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Forecasting Water Demand in Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Zones in Bogotá, Colombia, Using Least-Squares Support Vector Machines

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  • Carlos Peña-Guzmán
  • Joaquín Melgarejo
  • Daniel Prats

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The Colombian capital, Bogotá, has undergone massive growth in a short period of time. Naturally, this growth has increased the city’s water demand. The prediction of this demand will help understand and analyze consumption behavior, thereby allowing for effective management of the urban water cycle. This paper uses the Least-Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVM) model for forecasting residential, industrial, and commercial water demand in the city of Bogotá. The parameters involved in this study include the following: monthly water demand, number of users, and total water consumption bills (price) for the three studied uses. Results provide evidence of the model’s accuracy, producing between 0.8 and 0.98, with an error percentage under 12%.

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  • Carlos Peña-Guzmán & Joaquín Melgarejo & Daniel Prats, 2016. "Forecasting Water Demand in Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Zones in Bogotá, Colombia, Using Least-Squares Support Vector Machines," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2016, pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:5712347
    DOI: 10.1155/2016/5712347
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