Prediction of Research Topics Using Ensemble of Best Predictors from Similar Dataset

Prediction of future research topics by using time series analysis either statistical or machine learning has been conducted previously by several researchers. Several methods have been proposed to combine the forecasting results into single forecast. These methods use fixed combination of individual forecast to get the final forecast result. In this paper, quite different approach is employed to select the forecasting methods, in which every point to forecast is calculated by using the best methods used by similar validation dataset. The dataset used in the experiment is time series derived from research report in Garuda, which is an online sites belongs to the Ministry of Education in Indonesia, over the past 20 years. The experimental result demonstrates that the proposed method may perform better compared to the fix combination of predictors. In addition, based on the prediction result, we can forecast emerging research topics for the next few years.

• Indra Budi
• Rizal Fathoni Aji
• Agus Widodo

• Combination
• emerging topics
• ensemble
• forecasting
• machine learning
• prediction
• research topics
• similarity measure
• time series.

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