A Comparative Study of PSO-ANN, GA-ANN, ICA-ANN, and ABC-ANN in Estimating the Heating Load of Buildings’ Energy Efficiency for Smart City Planning
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors
Thank you for your work that presents an interesting comparison and useful results.
I would recommend to present more details about the application and future work that can be carried out based on your results.
By doing so, not only the reader gains insight in the possible applications and use of the results, but also he may be encouraged to apply your results.
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Reviewer 2 Report
I have carefully reviewed this paper. It is an interesting problem, and it was very well written. A comprehensive comparison and assessment of multiple meta-heuristics algorithms with an ANN model were implemented for estimating the heating load of energy efficiency of buildings for smart city planning, including PSO-ANN, GA-ANN, ICA-ANN, and ABC-ANN. It was within the scope of the special issue. Some revisions need to be added/addressed before publishing:
1. Suggest expand the introduction part as well as the results of the previous study.
2. How to determine the input and output variables?
3. Background of the PSO algorithm should be more details.
4. Why divide the dataset into two parts according to the 80/20 ratio? How to divide?
5. Which technique was used to avoid overfitting for the initial ANN model?
6. Suggest analyzing the sensitivity of the input variables.
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