Water use prediction by radial and feed-forward neural nets
| dc.contributor.author | Yurdusev M.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Firat M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mermer M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Turan M.E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-10T11:16:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-10T11:16:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this study, applicability of feed-forward and radial-basis neural networks for monthly water consumption prediction from several socio-economic and climatic factors affecting water use is investigated. A data set including a total of 108 data records is divided into two subsets: training and testing. Firstly, the models based on a single input variable are trained and tested by feed-forward and radial methods and feed-forward and radial performances of the models are compared. Then, the models based on multiple input variables are constructed according to performances of the models based on a single input variable. The performances of feed-forward and radial models in training and testing phases are compared with the observations and the best-fit model is identified. For this purpose, several criteria such as normalised root mean square error, efficiency and correlation coefficient are calculated for all models. Subsequently, the best-fit models are also trained and tested by multiple linear regression for comparison. The results indicated that feed-forward and radial methods can be applied successfully for monthly water consumption prediction. © 2009 Thomas Telford. | |
| dc.identifier.DOI-ID | 10.1680/wama.2009.162.3.179 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14701/51501 | |
| dc.title | Water use prediction by radial and feed-forward neural nets | |
| dc.type | Article |