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Modelling of Adequate Costs of Utilities Services

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Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2016)

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The paper propose methodology for benchmark modelling of adequate costs of utilities services, which is based on the data analysis of the factual cases (key performance indicators of utilities as the predictors). The proposed methodology was tested by modelling of Latvian water utilities with three tools: (1) a classical version of the multi-layer perceptron with error back-propagation training algorithm was sharpened up with task-specific monotony tests, (2) the fitting of the generalized additive model using the programming language R ensured the opportunity to evaluate the statistical significance and confidence bands of predictors, (3) the sequential iterative nonlinear regression process with minimizing mean squared error provided the notion of the impact of each predictor on the searched regularity. The quality of models is high: the adjusted determination coefficient is greater than 0.75, explained deviance exceeds 0.80, while the correlation between the respective modelled values exceeds even 0.95.

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  1. Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

    Janis Zuters, Girts Karnitis & Edvins Karnitis

  2. Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

    Janis Valeinis

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    Robertas Damasevicius

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Zuters, J., Valeinis, J., Karnitis, G., Karnitis, E. (2016). Modelling of Adequate Costs of Utilities Services. In: Dregvaite, G., Damasevicius, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 639. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46254-7_1

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