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In order to control energy consumption in buildings, different policies have been proposed, from utilizing bioclimatic architectures to the use of predictive models within control approaches. There are mainly three groups of predictive models including engineering, statistical and artificial intelligence models. Nowadays, artificial intelligence models such as neural networks and support vector machines have also been proposed because of their high potential capabilities of performing accurate nonlinear mappings between inputs and outputs in real environments which are not free of noise. The main objective of this paper is to compare a neural network model which was designed utilizing statistical and analytical methods, with a group of neural network models designed benefiting from a multi objective genetic algorithm. Moreover, the neural network models were compared to a na\u00efve autoregressive baseline model. The models are intended to predict electric power demand at the Solar Energy Research Center (Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n en Energ\u00eda SOLar or CIESOL in Spanish) bioclimatic building located at the University of Almeria, Spain. Experimental results show that the models obtained from the multi objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) perform comparably to the model obtained through a statistical and analytical approach, but they use only 0.8% of data samples and have lower model complexity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/en9010057","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,20]],"date-time":"2016-01-20T11:19:41Z","timestamp":1453288781000},"page":"57","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":90,"title":["A Comparison of Energy Consumption Prediction Models Based on Neural Networks of a Bioclimatic Building"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Hamid","family":"Khosravani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Campus Gambelas, Faro, Portugal"},{"name":"Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC), Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4073-7800","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mar\u00eda","family":"Castilla","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics Research Group, University of Almer\u00eda, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence (ceiA3), CIESOL, Joint Center University of Almer\u00eda-CIEMAT, Almer\u00eda, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3349-7506","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manuel","family":"Berenguel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Automatic Control, Robotics and Mechatronics Research Group, University of Almer\u00eda, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence (ceiA3), CIESOL, Joint Center University of Almer\u00eda-CIEMAT, Almer\u00eda, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6308-8666","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio","family":"Ruano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Campus Gambelas, Faro, Portugal"},{"name":"Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC), Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2369-0115","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pedro","family":"Ferreira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"394","DOI":"10.1016\/j.enbuild.2007.03.007","article-title":"A review on buildings energy consumption information","volume":"40","author":"Ortiz","year":"2008","journal-title":"Energy Build."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"843","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rser.2014.11.066","article-title":"A global review of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and policy in the residential sector (with an overview of the top ten CO2 emitting countries)","volume":"43","author":"Nejat","year":"2015","journal-title":"Renew. 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