Temperature prediction using fuzzy time series

Abstract—A drawback of traditional forecasting methods is that they can not deal with forecasting problems in which the historical data are represented by linguistic values. Using fuzzy time series to deal with forecasting problems can overcome this drawback. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy time series model called the two-factors time-variant fuzzy time series model to deal with fore-casting problems. Based on the proposed model, we develop two algorithms for temperature prediction. Both algorithms have the advantage of obtaining good forecasting results. Index Terms—Main-factor fuzzy time series, second-factor fuzzy time series, temperature prediction, time-invariant fuzzy time se-ries, time-variant fuzzy time series. I