan
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Great Success ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Northern Cyprus

Monitoring urban sprawl is a controversial topic among scholars. Many studies have tried to employ various methods for monitoring urban sprawl in cases of North American and Northern and Western European cities. Although numerous methods have been applied with great success in various developed countries, they are predominantly impractical for cases of developing Mediterranean European cities that lack reliable census data. Besides, the complexity of the methods made them difficult to perform in underfunded situations. Therefore, this study aims to develop a new multidimensional method that researchers and planners can apply readily in developing Mediterranean European cities. The new method was tested in the Famagusta region of Northern Cyprus, which has been experiencing unplanned growth for the past half-century. In support of this proposal, a detailed review of the existing literature is presented with an emphasis on urban sprawl characteristics. Four characteristics were chosen to monitor urban sprawl’s development in the Famagusta region. The method was structured based on a time-series (2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016) dataset that used remote sensing data and geographical information systems to monitor the urban sprawl. Based on the findings, the Famagusta region experienced rapid growth during the last 15 years. The lack of a masterplan resulted in the uncontrolled expansion of the city in the exurban areas. The development configuration was polycentric and linear in form with single-use composition. Together, the expansion and configuration manifested as more built-up area, scattered development, and increased automobile dependency.

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