over the last decade or so, artificial neural networks (anns) have become one of the most promising tools formodelling hydrological processes such as rainfall runoff processes. however, the employment of a single model doesnot seem to be an appropriate approach for modelling such a complex, nonlinear, and discontinuous process thatvaries in space and time. for this reason, this study aims at de...

We propose two variants of staircase codes that resolve the issue of parity-propagation in their encoding process. The proposed codes provide a systematic way of terminating a staircase code after an arbitrary number of blocks. The class of feed-forward staircase codes are introduced, which uses a self-protection technique to avoid parity-propagation. We also introduce the class of partial feed...

One of the essential factors that affect the performance of Artificial Neural Networks is the learning algorithm. The performance of Multilayer Feed Forward Artificial Neural Network performance in image compression using different learning algorithms is examined in this paper. Based on Gradient Descent, Conjugate Gradient, Quasi-Newton techniques three different error back propagation algorith...

In this paper, a variant of Backpropagation algorithm is proposed for feed-forward neural networks learning. The proposed algorithm improve the backpropagation training in terms of quick convergence of the solution depending on the slope of the error graph and increase the speed of convergence of the system. Simulations are conducted to compare and evaluate the convergence behavior and the spee...

The Neural Networks are good alternative for solving many complex problems. In this paper multi-layer neural network has been employed to achieve image compression. The proposed technique breaks down large images into smaller windows and applies Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to these windows as a pre-process technique. The input pixels will be used as target values so that assigned mean squar...

Proper initialization is one of the most important prerequisites for fast convergence of feed-forward neural networks like high order and multilayer perceptrons. This publication aims at determining the optimal value of the initial weight v ariance (or range), which is the principal parameter of random weight initialization methods for both types of neural networks. An overview of random weight...

In this contribution the three various artificial neural networks are tested on CATS prediction benchmark. The results are compared and evaluated. Furthermore, these artificial neural networks are tested in model predictive control on the t-variant system. The aim of this paper is to present and compare artificial neural networks as interesting way how to model and predict nonlinear systems eve...

breathomics is the metabolomics study of exhaled air. it is a powerful emerging metabolomics research field that mainly focuses onhealth-related volatile organic compounds (vocs). since the quantity of these compounds varies with health status, breathomics assuresto deliver noninvasive diagnostic tools. thus, the main aim of breathomics is to discover patterns of vocs related to abnormal metabo...