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In this paper, artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) are two basic heuristic forecasting methods, and genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to choose the parameters of the SVM. When forecasting the monthly inflow data series, both approaches are inclined to acquire relatively poor performances. Thus, based on the thought of refined prediction by model combination, a hybrid forecasting method involving a two-stage process is proposed to improve the forecast accuracy. In the hybrid method, the ANN and SVM are, first, respectively implemented to forecast the reservoir monthly inflow data. Then, the processed predictive values of both ANN and SVM are selected as the input variables of a newly-built ANN model for refined forecasting. Three models, ANN, SVM, and the hybrid method, are developed for the monthly inflow forecasting in Xinfengjiang reservoir with 71-year discharges from 1944 to 2014. The comparison of results reveal that three models have satisfactory performances in the Xinfengjiang reservoir monthly inflow prediction, and the hybrid method performs better than ANN and SVM in terms of five statistical indicators. Thus, the hybrid method is an efficient tool for the long-term operation and dispatching of Xinfengjiang reservoir.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/w7084477","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,18]],"date-time":"2015-08-18T05:43:13Z","timestamp":1439876593000},"page":"4477-4495","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":47,"title":["Heuristic Methods for Reservoir Monthly Inflow Forecasting:  A Case Study of Xinfengjiang Reservoir in Pearl River, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Chun-Tian","family":"Cheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Hydropower and Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhong-Kai","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Hydropower and Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wen-Jing","family":"Niu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Hydropower and Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sheng-Li","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Hydropower and Hydroinformatics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"83","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2014.04.063","article-title":"Joint and respective effects of long and short-term forecast uncertainties on reservoir operations","volume":"517","author":"Zhao","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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