A novel distributed forecasting method based on information fusion and incremental learning for streaming time series

Real-time algorithms have to adapt and adjust to new incoming patterns to provide timely and accurate responses. This paper presents a new distributed forecasting algorithm for streaming time series called StreamWNN. StreamWNN starts with an offline stage in which a forecasting model based on tuples...

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Autores: Merlgar García, Laura, Gutiérrez Avilés, David, Rubio Escudero, Cristina, Troncoso, Alicia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/166997
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/166997
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.02.023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Real-time forecasting
Incremental learning
Streaming time series
Electricity demand
Descripción
Sumario:Real-time algorithms have to adapt and adjust to new incoming patterns to provide timely and accurate responses. This paper presents a new distributed forecasting algorithm for streaming time series called StreamWNN. StreamWNN starts with an offline stage in which a forecasting model based on tuples of information fusion is created with historical data. In particular, this model consists of the fusion of patterns composed of past values of the time series with the future values of their k-nearest neighbors. Afterwards, streaming data starts to arrive. The model is incrementally updated in the online stage using a buffer with streaming data that more accurately matches the current model patterns. The model can be updated daily, monthly, quarterly or based on error thresholds. The methodology has been applied to Spanish electricity demand time series providing more accurate results when the model is updated incrementally. The best error results are obtained with the daily update of the model, resulting in an error between 2% and 3.5% depending on the prediction horizon. The model provides better error results than other algorithms.