The paper considers the development of a new type of artificial neural network and its applicability to non-linear system identification. This is the functional-link neural network with internal dynamic elements. The net consists of a single layer where the nonlinearity is firstly introduced by enhancing the input pattern with a functional expansion. The internal dynamic elements are auto-regre...

‎By p-power (or partial p-power) transformation‎, ‎the Lagrangian function in nonconvex optimization problem becomes locally convex‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we present a neural network based on an NCP function for solving the nonconvex optimization problem‎. An important feature of this neural network is the one-to-one correspondence between its equilibria and KKT points of the nonconvex optimizatio...

Boolean networks are discrete dynamical systems extensively used to model biological regulatory networks. The dynamical analysis of these networks suffers from the combinatorial explosion of the state space, which grows exponentially with the number n of components. To face this problem, a classical approach consists in deducing from the interaction graph of the network, which only contains n v...

infiltration rate is one of the most important soil physical parameters and is a basic input data in irrigation and drainage projects. although, a number of theoretical or experimental based equations are presented to describe this phenomenon but the evaluation of some new sciences such as artificial neural networks, for prediction of the phenomenon can be investigated. generally, the infiltrat...

In this paper, we describe an adaptive approach to gesture mapping for musical applications. Neural Network abstractions and interfaces are implemented in the Pure Data environment which trains a network automatically and performs a mapping in real-time using trained network parameters. In this paper, we will focus with neural network representations and implementations in a real-time musical e...

in this study the wavelet neural network (wnn) and artificial neural network (ann) were used to simulate barley breakage percentage in combine harvester. the models have been trained using the same data conditions. air temperature, thresher cylinder speed, distance between thresher cylinder and concave (back and forth) and the percentage of barely moisture were as the input variables. the resul...

cox regression model serves as a statistical method for analyzing the survival data, which requires some options such as hazard proportionality. in recent decades, artificial neural network model has been increasingly applied to predict survival data. this research was conducted to compare cox regression and artificial neural network models in prediction of kidney transplant survival. the prese...

In this study, artificial neural network was used to predict the surface tension of 20 hydrocarbon mixtures. Experimental data was divided into two parts (70% for training and 30% for testing). Optimal configuration of the network was obtained with minimization of prediction error on testing data. The accuracy of our proposed model was compared with four well-known empirical equations. The arti...