Design of input vector for day-ahead price forecasting of electricity markets

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 12281-12294

  Amjady, Nima ^a   Daraeepour, Ali ^a,b  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Iranian Power System Engineering Research Center (IPSERC)   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cascaded neural network; Feature selection; Forecast engine; Modified relief; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

CASCADED NEURAL NETWORK; FEATURE SELECTION; FORECAST ENGINE; MODIFIED RELIEF; MUTUAL INFORMATION;

COMMERCE; COSTS; DEREGULATION; ELECTRICITY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

EID: 69249220239     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.059     Document Type: Article

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