We study in this paper several methods that allow one to use interval data as inputs for Multi-layer Perceptrons. We show that interesting results can be obtained by using together two methods: the extremal values method which is based on a complete description of intervals, and the simulation method which is based on a probabilistic understanding of intervals. Both methods can be easily implem...

there is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. according to the corporate diversification, firms have a tendency to get more market share with diversifying in the local segment or in the international market. theoretically, a contradictory exists between the profitable strategy and the value reducing strategy in the diversif...

Abstract. The statistical properties of the likelihood ratio test statistic (LRTS) for mixture-of-expert models are addressed in this paper. This question is essential when estimating the number of experts in the model. Our purpose is to extend the existing results for mixtures (Liu and Shao, 2003) and mixtures of multilayer perceptrons (Olteanu and Rynkiewicz, 2008). In this paper we study a s...

In this paper, it is aimed to investigate the capabilities of boosting classification approach for forest fire detection using SPOT-4 imagery. The study area, Bodrum in the province of Muğla, is located at the south-western Mediterranean coast of Turkey where recent largest forest fires occurred in July 2007. Boosting method is one of the recent advanced classifiers proposed in the machine lear...

In this study, the complex behavior of steel encased reinforced concrete (SRC) composite beam–columns in biaxial bending is predicted by multilayer perceptron neural network. For this purpose, the previously proposed nonlinear analysis model, mixed beam-column formulation, is verified with biaxial bending test results. Then a large set of benchmark frames is provided and P-Mx-My triaxial ...

Predicting pronouns across languages from a language with less variation to one with much more is a hard task that requires many different types of information, such as morpho-syntactic information as well as lexical semantics and coreference. We assumed that continuous word spaces fed into a multi-layer perceptron enriched with morphological tags and coreference resolution would be able to cap...