Title
An overview and comparative analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks for Short Term Load Forecasting.
Abstract
The key component in forecasting demand and consumption of resources in a supply network is an accurate prediction of real-valued time series. Indeed, both service interruptions and resource waste can be reduced with the implementation of an effective forecasting system. Significant research has thus been devoted to the design and development of methodologies for short term load forecasting over the past decades. A class of mathematical models, called Recurrent Neural Networks, are nowadays gaining renewed interest among researchers and they are replacing many practical implementation of the forecasting systems, previously based on static methods. Despite the undeniable expressive power of these architectures, their recurrent nature complicates their understanding and poses challenges in the training procedures. Recently, new important families of recurrent architectures have emerged and their applicability in the context of load forecasting has not been investigated completely yet. In this paper we perform a comparative study on the problem of Short-Term Load Forecast, by using different classes of state-of-the-art Recurrent Neural Networks. We test the reviewed models first on controlled synthetic tasks and then on different real datasets, covering important practical cases of study. We provide a general overview of the most important architectures and we define guidelines for configuring the recurrent networks to predict real-valued time series.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-70338-1
arXiv: Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Field
DocType
Volume
Supply network,Demand forecasting,Computer science,Recurrent neural network,Load forecasting,Artificial intelligence,Mathematical model,Expressive power,Machine learning
Journal
abs/1705.04378
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.68
47
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Filippo Maria Bianchi116015.76
Enrico Maiorino2212.91
Michael C. Kampffmeyer3121.01
Antonello Rizzi436341.68
Robert Jenssen537043.06