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48 results for heat demand prediction

The study improves heat demand prediction using neural networks and weather parameters.

problem Improving accuracy of heat demand prediction in district heating networks.
method Used an Elman neural network to investigate the impact of direct solar irradiance and wind speed on heat demand prediction.
result Including wind speed generally results in lower MAPE than including direct solar irradiance, but direct solar irradiance achieves lower maximum absolute deviation.

Novel probabilistic models forecast residential heating and electricity demand at hourly resolution.

problem Accurate hourly forecasting of residential heating and electricity demand.
method Probabilistic deep learning models trained on gas-heated region data.
result Significant improvement in forecast accuracy compared to NREL's ResStock model.

New method predicts heat load in thermal grids using latent variables.

problem Predicting heat load in district energy systems.
method Combines nominal model for outdoor temperature with latent variable model for residual heat load.
result Proposed method achieves better prediction accuracy than artificial neural networks.

A new metric optimizes forecasts for lumpy, intermittent demand.

problem Inaccurate demand forecasts lead to suboptimal logistics and production.
method Developed a novel metric that considers both statistical and business aspects.
result The new metric yields more accurate predictions for lumpy and intermittent demand.

STOIC improves energy demand forecasting with reliable uncertainty estimates.

problem Accurate point forecasts alone are insufficient for energy systems; reliable uncertainty estimates are needed.
method Integrates graph-based forecasting with tabular foundation models for zero-shot calibration of spatial-temporal residuals.
result STOIC delivers more reliable and robust uncertainty estimates for complex graph-structured energy time series.

Framework optimizes transit routes based on crowd movements using demand prediction and supply optimization.

problem Dynamic optimization of transit routes in areas of crowd movements.
method Combines demand prediction (Quantile Regression) and supply optimization (Linear Programming) to dynamically redesign routes.
result Framework often obtains optimal solutions and outperforms conventional methods.

Study compares machine learning and econometric models for demand prediction with and without accounting for sales censorship.

problem Predicting demand based on sales data and correcting bias in estimates of demand parameters.
method Constructed two ensemble models: one accounting for sales censorship and one not. Used censored quantile regression and various machine learning models.
result Machine learning models with censorship accounting provide similar bias-corrected demand sensitivity estimates as econometric models.

STG2Seq predicts multi-step passenger demand with graph and hierarchical structure.

problem Predicting passenger demand over multiple time horizons is challenging due to nonlinear and dynamic spatial-temporal dependencies.
method Proposes a graph-based model with a hierarchical graph convolutional structure to capture spatial and temporal correlations.
result Consistently outperforms baseline and state-of-the-art models on real-world datasets.

CSTN predicts taxi demand between all regions, overcoming origin-only approaches.

problem Predicting taxi demand between all regions, not just origins.
method Contextualized Spatial-Temporal Network (CSTN) with LSC, TEC, and GCC modules.
result CSTN outperforms other methods in taxi origin-destination demand prediction.

Study improves dynamic PT fleet optimization under noisy demand predictions.

problem Accurately predicting dynamic public transport demand for effective fleet management.
method Experimental case study in Copenhagen, using linear programming to optimize fleets.
result Optimized fleet performance is mainly affected by noise distribution skew and large errors.

Model forecasts hourly electricity demand influenced by weather, socio-economic, and political factors.

problem Accurate hourly electricity demand forecasting in the face of multifaceted uncertainties.
method Interpretable probabilistic mid-term forecasting model using Generalized Additive Models (GAMs).
result Highlights vulnerability of countries to extreme weather scenarios under electric heating adoption.

This paper optimizes a power-to-heat system using reinforcement learning for cost minimization under uncertain conditions.

problem Optimizing a power-to-heat system with fluctuating renewable energy sources.
method Stochastic optimal control, reinforcement learning (Q-learning).
result Reinforcement learning provides an efficient solution to the optimization problem.

The paper proposes a demand prediction model for e-commerce sites using machine learning and stacking.

problem Accurately predicting demand for products sold by multiple sellers at different prices.
method Applied different regression algorithms and stacked generalization for demand prediction.
result Stacked generalization produced almost as good results as individual machine learning methods.

Study estimates and predicts dynamic traffic OD flows for improved DTA models.

problem Estimating and predicting time-varying OD trip tables for dynamic traffic assignment.
method Bi-level optimisation for OD flow estimation and time series prediction for OD demand.
result High capability of proposed OD demand estimation method to reduce DTA model error.

This paper proposes an unsupervised learning method to solve heat equations on chips.

problem Critical need for solving heat transfer equations on chips for 5G and AI.
method Hybrid framework of Auto Encoder and Image Gradient for unsupervised learning.
result Framework can solve heat transfer problems with a single training process and predict unseen cases.

Taxi demand prediction is an important building block to enabling intelligent transportation systems in a smart city. An accurate prediction model can help the city pre-allocate resources to meet travel demand and to reduce empty taxis on streets which waste energy and worsen the traffic congestion. With the increasing…

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Proposes a new model to predict travel demand with zero-inflated and long-tail characteristics.

problem Sparse and long-tailed travel demand data with many zeros.
method Spatial-Temporal Tweedie Graph Neural Network (STTD) using Tweedie distribution.
result STTD provides accurate predictions and precise confidence intervals.

The paper addresses uncertainty in demand prediction for dynamic pricing.

problem Uncertainty quantification in the demand function for dynamic pricing.
method Developed a debiased approach to construct accurate confidence intervals for the demand function.
result Asymptotic normality guarantee of the debiased estimator for the demand function.

Predicts coherence from quantum heat engine noise using machine learning.

problem Predicting coherence in quantum heat engines from nonequilibrium fluctuations.
method Developed a machine learning protocol using K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) model.
result Machine learning successfully predicts coherence from quantum heat engine noise.

Adaptive probabilistic load forecasting improves performance in power systems.

problem Complexity of electricity load forecasting due to changing drivers and local generation.
method Adaptive probabilistic approach using Kalman filter and online gradient descent.
result Adaptive probabilistic forecasts improve performance in both point and probabilistic forecasting.

Paper predicts urban dispersal events using deep survival analysis on mobility data.

problem Predicting abnormal dispersal events in urban areas to mitigate congestion and safety risks.
method Formulated as a survival analysis problem, developed a two-stage deep learning framework (DILSA).
result DILSA predicts dispersal events with F1-score of 0.7 and average time error of 18 minutes.

Predicting ambulance demand accurately at a fine resolution in time and space (e.g., every hour and 1 km2^2) is critical for staff / fleet management and dynamic deployment. There are several challenges: though the dataset is typically large-scale, demand per time period and locality is almost always zero. The demand …

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This research improves demand forecasting by predicting complete probability density functions using machine learning.

problem Forecasting complete probability density functions for better operational decision making.
method Supervised machine learning method 'Cyclic Boosting' for explainable predictions.
result Predicted probability density functions are fully explainable and avoid 'black-box' models.

Paper improves bike-sharing demand prediction by adapting to changing patterns.

problem Improving bike-sharing demand prediction under temporal domain shifts.
method Gen-ROTDA, a robust optimal transport-guided residual domain adaptation framework.
result Gen-ROTDA achieves the lowest MAE and is the best OT-family method on average.

Two prediction models improve supply-demand forecasting for autonomous vehicles.

problem Improving accuracy and stability of supply-demand predictions for autonomous vehicles.
method Two prediction models based on residual network, LSTM, attention mechanism, and multi-attention mechanism.
result Our frameworks provide more accurate and stable prediction results than existing methods.

New model predicts travel demand uncertainty with high accuracy.

problem Uncertainty and sparsity in sparse travel demand prediction.
method Spatial-Temporal Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Graph Neural Network (STZINB-GNN).
result STZINB-GNN outperforms benchmarks in predicting travel demand uncertainty.

Paper proposes a method for predicting any quantile of short-term electricity demand.

problem Uncertainty in power systems due to multiple factors.
method Proposes a novel general approach for distributional forecasting of short-term electricity demand.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art distributional forecasting results for short-term electricity demand.

Predicts fine-grained OD matrices for ridesharing platforms to optimize supply-demand balance.

problem Accurately predicting spatial-temporal OD demands for ridesharing platforms.
method OD-CED model combining unsupervised space coarsening and encoder-decoder architecture.
result Significant improvement in prediction accuracy (45% RMSE reduction, 60% WAPE reduction).

Study improves retail demand forecasting by integrating macroeconomic data.

problem Lack of accurate demand forecasting due to incomplete data.
method Enriched time series data with macroeconomic variables; compared regression and machine learning models.
result Improved accuracy in predicting retail demand through comprehensive data integration.

Improved gas demand forecasting using ensemble methods.

problem Short-term prediction of gas demand components.
method Nine base forecasters (Ridge Regression, GP, NN, ANN, Torus, LASSO, Elastic Net, RF, SVR) and four ensemble predictors (simple, weighted, subset, SVR aggregation) were evaluated.
result Ensemble predictors outperformed individual base forecasters and TSO predictions.

Deep-Gap predicts crowdsourcing supply-demand gaps using deep learning.

problem Balancing supply and demand in mobile crowdsourcing.
method Residual learning-based deep neural networks trained on time series data and external factors.
result Deep-Gap achieves lowest forecasting errors compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Study optimizes pricing under uncertainty and capacity constraints.

problem Optimizing pricing decisions under demand uncertainty and capacity constraints.
method Analyzes linear demand, stochastic noise, and finite capacity; uses certified demand forecasts and control variates.
result Certified demand forecasts reduce regret from O(T)O(\sqrt{T}) to O(logT)O(\log T) under certain conditions.

The paper explains how to predict returns based on firm characteristics.

problem Predicting returns based on firm characteristics in equilibrium models.
method Reverse-engineering equilibrium construction process with linear demands in characteristics.
result Linear expressions for returns are derived from scaled net aggregate demands and their variations.

CONTINA provides adaptive confidence intervals for traffic demand prediction.

problem Uncertainty in future traffic demand predictions and the need for valid confidence intervals.
method Adaptive confidence interval method that adjusts based on deployment errors.
result Valid confidence intervals with shorter lengths and theoretical coverage guarantee.

The paper tackles ride-hailing fleet repositioning with a calibrated demand approach.

problem Repositioning idle supply before future demand is observed in ride-hailing.
method A predict-then-optimize approach using calibrated demand regimes, a similarity gate, and spatial queue-regret decomposition.
result The spatial gate reduces mean wait time to 82.3s compared to 85.3s for a hand-tuned similarity gate and 85.8s for a distributional-only baseline.

Develops methods to improve demand counterfactuals from imperfect proxies.

problem Imperfect proxies in demand models lead to biased counterfactuals and invalid inference.
method Practical toolkit for market-level and individual data, requiring minimal computation.
result Improves substitution prediction and counterfactual performance.

Unified ML approach predicts ED attendances with high accuracy.

problem Managing hospital demand at emergency departments efficiently.
method Ensemble of time series and machine learning approaches with hyperparameter tuning.
result Predictions with mean absolute error of +/- 14 and +/- 10 patients, MAE of 6.8% and 8.6%.