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The load forecasting problem is very important for every distribution system operator. The network evolution, associated behavior, related policies, etc. are correlated with this subject. Thepaper is focusing on monthly load curves forecasting. Artificial intelligence based methods such as artificial neural networks and also conventional methods are appliedin order to perform the forecast. A comparison is accomplished in order to provide thebest approach. To achieve this goal several indices have been computed and...

Thunderstorm activity is the main natural cause of forest fires occurrence. Lightning discharges are divided into cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud. The higher the current, the higher the probability of fire in the forest. Geographic information systems are a convenient and multifunctional means of visualization and geospatial data analysis, including the level of forest fire danger. It is necessary to design the structure and information flows in such a GIS system. The development of such a GIS system is carried...

In the tasks of managing energy resources and energy conservation, it is necessary to forecast the consumption of energy resources for a long period, with the detailed speci-fication of consumption over time intervals. A special case of such a task is the determi-nation of the annual consumption of energy resources and its division into monthly con-sumption, taking into account the changes in climatic conditions, the operating condi-tions of objects and other factors [1-2]. The paper suggests a method for predicti...

One of the most complicated and difficult problems in design of foundations is the nesseserity to quantify changes in the strength and deformation properties of soils foundations according to projected increase in soil moisture. This article presents the results of solving such kinds of problems on the example of a residential complex of twenty buildings, located in the Eastern part of Kazan City. The forecast of changes of hydrogeological conditions over a period of 50 years had been made by using numerical model...