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APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
Volume 48, Issue -, Pages 50-58Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2016.06.038
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Flower pollination algorithm; Neural network; Accelerated particle swarm optimization; Organization of the petroleum exporting countries (OPEC); Energy; Petroleum consumption
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- University of Malaya High Impact Research Grant from Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia [vote UM.C/625/HIR/MOHE/SC/13/2]
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Petroleum is the live wire of modern technology and its operations, with economic development being positively linked to petroleum consumption. Many meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed in literature for the optimization of Neural Network (NN) to build a forecasting model. In this paper, as an alternative to previous methods, we propose a new flower pollination algorithm with remarkable balance between consistency and exploration for NN training to build a model for the forecasting of petroleum consumption by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The proposed approach is compared with established meta-heuristic algorithms. The results show that the new proposed method outperforms existing algorithms by advancing OPEC petroleum consumption forecast accuracy and convergence speed. Our proposed method has the potential to be used as an important tool in forecasting OPEC petroleum consumption to be used by OPEC authorities and other global oil-related organizations. This will facilitate proper monitoring and control of OPEC petroleum consumption. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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