We present a method of modifyiog the structure of radial basis function (RBF) network to work with nonstationary series that exhibit homogeneous nonstationary behavior. In the original RBF network, the hidden node’s function is to sense the trajectory of the time series and to respond when there is a strong correlation between the input pattern and the hidden node’s center. This type of respons...

In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach for mammographic images interpretation in order to detect the benign and malignant anomalies. Using a neural evolutionary approach based on the Radial Basis Function neural network (RBF) and the evolutionary strategy (ES). After applying the growing region algorithm in segmentation stage, the RBF neural network detects the suspect regions. The inferen...

An intrusion detection system (IDS) inspects all inbound and outbound network activity and identifies suspicious patterns that may indicate a network or system attack from someone attempting to break into or compromise a system. Soft computing techniques resemble biological processes more closely than traditional techniques, which are largely based on formal logical systems. Knowledge Discovery...

In this paper we present and evaluate a Radial-basis-function neural network detector for Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in public networks based on statistical features estimated in short-time window analysis of the incoming data packets. A small number of statistical descriptors were used to describe the DDoS attacks behaviour, and an accurate classification is achieved using th...

We establish versions of Descartes' rule of signs for radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. The RBF rules of signs provide tight bounds for the number of zeros of univariate networks with certain parameter restrictions. Moreover, they can be used to infer that the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension and pseudodimension of these networks are no more than linear. This contrasts with previou...

. This paper devoted to an iris recognition system (IRS) designed using 2D-Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) features and Self Organizing Map (SOM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) which are an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) used as classifier. DCT is used for feature extraction to capture essential details. SOM and RBF are applied for classification with different functional paradigms. With resp...

Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBF NNs) are one of the most applicable NNs in the classification of real targets. Despite the use of recursive methods and gradient descent for training RBF NNs, classification improper accuracy, failing to local minimum and low-convergence speed are defects of this type of network. In order to overcome these defects, heuristic and meta-heuristic algorith...

We propose a method for optimizing the complexity of Radial basis function (RBF) networks. The method involves two procedures: adaptation (training) and selection. The first procedure adaptively changes the locations and the width of the basis functions and trains the linear weights. The selection procedure performs the elimination of the redundant basis functions using an objective function ba...

A parametric study was carried out in order to investigate the buckling capacity of the vertically stiffened cylindrical shells. To this end ANSYS software was used. Cylindrical steel shells with different yield stresses, diameter-to-thickness ratios (D/t) and number of stiffeners were modeled and their buckling capacities were calculated by displacement control nonlinear static analysis.  Radi...