Recently, Wu Shiling, a student of class of 2018,who majors in computer science and technology from School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering published a paper titled “Pre-SMATS: a Multi-task Learning Based Prediction Model for Small Multi-stage Seasonal Time Series” in an international authoritative academic paper: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS (IF:6.954, SCI AreaⅠ). Professor Peng Dunlu was the corresponding author. Wu has joined in the project team, guided by her supervisor Peng Dunlu, and with her own efforts, she improved a lot in manual dexterity, innovation abilities, literature reading, and handwriting. Now she has been admitted into Shenzhen University for computer science and technology and then continues to study for a master’s degree.
Learning on time series, especially on the small seasonal time series, has a wide range of practical applications such as metallurgy, integrated circuit manufacturing and traffic flow prediction. Considering that many seasonal time series have implied stage characteristics, we propose Pre-SMATS, a multi-task learning based prediction model for small multi-stage seasonal time series. In order to verify our proposed model, Pre-SMATS, we conducted extensive experiments on two datasets with small time series, one is Chinese civil aviation passenger traffic (CCAPT) (2013–2019), a multi-stage seasonal time series and the other is IC board production furnace temperature curve (FTC), a general multi-stage time series.