This paper reports on an evaluation of the use of artificial neural network (ANN) models to forecast daily flows at multiple gauging stations in Eucha Watershed, an agricultural watershed located in north-west Arkansas and north-east Oklahoma. Two different neural network models, the multilayer perceptron (MLP) and the radial basis neural network (RBFNN), were developed and their abilities to p...

In this paper, a new neural network paradigm and its application to recognition of speech patterns is presented. The novel NN paradigm is a multilayer version of the well-known LVQ algorithm from Kohonen. The approach includes the following innovations and improvements compared to other popular neural network paradigms: 1) It is according to the knowledge of the author the first multilayer vers...

Pulse compression technique combines the high energy characteristic of a longer pulse width with the high resolution characteristic of a narrower pulse width. The major aspects that are considered for a pulse compression technique are signal to sidelobe ratio (SSR), noise and Doppler shift performances. The traditional algorithms like autocorrelation function (ACF), recursive least square (RLS)...

-------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT---------------------------------------------------------------Prediction of rainfall for a region is of utmost importance for planning, design and management of irrigation and drainage systems. This can be achieved by different approaches such as deterministic, conceptual, stochastic and Artificial Neural Network (ANN)....

The present paper presented a methodology for prioritizing the innovative and entrepreneurial indicators using Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), taking into account three individual, organizational and cultural dimensions simultaneously in decision making procedure. This methodology has two main advantages: first, the speed of operation in the accounti...

A neural network based risk monitor was designed to emulate the results of a Nuclear Power Plant probability risk assessment. Although multilayer feedforward neural networks with sigmoidal activation functions have been termed universal function approximators, this approximation may require an inordinate number of hidden nodes and is only accurate over a finite interval. These short comings are...

This study presents a new procedure based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for identification of double cracks in Functionally Graded Beams (FGBs). A cantilever beam is modeled using Finite Element Method (FEM) for analyzing a double-cracked FGB and evaluation of its first four natural frequencies for different cracks depths and locations. The obtained FEM results are verified against availab...

To estimate the Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), indirect manner used of Pedotransfer Functions (PTFs). CEC is one of the important soil fertility factors, and not measured directly because it is costly and time consuming. Thus, used from regression equations between easily and non-easily soil properties. The purpose of this research, is develop the PTFs for CEC, with use of easily available soi...

Multilayer perceptron networks (MLP) are investigated with respect to the problem of the detection of spurious patterns. A novel mechanism is proposed based on the ideas of boot-strapping that when incorporated into the standard MLP provides the network with the ability to continuously modifying its responses across the input space. The mechanism makes use of the outputs given by the network it...