Forecasting stock exchange rates is an important financial problem that is receiving increasing attention. During the last few years, a number of neural network models and hybrid models have been proposed for obtaining accurate prediction results, in an attempt to outperform the traditional linear and nonlinear approaches. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of neural network models which ar...

an artificial neural network has been used to determine the volume flux and rejections of ca2+ , na+ and cl¯, as a function of transmembrane pressure and concentrations of ca2+, polyethyleneimine, and polyacrylic acid in water softening by nanofiltration process in presence of polyelectrolytes. the feed-forward multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network including an eight-neuron hidden la...

Rainfall is considered as one of the major components of the hydrological process; it takes significant part in evaluating drought and flooding events. Therefore, it is important to have an accurate model for rainfall forecasting. Recently, several data-driven modeling approaches have been investigated to perform such forecasting tasks as multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLP-NN). In fact,...

the current study addresses an estimation of investor's optimal portfolio under conditions of uncertainty by using a combination of artificial neural network and markowitz models. for this purpose, such assets as stock prices, house prices, coin and bonds price are used with monthly data over the period 1378-1392. three variables including inflation uncertainty, oil uncertainty and free ma...

The Multi-Layered Perceptron (MLP) Neural networks have been very successful in a number of signal processing applications. In this work we have studied the possibilities and the met difficulties in the application of the MLP neural networks for the prediction of daily solar radiation data. We have used the PolackRibière algorithm for training the neural networks. A comparison, in term of the s...

In this paper, a method of classification of handwritten signature based on neural networks, and FPGA implementation is proposed. The designed architecture is described using Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL). The proposed application consists of features extraction from handwritten digit images, and classification based on Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP). Th...

Rainfall is very important parameter in hydrological model. Many techniques and models have been developed for rainfall time series prediction. In this study an artificial neural network (ANN) based model was developed for rainfall time series forecasting. Proposed model used Multilayer perceptron (MLP) network with back propagation algorithm for training. Discharge and rainfall data are took a...

To My lovely wife, Tong Wang And my to-be-born baby girl, Lucia Wang i ABSTRACT This dissertation is a systematic study of artificial intelligence (AI) applications for the diagnosis of power transformer incipient fault. The AI techniques include artificial neural networks (ANN, or briefly neural networks-NN), expert systems, fuzzy systems and multivariate regression. The fault diagnosis is bas...

Ensemble learning methods have received remarkable attention in the recent years and led to considerable advancement in the performance of the regression and classification problems. Bagging and boosting are among the most popular ensemble learning techniques proposed to reduce the prediction error of learning machines. In this study, bagging and gradient boosting algorithms are incorporated in...