Research Article

Forecasting Electrical Energy Consumption of Equipment Maintenance Using Neural Network and Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 4

The MAPE (%) associated with the four approaches on the testing dataset of 2011.

OrganizationANNANN-PSOR-PSOANN-APSO

#13.357+1.472+1.164+0.767
#26.060+1.833+2.261+0.935
#38.248+2.707+2.095+1.363
#45.131+0.896+0.803+0.520
#53.690+0.422+0.693+0.193
#62.851+1.658+1.827+0.079
#70.941+0.081+0.235+0.000

In column 2–4, +means that the result of ANN-APSO has statistically significant improvement over that of the comparative algorithm (using paired one-tailed -test at a 0.05 level of significance).