Electricity Load Forecasting Using Support Vector Regression with Memetic Algorithms

Table 2

Training, validation, and testing set for the first sample case.

Data sets	Period	No. of observation
Training set	1/1/2010–12/31/2010	365∗24
Validation set	1/1/2011–3/31/2011	90∗24
Testing set	4/1/2011–6/30/2011	91∗24