Comparative Study Between Radial Basis Function Neural Network and Random Forest Algorithm for Building Energy Estimation
Recently, a computer experiment is ubiquitous in modeling and engineering design. Estimation ofenergy building efficiency using computer experiment is widely used to improve performance andenergy consumption in the residential building. This paper proposed Radial Basis Function NeuralNetwork (RBFNN) for energy building consumption dataset and make comparative studies betweenthe Random Forest algorithm (RF) in previous work. This study using the experimental dataset in theliterature that consists of 768 experimental data with eight input variables and two outputparameters of estimation. The inputs variables are relative compactness, surface area, wall area, roofarea, overall height, orientation, glazing area, and glazing area distribution of a building, whileoutput variables include heating and cooling loads of the building. The analytical result of energybuilding performance shows RBFNN is better than RF algorithm in estimation based on errorvalidation calculation using Mean Square Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and MeanRelative Error (MRE). The findings of this comparative studies found that RBFNN is good in estimationbased on accuracy performance, but the RF algorithm is suitable to determine irrelevant features inestimation by uses many decision trees simultaneously.