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In this paper, we propose an FTSF model integrating Bayesian networks to overcome the limitations. Bayesian network (BN) structure learning is employed to extract fuzzy\u2013crisp dependencies between historical fuzzified data and predicted crisp data alongside temporal crisp dependencies within crisp data. Integrating fuzzy logical relationship groups (FLRGs) and the two BNs representing the fuzzy\u2013crisp and crisp relationships identifies temporal patterns efficiently. BN parameter learning models the occurrence uncertainties of dependencies through conditional probability distributions in BNs, while fuzzy empirical conditional probabilities quantify the occurrence uncertainties of the elements in FLRGs. The defuzzification stage infers the crisp predicted value using the fuzzy-empirical-probability weighted FLRGs and the two BN. We validate the forecasting performance of the proposed model on sixteen diverse time series. 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