The extraction of easily interpretable knowledge from the large amount of data measured in experiments is well desirable. This paper proposes a method to achieve this. A fuzzy rule system isjirst generated and optimized using evolution strategies. This fuzzy system is then converted to an RBF neural network to reJine the obtained knowledge. In order to extract understandable fuzzy rules from th...

In this paper, a new delay shift approach for learning in an RBF-like neural network structure of spiking neurons is introduced. The synaptic connections between the input and the RBF neurons are single delayed connections and the delays are adapted during an unsupervised learning process. Each synaptic connection in this network is modeled by a learning automaton. The action of the automaton a...

Neural networks are powerful computational tools, and have been applied in various applications. In this work, a neural network has been used to solve a pattern classification problem encountered in biochemistry. One of the major topics of research in molecular biology is the prediction of functional properties of biomacromolecules from their sequence data. A radial basis function (RBF) network...

A high performance speaker-independent isolated-word hybrid speech recognizer was developed which combines Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks. In recognition experiments using a speaker-independent E-set database, the hybrid recognizer had an error rate of 11.5% compared to 15.7% for the robust unimodal Gaussian HMM recognizer upon which the hybrid syste...

This paper proposes a comparison between wavelet neural networks (WNN), RBF neural network and polynomial approximation in term of 1-D and 2-D functions approximation. We present a novel wavelet neural network, based on Beta wavelets, for 1-D and 2-D functions approximation. Our purpose is to approximate an unknown function f: Rn R from scattered samples (xi; y = f(xi)) i=1....n, where first, w...

This paper presents a neural network based model predictive control (MPC) strategy to control a strongly exothermic reaction with complicated nonlinear kinetics given by Chylla-Haase polymerization reactor that requires a very precise temperature control to maintain product uniformity. In the benchmark scenario, the operation of the reactor must be guaranteed under various disturbing influences...

It is very important to evaluate water quality in environment protection. Water environment is a complicated system, traditional methods cannot meet the demands of water environment protection. In view of the deficiency of the traditional methods, a BP neural network model and a RBF neural network model are proposed to evaluate water quality. The proposed model was applied to evaluate the water...

We describe here the application of a type of artificial neural network, the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) network, in the identification of a large number of phytoplankton strains from their 11-dimensional flow cytometric characteristics measured by the European Optical Plankton Analyser instrument. The effect of network parameters on optimization is examined. Optimized RBF networks rec...

In this paper we have studied adaptive equalization in the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) environment using radial basis function (RBF) networks. Equalization is here considered as a classification problem, where the idea is to map the received complex-valued signal into desired binary values using RBF network equalizer. Results prove that the RBF network provides very good bit e...

In this paper, two popular types of neural network models (radial base function (RBF) and multi-layered feed-forward (MLF) networks) trained by the generalized delta rule, are tested on their robustness to random errors in input space. A method is proposed to estimate the sensitivity of network outputs to the amplitude of random errors in the input space, sampled from known normal distributions...