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Forecasting, Volume 3, Issue 2

2021 June - 12 articles

Cover Story: Is it possible to forecast the price of Bitcoin? This rhetorical question is on the lips of every TV news anchor in 2021, whereby Bitcoin hit an all-time high, has been advertised by several multi-billionaires (including Elon Musk), and nation states have adopted it as an official currency (e.g., El Salvador). For the modeler, Bitcoin is, on the contrary, a tricky beast to tame since it obeys no clear price drivers. Therefore, in this piece of research, we attempt to do our best to devise forecasting strategies of the Bitcoin price, concerning other cryptocurrencies and traditional financial assets, in a horse race of machine learning models that explicitly deals with the non-stationarity of the data at hand. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,849 Views
13 Pages

19 June 2021

The random walk, no-change forecast is a customary benchmark in the literature on forecasting commodity prices. We challenge this custom by examining whether alternative models are more suited for this purpose. Based on a literature review and the re...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,306 Views
10 Pages

Pre-Operational Application of a WRF-Hydro-Based Fluvial Flood Forecasting System in the Southeast Mediterranean

  • Christos Giannaros,
  • Elissavet Galanaki,
  • Vassiliki Kotroni,
  • Konstantinos Lagouvardos,
  • Christina Oikonomou,
  • Haris Haralambous and
  • Theodore M. Giannaros

9 June 2021

The Southeast Mediterranean (SEM) is characterized by increased vulnerability to river/stream flooding. However, impact-oriented, operational fluvial flood forecasting is far away from maturity in the region. The current paper presents the first atte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
17,226 Views
44 Pages

Is It Possible to Forecast the Price of Bitcoin?

  • Julien Chevallier,
  • Dominique Guégan and
  • Stéphane Goutte

28 May 2021

This paper focuses on forecasting the price of Bitcoin, motivated by its market growth and the recent interest of market participants and academics. We deploy six machine learning algorithms (e.g., Artificial Neural Network, Support Vector Machine, R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,059 Views
16 Pages

28 May 2021

Previous studies have shown that the treasury yield curve, T, forecasts upcoming recessions when it obtains a negative value. In this paper, we try to improve the yield curve model while keeping its parsimony. First, we show that adding the federal f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,151 Views
22 Pages

27 May 2021

A novel forecasting method based on copula functions is proposed. It consists of an iterative algorithm in which a dependent variable is decomposed as a sum of error terms, where each one of them is estimated identifying the input variable which best...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,796 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2021

This study investigates the daily co-movements in commodity prices over the period 2006–2020 using a novel approach based on a time-varying Gerber correlation. The statistic is computed considering a set of probabilities estimated via non-traditional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,963 Views
17 Pages

Queue Length Forecasting in Complex Manufacturing Job Shops

  • Marvin Carl May,
  • Alexander Albers,
  • Marc David Fischer,
  • Florian Mayerhofer,
  • Louis Schäfer and
  • Gisela Lanza

11 May 2021

Currently, manufacturing is characterized by increasing complexity both on the technical and organizational levels. Thus, more complex and intelligent production control methods are developed in order to remain competitive and achieve operational exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,705 Views
19 Pages

Fighting Deepfakes Using Body Language Analysis

  • Robail Yasrab,
  • Wanqi Jiang and
  • Adnan Riaz

28 April 2021

Recent improvements in deepfake creation have made deepfake videos more realistic. Moreover, open-source software has made deepfake creation more accessible, which reduces the barrier to entry for deepfake creation. This could pose a threat to the pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,197 Views
13 Pages

Building Heat Demand Forecasting by Training a Common Machine Learning Model with Physics-Based Simulator

  • Lotta Kannari,
  • Jussi Kiljander,
  • Kalevi Piira,
  • Jouko Piippo and
  • Pekka Koponen

21 April 2021

Accurate short-term forecasts of building energy consumption are necessary for profitable demand response. Short-term forecasting methods can be roughly classified into physics-based modelling and data-based modelling. Both of these approaches have t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,835 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2021

The importance of high-resolution meteorological time-series data for detection of transformative changes in the climate system is unparalleled. These data sequences allow for a comprehensive study of natural and forced evolution of warming and cooli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,623 Views
9 Pages

Tobacco Endgame Simulation Modelling: Assessing the Impact of Policy Changes on Smoking Prevalence in 2035

  • Michael Chaiton,
  • Jolene Dubray,
  • G. Emmanuel Guindon and
  • Robert Schwartz

13 April 2021

Smoking causes substantial amount of mortality and morbidity. This article presents the findings from simulation models that projected the impact of five potential Tobacco Endgame strategies on smoking prevalence in Ontario by 2035 and expected impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,222 Views
11 Pages

1 April 2021

The determination of electric energy consumption is remarked as one of the most vital objectives for electrical engineers as it is highly essential in determining the actual energy demand made on the existing electricity supply. Therefore, it is impo...

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Forecasting - ISSN 2571-9394