Present study investigates the capabilities of six distinct machine learning techniques such as ANFIS network with fuzzy c-means (ANFIS-FCM), grid partition (ANFIS-GP), subtractive clustering (ANFIS-SC), feed-forward neural (FNN), Elman (ENN), and long short-term memory (LSTM) in one-day ahead soil temperature (ST) forecasting. For this aim, daily ST data gathered at three different depths 5 cm...

An assessment of maximum scour depth downstream of grade control structure is essential for its proper planning, design and management. Most of the scour depth prediction formulae available in the literature have been developed based on the analysis of the laboratory/field data using the statistical method such as the regression method (RM). The alternative recent approaches such as artificial ...

Tourism in Greece plays a major role in the country’s economy and an accurate forecasting model for tourism demand is a useful tool, which could affect decision making and planning for the future. This paper answers some questions such as: how did the forecasting techniques evolve over the years, how precise can they be, and in what way can they be used in assessing the demand for tourism? An A...

Using a genetic algorithm owing to high nonlinearity of constraints, this paper first works on the optimal design of two-span continuous singly reinforced concrete beams. Given conditions are the span, dead and live loads, compressive strength of concrete and yield strength of steel; design variables are the width and effective depth of the continuous beam and steel ratios for positive and nega...

Despite of acquiring popularity among researchers, the implementations of ANFIS-based models face problems when the number of rules surge dramatically and increase the network complexity, which consequently adds computational cost. Essentially, not all the rules in ANFIS knowledge-base are the potential ones. They contain those rules which have either minor or no contribution to overall decisio...

A Correct diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) can be only stated by applying a medical test to patient’s phlegm. The result of this test is obtained after a time period of about 45 days. The need of this study is to develop a data mining(DM) solution which makes diagnosis of tuberculosis as accurate as possible and helps deciding if it is reasonable to start tuberculosis treatment on suspected patie...

Energy is regarded as one of the most important elements in agricultural sector. During the last decades energy consumption in agriculture has increased, so finding the relationship between energy consumption and crop yields in agricultural production can help to achieve sustainable agriculture. In this study several adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) models were evaluated to predict...

Process variables vary with time in certain applications. Monitoring systems let us avoid severe economic losses resulting from unexpected electric system failures by improving the system reliability and maintainability The installation and maintenance of such monitoring systems is easy when it is implemented using wireless techniques. ZigBee protocol, that is a wireless technology developed as...

For planetary gear has the characteristics of small volume, light weight and large transmission ratio, it is widely used in high speed and high power mechanical system. Poor working conditions result in frequent failures of planetary gear. A method is proposed for diagnosing faults in planetary gear based on permutation entropy of Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noi...

Piles have paramount importance for various structural systems in a wide scope of civil and geotechnical engineering works. Accurately predicting the pullout resistance piles is critical long-term resilience infrastructures. In this research, three sophisticated models are employed precisely (Pul) helical piles. Metaheuristic schemes gray wolf optimization (GWO), differential evolution (DE), an...