“…Given the achievements in the field of chaotic systems, several such methods can be used in the prediction of solar activity indices, namely polynomial function approximation, reconstructions using Lyapunov exponents, and the detection of periodicity in chaotic time series (Vautard and Ghil, 1989). Of these methods, the physical precursor (Brown, 1992;Thompson, 1993;Joselyn et al, 1997) and solar dynamo techniques (Schatten et al, 1978(Schatten et al, , 1996Schatten and Sofia, 1987;Schatten and Pesnell, 1993;Sofia et al, 1998), which are based on simple linear and nonlinear empirical studies, seem to have superseded the numerical and black box techniques in terms of user preference (Tong and Lim, 1980;Weigend et al, 1992;Tong, 1996;Uluyol et al, 1998;Lucas et al, 2003;Gholipour et al, 2003). In the black box modeling technique, in comparison with the white box modeling technique (both of which are fully derived by applying principles of physics, chemistry, biology, economy, etc.…”