Forecasting weather signals using a polychronous spiking neural network

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Abstract

Due to its inherently complex and chaotic nature predicting various weather phenomena over non trivial periods of time is extremely difficult. In this paper, we consider the ability of an emerging class of temporally encoded neural network to address the challenge of weather forecasting. The Polychronous Spiking Neural Network (PSNN) uses axonal delay to encode temporal information into the network in order to make predictions about weather signals. The performance of this network is benchmarked against the Multi-Layer Perceptron network as well as Linear Predictor. The results indicate that the inherent characteristics of the Polychronous Spiking Network make it well suited to the processing and prediction of complex weather signals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies - 11th International Conference, ICIC 2015, Proceedings
EditorsVitoantonio Bevilacqua, De-Shuang Huang, Prashan Premaratne
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages116-123
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783319221793
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event11th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2015 - Fuzhou, China
Duration: 20 Aug 201523 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9225
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityFuzhou
Period20/08/1523/08/15

Keywords

  • Axonal delay
  • Natural event forecasting
  • Spiking neural network
  • Weather time series

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