RT Conference Proceedings T1 A novel harmony search algorithm for one-year-ahead energy demand estimation using macroeconomic variables A1 Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho A1 Portilla-Figueras, Joé Antonio A1 Muñoz-Bulnes, Jesús A1 del Ser, Javier A1 Bilbao, Miren Nekane A2 Klett, Fanny A2 Abraham, Ajith A2 Herrero, Álvaro A2 Baruque, Bruno A2 de Carvalho, André C.P.L.F. A2 Quintián, Héctor A2 Corchado, Emilio A2 Quintián, Héctor A2 de la Puerta, José Gaviria A2 Ferreira, Iván García A2 Bringas, Pablo García AB In this paper we tackle a problem of one-year ahead energy demand estimation from macroeconomic variables. A modified Harmony Search (HS) algorithm is proposed to this end, as one of the novelties of the paper. The modifications on the proposed HS include a hybrid encoding, with a binary part to carry out a feature selection, and a real part, to select the parameter of a given prediction model. Some other adaptation focussed on the HS operators are also introduced. We study the performance of the proposed approach in a real problem of Energy demand estimation in Spain, from 14 macroeconomic variables with values for the last 30 years, including years of the crisis, from 2008. The performance of the proposed HS with feature selection is excellent, providing an accurate one year ahead prediction that improves previous proposals in the literature. PB Springer Verlag SN 9783319079943 SN 2194-5357 YR 2014 FD 2014 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2432 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2432 LA eng NO Salcedo-Sanz , S , Portilla-Figueras , J A , Muñoz-Bulnes , J , del Ser , J & Bilbao , M N 2014 , A novel harmony search algorithm for one-year-ahead energy demand estimation using macroeconomic variables . in F Klett , A Abraham , Á Herrero , B Baruque , A C P L F de Carvalho , H Quintián , E Corchado , H Quintián , J G de la Puerta , I G Ferreira & P G Bringas (eds) , International Joint Conference SOCO 2014 - CISIS 2014 - ICEUTE 2014, Proceedings . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , vol. 299 , Springer Verlag , pp. 251-258 , International Joint Conference on 9th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, SOCO 2014 with 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems, CISIS 2014 and 5th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education, ICEUTE 2014 , Bilbao , Spain , 25/06/14 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07995-0_25 NO conference NO Publisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 29 jul 2024