“…As a result, to improve the prediction power, nonlinear models have been proposed. Neural Network (NN) (Benaouda et al, 2006;Rocha et al, 2005;Zhang et al, 2001;Pandey et al, 2010;Bashir et al, 2009;Amjady et al, 2009) based methods have been applied and shown to effectively learn the time dependent load series and capture the nonlinearity characteristics. Recently, Support Vector Machine (SVM), a machine learning technique, has also been used for load forecasting (Dongxiao et al, 2009;Che, 2012;Ping-Feng and Wei-Chiang, 2005).…”