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  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,541 Views
35 Pages

Selecting a Model for Forecasting

  • Jennifer L. Castle,
  • Jurgen A. Doornik and
  • David F. Hendry

We investigate forecasting in models that condition on variables for which future values are unknown. We consider the role of the significance level because it guides the binary decisions whether to include or exclude variables. The analysis is exten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Celebrated Econometricians: David Hendry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,411 Views
15 Pages

6 October 2020

This study developed a hydrological drought forecasting framework linked to the meteorological model and land surface model (LSM) considering hydrologic facilities and evaluated the feasibility of the Modified Surface Water Supply Index (MSWSI) for d...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,909 Views
19 Pages

Air pollution forecasting plays a vital role in environment pollution warning and control. Air pollution forecasting studies can also recommend pollutant emission control strategies to mitigate the number of poor air quality days. Although various li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change, Extreme Temperatures, Air Pollution, and Health)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,616 Views
16 Pages

Generalized Cauchy Process: Difference Iterative Forecasting Model

  • Jie Xing,
  • Wanqing Song and
  • Francesco Villecco

The contribution of this article is mainly to develop a new stochastic sequence forecasting model, which is also called the difference iterative forecasting model based on the Generalized Cauchy (GC) process. The GC process is a Long-Range Dependent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,209 Views
21 Pages

Energy Consumption Forecasting for the Digital-Twin Model of the Building

  • Joanna Henzel,
  • Łukasz Wróbel,
  • Marcin Fice and
  • Marek Sikora

13 June 2022

The aim of the paper is to propose a new approach to forecast the energy consumption for the next day using the unique data obtained from a digital twin model of a building. In the research, we tested which of the chosen forecasting methods and which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Factors Influencing Households’ Energy Consumption)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,953 Views
17 Pages

Multisite Long-Term Photovoltaic Forecasting Model Based on VACI

  • Siling Feng,
  • Ruitao Chen,
  • Mengxing Huang,
  • Yuanyuan Wu and
  • Huizhou Liu

In the field of photovoltaic (PV) power prediction, long-term forecasting, which is more challenging than short-term forecasting, can provide more comprehensive and forward-looking guidance. Currently, significant achievements have been made in the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,567 Views
32 Pages

Investigating the Performance of the Informer Model for Streamflow Forecasting

  • Nikos Tepetidis,
  • Demetris Koutsoyiannis,
  • Theano Iliopoulou and
  • Panayiotis Dimitriadis

10 October 2024

Recent studies have shown the potential of transformer-based neural networks in increasing prediction capacity. However, classical transformers present several problems such as computational time complexity and high memory requirements, which make Lo...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,079 Views
17 Pages

Multi-Step Sequence Flood Forecasting Based on MSBP Model

  • Yue Zhang,
  • Juanhui Ren,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Feiteng Fang and
  • Wen Zheng

30 July 2021

Establishing a model predicting river flow can effectively reduce huge losses caused by floods. This paper proposes a multi-step time series forecasting model based on multiple input and multiple output strategies, and this model is applied to the fl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Recent Advances in Hydroinformatics: Focusing on Machine Learning and Remote Sensing in Hydrology)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,812 Views
20 Pages

10 March 2015

Analysis of urban saturated power loads is helpful to coordinate urban power grid construction and economic social development. There are two different kinds of forecasting models: the logistic curve model focuses on the growth law of the data itself...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,562 Views
23 Pages

Optimal Time Series Forecasting Through the GARMA Model

  • Adel Hassan A. Gadhi,
  • Shelton Peiris,
  • David E. Allen and
  • Richard Hunt

This paper examines the use of machine learning methods in modeling and forecasting time series with long memory through GARMA. By employing rigorous model selection criteria through simulation study, we find that the hybrid GARMA-LSTM model outperfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,724 Views
16 Pages

23 January 2021

For reservoir basins, complex underlying surface conditions, short flood confluence times, and concentrated water volumes make inflow flood forecasting difficult and cause forecast accuracies to be low. Conventional flood forecasting models can no lo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,709 Views
17 Pages

Two-Population Mortality Forecasting: An Approach Based on Model Averaging

  • Luca De Mori,
  • Pietro Millossovich,
  • Rui Zhu and
  • Steven Haberman

27 March 2024

The analysis of residual life expectancy evolution at retirement age holds great importance for life insurers and pension schemes. Over the last 30 years, numerous models for forecasting mortality have been introduced, and those that allow us to pred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,058 Views
12 Pages

Relative Error Linear Combination Forecasting Model Based on Uncertainty Theory

  • Hongmei Shi,
  • Lin Wei,
  • Cui Wang,
  • Shuai Wang and
  • Yufu Ning

7 July 2023

The traditional combination forecasting model has good forecasting effect, but it needs precise historical data. In fact, many random events are uncertain, and much of the data are imprecise; sometimes, historical data are lacking. We need to study c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Set Theory and Uncertainty Theory—Volume II)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,620 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2025

Reliable forecasting of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity—particularly rapid intensification (RI) events—remains a major challenge in meteorology, largely due to the inherent difficulty of accurately quantifying predictive uncertainty. Trad...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI for Natural Disasters Detection, Prediction and Modeling)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,837 Views
32 Pages

HIRA Model for Short-Term Electricity Price Forecasting

  • Marin Cerjan,
  • Ana Petričić and
  • Marko Delimar

12 February 2019

In competitive power markets, electric utilities, power producers, and traders are exposed to increased risks caused by electricity price volatility. The growing reliance on renewable sources and their dependence on weather, nuclear uncertainty, mark...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,858 Views
22 Pages

A Robust Weighted Combination Forecasting Method Based on Forecast Model Filtering and Adaptive Variable Weight Determination

  • Lianhui Li,
  • Chunyang Mu,
  • Shaohu Ding,
  • Zheng Wang and ,
  • Runyang Mo and
  • Yongfeng Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 December 2015

Medium-and-long-term load forecasting plays an important role in energy policy implementation and electric department investment decision. Aiming to improve the robustness and accuracy of annual electric load forecasting, a robust weighted combinatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,942 Views
27 Pages

4 July 2018

Due to inherent randomness and fluctuation of wind speeds, it is very challenging to develop an effective and practical model to achieve accurate wind speed forecasting, especially over large forecasting horizons. This paper presents a new decomposit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar and Wind Energy Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,040 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2019

The global rainfall pattern has changed because of climate change, leading to numerous natural hazards, such as drought. Because drought events have led to many disasters globally, it is necessary to create an early warning system. Drought forecastin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Drought Risk Analysis, Forecasting, and Assessment under Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
882 Views
20 Pages

Hydro–Meteorological Coupled Runoff Forecasting Using Multi-Model Precipitation Forecasts

  • Zhanyun Zhu,
  • Yue Zhou,
  • Xinhua Zhao,
  • Yan Cheng and ,
  • Qian Li and
  • Weiwei Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2026

Accurate runoff forecasting is essential for effective water resource management, hydropower operation, and flood risk mitigation. In this study, daily inflow runoff in the Xin’an River Basin, eastern China, was simulated using four ensemble le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue "Watershed–Urban" Flooding and Waterlogging Disasters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,409 Views
26 Pages

9 June 2023

Accurate carbon price index prediction can delve deeply into the internal law of carbon price changes, provide helpful information to managers and decision makers, as well as improve the carbon market system. Nevertheless, existing methods for combin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,202 Views
17 Pages

9 March 2023

Because of differences in the underlying surface, short flood confluence times, extreme precipitation, and other dynamic parameters, it is difficult to forecast an inflow flood to a basin reservoir, and traditional hydrological models do not achieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches and Metrics to Characterize and Predict Hydrometeorological Extremes: Machine Learning and Numerical Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,931 Views
13 Pages

3 August 2024

Through the application of cloud top temperature data and the extraction of supercooled cloud information in cloud-type data from the next-generation Himawari-8 geostationary satellite with high spatial–temporal resolution, a quantitative evalu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Weather Prediction Models and Ensemble Prediction Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,687 Views
12 Pages

19 August 2022

The forecasting of tourist arrival depends on the accurate modeling of prevalent data patterns found in tourist arrival, especially for daily tourist arrival, where tourist arrival changes are more complex and highly nonlinear. In this paper, a new m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Mathematical Methods in Information Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,397 Views
13 Pages

2 February 2019

Receiving appropriate forecast accuracy is important in many countries’ economic activities, and developing effective and precise time series model is critical issue in tourism demand forecasting. In this paper, fuzzy rule-based system model fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Time Series Analyses in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,744 Views
22 Pages

In-season crop production forecasts at the regional or sub-regional scale are essential to aid in food security through early warning of harvest shortfall/surplus, tailoring crop management decisions and addressing climatic shock. Considering the eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors Technology and Precision Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Citations
12,836 Views
23 Pages

Transformer-Based Model for Electrical Load Forecasting

  • Alexandra L’Heureux,
  • Katarina Grolinger and
  • Miriam A. M. Capretz

8 July 2022

Amongst energy-related CO2 emissions, electricity is the largest single contributor, and with the proliferation of electric vehicles and other developments, energy use is expected to increase. Load forecasting is essential for combating these issues...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Energy Consumption and Load Forecasting Challenges)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,587 Views
21 Pages

An Empirical Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting Model for the Northeast Region of Brazil

  • Rodrigo Lins da Rocha Júnior,
  • David Duarte Cavalcante Pinto,
  • Fabrício Daniel dos Santos Silva,
  • Heliofábio Barros Gomes and ,
  • Helber Barros Gomes,
  • Rafaela Lisboa Costa,
  • Marcos Paulo Santos Pereira,
  • Malaquías Peña,
  • Caio Augusto dos Santos Coelho and
  • Dirceu Luís Herdies
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

8 June 2021

The Northeast region of Brazil (NEB) is characterized by large climate variability that causes extreme and long unseasonal wet and dry periods. Despite significant model developments to improve seasonal forecasting for the NEB, the achievement of a s...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,289 Views
14 Pages

Two-Stage Combined Model for Short-Term Electricity Forecasting in Ports

  • Wentao Song,
  • Xiaohua Cao,
  • Hanrui Jiang,
  • Zejun Li and
  • Ruobin Gao

7 November 2024

With an increasing emphasis on energy conservation, emission reduction, and power consumption management, port enterprises are focusing on enhancing their electricity load forecasting capabilities. Accurate electricity load forecasting is crucial for...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,046 Views
13 Pages

Multi-Model Grand Ensemble Hydrologic Forecasting in the Fu River Basin Using Bayesian Model Averaging

  • Bo Qu,
  • Xingnan Zhang,
  • Florian Pappenberger,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Yuanhao Fang

24 January 2017

Statistical post-processing for multi-model grand ensemble (GE) hydrologic predictions is necessary, in order to achieve more accurate and reliable probabilistic forecasts. This paper presents a case study which applies Bayesian model averaging (BMA)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,039 Views
22 Pages

A Statistical Forecasting Model for Extremes of the Fire Behaviour Index in Australia

  • Rachel Taylor,
  • Andrew G. Marshall,
  • Steven Crimp,
  • Geoffrey J. Cary and
  • Sarah Harris

10 April 2024

The increasing frequency and duration of severe fire events in Australia further necessitate accurate and timely forecasting to mitigate their consequences. This study evaluated the performance of two distinct approaches to forecasting extreme fire d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Weather and Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,010 Views
30 Pages

Meteorological forcing is the primary driving force and primary source of errors for storm surge forecasting. The objective of this study was to learn how forecasted meteorological forcing influences storm surge generation and propagation during a hu...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,579 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2018

Prediction of electricity consumption plays critical roles in the economy. Accurate electricity consumption forecasting is essential for policy makers to formulate electricity supply policies. However, limited data and variables generally cannot prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
142 Citations
28,931 Views
15 Pages

Financial Time Series Forecasting with the Deep Learning Ensemble Model

  • Kaijian He,
  • Qian Yang,
  • Lei Ji,
  • Jingcheng Pan and
  • Yingchao Zou

20 February 2023

With the continuous development of financial markets worldwide to tackle rapid changes such as climate change and global warming, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of financial time series forecasting in financial market operati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning with Application to Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
7,885 Views
21 Pages

Forecasting Photovoltaic Power Generation with a Stacking Ensemble Model

  • Abdallah Abdellatif,
  • Hamza Mubarak,
  • Shameem Ahmad,
  • Tofael Ahmed and ,
  • G. M. Shafiullah,
  • Ahmad Hammoudeh,
  • Hamdan Abdellatef,
  • M. M. Rahman and
  • Hassan Muwafaq Gheni
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

5 September 2022

Nowadays, photovoltaics (PV) has gained popularity among other renewable energy sources because of its excellent features. However, the instability of the system’s output has become a critical problem due to the high PV penetration into the exi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Pathway to Trace the Sustainable Development with a Strong Focus on Energy Storage and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,355 Views
23 Pages

A Hybrid STL-Based Ensemble Model for PM2.5 Forecasting in Pakistani Cities

  • Moiz Qureshi,
  • Atef F. Hashem,
  • Hasnain Iftikhar and
  • Paulo Canas Rodrigues

31 October 2025

Air pollution, outstanding particulate matter (PM2.5), poses severe risks to human health and the environment in densely populated urban areas. Accurate short-term forecasting of PM2.5 concentrations is therefore crucial for timely public health advi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unlocking the Power of Probability and Statistics for Symmetry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,649 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2025

This study aims to combine deep and recurrent neural networks with a reduced-form portfolio model to predict future default rates across economic sectors. The industry-specific forecasts for Italian default rates produced with the proposed approach d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,606 Views
27 Pages

10 January 2017

Forecasting of electricity prices is important in deregulated electricity markets for all of the stakeholders: energy wholesalers, traders, retailers and consumers. Electricity price forecasting is an inherently difficult problem due to its special c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting Models of Electricity Prices)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,499 Views
19 Pages

13 June 2025

This study explores a hybrid AI framework for streamflow forecasting that integrates physically based hydrological modeling, bias correction, and deep learning. HEC-HMS simulations generate synthetic discharge, which a machine learning-based bias cor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Artificial Intelligence Methods, Tools and Methodologies to Address Challenging Real-World Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,384 Views
16 Pages

Deep Spatiotemporal Model for COVID-19 Forecasting

  • Mario Muñoz-Organero and
  • Paula Queipo-Álvarez

5 May 2022

COVID-19 has caused millions of infections and deaths over the last 2 years. Machine learning models have been proposed as an alternative to conventional epidemiologic models in an effort to optimize short- and medium-term forecasts that will help he...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Use of Smart Wearable Sensors and AI Methods in Providing P4 Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,824 Views
15 Pages

1 November 2018

Solar power’s variability makes managing power system planning and operation difficult. Facilitating a high level of integration of solar power resources into a grid requires maintaining the fundamental power system so that it is stable when in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Big Data in Energy Forecasting with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,414 Views
34 Pages

Research and Application of a Model Selection Forecasting System for Wind Speed and Theoretical Power Generation

  • Ming Zeng,
  • Qianqian Jia,
  • Zhenming Wen,
  • Fang Mao and ,
  • Haotao Huang and
  • Jingyuan Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 December 2025

Accurate short-term wind speed forecasting is essential for mitigating wind power variability and supporting stable grid operation. This study proposes a model selection forecasting system (MSFS) that dynamically integrates six deep learning models t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Future Internet Technology in China 2025–2026)
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  • Open Access
6,711 Views
19 Pages

16 February 2025

This research evaluates the quality of high-impact rainfall forecasts across Vietnam and its sub-climate regions. The 3-day rainfall forecast products evaluated include the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) High-Resolution In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precipitation Observations and Prediction (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
715 Views
21 Pages

Accurate short-term load forecasting (STLF) is essential for the reliable and efficient operation of modern power systems, particularly with the increasing integration of renewable energy and the transition toward smart grids. However, most existing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Modern Power and Energy Systems, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,735 Views
19 Pages

Wind Power Short-Term Forecasting Hybrid Model Based on CEEMD-SE Method

  • Keke Wang,
  • Dongxiao Niu,
  • Lijie Sun,
  • Hao Zhen and ,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Gejirifu De and
  • Xiaomin Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2019

Accurately predicting wind power is crucial for the large-scale grid-connected of wind power and the increase of wind power absorption proportion. To improve the forecasting accuracy of wind power, a hybrid forecasting model using data preprocessing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy, Economic and Environment for Industrial Production Processes)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,658 Views
26 Pages

5 April 2025

Accurate interval forecasting of wind power is crucial for ensuring the safe, stable, and cost-effective operation of power grids. In this paper, we propose a hybrid deep learning model for day-ahead wind power interval forecasting. The model begins...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,494 Views
11 Pages

19 December 2022

The predictability of wind energy is crucial due to the uncertain and intermittent features of wind energy. This study proposes wind speed forecasting models, which employ time series clustering approaches and deep learning methods. The deep learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,778 Views
11 Pages

1 March 2020

The number of wind-generating resources has increased considerably, owing to concerns over the environmental impact of fossil-fuel combustion. Therefore, wind power forecasting is becoming an important issue for large-scale wind power grid integratio...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,733 Views
16 Pages

23 September 2022

Since entering the 21st century, “economic globalization” has become a hot topic. Under the impact of “economic globalization”, the competition of the Chinese domestic market continues to intensify, and Chinese enterprises are...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,430 Views
18 Pages

4 December 2025

Accurate cooling load forecasting in high-efficiency chiller plants with ice storage systems is essential for intelligent control, energy conservation, and maintaining indoor comfort. However, conventional forecasting methods often struggle to model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,246 Views
16 Pages

A Hybrid Vector Autoregressive Model for Accurate Macroeconomic Forecasting: An Application to the U.S. Economy

  • Faridoon Khan,
  • Hasnain Iftikhar,
  • Imran Khan,
  • Paulo Canas Rodrigues and ,
  • Abdulmajeed Atiah Alharbi and
  • Jeza Allohibi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 May 2025

Forecasting macroeconomic variables is essential to macroeconomics, financial economics, and monetary policy analysis. Due to the high dimensionality of the macroeconomic dataset, it is challenging to forecast efficiently and accurately. Thus, this s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis: Methods, Theory, and Applications)

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