Over the last few years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used successfully for modeling almost all aspects of geotechnical engineering problems. Whilst ANNs provide a great deal of promise, they suffer from a number of shortcomings such as knowledge extraction, extrapolation and uncertainty. This paper presents a state-of-the-art examination of ANNs in geotechnical engineering and p...

For continuous monitoring of river water quality , this study assesses the potential of using artificial neural networks (ANNs) for modeling the event-based suspended sediments concentration (SSC) in Jiasian diversion weir in southern Taiwan. The hourly data collected include the water discharge, turbidity and SSC during the storm events. The feed forward backpropagation network (BP), generaliz...

This article deals with the creation of a compact thermal model. In this aim, we apply some well-known methods such as FEM model reduction and identification of RC networks. To go further than already existing approaches, we also introduce the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to cope with nonlinearities which may appear in thermal phenomenons. A new hybrid model, trying to gather the ad...

Neural networks are an artificial intelligence method for modeling complex non-linear functions. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been widely applied to the domain of prediction problems. Considerable research effort has gone into ANNs for modeling financial time series. This paper attempts to provide an overview of recent research in this area, emphasizing the issues that are particularl...

In this paper, we evolve artificial neural networks (ANNs) with speciation and combine them with several methods. In general, an evolving system produces one optimal solution for a given problem. However, we argue that many other solutions exist in the final population, which can improve the overall performance. We propose a new method of evolving multiple speciated neural networks by fitness s...

In this paper we present an evolutionary system using genetic algorithm (GA) for evolving artificial neural networks (ANNs). Existing genetic algorithms for evolving ANNs suffer from the permutation problem as a result of recombination. Here we propose a novel encoding scheme for representing ANNs which avoids the permutation problem while efficiently evolving multilayer ANN architectures. The ...

Artificial neural networks have featured in a wide range of medical journals, often with promising results. This paper reports on a systematic review that was conducted to assess the benefit of artificial neural networks (ANNs) as decision making tools in the field of cancer. The number of clinical trials (CTs) and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving the use of ANNs in diagnosis and p...

In this paper, we explore and detail our experiments in a high-dimensionality, multi-class image classification problem often found in the automatic recognition of Sign Languages. Here, our efforts are directed towards comparing the characteristics, advantages and drawbacks of creating and training Support Vector Machines disposed in a Directed Acyclic Graph and Artificial Neural Networks to cl...

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Industrial pollution is often considered to be one of the prime factors contributing to air, water and soil pollution. Sectoral pollution loads (ton/yr) into different media (i.e. air, water and land) in Lagos were estimated using Industrial Pollution Projected System (IPPS). These were further studied using Artificial neural Networks (ANNs), a data mining technique that has the ability of dete...