%0 Journal Article %T Previs£¿o dos Pre£¿os da Energia El¨¦ctrica atrav¨¦s de Redes Neuronais Artificiais %A Catal£¿o %A Jo£¿o %A Mariano %A S¨ªlvio %A Mendes %A Victor %A Ferreira %A Lu¨ªs %J Investiga£¿£¿o Operacional %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this paper, a computational tool based on artificial neural networks is presented for electricity prices forecasting to support decision making in a competitive environment. the numerical results obtained for a case study illustrate the behaviour of the computational tool proposed comparatively to a time-series approach. %K price forecasting %K neural network %K levenberg-marquardt algorithm. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-51612007000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en