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1 Citations
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Stochastic Modeling and Forecasting of Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Using Compound Poisson Processes

  • Honorat Quinard,
  • Frédéric Colas,
  • Jean-Yves Dieulot and
  • Frédéric Coutellier

Electric vehicle (EV) charging demand introduces significant variability in power systems, requiring forecasting approaches capable of representing both aggregated consumption trends and stochastic charging behaviors. While machine learning methods o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers to Celebrate the First Impact Factor of Electricity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,771 Views
14 Pages

Forecasting the Active Cases of COVID-19 via a New Stochastic Rayleigh Diffusion Process

  • Ahmed Nafidi,
  • Yassine Chakroune,
  • Ramón Gutiérrez-Sánchez and
  • Abdessamad Tridane

In this work, we study the possibility of using a new non-homogeneous stochastic diffusion process based on the Rayleigh density function to model the evolution of the active cases of COVID-19 in Morocco. First, the main probabilistic characteristics...

(This article belongs to the Section Life Science, Biophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,783 Views
20 Pages

Comparison between Multi-Physics and Stochastic Approaches for the 20 July 2021 Henan Heavy Rainfall Case

  • Duanzhou Shao,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Jianjun Xu,
  • Hanbin Zhang and ,
  • Siqi Chen and
  • Shifei Tu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 July 2022

In this study, three model perturbation schemes, the stochastically perturbed parameter scheme (SPP), stochastically perturbed physics tendency (SPPT), and multi-physics process parameterization (MP), were used to represent the model errors in the re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Meteorological Extremes in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,211 Views
18 Pages

Validation of Stock Price Prediction Models in the Conditions of Financial Crisis

  • Vesela Mihova,
  • Ivan Georgiev,
  • Elitsa Raeva,
  • Slavi Georgiev and
  • Velizar Pavlov

22 December 2023

The distribution laws of various natural and anthropogenic processes in the world around us are stochastic in nature. The development of mathematics and, in particular, of stochastic modeling allows us to study regularities in such processes. In prac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability, Statistics and Random Processes)
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  • Open Access
1,341 Views
24 Pages

The Stochastic Evolution of Financial Asset Prices

  • Ioannis Paraskevopoulos and
  • Alvaro Santos

17 June 2025

This paper examines the relationship between dependence and independence alternatives in general stochastic processes and explores the duality between the true (yet unknown) stochastic process and the functional representation that fits the observed...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
547 Views
19 Pages

Probabilistic Forecasting and Information-Theoretic Analysis of Multivariate fMRI Dynamics

  • Arda Bayer,
  • Zhiyao Zhang,
  • Ahmet Emre Ipek,
  • Rose Khavari and
  • Behnaam Aazhang

1 July 2026

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals exhibit complex temporal structure arising from multivariate neural dynamics, physiological variability, and measurement uncertainty. In this work, we formulate region-of-interest-level fMRI analys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foundations and Frontiers of Information Theory—Dedicated to Professor H. Vincent Poor on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,900 Views
23 Pages

7 August 2018

Autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models are important in many fields and applications, although they are most widely applied in time series analysis. Expanding the ARMA models to the case of various complex data is arguably one of the more challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,932 Views
26 Pages

This article presents a mathematical model of cyclical economic processes, formulated as the sum of a deterministic polynomial function and a cyclic random process that simultaneously captures trend, stochasticity, cyclicity, and rhythm variability....

(This article belongs to the Section Forecasting in Economics and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,328 Views
29 Pages

Steel Arch Support Deformations Forecast Model Based on Grey–Stochastic Simulation and Autoregressive Process

  • Luka Crnogorac,
  • Suzana Lutovac,
  • Rade Tokalić,
  • Miloš Gligorić and
  • Zoran Gligorić

4 April 2023

Relatively large deformations of the steel arch support in underground coal mines in the Republic of Serbia present one of the main problems for achieving the planned production of coal. Monitoring of the critical sections of the steel arch support i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,994 Views
22 Pages

This paper proposes a semiparametric realized stochastic volatility model by integrating the parametric stochastic volatility model utilizing realized volatility information and the Bayesian nonparametric framework. The flexible framework offered by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Markets, Financial Volatility and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,747 Views
17 Pages

Forecasting Multivariate Chaotic Processes with Precedent Analysis

  • Alexander Musaev,
  • Andrey Makshanov and
  • Dmitry Grigoriev

Predicting the state of a dynamic system influenced by a chaotic immersion environment is an extremely difficult task, in which the direct use of statistical extrapolation computational schemes is infeasible. This paper considers a version of precede...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
671 Views
19 Pages

Functional Time Series Modeling of Traffic Flow: A Probabilistic Approach to Temporal Symmetry

  • Faheem Jan,
  • Hasnain Iftikhar,
  • Naveed Gul,
  • Fatimah E. Almuhayfith and
  • Paulo Canas Rodrigues

9 May 2026

Reliable short-term traffic flow prediction is crucial for intelligent transportation systems to enable real-time control, mitigate congestion, and improve urban mobility. However, traffic dynamics are inherently uncertain, temporally dependent, and...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
809 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2026

Multivariate time series forecasting presents a challenging problem in stochastic modeling, particularly under non-stationary conditions with low signal-to-noise ratios. While recent inverted architectures enhance cross-variable dependency modeling,...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,349 Views
11 Pages

Markov Chain Model Development for Forecasting Air Pollution Index of Miri, Sarawak

  • Nurul Nnadiah Zakaria,
  • Mahmod Othman,
  • Rajalingam Sokkalingam,
  • Hanita Daud and ,
  • Lazim Abdullah and
  • Evizal Abdul Kadir
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 September 2019

A Markov chain is commonly used in stock market analysis, manpower planning, and in many other areas because of its efficiency in predicting long run behavior. However, the Air Quality Index (AQI) suffers from not using a Markov chain in its forecast...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,162 Views
25 Pages

Predictive Densities for Day-Ahead Electricity Prices Using Time-Adaptive Quantile Regression

  • Tryggvi Jónsson,
  • Pierre Pinson,
  • Henrik Madsen and
  • Henrik Aalborg Nielsen

25 August 2014

A large part of the decision-making problems actors of the power system are facing on a daily basis requires scenarios for day-ahead electricity market prices. These scenarios are most likely to be generated based on marginal predictive densities for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,981 Views
27 Pages

Stochastic Extensions of the Elo Rating System

  • Gonzalo Gómez-Abejón and
  • J. Tinguaro Rodríguez

8 September 2024

This work studies how the Elo rating system can be applied to score-based sports, where it is gaining popularity, and in particular for predicting the result at any point of a game, extending its statistical basis to stochastic processes. We derive s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Methods and Applications for Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Views
20 Pages

7 November 2026

Managing uncertainty remains a fundamental challenge in large-scale engineering projects, where traditional planning techniques frequently produce overly idealistic timelines by failing to account for random events. To address this gap, this research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,624 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
21 Citations
5,318 Views
18 Pages

6 May 2018

The inherent uncertainty of inflow forecasts hinders the reservoir real-time optimal operation. This paper proposes a risk analysis model for reservoir real-time optimal operation using the scenario tree-based stochastic optimization method. We quant...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,949 Views
15 Pages

A Day-Ahead Wind Power Scenario Generation, Reduction, and Quality Test Tool

  • Ceyhun Yıldız,
  • Mustafa Tekin,
  • Ahmet Gani,
  • Ö. Fatih Keçecioğlu and ,
  • Hakan Açıkgöz and
  • Mustafa Şekkeli
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

During the last decades, thanks to supportive policies of countries and a decrease in installation costs, total installed capacity of wind power has increased rapidly all around the world. The uncertain and variable nature of wind power has been a pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Energy, Load and Price Forecasting towards Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,844 Views
16 Pages

Risk Analysis for Short-Term Operation of the Power Generation in Cascade Reservoirs Considering Multivariate Reservoir Inflow Forecast Errors

  • Yueqiu Wu,
  • Liping Wang,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Yanke Zhang and ,
  • Jiajie Wu,
  • Qiumei Ma,
  • Xiaoqing Liang and
  • Bin He
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 March 2021

In the short-term operation of the power generation of cascade reservoirs, uncertainty factors such as inflow forecast errors could cause various types of risks. The inflow to a downstream reservoir is not only affected by inflow forecast errors from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Management Based on the Concept of Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,486 Views
13 Pages

29 October 2025

We forecast short time series iteratively using a model based on stochastic differential equations. The recorded process is assumed to be consistent with an α-stable Lévy motion. The generalized moments method provides the values of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Methods for Time Series Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,115 Views
15 Pages

Quantum-Like Approaches Unveil the Intrinsic Limits of Predictability in Compartmental Models

  • José Alejandro Rojas-Venegas,
  • Pablo Gallarta-Sáenz,
  • Rafael G. Hurtado,
  • Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes and
  • David Soriano-Paños

21 October 2024

Obtaining accurate forecasts for the evolution of epidemic outbreaks from deterministic compartmental models represents a major theoretical challenge. Recently, it has been shown that these models typically exhibit trajectory degeneracy, as different...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications—In Honor of Professor Osvaldo Anibal Rosso's 70th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,471 Views
17 Pages

In this paper, a fractional Weibull process is utilized in a predictive stochastic differential equation model to allow for skewness and heavy-tailed characteristics. To this aim, a fractional Weibull process with non-Gaussian characteristics and a l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Spatial and Temporal Discretizations of Fractional PDEs)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,583 Views
9 Pages

On the Introduction of Diffusion Uncertainty in Telecommunications’ Market Forecasting

  • Nikolaos Kanellos,
  • Dimitrios Katsianis and
  • Dimitrios Varoutas

Long-run forecasts of telecommunication services’ diffusion play an important role in policy, regulation, planning and portfolio decisions. Forecasting diffusion of telecommunication technologies is usually based on S-shaped models, mainly due to the...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
354 Views
22 Pages

A Predictive Model of Currency Exchange Rates Based on Stochastic Fractional Power-Law Dynamics

  • Israel A. Alvarado-López,
  • Armando Gallegos,
  • Ernesto Urenda-Cázares and
  • Jorge E. Macías-Díaz

24 August 2026

This work proposes a stochastic fractional power-law model for currency exchange rate forecasting. The model incorporates nonlocal temporal effects through the Caputo fractional derivative and nonlinear scaling dynamics via a power-law formulation, p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Calculus—Theory and Applications, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,882 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2016

The paper focuses on the stochastic forecast of the financial sustainability ofbasic pension, based on predictions for the population of China. The population was calculated iteratively by using Leslie matrix. An auto-regressive moving average model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,607 Views
22 Pages

This article examines the theoretical foundations of economic forecasting based on DSGE models. DSGE models are the main direction of contemporary macroeconomics theory—the inclusion of the stochastic processes and expectations of economic agen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
24 Pages

A Short-Term Load Forecasting Model Based on STL Decomposition and CNN-BiLSTM Optimized by Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Yi Wang,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Ruiguang Ma and ,
  • Tiannan Ma,
  • Jichun Liu and
  • Dezhuang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Accurate short-term electricity load forecasting is crucial for day-ahead scheduling and secure operation of power systems. However, electricity load series exhibit significant non-stationarity, with complex coupling between low-frequency trends and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinforcement Learning: Emerging Techniques and Future Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,324 Views
14 Pages

5 July 2023

Charging load mobility evaluation becomes one of the main concerns for charging services and power system stability due to the stochastic nature of electrical vehicles (EVs) and is critical for the robust scheduling of economic operations at differen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Energy Consumption and Load Forecasting Challenges)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,979 Views
18 Pages

Inflow Scenario Generation for the Ethiopian Hydropower System

  • Firehiwot Girma Dires,
  • Mikael Amelin and
  • Getachew Bekele

27 January 2023

In a hydropower system, inflow is an uncertain stochastic process that depends on the meteorology of the reservoir’s location. To properly utilize the stored water in reservoirs, it is necessary to have a good forecast or a historical inflow re...

(This article belongs to the Section Water-Energy Nexus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,880 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2019

Extrapolative methods are one of the most commonly-adopted forecasting approaches in the literature on projecting future mortality rates. It can be argued that there are two types of mortality models using this approach. The first extracts patterns i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,084 Views
19 Pages

15 December 2017

The deterministic methods generally used to solve DC optimal power flow (OPF) do not fully capture the uncertainty information in wind power, and thus their solutions could be suboptimal. However, the stochastic dynamic AC OPF problem can be used to...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,004 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2021

The interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique is widely utilized to measure ground-surface displacement. One of the main limitations of the measurements is the atmospheric phase delay effects. For satellites with shorter wavelengths,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Imagery)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,946 Views
7 Pages

Stochastics Modelling of Rainfall Process in Asia Region: A Systematics Review

  • Hilda Ayu Pratikasiwi,
  • Elma Dwi Putri Sinaga,
  • Hanny Nirwani,
  • Milkah Royna and ,
  • Perdinan and
  • Akhmad Faqih
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In recent years, use of the stochastic model has been growing due to the high complexity and dynamics of the atmosphere, especially the rainfall process. Various concepts have been applied to rainfall modeling, ranging from simplistic approaches to m...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 5th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,226 Views
14 Pages

4 May 2025

Predicting the evolution of financial data, if at all possible, would be very beneficial in revealing the ways in which different aspects of a global environment can impact local economies. We employ an iterative stochastic differential equation that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Applications in Sociophysics II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,132 Views
14 Pages

13 April 2018

The performance evaluation of wind power forecasting under commercially operating circumstances is critical to a wide range of decision-making situations, yet difficult because of its stochastic nature. This paper firstly introduces a novel TRSWA-BP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,664 Views
16 Pages

7 February 2021

The simultaneous stochastic optimization of mining complexes optimizes various components of the related mineral value chain jointly while considering material supply (geological) uncertainty. As a result, the optimization process capitalizes on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,521 Views
17 Pages

A Comprehensive Methodology for Investment Project Assessment Based on Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Jana Fabianová,
  • Jaroslava Janeková,
  • Gabriel Fedorko and
  • Vieroslav Molnár

16 May 2023

This article presents a methodology for assessing investment projects representing the sequence of steps necessary for a comprehensive assessment and optimization of an investment project. The assessment process starts with the quantitative forecasti...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,367 Views
21 Pages

A Predictive Fuzzy Logic Model for Forecasting Electricity Day-Ahead Market Prices for Scheduling Industrial Applications

  • Konstantinos Plakas,
  • Ioannis Karampinis,
  • Panayiotis Alefragis,
  • Alexios Birbas and ,
  • Michael Birbas and
  • Alex Papalexopoulos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 May 2023

Electricity price forecasting (EPF) has become an essential part of decision-making for energy companies to participate in power markets. As the energy mix becomes more uncertain and stochastic, this process has also become important for industrial c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from MEDPOWER 2022—the 13th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion)
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  • Open Access
193 Views
17 Pages

8 October 2026

The increasing penetration of renewable energy introduces greater uncertainty into power system operation, resulting in pronounced stochastic fluctuations in frequency regulation capacity demand and posing increasing challenges to grid security and s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Electric Energy Systems: Modeling, Control and Renewable Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
738 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2026

We consider the problem of time-series forecasting via statistical reconstruction of the coefficients of the Itô representation of the underlying stochastic process X(t). The reconstructed coefficients are obtained using techniques that account...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Time Series Analysis: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,812 Views
20 Pages

25 October 2013

In the actuarial literature, it has become common practice to model future capital returns and mortality rates stochastically in order to capture market risk and forecasting risk. Although interest rates often should and mortality rates always have t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Stochastic Processes in Insurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,595 Views
27 Pages

22 October 2023

Parametric continuous-time analysis often entails derivations of continuous-time models from predefined discrete formulations. However, undetermined convergence rates of frequency-dependent parameters can result in ill-defined continuous-time limits,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Econometrics and Machine Learning)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,345 Views
11 Pages

Multi-Output Variational Gaussian Process for Daily Forecasting of Hydrological Resources

  • Julián David Pastrana-Cortés,
  • David Augusto Cardenas-Peña,
  • Mauricio Holguín-Londoño,
  • Germán Castellanos-Dominguez and
  • Álvaro Angel Orozco-Gutiérrez

Water resource forecasting plays a crucial role in managing hydrological reservoirs, supporting operational decisions ranging from the economy to energy. In recent years, machine learning-based models, including sequential models such as Long Short-T...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,527 Views
23 Pages

Abnormal Load Variation Forecasting in Urban Cities Based on Sample Augmentation and TimesNet

  • Yiyan Li,
  • Zizhuo Gao,
  • Zhenghao Zhou,
  • Yu Zhang and ,
  • Zelin Guo and
  • Zheng Yan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the evolving urbanization process in modern cities, the tertiary industry load and residential load start to take up a major proportion of the total urban power load. These loads are more dependent on stochastic factors such as human behaviors a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent, Flexible, and Effective Operation of Smart Grids with Novel Energy Technologies and Equipment)
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  • Open Access
526 Views
42 Pages

25 September 2026

Accurate long-term wind-power forecasting benefits from probabilistic scenario generation that reflects both the temporal dependence of wind conditions and the uncertainty associated with distributional parameters. This study develops a hybrid Statis...

(This article belongs to the Section Power and Energy Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,369 Views
18 Pages

Financial Risk Control of Hydro Generation Systems through Market Intelligence and Stochastic Optimization

  • Laís Domingues Leonel,
  • Mateus Henrique Balan,
  • Dorel Soares Ramos,
  • Erik Eduardo Rego and
  • Rodrigo Ferreira de Mello

5 October 2021

In the competitive electricity wholesale market, decisions regarding hydro generators are generally made under uncertain conditions, such as pool price, hydrological affluence, and other players’ strategies. From this perspective, this work presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,844 Views
17 Pages

Daily Streamflow Time Series Modeling by Using a Periodic Autoregressive Model (ARMA) Based on Fuzzy Clustering

  • Mahshid Khazaeiathar,
  • Reza Hadizadeh,
  • Nasrin Fathollahzadeh Attar and
  • Britta Schmalz

2 December 2022

The behavior of hydrological processes is periodic and stochastic due to the influence of climatic factors. Therefore, it is crucial to develop the models based on their periodicity and stochastic nature for prediction. Furthermore, forecasting the s...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
861 Views
23 Pages

27 March 2026

Under dynamic loading conditions, the output voltage of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) exhibits nonlinear degradation characterized by non-Gaussian fluctuations, abrupt changes, and long-range temporal dependence, which are difficult to...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)

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