We propose a hybrid approach for the modeling and the short-term forecasting of electricity loads. Two building blocks of our approach are (1) modeling the overall trend and seasonality by fitting a generalized additive model to the <italic>weekly</italic> averages of the load and (2) modeling the dependence...

Consider a problem where <italic>N</italic> items (objects or individuals) are judged by assessors using their perceptions of a set of performance criteria, or alternatively by technical devices. In particular, two assessors might rank the items between 1 and <italic>N</italic> on the basis of relative performance, independently...