Meet the editor

Dr. Chun-Kit Ngan has been an Assistant Teaching Professor of Data Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) since January 2018. Before joining WPI, he was an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley (PSU-GV). His research interests are Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS), including decision optimization models, deep/machine learning, computational algorithms,

data analytics, and DGSS applications, to guide domain-specific decision makers to make better decisions and provide them with actionable recommendations. He received the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 and 2011 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. He was the recipient of the 2013-2014 Seed Money Grant and 2015-2016 Early Career Award for Research and Scholarship Excellence at PSU-GV.

Contents

**Section 1**

Time Series *by Chris Aldrich*

**Section 2**

Forecasting

**Section 3**

*and Kunikazu Kobayashi*

*by Lamyaa Sadouk*

*by Ming-Tao Chou*

Fuzzy Forecast Based on Fuzzy Time Series

CNN Approaches for Time Series Classification

*by Rohan Kumar Raman and Basanta Kumar Das*

**Preface III**

Mining Complex Patterns in Time Series Data **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

Deep Neural Networks for Time Series Analytics **37**

**Chapter 3 39** Training Deep Neural Networks with Reinforcement Learning for Time Series

**Chapter 4 57**

Time Series Forecasting in Real-World Problems **81**

**Chapter 5 83** Forecasting Shrimp and Fish Catch in Chilika Lake over Time Series Analysis

**Chapter 6 99**

Using Gray-Markov Model and Time Series Model to Predict Foreign Direct

Investment Trend for Supporting China's Economic Development

*by Yanyan Zheng, Tong Shu, Shou Chen and Kin Keung Lai*

*by Takashi Kuremoto, Takaomi Hirata, Masanao Obayashi, Shingo Mabu* 

Process Fault Diagnosis for Continuous Dynamic Systems Over Multivariate
