this study was conducted to investigate the prediction of growth performance using linear regression and artificial neural network (ann) in broiler chicken. artificial neural networks (anns) are powerful tools for modeling systems in a wide range of applications. the ann model with a back propagation algorithm successfully learned the relationship between the inputs of metabolizable energy (kca...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a new type of information processing system based on modeling the neural system of human brain. The prediction of swell pressures from easily determined soil properties, namely, initial dry density, initial water content, and plasticity index, have been investigated by using artificial neural networks. The results of the constant volume swell tests in oedom...

In recent decades artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown great ability in modeling and forecasting non-linear and non-stationary time series and in most of the cases especially in prediction of phenomena have showed very good performance. This paper presents the application of artificial neural networks to predict drought in Yazd meteorological station. In this research, different archite...

Prior studies have generally suggested that Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are superior to conventional statistical models in predicting consumer buying behavior. There are, however, contradicting findings which raise question over usefulness of ANNs. This paper discusses development of three neural networks for modeling consumer e-commerce behavior and compares the findings to equivalent lo...

a local scouring phenomenon is one of the important problems in hydraulic design of groynes. due to constriction and downward flow, the scouring can occur around the groynes. nowadays, the artificial neural networks have a lot of applications in various water engineering problems where there is not any specific relation between effective parameters. in this study, the artificial neural networks...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a well-established computational method inspired by the structure and function of biological central nervous systems. Since their conception, ANNs have been utilized in a vast variety of applications due to their impressive information processing abilities. A vibrant field, ANNs have been utilized in bioinformatics, a general term for describing the combina...

In the artificial neural networks (ANNs), feature selection is a wellresearched problem, which can improve the network performance and speed up the training of the network. The statistical-based methods and the artificial intelligence-based methods have been widely used to feature selection, and the latter are more attractive. In this paper, using genetic algorithm (GA) combining with mutual in...

Steel consumption is a critical factor affecting pricing decisions and a key element to achieve sustainable industrial development. Forecasting future trends of steel consumption based on analysis of nonlinear patterns using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques is the main purpose of this paper. Because there are several features affecting target variable which make the analysis of relations...

In artificial intelligence (AI), new advances make it possible that artificial neural networks (ANNs) learn to solve complex problems in a reasonable amount of time (LeCun et al., 2015). To the computational neuroscientist, ANNs are theoretical vehicles that aid in the understanding of neural information processing (van Gerven). These networks can take the form of the rate-based models that are...

accurate estimation of evaporation is important for design, planning and operation of water systems. in arid zones where water resources are scarce, the estimation of this loss becomes more interesting in the planning and management of irrigation practices. this paper investigates the ability of artificial neural networks (anns) technique to improve the accuracy of daily evaporation estimation....