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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF25205</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2014.14</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Hybrid Regression System Based on Local Models for Solar Energy Prediction</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Quintián</surname><given-names>Héctor</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:hector.quintian@usal.es">hector.quintian@usal.es</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="fn1">∗</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Calvo-Rolle</surname><given-names>Jose Luis</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:jlcalvo@udc.es">jlcalvo@udc.es</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Corchado</surname><given-names>Emilio</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:escorchado@usal.es">escorchado@usal.es</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain</aff></contrib-group><author-notes><corresp id="fn1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>265</fpage><lpage>282</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2012</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>09</month><year>2013</year></date></history><abstract><p>The aim of this study is to predict the energy generated by a solar thermal system. To achieve this, a hybrid intelligent system was developed based on local regression models with low complexity and high accuracy. Input data is divided into clusters by using a Self Organization Maps; a local model will then be created for each cluster. Different regression techniques were tested and the best one was chosen. The novel hybrid regression system based on local models is empirically verified with a real dataset obtained by the solar thermal system of a bioclimatic house.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>hybrid system</kwd><kwd>clustering</kwd><kwd>local models</kwd><kwd>SOM</kwd><kwd>MLP</kwd><kwd>SVM</kwd><kwd>prediction solar energy</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>