An application of neural networks in microeconomics: Input-output mapping in a power generation subsector of the US electricity industry

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2317-2326

  Erbas, Bahar Celikkol ^a   Stefanou, Spiro E ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity industry; Input output mapping; Microeconomics; Multilayer feedforward neural networks

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FOSSIL FUELS; MAPPING; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTILAYERS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS BENEFITS; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY OUTPUT; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; INPUT-OUTPUT MAPPING; MICROECONOMICS; MULTILAYER FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; PREDICTIVE POWER;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 56349105605     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.12.062     Document Type: Article

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